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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.

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

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

An active duty law enforcement officer, SWAT operator, and former pastor gives advice on how to best protect the kids in your ministry.  

Get tips on how to better manage your time. 

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

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

4 steps to simply sharing the Gospel with the kids in your mnisttry

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.

If you work with kids, you know how challenging it can be to keep their attention.

Teach your kids how they can reach out to their community.

Here are six ideas to build an engaged and motivated team no matter the circumstances.

There is nothing wrong with having a favorite training method. But you can be much more affective when you use multiple methods in training your volunteers. 

Short on volunteers this summer? Here's what we did to recruit volunteers to step in and serve!

I think one of the greatest skills you can teach your class is to study the Bible themselves.

Let’s encourage our kids to be comfortable and familiar with their Bibles. 

Are you teaching on Jesus' Disciples? Here's a lesson plan to use in the classroom. 

 Kids must be taught their faith in order to gain confidence in it!

Teaching kids to talk to God and hear from him is one of the most transformative parts of the small group experience, so be intentional about making it a priority in your time together.

It's the same old BIble story, but it can also be a fresh one, when told through the eyes of someone new. 

If you're only focused on ministry and not people, then you're missing one of your greatest callings.