Archive for • Children’s Ministry
• Sublist: Deep & Wide
Sublist: Deep & Wide Having a two dimensional Substitute List is the long-term solution to all your Recruiting needs. The chronic weekend cancellations of your volunteers can be adequately dealt with, if you have a Sublist that is both deep and wide. A Deep Sublist is one that is constantly growing longer. It is a […]
• Leadership: Recalculating
Leadership: Recalibrating (Take a Good Hard Look and Adjust) Every leader must learn to evaluate themselves and their ministry. This process can be both introspective and challenging. If you are part of a ministry that values an annual Performance Review, then you are familiar with being evaluating by another. However, there is nothing more invigorating […]
• All Eyes Forward
All Eyes Forward: Getting the Attention of Kids How do you get and keep the attention of kids in a large group? We were running late by four hours on a Christmas short-term mission trip into Baja. We were bringing presents to the village children. There were nearly four hundred children of all ages waiting […]
• The Magic Challenge Winner
The winner of the $5 Christmas Magic Challenge is….drum roll please, Joel Smith The Magic Challenge for my students was to Create a New Magic Trick with no more than $5 from a Dollar Tree, 99 Cent Store (or comparable store). The new Christmas Magic Trick made with props and things purchased. Contest was over […]
• Confessions of a Stuck Leader
Leadership: Confessions of A “Stuck” Leader After forty, plus, years in the ministry experience, I must confess I have been “stuck” many times. “Stuck” for me, is a kind of muddy quagmire experience that I can “wallow in” that basically renders me immobile to forward progress. It comes when I am over committed to big […]
• Brown Bags for Baja Kids
Brown Bag Ministry This Christmas Whittier Area Community Church is helping provide Christmas to children of Migrant Workers in Ensenada, Mexico. They provide items for children that will only fit inside of a regular brown lunch bag, stapled shut. This generous program has been going on for several years and has grown with adult Sunday […]
• Program Rehab: One by One
All Children’s Ministry leaders want their programs to grow by design. We want healthy groups and growing people in them. However attempting to remodel ministries we did not start is, admittedly, very challenging. You want to stop the exodus of families caused by keep-out signs and a rather large back door. Reversing this reputation or […]
• Kidmin Talk
Kidmin Talk Karl Bastian, the founder and president of Kidology, Inc., has launched a new bi-monthly podcast series this fall covering Everything Kidmin (children’s ministry). This weekly, about forty-minute, show is patterned much like a Talk-Radio Show with segments and bumper music. Each installment tackles the current buzz in the “kidmin” world, looking at news, […]
• Leadership: Ownership
Leadership: Ownership How do you create ownership in programming? How do create an environment that is conducive to ownership? How do you deal with saboteurs that seek and destroy a good plan? These are significant questions when it comes to developing new programs in children’s ministry. There seems to be three ways that churches do […]
• What Stepping UP Means
What Stepping Up Means! Stepping UP is the concept in leadership that involves moving forward, but exerting more than normal walking energy to lift that other foot higher. It involves taking that extra effort to raise your game to another level. This can occur when people enhance the productivity of their existing activities and assets […]
