Articles for Children's Ministry Leaders

We talked with several kid’s ministry leaders and pieced together a strategy that has worked really well at engaging our kids more than anything else we’ve tried.

These brief readings and prayers do not take a lot of time (can easily be done at the dinner table) but they help to frame Advent and the celebration of Christ’s birth in the larger story, the metanarrative, of Scripture.

God has made it abundantly clear in Scripture that he wants to bless our children and descendants. He’s given us many promises to give us faith to hope and pray for their salvation and well-being.

"When we allow children to have a creative voice in how we celebrate the holidays, we let them exercise the gifts and talents given to them by our precious Abba God."

Thanksgiving is all about family, so why not take this opportunity to encourage family discipleship when families are gathered together! Check out this downloadable Thanksgiving activity guide.

To kick off the beginning of Advent, our elementary children made edible Advent wreaths in class yesterday. They loved them and so will the children in your ministry!

We wanted to connect the hearts of preteens and parents in this unique stage of life, and we prayed that God would do more than we could ask, think or imagine.

Nursery ministry matters...a lot. And if you serve in nursery ministry, you matter and what you are doing in the nursery matters.