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A Reminder to Rest for Leaders

You’re only a week away from Christmas Eve and Day services, with events in between. And the last thing you need is to feel overwhelmed. But, let’s face it, you probably are. You’re might be stress-eating cookies in the break room and downing your 4th cup…

Redemption Through Pain: God Is Shaping Us

All of us have pain in our lives. As children’s ministry leaders, some of us avoid dealing with our own pain because there is so much other pain that we see that needs to be healed. We might feel we don’t have the time or energy…

Leaders are Lifelong Learners

A good leader knows a lot. A great leader grows what they know through a lifetime of learning. As a children’s ministry leader, you know a lot. You know how to captivate a room full of children. You know how to manage behavior and social…

A Dream of Crayons: How an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Changed a Life

My 5-year-old insists that crayons are an essential purchase this season, and I can only agree. She has a deep joy for giving to kids she may never meet, a joy she shares with her little brother as they intentionally pray over every colorful shoebox…

Get Feedback for Great Events

Event feedback is so helpful in creating great long-term events and deciding what new events to add to your ministries. With holiday events right around the corner, you might be trying something new or wondering how effective your current events are at meeting your ministry’s…

6 Ideas to Recruit Volunteers for Large Events

We can all agree that volunteer recruitment is an essential part of our roles as kidmin leaders. Let’s face it: we could not do what we do in ministry without a healthy and expanding volunteer team. But how do we grow our volunteer base to…

A Volunteer Transformed by Serving Kids

When volunteers serve in children’s ministry they grow in a variety of ways. Sometimes their lives can be transformed by serving kids. A while back I had a college student show up at my classroom door after church one week. She asked if we…

6 Ways to Consider Seniors in Serving Kids

Churches need babies and grandparents. But what are the barriers to them being in the same room together? There are many seasoned saints that would love to rock a new baby member of your church but just cannot imagine doing it. With the up and…

Investing In The Spiritual Growth Of Volunteers

As ministry leaders, this is our heart. We want to equip and empower our volunteers to be the most amazing, dynamic, and effective leaders that they can be. But we would be remiss if we focused strictly on their ministry impact and neglected their spiritual…