3 Questions to Ask About Your Volunteer Recruiting Strategy
Are you inviting people to join you, or are you begging them?
Leadership: It's Not Who Follows You
Sam Luce warns leaders about our "follower" culture: "We focus too much on who follows us."
Team Ministry for Children
How to adopt a team-teaching philosophy in your children's ministries
Must-Reads for Creatives and Storytellers
Grab a great book to help you get more creative in your teaching.
Children's Ministry–Now This Is Fun!
Award-winning recording artist and veteran children's minister Annette Oden shows us trends in children's ministry that we can celebrate!
How Boys and Girls Learn
Instructional specialist Timothy Pollard advises on the difference in behavior between boys and girls.
Volunteers Need to Be Needed and Known
Gina McClain: "I believe when people find themselves in search of a new church, many times it boils down to their desire to feel needed & known."
The Lifecycle of Good Leadership
Know where God has you in your lifecycle of leadership and embrace it.
Using Music in Kids’ Ministry
Music can engage and uplift kids and uniquely illustrate spiritual points for you.
Teach a Child to Think Like Jesus
Your child will learn to think like Jesus if you actively pursuing the mind-set yourself.
3 Tricks to Juggling Ministry
Gina McClain offers some great advice for when your ministry plate is always full.
4 Areas of Children’s Ministry Excellence
Perfecting these areas will make your ministry to kids more effective and efficient.
Communicating With Parents for Partnership
In communicating with parents, information gets tuned out, but strategy gets tuned in.
Screening Procedures for Childhood Ministry
Careful screening procedures are necessary for all volunteers and staff in children's ministries.
Conveying Jesus' Love in Correction
Your words are powerful, profound and life changing.
Dr. Seuss-Style Wonder
Dan Scott truly hopes children never lose their wonder at the awesome God of the universe.
Smart Teaching: Understanding What a Brain Can’t Ignore
Take a look at this great infographic from Orange Leaders about how to be an effective teacher.
Results Matter in Children’s Ministry
Our return on investment in family ministry is vitally important to those we serve.
Purposeful Play
Teach children biblical principles in the context of recreational activities.
The Spiritual Perception of a Child
Insight on how children uniquely see the things of God.
Latest News
J.D. Greear Urges Caution: Patterson Was Fired for a Reason
“I advise any Southern Baptist church to consider [Patterson's termination from SWBTS] before having Dr. Patterson preach or speak and to contact trustee officers if additional information is necessary,” J.D. Greear says.
New Podcasts
Josh Weidmann: How (Not) to Be an Unhealthy Leader
“I learned great things [at Harvest]," says Josh Weidmann, "and I learned some really hard things there.” Josh shares with us what experience has taught him about how church leaders can balance confidence with humility, process criticism well, and pursue true repentance.
