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Free Craft Idea: Paper Basket

Paper baskets your kids can color and weave themselves.

Get Prepared for Kids' Difficult Questions

Kenny Conley urges parents to frankly engage their kids on difficult subjects like sex and porn.

Using Play Time to Build Relationships

How children's workers can use play/activity time to build relationships with kids.

Pray for Me – Serena's Story

The power of prayer throughout the church is more important they we will ever see.

4 Monster Recruiting Mistakes

Take a deep breath and slay those boogeyman issues in your recruiting closet.

Helping Kids Prepare for the Teen Years

One of our jobs as preteen leaders is to help equip parents and preteens for the teen years.

The Relationship is Worth Fighting For

Reggie Joiner encourages leaders to fight for what really matters.

The Facebook Phenom And How It Can Help Your KidMin

Facebook is celebrating it's 7th anniversary. Here are some interesting stats about the social network phenomenon. Founder is Mark Zuckerberg. Mark was a Harvard...

Orange Week: Best Breakout Session

Sometimes Kyle and I watch that Food Network show: Best Thing I Ever Ate.  Not sure why.  Personally I think it’s torture to...

Staying Dynamic in Children’s Ministry – #3 Question Everything

3. Question Everything For some reason in church world we are afraid of questioning what we do and what we believe. There are lots...

What KidMin Leaders Do: Build Relationships (2)

In our first post about relationships, we talked about the most important relationship…our relationship with God.  Of course, all we do in ministry should...

Best Breakout – Nancy Ortberg, Conflict

Nancy Ortberg taught a breakout called Dysfunction and Death. I was completely intrigued. I remember sitting there with my business school hat...

Lesson 3: Hola! Me Amo White-Lady-from-Minnesota-Teaching-in-Mexico

This post originally appeared in Jody’s humor blog Lessons Learned in the Little Red Schoolhouse. You can subscribe to the blog from the original...

Don't Have the Sex Talk with Your Kids!

I’m continuing to engage the conversation this week about how we can protect kids from the dangers of pornography and sex outside of...

Parents Just Don’t Understand

I think Will Smith was onto something with this anthem for all those angsty kids in the late 80’s. And now as...

12 Things Anyone Can Do to Set Themselves Apart and Lead Others Better!-Part 7

#7- Start advertising early People don’t come to church every week. In fact I think every other week is the new each week...

New Phone Apps Support Faithful Parenting

Free new smart phone apps from David C. Cook help parents in spiritual leadership of their kids.

Leading Through Personal Trials

How to lead children when you're traveling through personal darkness

A Place for Me — Special Needs Ministry

Give special-needs children and their families a place at your church.

Trust the Gut

Your gut knows best. Much of the book Blink  by Malcolm Gladwell is about trusting intuition. He proposes that your first impression is probably the...

Remains of Pastor’s Wife and Friend Identified; OK County GOP Chair...

News surfaced this week that Tifany Machel Adams is the GOP chair for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Adams is one of four suspects charged with kidnapping and murdering pastor's wife Jilian Kelley and Kelley's friend Veronica Butler.

Rebecca McLaughlin on Whether Christians Can Agree To Disagree About Same-Sex...

Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can respond to common arguments that use the Bible to affirm same-sex relationships, the “why” behind God’s design for marriage, and the “beautiful and glorious vision” Christianity has for friendship.

Children's Ministry Leaders