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• Volunteer “Benefit Package”
The Volunteer “Benefit Package” By Barney Kinard and Sabrina Mayrand When you position yourself to “recruit” new volunteers to join your children’s ministry team, you want to preplan the position and the job requirements. However, that is not enough! The following could be your “benefit package.” If you seriously adapt some of these caring relationship […]
• Free Kid’s Church Curriculum
Free Kid’s Church Curriculum By Special Arrangement from May 3 through May 18 only, You may get… One Free Unit (four lessons) of Children’s Church Curriculum from DiscipleLand (it is a $49.95 value) That’s Right! DiscipleTown’s popular How to Worship God, completely downloadable and Free. Guess who wrote it? I recommend that you secure your […]
• Creating A Resource Place
Creating Your Resource Place As I have moved around churches I have observed how many churches have created places to keep resources for the teachers and workers. The variety has ranged from whole rooms designated as the Resource Center (Room) to an organized Resource Closet, to a set of labeled plastic-stack boxes in the Kidmin […]
• Kid Worker’s Clip Art Book
Give Away Resources (for current on-line Kidology Protege’s only, (sorry) From my exhaustive collection of the resource materials, I am hereby going to donate, to my current students only, a collection of books on various aspects of children’s ministry. The next one is The Kid Worker’s Clip Art Book published by Gospel Light Publishers (175 […]
• What Is a Trysting Place?
What’s A Trysting Place? It is a place that is quite special. Historically, it was a place where two lovers would meet, out of the way, kind of remote—where they might steal away to rendezvous at the appointed time. You could interpret this as an romantic affair, which is what our culture could interpret the […]
• Blessing the Children
Blessing the Children It was Jesus who said, with open arms and open hands, “Let the little children come unto Me, and forbid them not.” (Matt. 19:14, Mark 10:14, Luke 18:16) It is hard to imagine anything less from our compassionate Savior. All children would be welcome to Jesus. Mothers in that day would bring […]
• What’s Your Kid Count?
Kid Count: What is the Difference Between Head-Count and Data-Base Count? The Head-Count Number is the actual counting of kids that come through all your programs each week. So you add up all the attendance for all your individual programs and get a Head Count number. This number will have duplicates, as the same kids […]
• Coach’s Conundrum #10
Coach’s Conundrums #10. Good Ideas Are My Ideas, And Bad Ideas Are Your Ideas! Over the years I have learned that I am not the only repository of good ideas. As a leader, you have to know how to solicit ideas from others that can help you to solve problems, but it’s not easy. From […]
• Resource Center—Estonia
Kid-Helper Resource Center—Estonia This last week Michael LaFond and I met with Pille (pronounced Pella) Havakats from Estonia to show her what was included in a Kid-Helper Resource Center. Well, she wanted one for the 85 churches in Estonia that could use these resources to help reach and team more children for Christ. So on […]
• Calculating Kidmin Salaries
Calculating Kidmin Salaries It seems to be common practice among churches to use the local school system for comps for determining the salaries of children’s ministers. I guess, I understand how this happens for beginning positions. But as the work grows and the children’s ministry becomes more established, the salary comparison needs to be revised […]
