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Lesson 5: When Our Best Laid Plans Get Snowed In

This post originally appeared on Jody’s humor blog about her experiences in education www.lessonslearnedinthelittleredschoolhouse.com where you can subscribe to the Lessons by email. By nature, I...

Why Take Kids on a Mission Trip?

On our mission trip to Belize last week, we took 7 kids age 6 to 14.  Until a few years ago I would...

Why Can't We All Get Along

All of us in ministry are on the same team, at least we are supposed to be! 1 Corinthians 12:14-19 tells us there are...

God to the Rescue | Week 1 | Remember God Loves You

Many of our families at Ada are on Spring Break this week. In case you’re one of those families, we wanted to still...

Guerrilla Parenting: Tattling vs. Telling

Chris Spradlin over at EpicParent.tv wrote a great post about Tattling vs. Telling. I love his take in encouraging our kids not to tattle...

Succeeding Through Failure

“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin “There are no secrets to success. It is...

An Easter Moment

Use this video to spark a conversation with your kids’ ministry team about how to engage children in the REAL story of Easter.

6 Tips to Keep the Lesson Rolling

Justyn Smith offers coaching tips for teaching in front of kids to prevent awkward silences and "stage ninjas."

Why We Wrote Our Own Curriculum

Kidmin veteran Sam Luce offers a chance to dialogue about what makes a good children's ministry curriculum.

Free Kids Song Package: This is My Father's World

"This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears / All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres."

10 Ways to Be a More Friendly Ministry

Cookie-cutter greeters at the door who give a canned "good morning" doesn't make your ministry friendly.

The Internet’s Effects on Students’ Brains

Veteran educator Jody Capehart explores the impact the Internet can have on the minds of our youngsters according to recent research.

What Needs to Change?

In the late 1840′s, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was an assistant in the maternity wards of a Vienna hospital. He noted with alarm that...

Missional Children’s Ministry | Experience God’s Love

As families and children discover who God is in their lives, they are able to experience his love for them in a ...

Journaling For Leadership

I’ve spent the better part of my adult life in and out of journaling.  You can ask my husband.  Journals are all over my...

Seth Godin On Children’s Ministry?

If you read the blog of Seth Godin, you may have seen this one called Faster, Better and More (3/26/2011). Here’s what he said...

Preteen Ministry Check Out

So in your Preteen Ministry, you’ve probably asked the question, “How do we release our students on a weekly basis?” When we...

David Ashcraft on the Surprising, ‘Deep Emotions’ He Felt Stepping Down...

David Ashcraft joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how leadership has changed, how pastors can leave their churches better than they found them, and the startling emotions he felt when he stepped down as senior pastor.

Children's Ministry Leaders