Soul Care Archives

5 Qualities that Make a Children’s Minister Great

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / INCM Blog Team

A myriad of qualities are needed when it comes to running a children’s ministry, but these five are key. 1. Great Leaders are In Love with Jesus. It might seem obvious that someone leading children and their families should be in love with Jesus, but we can’t take this quality for granted. It can become easy to fill our time doing things for Jesus and miss out on being with Jesus. If we desire to lead well, we must lead from a place of love. We need to know how deeply Jesus loves us and reflect that love toward those we lead.

5 Qualities that Make a Children’s Minister Great Read More »

5 Points to Ponder when Your Soul is Overwhelmed

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / INCM Blog Team

Ministry can be challenging work. There is always a lot to manage. Despite our best intentions, we can find ourselves tired, depleted, and overwhelmed. If you’re in this spot, we want this article to be an encouragement to you. When we don’t find the right rhythms, keep boundaries, or have people to go with us, ministry can knock us down or, unfortunately, take us out.

5 Points to Ponder when Your Soul is Overwhelmed Read More »

Don’t Miss the Moment in the Middle

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / Yanet Coombes

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 Christmas season. It’s easy to focus on the wrong things.

Don’t Miss the Moment in the Middle Read More »

A Reminder to Rest for Leaders

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / INCM Blog Team

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 of coffee of the day to stay on top of the events that will welcome old and new kids to church for maybe the first time ever or in a long time.
Christmas services feel like the stakes are high! And they are. This could be an opportunity for a kid to meet Jesus for the very first time.

A Reminder to Rest for Leaders Read More »

Redemption Through Pain: God Is Shaping Us

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / INCM Blog Team

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 to deal with the pain.
Maybe we feel hopeless thinking that nothing can take away the pain that we experience from our childhoods, family members, or the world.

Redemption Through Pain: God Is Shaping Us Read More »

God is With Us in the Fire

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / INCM Blog Team

This blog was written by Cera Talamantes as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. I was in the confetti-filled conference room with happy and sad tears streaming

God is With Us in the Fire Read More »

Remember the Faithfulness of God

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / INCM Blog Team

This blog was written by Melissa Hendrickson as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. You can listen to the whole CPC22 playlist here on Spotify. Read these opening lyrics of the song

Remember the Faithfulness of God Read More »

The Best News at Christmas

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / INCM Team

The cold, snowy Chicago wind was blowing so hard it almost knocked me into my friend as we got off the church shuttle. A small group of youth and a few of our youth leaders were spending time leading up to Christmas at Pacific Garden Mission at the women’s and children’s refuge. We were given jobs

The Best News at Christmas Read More »

Healing Comes as We Praise Him

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / Joy Goodwin

This blog was written as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. You can listen to the whole CPC22 playlist here on Spotify. Let praise be a weapon

Healing Comes as We Praise Him Read More »

Fresh Perspective and Vision for Your Ministry

Leave a Comment / 1. Leadership / INCM Blog Team

This blog was written by Leann Woelk as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. You can listen to the whole CPC22 playlist here on Spotify. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary one definition

Fresh Perspective and Vision for Your Ministry Read More »

Soul Care

5 Qualities that Make a Children’s Minister Great

5 Points to Ponder when Your Soul is Overwhelmed

Don’t Miss the Moment in the Middle

A Reminder to Rest for Leaders

Redemption Through Pain: God Is Shaping Us

God is With Us in the Fire

Remember the Faithfulness of God

The Best News at Christmas

Healing Comes as We Praise Him

Fresh Perspective and Vision for Your Ministry

Top Pages

Stay Connected

MAIN MENU