Children

How Loneliness and Belonging: How Often Do You Feel Lonely?

Jesus’s life reveals loneliness and belonging as a blueprint for healthy relationships.

Building the Right Team

Do you want a full-time staff member to be working with you? Before receiving that gift, you must first learn the process by which you would need to lead that full-time staff.

The Value of Long-Suffering

It’s hard. It’s hard to see the value of children's ministry when others don’t.

Valuing Multiethnicity

God’s creative spirit is manifest in the way he designed humanity.

3 Ways to Teach a Bible Story to Children

The most natural place for children’s ministry teachers to begin is to look at a Bible story and think about what models should be followed—or avoided.

3 Shifts in Kid’s Ministry Design

It Is Time to Reevaluate Your Children’s Ministry Area

Mimi Larson & Robert Keeley: Bridging Theory and Practice in Children’s Spirituality

New Directions for Education, Ministry, and Discipleship (Zondervan)

How to Tell Difficult Stories Well

Excerpted FromBridging Theory and Practice in Childrens SpiritualityEdited by Mimi Larson and Robert Keeley I am not advocating just gathering a bunch of preschoolers together and telling them all the stories they have not heard before. That is neither helpful nor educationally sound. But we can share these difficult stories and do it well if […]

Best Practices for Online Kids’ Ministry

Essential tips for effective online kids' ministry best practices, including content and platform ideas for engaging children remotely.

Lacy Finn Borgo: Spiritual Conversations With Children

Listening to God Together (IVP)

The Gift of Eyes and Ears

Excerpted FromSpiritual Conversations With ChildrenBy Lacy Finn Borgo When we accompany a child in their life with God, asking questions acknowledges the autonomy of the...