Category Archives: Training
All-Age Worship Resources
All-Age Worship Web Resources MessyChurch (in the UK) is one church’s attempt to be church for families who might want to meet Jesus, belong to their local church and bring up their children as Christians but can’t cope with traditional … Continue reading
Top Tips on Learning with Children
Top Tips on Learning With Children 1. Get passionate about the Bible yourself. 2. Explore the Bible as one big story that has many little stories included in it. 3. Arouse children’s curiosity in our mysterious, awesome and complex God. … Continue reading
Disciplining Children
A Teacher Training Idea 1. The following session is best undertaken as a Sunday School teachers or children’s ministry team discussion exercise. I have used this activity as part of some training on ‘children & discipline’. It is best if … Continue reading
The Secure Man
Let’s admit it: all of us have twinges of insecurity about ourselves. But it is possible to grow towards being a totally secure man, says Larry Titus, president of Men Reaching Men in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. According to Larry, a … Continue reading
Sharing the Christmas Story With Preschoolers (ages 2-4)
Sharing the Christmas Story with Preschoolers In preparation to tell the Christmas story. 1. Be reminded that God’s Son Jesus came to earth as a little child to rescue humankind from their sins and to bring people back into relationship … Continue reading
Involving children with the Bible
Involving Children with the Bible 1.Extending the passage: Following a story, children are encouraged to think further. e.g .to pretend they were the guard at the tomb, and to write a letter to your mum, a week after the resurrection, … Continue reading
Characteristics of Children
I found the following website has helpful downloads relevant to teaching or leading a children’s group. There are also some questions for reflection and discussion with others in your children’s ministry team. Children’s Ministry Agency- Assemblies of God USA. http://4kids.ag.org/library/characteristics/index.cfm
7WAYS Children’s Leaders Training Guide
MAX7.org has a load of great FREE resources for use in Sunday School, training children’s workers and running children’s programs. I’ve just been reading their latest resource which is a training guide for children’s workers which has some excellent material … Continue reading
Luke 14 Accessible Church
The Christian Blind Mission (CBM Australia) has produced some excellent resources to help make our churches more inclusive for people with disablities. Please visit their website and consider how Children’s workers can implement changes and work to improve our support … Continue reading
Children and the Gospel
Scripture Union have made available a great training resource called “Children and the Gospel” written by Ron Buckland a seasoned Australian children’s worker, pastor, trainer and writer. This article and the references quoted are well worth a read.
‘Tiddlywinks’ pre-school resource
I have just seen a great new children’s ministry resource from Scripture Union in the UK which has been developed to help those working with pre-schoolers.The material is called “Tiddlywinks“. They write.. “We are aiming to provide a monthly email … Continue reading
Encouragement or praise?
We all want our kids to be happy, but too much praise and inclusion does not teach them that they can’t always win- an important life lesson. What happens when they get older and things don’t go their way? US … Continue reading
5 Basic Ways to Make Learning Fun
Build good relationships Leaders to kids Kids to leaders Kids to kids Participate in all activities even if it is from the sideline Be real with the kids Set and keep good standards Use action and variety Be well prepared. … Continue reading
7 Ways to involve children with the Bible
Practical suggestions in helping children read the Bible. 1. Use part of the Bible as a handbook: If possible, give each child one of teh Gospels. This becomes their handbook, in which they can- Colour in important verse or memory … Continue reading
Tips For Working With A Small Group
1. Get the children to sit together in such a way that everyone has eye contact with the leader. Make sure that all the children can hear you. As best you can be aware of any children with eyesight or … Continue reading
Discipline and control with children
DISCIPLINE & CONTROL WITH CHILDREN A definition of DISCIPLINE Discipline is the guiding of behaviour so that learning can occur. The aim of good discipline is to : (1) effect learning ( learning should be promoted and enhanced). (2) help … Continue reading
Looking for free children’s ministry resources?
I have just found out about a great new website which offers free resources for ministry to children. Included for free is the new BibleMAX curriculum, video and song downloads and some training materials. New resources are going to be … Continue reading
7 Discipline Hints
What are some key elements in dealing with discipline problems? Lay a good foundation of discipline through your positive relationships with the children. Get to know what makes them tick and what to expect from children of differing ages and … Continue reading
Children and Music
I was reminded recently of a helpful guide to choosing songs or music to use with children. This test (originally developed by Scripture Union) has been also a very useful tool in training music teams working with children in mission … Continue reading
Child Safe online
A new program of Child Safety training has just been launched by Scripture Union in Australia and New Zealand. This program and resources would be of interest to all those who work with children and are concerned about child safety. … Continue reading
Olympic Games Holiday Club Resources
Our church is gearing up for our annual children’s holiday club (vacation bible school) in our July school holidays. This year we are following an Olympic Games theme and bible passages from Luke’s gospel. If you are looking for material … Continue reading
New free resources for children’s ministry
Scripture Union continues it’s long tradition of producing high quality resources for bible reading and children’s ministry. Scripture Union UK have just launched a new website which makes available thousands of resources from their “LIGHT” material archive. Fully searchable and … Continue reading
How can children learn self-discipline?
1. Develop an atmosphere of love and acceptance. 2. Provide meaningful activities. 3. Allow the child to make choices. 4. Be realistic and consistent in your expectations. 5. Focus on positive actions.
Recruiting leaders for Children’s Ministry
Greg Baird at “Kids in Focus” has a very helpful article titled “Don’t recruit R.E.L.A.T.E.” which gives some good tips for Children’s Ministers who are looking to grow their ministry teams. The newsletter (available from this site) is also worth … Continue reading
Boys forward
I’ve just been looking at a very helpful website dealing with lots of issues to do with raising boys. BoysForward.com Articles include – Boys and Role Models , Boys and Praise, The value of sport with boys, Boys and homework… … Continue reading
Lesson criteria
Considerations in choosing the appropriate material to teach a children’s small group. 1. Scriptually based. 2. Appropriate to teach particular doctrine or spiritual truth. 3. Good story content. 4. Link with the other lessons to form a compact series. 5. … Continue reading
Encouraging words
I found this website today which has a number of good articles on leadership, training and recruiting new children’s leaders. TodaysChildrensMinistry.com
The importance of children’s ministry
The Importance of Children’s Ministry No evangelical church has unlimited resources in facilities, money and often a more limiting factor, staff and volunteers. Therefore, to be most effective in its evangelical mission of bring the Love of God to the … Continue reading
Going bananas in 2007
We are currently preparing for our children’s holiday program (called “Going Bananas” ) which will be held for a week in July. This year is our tenth year of running these outreach programs and every year we get a bit … Continue reading
