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10 Ways to Engage with Your Elementary Kids Online
This post was written by Leann Woelk, a member of the INCM Blog team. One thing I believe we can all agree on in children’s ministry in 2020 is the importance of connecting online with kids and families in your church when we can’t gather…
4 Tips to Managing Conflict in Challenging Times
As children’s leaders, we work with all different kinds of people with different personalities and opinions; some that we get along with, and some that we might, at best (let’s be honest), only tolerate. These are difficult sentiments to utter because, as Christians, we are…
Kidz Blitz: Events that Connect People to “That Moment” with the Holy Spirit
This guest post was written by Donnie Slade, President & CEO of Blitz Ministries. At the beginning of the summer of 2021, Blitz Ministries was at a church in Tennessee. As we normally do towards the end of each Blitz event, we presented the Gospel…
8 Reasons You Can’t Live without Sabbath
This post was written by Christie Penner Worden, a member of the INCM Blog team. It was a beautiful afternoon, late in June–the kind of afternoon that is filled with the promise of summer and a heat only the July sun to come would offer….
Engaging Kids in Prayer on Sunday Mornings
This post was written by Cera Talamantes, a member of the INCM Blog team. The floor was laminate and super old, turning yellow where it once had been white. There were animated circus animals on the floor, too, some cute and some creepy. I stared…
4 Practices Every Children’s Ministry Leader Can’t Live Without
This post was written by Angie Hooie, a member of the INCM Blog team. I’m just coming back from vacation to a pile on my desk and way too many emails! Do you ever feel like you’re drowning, and can’t catch your breath? No? I didn’t think…
Embracing Multicultural Ministry
This guest post was written by Luz Gálvez de Figueroa. Falling in Love with a Different Culture The first time we stepped onto American soil was at the Miami airport in 1987. Sitting there for 6 hours after a long trip from Chile was overwhelming….
Key Factors for Planning Children’s Ministry Events
This guest post was written by Preston Plentl. From Easter events to VBS, Kids Camps to Fall Fests, as a Children’s Ministry Leader you do some or all of these. Large events are inevitable in a Children’s Ministry calendar year. They are a natural part…
3 Easy Ways to Invest in Volunteers
This post was written by Crystal Mazzuca, a member of the INCM Blog team. If someone were to ask you to describe your volunteers in one word, what would you say? Amazing? Dynamic? Incredible? Faithful? Christ-like? The truth of the matter is, there aren’t enough…
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