Soul Care: Why Your Friendship With God Is So Important
You’ve made it through the Easter season. Hallelujah! Now VBS and summer events loom large on the horizon. In your attempt to serve God and nurture young souls during this…
Avoiding Burnout
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4 Key Sources of Support for You in Children’s Ministry
Support — presidential candidates, sports teams, and families need it. Without it, bridges and buildings collapse. Children’s ministers need support, too. But when you build up everyone else and don’t…
4 Strategies for Combatting a Burnout Season in Ministry
It’s not just the tough times that leave us running on empty. The good times in your ministry can lead to a burnout season, too, if you’re not careful. Burnout…
25 Simple and Effective Ways to Lift Your Spirit Quickly
These 25 off-the-beaten-path ways to find encouragement are simple, but effective in quickly lifting your spirits. This thing we call “ministry.” It gives us the opportunity to use our gifts…
Feeling Exhausted? Recharge Your Spirit Today!
Use these ideas to recharge your spirit and rekindle the reasons you first said yes to God’s call to children’s ministry. It’s a typical Monday morning. Before you even get…
5 Real-Life Situations That Left Ministers Dangerously Discouraged
Discouragement, despair, and disillusionment — these children’s ministers have been to the brink…and survived. Here’s how you can, too. Some call it a dry spell. For others, it’s a low…
7 Ways to Avoid the Brink of Burnout
Sometimes we get to the point where we just want a way out of our “ministry lives.” Burnout is real and impacts almost everyone at some point. What then? There…
4 Reasons Why Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers Quit
What’s causing your children’s ministry volunteers to quit, to slip out the door of your ministry? And what can you do about it? Children’s ministry volunteers are loving, caring people…
When Leadership Gets Lonely
Leadership can get lonely. Here’s some advice on how you’ll make it through your lonely times and shine brightly on the other side. Ever wonder how you’ll make it through…
The Many Hats of Ministers (and How to Share Them With Others)
Children’s ministers wear many hats. Here are some of the different hats you may be wearing, and how to share these responsibilities with others on your team. “Just one more…
5 Steps to Handling Burnout—Plus How to Avoid It
Ministry can mean long hours. And it’s not just the workload that can be overwhelming; sometimes the emotional toll it takes can feel even greater. That means at times, it’s…
8 Critical Principles Every Person in Leadership Should Know
Much of learning seems to happen through trial and error, and that’s true of learning to be a leader. We know when something hasn’t gone well, but often we aren’t…
Running on Empty? Here’s How to Fill Your Leadership Tank
How filling your leadership tank will give you the fuel to lead your entire team. “It’s just a busy season. I promise I’ll be home more when I finish this…
25 Ways to Refresh Yourself in Ministry
Ministry Friends: God needs us to be refreshed, restored, refueled, and ready to minister to kids. Here are 25 ways to refill your cup. All of us in ministry—paid, unpaid,…
Are You Dangerously Discouraged? Here Are 6 Ways to Help.
No doubt about it, there are ups and downs in ministry life. When things are going well, there’s no better feeling. When they’re not—or you’ve simply hit a personal dry…
7 Easy-to-Implement Tips to Thrive During the Holiday Season
Avoid burnout and use these seven tips to thrive during the holiday season! This time of year opens up more opportunities for you to minister to first-time or occasional guests…
4 Warning Signs That You’re Close to Facing Ministry Burnout
Are you on the brink of burnout? Here are four warning signs you can’t afford to ignore. It can happen to the best of us. Pressure and stress can consume…
Married to the Ministry: Find the Balance Between Work and Family
Are you married to your ministry? Take our quiz and see. Plus, here’s how you can find the balance between work and family/personal life. Work/life balance. That’s a phrase that’s…
Dear Me: Advice From Ministry Leaders to Their Younger Selves
They say hindsight is 20/20. So we asked seasoned ministry leaders across the country to think back to their first year of ministry and write themselves a note with helpful…
Top 5 Ways to Rest (and Avoid Burnout!)
Do you find yourself growing increasingly snappy at your volunteers? Postponing phone calls? Growing more and more impatient with kids? Sighing a lot? Perhaps you’re not getting enough rest to…
Leadership: Why You Need to Set Boundaries
If “good fences make good neighbors,” what are you doing with an unmended wall? Find out how you can reestablish your personal boundaries. “Before I built a wall I’d ask…
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