Articles Zone

Do you know how the kids of divorce within your ministry feel about their parents splitting up? Have you asked them?

Soon to be mom's favorite cookbook!

Take off your top hat and let someone else tame your ministry’s time-sucking “lions” so you can shepherd children. But how can we keep the main thing — shepherding young hearts —the main thing?

Here are three tips to take your children's music to the next level.

What kinds of love exist? How do we love others like God loves us? This Kinds of Love object lesson will help explain!

Fun experiement that works as an Object Lesson and helps your kids learn about the Holy Spirit.

How do we move from reverence for the Bible to actually reading the Bible?

Leading kids to Christ is by far the most important responsibility we are entrusted with, here are ten guidelines to help you reach the kids.

Does your leadership need a restart? Evaluate yourself in these ten areas.

I love the show "Restaurant: Impossible" for many reasons, but what I love most are all of the leadership lessons that the owners learn. I learn a lot too. Aside from serving really bad food, the reasons why most of the restaurants are failing can be narrowed down to four areas.

True confession…Leadership is hard work! Here are some actions that I use to stay in tune with my leadership priorities.

Understanding the leadership discipline of isolation.

Learn to take ownership of your ministry and create an environment that welcomes it.

Learn to adjust your game through trial and error

Do you often feel lonely? Find out where you need to focus your energy to create and foster healthy relationships.

The time to lead a child to Christ is now. 

What are the best ways to share your faith with children?

David wasn't always the top dog. Mark Harper shares five lessons from David's life on how to lead from the middle.

Are those you lead just mockingjays, mindlessly repeating what they hear you say? Or do they sufficiently understand and communicate your vision?

The greatest contribution you can make to your child’s well being is instilling a fervent love for Jesus Christ. But how does this happen? What steps must a parent take in order to lead their child to Christ? How can you ensure that what happens at church is a supplement and not a replacement for spiritual guidance at home?

Throughout Scripture, God calls parents to take seriously the spiritual leadership of their children. Here are three key areas of family life where you can show significant spiritual leadership.

Many of you may have questions like: "What do I need to do to get more volunteers? What are some surefire, tried-and-true methods for keeping volunteers for the long term? How do I get volunteers to come to my training meetings?"

 Your parenting failures can actually make you a better parent. 

Here are some simple tips to help you learn and grow in your leaderships skills.

Begin putting fun learning stations, that reinfoce the lesson, in place in your kids ministry.

Here is a great lesson for children on the story of Balaam's talking donkey. Through this story, kids will learn that they need to listen for God's guidance.

When you go through a rough patch, do you turn FROM God, or TO Him?

Training involves more than just gathering a crowd; there are simple step you can take to make your training even more effective.

Advent Resources for Parents

Ever feel like no one loves you? For this puppet skit, Tabby, Rusty and Bubba share how Jesus loves you, and He died and rose again so that you could be saved!

This preschool Bible lesson will help younger children see God’s glory in the world we enjoy.

In this throw away culture where relationships change so often, how can we help children overcome their fear of being rejected for the next best thing?

For the Church to effectively utilize its resources and to fulfill its mandate to reach all nations, missions education must be integrated into the core of Christian education.

Learn a principle for change from one of the most innovative companies: Apple. See what they do to make change through leadership transitions.

Writing volunteer responsibilities can be the hardest part about putting together a volunteer job description for Children’s Ministry. 

Writing volunteer responsibilities can be the hardest part about putting together a volunteer job description for Children’s Ministry. Just how much information is necessary? Should you err on the side of too much information or too little? How do you find the balance?

Want to make your own plaster of paris for a craft? Now you can!

Looking for ideas about recruiting, training, and keeping volunteers? Here are ten great ways you can be an attractive children's ministry to potential volunteers!

A few keys to incorparating a healthy family ministry into your church.

Great ideas for fun summer family activities.

Here are 7 ways that you can make the most of any Children's Ministry Conference!

Financially speaking, margin is having some money left over after meeting all your obligations. Today, we look at the benefits of margin in your spiritual life.

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

Everyone needs a good laugh! It’s time for you to have a few of them. Take a look at this report and see how no one would be truly ready to serve God in ministry, except for God’s grace.

What does shopping for underwear and a toybox full of toys teach us about ministry and welcoming people? 

Call a tech helpdesk and one of the first questions asked is “Is it plugged in?” Duh, yes. But, oh wait, let me make sure ...