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Everywhere around us, we are hearing a growing call: The spiritual formation of children must be done by parents, not for parents. The church’s role is shifting from one of serving and supporting parents to one of empowering, equipping, and encouraging parents. How can children's ministry leaders respond to this call?

The Acts 6 Model makes it possible for a local Family of God to provide a ministry to children that meets each child’s individual needs.

“Two are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 NLT

Learning the skill of writing effective goals will go a long way towards accomplishing them. Janelle Hoos of the Well Equipped Volunteer blog provides a strategy of writing goals, accomplishing them, and knowing what to do when you fail to hit your goals.

Learn 4 mistakes many Children's Pastors make with their volunteers and how to avoid making them

Do you have tunnel vision when it comes to your kidmin? Follow these tips on how to stay connected with the rest of the ministry teams!

Do you want a better children's ministry? Create a process for capturing everything.

When does curriculum for children's ministry become outdated?

Advice on how to jump start your new ministry position.

When looking at your ministry make sure you evaluate everything. The 3 easy elements are friendliness, cleanliness, and follow-up.

Taking control of our expectations and responses, by not putting expectations on God.

There are many single parents in our world today. How do we, the church, help those parents to raise their kids? We can do these two things.

Read these tips on how to protect you and your kids as they go back to school. 

Time is precious. Sadly, too many leaders waste MUCH of the time they are given. When you waste time, it can have a negative impact on your leadership and your relationships. I challenge you to adopt the five habits of the On-Time Leader.

In this article I have shared my opinion about five common myths concerning coaching. Don't be fooled by these commons mistakes!

Everytime someone teaches, there are questions they must answer as they prepare their lesson. To those who teach children, these questions are even more crucial, because children will readily believe what you teach them.

Creativity is an elusive thing. For most people, it doesn’t just happen. Although every one of us has enormous creative potential, there are definitely times when creativity just doesn’t seem to flow. Here are some helpful tips.

Ideas on how to make your kidmin space fun for kids!

What can you do to help with child abuse prevention?

Five Ways to Save Money When Improving Child Safety

Take these 4 steps to help run an effective kids ministry service. 

If you’re like me, you know how important volunteers are to Children’s Ministry. It is a true partnership: we cannot accomplish the work of our ministry without our dedicated volunteers; they cannot effectively accomplish the work of our ministry without a leader at the helm. How can we show them we truly appreciate them?

Excessive use of video games can become a trap (an addiction) kids get caught in as they try to escape their emotional turmoil.

An easy form for getting to know your Middle Schoolers.

When you stress over your ministry, you have taken the ministry away from God and have made it your responsibility to solve its problems.

Once children accept Christ, what does your ministry do in order to keep them growing in their newfound faith?

Discover the root problem that the Church is experiencing and find your children's ministries identity.

Allow me to offer up some of the things that I see in common between the most successful ministries.

Learn to live with brokenness, not in it. 

As children's ministers, we must help kids honor their fathers. Here are some ways that kids can honor their dads, and ways that they don't honor their dads.

Fun ways to help your volunteers get connected with each other

You can put together a plain 'ol résumé, or you can create one that demonstrates the creativity and effort and zeal that you will put into your ministry once you are hired!

Here is a list of some ways that divorce affects children.

Infants and toddlers are affected by divorce in several ways. They don’t know what is going on, but they do sense something is wrong, and they show this in several different ways.

The signs that we should look for to see the effects of divorce on preschoolers.

Discover the purpose of having a family night

When the church and the home are working together, we will have more success in making disciples of our kids.

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.

From my vantage point and experience of getting to know many children’s ministry leaders, I have concluded that there appears to be five typical ways or scenarios that people use to enter the profession of Children’s Ministry or Kidmin Jobs. Which one of these Entry Scenarios describes you?

How can your church transition kids from the children's ministry to the student ministry?

Every church culture requires a leader who can understand How Things Work. Here are few things to watch for that might assess How Things Work in your Church.

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.

Stop battling with other leaders and ministries, instead catch the vision of your leaders and fight on the front lines together.

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

Sometimes our team members make mistakes. When we address these times of failure, we can gain a benefit for the church, and most importantly, for the individual worker.

6 ways you can succeed in reaching your goals, any time of year!

Learn how to decorate your Sunday School Classroom and leave a even bigger impact on your kids.

What can you do when your pastor asks too much of you? When you feel like you’re overwhelmed with ministry work? When you’re not able to focus enough attention on important stuff? The challenges we face blanch in comparison to the one situation that will absolutely derail your ministry: dysfunction between you and your pastor.