Articles for Children's Ministry Leaders

This Father's Day, appreciate your dad for what he did right and forgive him for what he failed to get right.

At a recent Kidmin Conference, I taught about how to recruit volunteers and then asked attendees to design prototype posters. The goal? Illustrate the principles I’d described for when they need children’s ministry volunteers.

Despite our best efforts, we can't always spare children from hearing about or experiencing tragedy. Yet people who minister to kids can have a huge impact in helping children cope with trauma and grief.

Summertime brings plenty of heat with it, which means we need to keep our little ones cool. What better way to have devotions for toddlers than through fun water play!

As I work with our own leadership and as I counsel children’s ministers in different parts of the country, I realize that our children’s ministry leaders need you to serve kids now more than they ever have before.

Preschoolers are so much fun! Of course, they can be a challenge, too. Anyone ministering to kids ages 2 to 4 needs some training and tips for teaching preschoolers.

Because I’ve served in children's ministry for more than 25 years, I'm a bit biased about why children's ministry matters. However, I truly do believe it's one of—if not the—most critically important ministries in the church.

Kids living in a post-COVID world need hope now more than ever. Here are 4 ways to talk to kids about purpose and their place in God's great story.