Leader Resources Read in 9 mins 7 Safety Tips to Strengthen Your Children’s Ministry This Year A large part of ministry is the act of keeping kids safe whenever they’re in your care. Use these ministry safety tips and guidelines to strengthen your ministry and keep… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 5 mins These 14 Awesome Ideas Give Fundraising a Face-Lift! Culture and safety concerns have changed ministry fundraising. Use these creative ideas to raise money—and keep kids safe. Remember when you were a child, sitting alone at the corner of… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 5 mins 4 Ministry-Related Social Media Blunders to Avoid These 4 social media blunders could destroy your ministry—and your reputation. Do an online search for “social media blunders,” and you’ll find a slew of examples of major slip-ups, often… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 7 mins Safety First: Why You Absolutely Can’t Skip Background Checks Here’s why you absolutely can’t skip background checks. Use this guide to conducting background checks on your team. Jack Anderson* thought it could never happen—at least not at his church.… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 2 mins Q+A: Why Is It Important for Churches to Screen Volunteers? Fewer than half of all churches screen their paid children’s ministry workers. So we talked with Melissa Towers about Group’s background checking service, Shepherd’s Watch, on why it’s so important… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 7 mins Everything Your Ministry Needs to Know About Check-In Solutions Is your current ministry check-in process set up for maximum safety? Find out now. Today’s headlines are fraught with reports of missing children, child custody disputes, and children’s food allergy… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 1 min Children’s Ministry Safety: Help Sheet For Allergic Reactions Safety in your children’s ministry should be your number one priority. While you can’t prevent all incidents, you can be prepared to act. Post tip sheet for handling kids’ severe… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 1 min Take the Safety Quiz: Just How Prepared Is Your Children’s Ministry? Safety is quickly becoming a big concern of the church. Is your ministry doing all it needs to? Take this safety quiz to find out. Safety and security in children’s… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 3 mins The 4 Do’s and Don’ts for Children’s Ministry Safety Awareness Here are 4 do’s and 4 don’ts of safety awareness for your church and your children’s ministry. “I’m going to tell my daughter! She thinks I’m too overprotective!” This was… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 2 mins 5-Step Guide to Choose the Right Background Check Provider Here is a five-step guide to choosing the right background check provider for your church’s children’s ministry. Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Family Ministry Resources Read in 4 mins How to Help Children in the Wake of Witnessing or Experiencing Violence What do you do when monsters are real in children’s lives? A trained grief counselor helps you re-establish kids’ trust in God when violence shakes their world. “I wasn’t prepared… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Family Ministry Resources Read in 4 mins The Top 4 Reasons Parents Avoid Church Nurseries These top 4 reasons parents avoid your church nursery may surprise you. The nursery was perfect. Matching cribs lined one wall, each with crisp pink and blue checked sheets. Developmentally… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 2 mins 5 Guidelines to Select and Accept Safe Nursery Toys Often church nurseries depend on donations of used toys. While many used toys are still safe and make excellent additions to the nursery, remember this criteria as you select and… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 3 mins Helping Children Process the School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas It’s happened again. How can we fathom news about another deadly school shooting? This time in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Precious children’s lives are lost. Families are mourning.… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 2 mins Trauma Toolkit: 4 Things You Can Do To Help Kids Heal As a ministry leader, how can you help kids and families move through trauma and toward their friend Jesus? These four simple steps can help. Trauma is more common in… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 6 mins What You Need to Know About Spotting and Stopping Child Sex Abuse What do we need in order to spot and stop child sex abuse? We only need eyes to see and ears to hear their pain — and then the courage… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 3 mins 4 Types of Child Abuse and How to Spot Them According to childhelp.org, every year nearly 6 million children in the U.S. experience child abuse, and four children under age four die each day due to abuse. As a community… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 2 mins Resources to Help Prevent Child Abuse in Children’s Ministry April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Here are some free resources to help you and your volunteers minister to kids with trauma. In John 10:1-21, Jesus calls himself the… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 1 min Special Needs: What You Need to Know About Playground Safety All kids love playgrounds! If you minister to children with special needs, here’s what you need to know about keeping your kids safe as they play. Chances are you take… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 6 mins Top 10 Changes to Kidmin Post-COVID-19 COVID-19 has changed the world we live in. By now, you might be tired of hearing the term “new normal.” What does it really mean? How much have life and… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
Leader Resources Read in 1 min Watch Now: The Nitty-Gritty of Reopening Sunday School After COVID-19 While the pandemic still isn’t completely behind us, many churches have reopened, or are getting ready to restart children’s ministry. Perhaps you’re ready for a fresh start, too, but aren’t… Read More Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email
