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Creating a Solid Relationship Foundation with Parents

Relationships, connection, and community are some of the biggest needs with our families today. Creating a solid relationship foundation with the parents in our ministries is key in setting families up for success when it comes to Spiritual Formation. How do you plan on building a…

INCM Leadership Coaching Benefits Leaders

Coaching is a newer practice in the social sciences and has taken off in the business sector as well as for personal growth. Its focus is on the future results or outcomes that a person wants to achieve. So many leaders feel stuck, and uncertain…

Cycles of Growth: The Key to Stability in Ministry

Every leader wants two things for their ministry: growth and stability. They want the ministries they lead to increase their impact and remain stable amid adversity. Understanding what brings these goals about is both easy and elusive. It’s easy because we know that the stability…

CPC Learning: How to Implement New Ideas

I love Orlando in January! It’s the time of year that I get to go to the Children’s Pastors Conference (CPC). From the moment the confetti falls at the end of CPC, my heart longs for the next time I can reunite with friends who…

Don’t Miss the Moment in the Middle

Christmas in Children’s Ministry is hard. It is filled with joy, remembrance, worship, unspoken expectations, and deep grief. As ministry leaders, you are called to be many things to many people all at once. It is easy to become overwhelmed or unphased spiritually by the…

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…