When you are a children's ministry director or pastor, you practically "live and breathe" children's ministry. It is your focus, your passion. It is what you think about. While you may have designed a children's ministry which is very effective, because you are so "close" to your ministry, there could be things you "miss", or just do not "see". Consider the following ideas for how you could be certain your children's ministry communicates the message you think it does -
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Are You Certain Your Children's Ministry Communicates the Message You Think It Does?
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Deeper In For Children - Almost Ready for Your Church!
Friday, March 17, 2023
Take the Blinders Off!
Okay - today I'm writing about something I care so very much about . . . Children's Ministry. Some of you who read this need to know, what I'm writing doesn't really apply to your Children's Ministry . . . but before you read a bit further and decide your ministry isn't the ministry I'm talking about, read the whole post and ask God to remove your "blinders" and help you honestly evaluate to see if there might be at least some of what I say which applies to your ministry.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
New Sample Lessons for Deeper In for Children!
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Learn, Be Prepared, Hand Down Confident Faith with the little answer book
Please share with the parents and grandparents in your ministry -
There are people I know and love who have turned from the faith they once had, so I researched to find answers to the question - why should I believe? I discovered there are solid answers and compiled them into a simple book - the little answer book.
Why might you want this book? consider the following . . .
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Why Another Curriculum? Why Deeper In for Children?
Yes, I agree there are a number of excellent curriculum resources currently available for churches to use in their Children's Ministries, so why am I releasing Deeper In for Children? There are several reasons, but the biggest one is because Deeper In for Children does several unique things -
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Notice the Children Who Are Only There IF They Want to Be There
Monday, March 6, 2023
Update on Deeper In for Children
Deeper In for Children is coming along and I'm still making "tweaks" to make the curriculum better, more effective, and more affordable. So, today I'm writing just to let you know I will have new sample lessons for both the elementary and preschool levels by the end of the week - if you checked out the first samples, you will notice some of the differences in the new samples.
Friday, March 3, 2023
Deeper In for Children - Get Both Preschool & Elementary Curriculum for Only $50.00 each Quarter!
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Escape: The Traps of Christianity - Excellent Book - I Highly Recommend It
How Do You Know if You are Actually Truly Effective?
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Chasing WHALES by Michael Chanley - Put at the top of your "must read" list.
Some of you who have been serving in Children's Ministry for awhile may recognize Michael Chanley and the ministry CM Connect. If so you know Michael is someone who has an absolute heart for Children's Ministry. He is the founder of CM Connect and has traveled around the world to help people serve the children and families in their ministries as effectively as possible. I have had the honor of meeting Michael in person and he is someone with a true servant's heart who clearly loves God with his all. (I spoke at one of his Children's Ministry conferences a few years ago. When I arrived it was pouring rain - by the bucketful's. Michael met me at our car with an umbrella so I would not be soaked - he got soaked by the rain instead. He did not have to do this. Just one example of many of how this author lives what he writes.)
Happily, whether you are familiar with Michael and his ministry or not, you are able to read his new book - Chasing WHALES: a spiritual dive with Jonah -
VBS 2023 - Pets Unleashed from Group Publishing
I'm delighted for the opportunity to once again share Group's weekend VBS with you . . . Pets Unleashed. The idea with this resource is to provide two affordable two and a half hour sessions, plus a one hour celebration which churches could use over one weekend . . . or over three weekends . . . or they might be able to spread it out for one Saturday a month for a Summer of fun! And, if you do not mind repeating games and focusing more on the same Bible Adventure, you could stretch it for a week of VBS.