Administration Zone

An logical and necessary discussion for allowing men to serve in children's ministry.

As leaders in children’s and family ministry, we all work with a wide variety of groups. The overall message we must communicate is our vision for guiding kids toward a heart for Christ. What is the one single message that each group that we serve needs to hear, and more importantly, really understand?

Here are 10 principles to help us engage our guests - Mickey's Guide to a Successful Children's Ministry.

How do you plan for staff meetings? Keep your meetings meaningful by following a meeting agenda similiar to this one!

What To Do When You Fail to Accomplish Your Children’s Ministry Goals

Learning to imitate the charecter of Christ and leading others to do the same.

Read these short reviews on some newer apps that can help you take control of your life.

We all make mistakes. But it's never too late to fix them. 

When the time comes for a program to end, you should end it. However, there may be a program that is faltering that still has life in it and could still be effective for the kingdom. Here are some things that can be done to breath new life into a program that might be struggling.

How do you help the kids feel welcome and connected when the new year starts?

In these challenging economic times, children’s ministry budgets often get cut, sometimes eliminated. I read often online about ideas for fund raising and saving money. I’d like to take a different approach on this topic – while I AM sympathetic to leaders facing budget cuts and the challenges of ministering with less money, I’d like to pose a sincere question you are welcome to answer in the comments below -  my question is simply, “What do you need money FOR?”

Whether you love Mondays or dread them, here are ways to make the first workday of the week work for you. 

Keep your class actively participating with these simple tips. 

A great way to quickly and efficiently register kids for events at your church is offer on-line registration. There are a few ways to do this. You do not need a degree in computer science, but it will take some time on your first attempt.

Learn some tips to retain your volunteers for life. 

A fun spin on management techniques with simple suggestions that can help your children's ministry take a big step forward.

Glen Woods is well known as thoughtful practitioner of children's ministry. Here he offers his doctoral dissertation on family ministry especially as it relates to small church ministry. For those willing to dive into the topic seriously, they will find this engaging, challenging and thought provoking.  

This 2-part series was designed to provide leaders of child and youth-focused organizations with the most current information on protecting their organizations from predators.

This 2-part series was designed to provide leaders of child and youth-focused organizations with the most current information on protecting their organizations from predators.

Are you prepared for special needs kids in your ministry? Here are 10 tips to help you!

Once your ministry is discipling mature believers who are evangelizing others, you then need to prepare your ministry for growth. Are you ready for growth?

What are you doing to help your team succeed? Leader, your role is to equip and prepare people to serve the work of the ministry.

One thing that we cannot do is over-communicate! Here are some useful steps to use in your ministry to immediately improve in the area of communication.

Close the backdoor on your ministry and begin having people stick around in your church.

Are you taking care of yourself? Or just your ministry?

Here's a quick lesson in how to learn lessons quickly.

What do you do if you want to teach a story that the children in your ministry have heard before many times?

Improve your ministry performance and become a better leader by evaluating yourself and your ministry.

Give this fun flyer to your volunteers and have them give to a friend to invite them to serve in kids ministry.

Simple registration card, to make signing up new families even easier.

How do you research a church that you are considering applying at for a Children Ministry position?

I have a resolution for you: Don't make Resolutions! Here is a tried-and-true method for getting things done, the non-resolution way!

A handy chart for making better resumes by using verbs that show your skills.

How do you plan to retain the visitors to your church during this holiday season?

Have you ever seen the Sydney Harbour Bridge? Sometimes running a children's ministry can feel like repainting this extensive bridge!

Here are 10 red-light warnings that your fuel gauge is getting low and you are “running on empty.” Fuel up!

A resource to help teach your volunteers the Sacred Pathways

Get tips on how to better manage your time. 

Make your Children's Ministry an even safer environment with these suggestions from safety and security experts.

When preparing for fall, here is a list of wants and needs for your rooms.

Taking the time to thoroughly screen is an important step in identifying youth that are a good fit and keeping child safety a priority.   

Here are some things I believe that parents need you to know as you lead them at church.

This article aims to provide a conversation starter to motivate church leaders to look beyond the minimum requirements for child safety toward developing a fully orbed approach. It is not exhaustive, but it does touch on major important points commonly missed in local churches.

Here are a few reasons why we DON’T take a Summer Break for Kids Ministry.

Learn to show your work, so you can become more effective at the important ministry that you do.

Make change in your ministry effectively and learn to help your volunteers get on board.

Create more effective strategies for reaching the lost, by gaining an understanding of the types of lost kids.

Move your ministry to the next level with these 16 steps.

Learn how to help kids build relationships in small groups

People all across America waited in long lines on Black Friday for good deals, then searched again on Cyber Monday. The bottom line here is that just like those shoppers, we are looking for great deals to stretch our dollars a little further. This is nothing new for those of us in Children’s Ministry. It really doesn’t matter how big or small our churches are; children’s ministry leaders want to get the most bang for our limited bucks.