Articles for Children's Ministry Leaders

Children have many questions about God. How can you respond in age-appropriate ways? Check out these suggestions for explaining God to a child, no matter his or her age.

By using a simple Bible science experiment, you can draw kids in and capture their attention. It makes them incredibly receptive to God’s word.

When you're working with children, families, and kidmin volunteers, privacy issues often arise. That's why you need a clear-cut church confidentiality policy.

If the people in your community don’t know that your church exists, they won’t ever join your church. A frequently overlooked step in connecting with a community is simply building baseline awareness of a church in that broader community.

I grew up as a pastor's kid (PK). There were good things and bad things about that, but one thing I've learned is that there are three ways people treat PKs differently than they would treat other children.

As children grow, their attention spans and understanding levels change. So it’s important for Sunday school teachers and children’s ministry workers to adapt lessons accordingly. Find out how to teach Bible stories for elementary age, from toddlers to tweens.

For some reason, we expect kids in church to “get out” of the service the same experience that adults get out of it. But children are not adults, and we shouldn't expect them to be.

To be brutally honest, sometimes my kids think church is boring. But sometimes so do I. And that's OK. If we're never bored, if we are constantly entertained and distracted, how will we ever find time to “be still and know that He is God” (Psalm 46:10)?