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The Complete Guide to Choosing the Best VBS for Your Church

Use our complete guide to choosing the best VBS to ensure maximum outreach in your community and impact in kids’ lives. Choose the best VBS by using the following the…

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How to Recruit Bench-Sitters Into Your Ministry

Looking for creative ways to get people off the bench and into your children’s ministry? Try these practical recruitment ideas! “Play ball!” When the umpire calls out this familiar refrain,…

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8 Steps to Enact Change in Your Children’s Ministry

Elaine returned from a fabulous conference with tons of new ideas. She called her children’s department coordinators together and laid out her new strategy. With each new idea, the nursery…

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3 Key Steps to Solve Your Volunteer Crisis

Do you have a volunteer crisis? Is your children’s ministry in a state of chaos because you don’t have enough volunteers? Take this quiz. Volunteer Crisis Quiz Do you ever…

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Your Spectacular Summer Starts Now?!

When you unveil your summer blueprint this year, how will kids respond? “Ho-hum”? Or “hip-hip-hooray”? If it’s ho-hum, it’s time to go back to the drawing board to create a…

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7 Characteristics That Turn a Good Teacher Into a Great Teacher

7 characteristics that spell the difference between good teachers and great teachers! The teacher had obviously prepared her lesson because it was full of sticky notes, yellow highlights, and bold…

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Top 10 Ways to Love Your Volunteers This Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day isn’t that far away so get ready to use these top 10 ways to love your volunteers. Plan ahead and use one of these super simple ideas to…

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4 Simple Bulletin Boards Ideas That Kids Can Create

These 4 bulletin board ideas are simple enough that kids in your class can help you create them. Kids will love being able to show their parents all the work…

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4 Ways You Can Serve Families in Your Ministry Twice as Much

Here are four simple ways to serve the families in your ministry twice as much as required from you. “If a soldier demands that you carry his gear for a…

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How to Develop Preteens Into Effective, Ethical Leaders

Preteens have an incredible four-year window that’s critical for influencing the future leaders in our communities. Here’s how to make the most of it. There are four fertile years when…

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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…

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Overcome the Barriers to Decorating Your Children’s Ministry

Maybe you’d like to decorate a room in your church, but you see too many barriers in your way. Don’t worry. Those barriers probably aren’t as tall as they seem.…

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Valentine’s Day Volunteer Event: Touching Children’s Hearts Breakfast

Use this Valentine’s Day breakfast idea to say “Thanks!” to the volunteers in your children’s ministry. Valentine’s Day Volunteer Event: Touching Children’s Hearts Breakfast Our church hosted a Valentine’s Day…

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How to Minister to Kids With Developmental Disabilities

“Developmental disability” can cover many issues. Here’s what you need to know about how to minister to a child with a developmental disability. Years ago I had a developmentally disabled…

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Sunday School Restart: Fresh Perspectives on 4 Timeless Tasks

When it comes to Sunday school, do you need a fresh perspective? It’s time to plan the new Sunday school year. As you tirelessly work to serve kids and families,…

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18 Kidmin Organization Tips You Won’t Want to Miss

Check out these 18 kidmin organization tips when you say, “This year I resolve to get organized!” How many years have you been saying that? Well, now’s the time to…

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Get Excited About Replacing Yourself With Interns

Replace yourself! And who better to fill your shoes than a fully trained intern? No, I’m not telling you to leave your position at your church; I’m just saying that…

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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…

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9 Easy Bulletin Boards That Are Sure to Capture People’s Interest

You’ll love these 9 ways to easily capture people’s interest by simply using the bulletin boards in your children’s ministry. Bulletin boards can inform, encourage, and motivate children and volunteers.…

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Mental Illness and Your Ministry

What you need to know about the mental illness issues families are dealing with today—and why we’re all so reluctant to talk about it. Justin and Brenda are dismayed to…

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2 Brainstorming Games for Your Children’s Ministry Team

Have you ever felt like your well of children’s ministry ideas has run dry? These two creative brainstorming games will have your team overflowing with ideas in no time.  2…

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