When Working with Children Please Remember These…

When Working with Children Please Remember These...

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Working with children in your church is not for the faint of heart. Unfortunately, children do not come out of the womb as cherubs with glowing halos around their sweet little heads. The reality is that children are sinners like the rest of us and therefore in need of guidance and nurture toward a life of godliness. At the recent Orange Conference people were interviewed for advice on ministering to children and the following video shows their answers.

1) Kids just want to know that you care about them.

2) Don’t be so hard on yourself and continue to work on building relationships with the kids

3) Never stop learning. As soon as you think you know it all you don’t.

4) Be observant. Don’t try to change a lot things the first six months you are in children’s ministry.

5) Remember that what you do has kingdom value. You are putting feet to gospel in the lives of children.

Hopefully, these five tips for children’s ministry encourage you. What are others that you can think of and would you be willing to share those with children’s workers who could really use the encouragement.

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