Volunteers Zone

What do you think is the most important thing that happens in your KidMin on a Sunday morning?

One of the things I have found over the years is that it is important that we teach God’s Word, but also create a place for kids to interact with each other and make friends. I do that through Small Groups.

Whether 'called', 'led', or 'dragged'... being swept into children's ministry can be the most rewarding experience. 

In our pursuit of recruiting volunteers for our children’s ministries, many people would say that they are not getting volunteers. I think we need to look inward before we begin to talk about how people just don’t volunteer in our ministries.

Too often delegation is poorly executed, frustrating both the person delegating and the person being delegated to. There should be a benefit for both parties, but often one or both parties feel dissatisfied.

Use these tips to become a better team member that will benefit not only your team, but the kids in your ministry.

What makes a ministry team incredible? These five principles will help you build an incredible team for your children's ministry.

Steps to learn what to delegate and which team members to delegate to.

Discover 3 ways to help your volunteers through burn-out. 

Parents need you to partner with them in discipling their kids. 

Use your current volunteers to develop volunteers.

What keeps your middle schoolers from worshiping? How can you turn it around?

Review these tips for handling discipline problems in your classroom or kids church. Take control of your classroom and get back to the business of guiding your kids into a deeper understand of God and His Word.

Creative meetings are great for any and every kids event you do.

Share with kids these 5 basic tips on how to wisely choose their friends. 

Have you ever had a Sunday School or Kids Church leader call in sick last minute? If you're not prepared, you'll be left scrambling for ideas for your substitute teacher. To avoid this, have an emergency lesson ready to go.

Help children connect with the Bible on a daily basis. 

Mr. Rogers gives great advice on how to talk to kids about scary events in the news. 

Here are some quick and powerful ideas for adding value in your family and with the children in your life.  

Keeping your kids safe should be a top priority! Here is a child safety video and guide from Kidcheck to help you care for your children.

Ebook resources for you to recruit and train volunteers

When and why should children be baptized? This lesson can help explain it.

This is a great little skit that would be a good addition to your lesson about Jesus feeding the 5,000.

Jesus First Miracle Craft 

Sticks and stones may break our bones... but words can hurt, too. 

Do your volunteers need training, but don't have time to attend training? Don't fret. Here's a practical tip for you.

Are you looking for creative ways to get kids involved in serving in your ministry?

This is the second in a series of three “Reducing the Risk of Juvenile Offenses in Children’s Ministry” posts focusing on the nature of juvenile offenses and commonalities in profile of those who offend. We’ll also share the importance of creating awareness and having a youth safety plan.

Thanks for joining us for the third and final post in our “Reducing the Risk of Juvenile Offenses in Children’s Ministry” series. In Part 3, we’ll share some key elements of the youth safety plan, including details on how to properly screen volunteers, the steps to take when managing an incident, ways to include those in your ministry who have past offenses, and as a final point, we’ll sum up the top action steps you can take immediately to reduce offenses in children’s ministry.

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?"

Using legos building blocks as a basis for teaching the Bible. 

Inner beauty is more important to God than outer beauty.

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?

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.

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

Should you expect respect from all kids? What about kids who have been through trauma? 

Use this fun interactive animal matching game to teach about Noah's Ark. 

Keep your class actively participating with these simple tips. 

What are YOU doing to celebrate your pastor this October?

To effectively reach children, we need to understand children and teach them in a manner that they learn best.

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.

Here are some key principles for managing difficult behaviors.

Devotionals that will help your kidmin get into God's Word and grow in their faith. 

Take care of yourself so you can help take care of others.

Learn 3 important steps to take when recruiting volunteers. 

Use gifts, experiences of your congregation to reward your volunteers.  

A resource to help teach your volunteers the Sacred Pathways