Tag: Faith

Bible Activities and Sermons

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Kids’ Halloween Craft: Glowing Slime

This glowing, gooey slime craft helps kids discover how God holds them firmly. You’ll need: Bible (1 John 5:18; Matthew 5:16) 4 oz. or 1/2 cup Elmer’s white glue or…

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Partnering With Families

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Super, Natural Ways to Connect With Parents

This post contains affiliate links. See bottom of post for details. Connecting with parents isn’t as daunting as you think. In fact, as children’s ministry leaders, you’re already equipped with…

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9 Fabulous Fall Ideas to Use in Your Children’s Ministry

Use these 9 ideas to make this your most amazing fall for families, children, and your entire church. Colorful leaves, football, hayrides, apple cider, a return to school, and fuller…

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Volunteer Training: Bringing Your Volunteers up to Speed

Ever wonder if you have the right person in the right volunteer role or if the volunteer understands your ministry? Here’s what you need to know to get your volunteers…

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Partnering With Families

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5 Important Ways to Help Parents Pass On Faith to Kids

Here are five ways to help parents pass on faith to their children.  How do your kids’ parents view you? Are you the baby sitter they leave their kids with…

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What You Need to Know About Kids’ Spiritual Development

We tracked down four noted experts to demystify kids’ spiritual development by the ages. Read on to learn how to reach—and teach—the wonderful little people in your ministry! Every age…

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Leader Tips & Tools

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How to Use 5 Senses to Calm Kids’ Stress

Children today are experiencing unprecedented, prolonged stress since the pandemic began. Counselors and therapists suggest giving children their own tools to destress using the 5 senses. Here’s the scoop. Crisis…

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Do You Know the ABCs of Spiritual Growth in Children?

The secret to creating spiritual growth is understanding the ABCs of developmental issues. Rick Chromey explains it for us.  Great Minds Think Alike? Over the past century, several notable minds…

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3 Powerful Tools to Measure Kids’ Spiritual Growth

Use these three tools to assess and understand to measure kid’s spiritual growth. Growing up as an avid soccer player, I was blessed with a high school coach who poured…

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Bible Lessons

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15 Important Ways to Fill Your Ministry With Prayer

Use these 15 ways to fill your ministry with prayer—just as the disciples asked Jesus when he taught them the Lord’s Prayer: “Teach us to pray.” “God is great, God…

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Faith: How to Ensure Kids Are Getting the Message

Wonder whether kids are listening when you teach? Fear your words go in one ear and out the other? When it comes to faith, here’s how to ensure kids are…

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Age-Level Insights: How Kids Learn Bible Stories at All Ages

How children learn Bible stories — and ways to teach them. How Children Learn Bible Stories Ages 2 to 5 Years Young children like to be read to with age-appropriate…

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Partnering With Families

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10 Ways to Focus Families on a “Faith at Home” Outlook

Focus busy Christian families to a “faith at home” outlook with these 10 time-savvy ideas! Families are swamped. Schedules overflow with commitments. You hear or read about overextended families every…

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Practical Tips for Helping Kids Discern Biblical Truth

Kids’ culture contains everything from Disney characters to Harry Potter hype. Is God’s Word being drowned out? How can we help kids discern biblical truth? Kids all over the world…

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7 Essentials for Growing Kids’ Faith

7 essentials for developing, enhancing, and growing kids’ faith. I started teaching Sunday school when I was 12. That was a while ago. Throughout my years in the classroom, I’ve…

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Grow Kid’s Faith With This 7-Week Summer Faith Challenge

Grow kids’ faith this summer with this 7-week challenge. Kids live on a battlefield — a world filled with temptation, attacks on their innocence, and fiery darts of doubt. As…

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Here’s How Bible Depth Can Help Grow Kids’ Faith

What is “Bible depth”? It’s bandied around in children’s ministry circles, but what is it really? Bible depth to one person likely means something very different to someone else. Is…

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Age Level Insights: Encouraging Kids to Pray at All Ages

Looking to teach kids to pray? Here are some expert tips on how to nurture conversations with God and children at every stage. Prayer is as simple as a conversation…

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Is Your Sunday School Class Pointing Kids the Wrong Way?

Do all of our “shoulds” teach children that being a Christian is more about rules than it is about relationship?  I failed him. His drawing made it clear. I’d asked…

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Bible Lessons

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14 Ways to Go Deeper in Your Personal Relationship With God

Go Deeper With God! Whenever we think of spiritual growth, it seems the most likely place for such things to happen is during an extended retreat, camp, or wilderness trip,…

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5 Questions to Ask Yourself as You Teach Kids to Pray

If you want to teach kids to pray, answer these five important questions. The class ends, and you plop into a chair to quietly ponder the morning. I started class…

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