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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 “benefits,” it will be very difficult for new recruits to turn you down. This is your commitment to them. They will be more than glad to join your team!
1. You equip them with orientation and training.
2. You offer a caring relationship.
3. You have resources, supplies and materials.
4. You render lots of appreciation for a “job well done.”
5. You are quick to add affirmation for good effort.
For the rest of this unbelievable Benefit Package continue…
• 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 free unit now, even though you are not currently using DiscipleLand. You could use it later.
Go here to learn about this great limited time offer. Simply click here and use the coupon code DTFREE at checkout. Ends 5/18/2011
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• Bible Puzzles 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 Bible Puzzles: Pencil Games published by Rainbow Books: Division of Success with Youth (60 pages, in good condition, but has a few used pages, but the idea of the page is still good)
Reproducible Pages for classroom use for teachers and others who love to work with Kids. This great collection pencil puzzles that you can use in your Children’s Ministry. Sometimes you just need an activity page that challenges the mind and fills the time. Try one of these great puzzles and have the book on hand to make handouts for activity in between services or as an Early Bird Activity.
Here’s the fine print, so you can get your copy:
• KidMin Jobs
Kidmin Jobs: Entry Scenarios
From my vantage point in getting to know many children’s ministry leaders I concluded that there seem to be five typical ways or scenarios that persons use to come into the profession of Children’s Ministry or KIdmin Jobs. Which one of these Entry Scenarios describes you?
1. The Lay Volunteer (LV). This person begins volunteering in the children’s ministry, while their own children are young. With years of experience with children, the program and the church, this “insider” gets paid for part-time, then eventually become full-time as the program grows. They tend to reinforce the practical aspects of ministry and become a trusted insider with no formal academic work in children. They feel inadequate around trained clergy types. They seem to just slip into the “back door” of this profession, without even an application or resume. They need training, coaching and ministry leadership experience, but are responsive to any kind of help they can arrange, while their family is young.
Continue here for the other four scenarios for this KidMin Jobs article…
• 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 Office. Every department or every building could have designated resource areas. However, one common or central place avoids a lot of duplication.
As your ministry grows the more you need this Resource Place. The more your team grows, the more they need these Resources.
What should be included in your Resourced Place?
Supplies: construction paper, tape, tempura paints, scissors, colored pencils, crayons, glue, pens and pencils, chalk and erasers, roll paper to cover tables, clean-up supplies.
Craft Supplies of all sorts for Sunday school, VBS and club programs. You can get carried away here, there are so many options, but start with what you can use, not just collect. These can be new and used items.
Equipment: a copy machine for teachers, a paper cutter, easels, flannel boards, pocket charts, etc.
Visual aids Flannel graph, teaching pictures, visual stories, visual songs, paper pads, marking pens, object lessons, even materials for bulletin boards and displays.
Curriculum (of all types) can be stored and distributed from here, if you have the space. Games, stories could be included too.
Media resources TV’s, camera, easels, recorders, projectors, flannel boards, film projector, DVD players, screens, etc.
Recreational equipment if your program has a gym, these resources might be kept there in another separate place. Some items that can be used in the classroom would be appropriate to start.
Here are My Ten Suggestions to help you create your Resource Place.
• 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 pages, in mint condition) Over 1000 Reproducible Illustrations for Teachers and Others who love to work with Kids. Some very clever artwork that I am sure you can use for some special event in your ministry. This great collection of clip art will add a professional touch to your Children’s Ministry. Great for boarders, missions, Bible lessons, seasonal art, headlines, family, children, animals, music, and games and much more.
Here’s the fine print, so you can get your copy:
• 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 idea of a tryst.
However, today we could say a Trysting Place is not so much a secret place as it is a hiding place. But you would still go there by appointment only. It might be stretch for the Christian to redefine a trysting place as a place where we make an appointment and meet with God. For us, to spend deliberate time with God, it could also require a serious effort to make the appointment. Further, it could require a deliberate choice of a designated place for prayer and devotion, a place to transact important business, to get some instruction or direction, a place of worship, if you please. These two elements (a set time and a set place) are both required to spend a day away with God. I have found that if I do not set a time and a place, this discipline does not work.
Where do you find a Trysting Place?
• 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 their children to Him. He would put His hands on them and bless them.
I learned about this while I was India, the first time.
• Holding Your Hand
Holding Your Hand
There is something special about offering someone your hand. It is symbolic of presence, or not doing something alone. To extend a helpful hand is a role every Kidmin who can come along side a child and offer some assistance. Every kid, no matter how good his parents are, needs the support from other caring adults. What better choice for that than a nurturing Children’s Pastor who offers the added assistance of a welcoming outstretched hand?
