Articles for Children's Ministry Leaders

For the Children’s Sake…Don’t Waste the Summer

Consider these often overlooked sides of summer and see how each one presents you with a rare opportunity to engage your community, serve your families and perhaps, as a by-product, boost your summer attendance.

Power Up – Video Game VBS

This VBS curriculum is written for a four night (or day) VBS with rotations the first three nights, and the last night written as a family night to include the parents. Each night builds on the previous night's theme.

Is VBS Still an Effective Summer Outreach?

What's the right thing for a church to do when it seems the world is constantly changing?

VBS Greeters—High Five Guys

Need greeters to make the most of your VBS experience? We transformed ours into High Five Guys.

How to Visualize Your Creativity With Storyboards

Any creative endeavor needs a process, a method by which the creator can capture abstract ideas and push them toward a tangible product and ultimately to someone (or hopefully more than a someone) to experience.

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas (to Buy & Make)

Whether you’re looking to create a craft with the kids in your Sunday School (or classroom) or searching for a great gift for your own mother, here are some crafty ideas and some store bought ideas to get you headed in the right direction!

Giving Kids the Other Half of Jesus

“Is the Jesus I talk about safely boxed and neatly placed on the shelf of history, or is He out of the box—close and accessible to the children I teach?”