Articles for Children's Ministry Leaders

This “village” is not there just to keep them in line when they get unruly, but to experience the joy of seeing them grow up in God and grow up for God.

A funny reminder to keep God’s perspective in mind as we evaluate volunteers (or staff!).

One of the best ways to help your volunteers grow is by asking them questions. Open-ended questions that will give them the opportunity to share about what God is doing in their life and ministry as they serve.

As many of us get ready for Easter and the events leading up to it, here’s a great craft for kids introducing them to Palm Sunday. Jesus enters Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey the week before his crucifixion.

Some of the most effective ministry lessons are learned from mistakes and in-the-trenches ministry experiences. If you are new in ministry, here are some tips from someone with 20 full-time years of kids ministry experience to help you avoid pitfalls and burnout in ministry.

There are many good project management solutions out there and I use a couple others for different reasons, but Basecamp has worked best for our family ministry staff.

You might be surprised to know that in our class the stomping kid turned out to be an OK class with an OK kid. So how did we get this child to go from stomping and not participating to becoming involved with our group?

As Kids’ Pastors, we can do so much more with missions in Kids’ Church to cultivate the hearts of kids and let them feel how connected all God’s people are throughout the earth.