In my opinion it really is the greatest families' ministry initiative and deserves a weekend to be carved out in every church calendar!
This all sounds like marketing hyperbole. Let me justify that claim.
During my time as the Children’s Worker, Dangerous Camping was an initiative we developed to re…
I want to give up children’s ministry.
One day, you will say this. You will start by saying it to yourself. Perhaps it will be on a Monday morning as you heave your weary body out the door to another week. Perhaps it will be on a Friday night when dinner is a piece of toast before heading out …
In our last blog, we suggested 6 games you could play at Christmas events.Here are 6 Christmas Talk Illustrations. You’ll still need to study the passage, prepare your talk and make it suit your context; but maybe there is just the seed of an idea here that could get you going.
Shopping list.…
So it’s Christmas again – and as a children’s minister I groan at the list of Christmas events, parties, nativity rehearsals, assemblies, over excited children, snotty noses and diva strops from the kid who wanted to be a donkey … such a marvellous time of year… for p…
We know that giving up a precious Saturday to come to Massive is a big deal.For many in your children’s ministry team, it might be too big an ask.Perhaps there are a few who might be persuaded to come if they understood more about what the day is and who it is for? We’ve made this video …
Apparently bears don’t hibernate. Bears go into “torpor”. Their heart rates go down, they rest, they stop hunting, they sleep but they remain ready. As they have cubs, they need to be ready to protect them. While toads really do hibernate. Some can hibernate for three years. They a…
Let me daydream with you. You need to hire a car. You walk into the office. The car you ask to hire is entirely up to you. What do you dream of driving? You walk onto the forecourt and are shown to your waiting car.
Now focus. Focus in on the moment you climb inside your newly hired ride; the seat s…
Explaining the first Easter to children represents a particular challenge. Their heads are full of bunnies, daffodils and chocolate eggs. We are wondering how to tell them about the bloody death of a naked man on an indescribably brutal torture device. There is potential for disappointed expectation…
The legendary marital argument on Mothering Sunday
There is a Shropshire legend that a couple called Simon and Nelly wanted to make a cake to celebrate the coming of Easter with their children. As it was during Lent the cupboards were bare but they had some leftover Lenten dough and the final remain…
What is a small group?
You know the drill. A Sunday School session will have two or more leaders and a bundle of children. The bulk of the session is spent teaching the single main point, through games, through drama, through Bible time, through Bible story, through… any way you can! Then, th…