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Capturing Kids’ Imaginations When You Teach
 We don’t teach to give children facts. We teach to change lives, right? If we want our lessons to impact kids’ lives beyond Sunday, we MUST capture their imagination and bring our lessons to life! Imagination draws kids in and makes learning fun!
This month in kids' church, we built a Time Machine so we could bring a Roman Solider through time to help us understand armor as we learn about the Armor of God. The kids were completely mesmerized and captured by the fun of this! Let me share with you pictures, video clips and even the secret link to my Time Machine video that you can use with your own Time Machine!
Plus, I'll give you some tips on how to engage the imagination of kids, using my current series as an example. Find it all right here!
Because Jesus Loves Children,
Pastor Karl Bastian
The Kidologist
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Make Your Ministry Even Better in 2016!
There are many training opportunities today that are offered that use the term "coaching" that would be better described as "training."
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Watching online training videos about various skills and aspects of children's ministry can be very helpful - but it is not coaching.
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Having a kit that gives you some area of leadership to focus on each week can be a useful resource, but it also is not coaching.
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Even talking with an expert regularly for advice is not necessarily coaching if they have not been trained in how to coach.
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 Kathie Phillips reminds us of the importance of having a positive influence on children in our ministry, whether that's at the church or at home.
"We have the opportunity to speak life into people in our circle of influence. Whether we lead a staff, teams of volunteers, a small group of children at church, or are parenting our own children, we have an opportunity to speak life.
What might that look like?"
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