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3 Ways to Keep Learning as a Leader

One of the most critical things you can do as a leader is to keeping learning. Here are simple ways you can do that with your team. 1. Leaders who…

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The Most Effective (and Most Unused) Volunteer Tool

Are you tapping into the most effective—and most unused —volunteer tool to connect with your ministry volunteers? Try these three easy tips to make a powerful impact. Stories. They’re powerful…

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12 Simple Ways to Re-Energize Weary Ministry Volunteers

Volunteers are human! That means they get weary, especially during the “final stretch” of serving. Here are 12 ways to re-energize your volunteers. Some seasons can leave our volunteers feeling…

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How to Handle 5 Types of Criticism That Lead to Burnout

Knowing how to handle the five different kinds of burning criticism can stop and maybe even reverse burnout in ministry. “Maybe I’m not called to children’s ministry after all.” “I’ve…

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5 Ways NOT to Choose Your Next Curriculum

Choosing curriculum is a high privilege for children’s ministers. Doing so means they get to determine a path of study that’ll ultimately help the kids in their ministry not only…

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4 Focus-Areas for Creating a Trauma-Informed Ministry

Mental health principles from the trauma-informed care movement can make your ministry a healing, healthy space for all families. Making Time to Understand Trauma Right now, you’re no more than…

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Special Needs Ministry: Assisting a Child With Tourette Syndrome

If you have a child in your classroom who appears to have problems with muscle and vocal control, it may be Tourette syndrome. Here are some strategies to help. Tourette’s…

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Creativity Rules: 4 Creative Exercises to Do With Your Team

4 creative exercises to do with your team that’ll help you refresh, revitalize, and reimagine your ministry Back in the old days, the most popular way to get a new…

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4 Ways to Become a Gutsy Leader

Are you a gutsy leader? Leadership takes guts and willingness to do the hard stuff. Leadership is a hot topic. The most popular books, articles, blogs, and podcasts are centered…

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Value Your Volunteers — Don’t Just Appreciate Them

Valuing the people who volunteer in your ministry matters more than appreciating them. Here’s why. New to children’s ministry, I had it all together. The best curriculum, programs, policies, and…

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How to Develop a Ministry for Kids With Disabilities

Joni Eareckson Tada on how to develop a ministry for kids with disabilities. When a boy’s arms are paralyzed, how does he raise his hand in Sunday school? How does…

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5 Ways to Better Equip Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers

Are you missing the boat with volunteer training? Leadership expert Sue Mallory offers five ways to better equip your volunteers. One of my greatest surprises when asked to serve at…

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7 Tips for Recruiting Volunteers We Can Learn From Jesus

Ask children’s ministers what their top three ministry needs are and 99.9 percent will list volunteer recruitment as one of those three needs. It’s painfully difficult to capture busy people’s…

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Appropriate Faith Development Through the Years

Here’s your developmentally appropriate guide-at-a-glance for effectively encouraging faith development in kids of all ages. Faith Development for Babies Typical Brain Development Young babies recognize human faces and prefer them…

A male volunteer looks very angry during a team meeting.

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3 Sure-Fire Things That Will Tear Apart Your Team

You might be surprised to learn that the three things that’ll tear apart your team aren’t lack of creativity, strategy, or excellence. There are three things you must have if…

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31 Expert Tips for Outstanding Volunteer Management

Even if you’re conflict-adverse, you can handle coaching, discipline, and even dismissal like a pro with these expert tips for outstanding volunteer management. Volunteers are human. They get stressed, fall…

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What’s the Difference Between Speaking and Leading?

Pastor Bob really knows how to captivate an audience while speaking. People say he’s a “great communicator.” And many people assume that Pastor Bob’s eloquence also means he’s a great…

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6 Critical Reminders for Ministering to Children of Divorce

“United we stand, divided we fall.” How many times have you heard this phrase that pertains to kingdoms, governments, businesses, churches, and even families experiencing divorce? The Bible talks about…

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A Solid Strategy to Keep Your Volunteers After VBS

Once the dust settles following VBS, you may worry about whether your weary volunteers will stick around. Never fear! They will continue serving when you employ a strategy for volunteer…

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What the Bible Says About Casting Your Recruiting Net

Recruiting volunteers can be the most difficult and discouraging area of volunteer management—if we try to do it in our time and by our plans. But in God’s time and…

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3 Ways to Keep Learning as a Leader

The Most Effective (and Most Unused) Volunteer Tool

12 Simple Ways to Re-Energize Weary Ministry Volunteers

How to Handle 5 Types of Criticism That Lead to Burnout

5 Ways NOT to Choose Your Next Curriculum

4 Focus-Areas for Creating a Trauma-Informed Ministry

Special Needs Ministry: Assisting a Child With Tourette Syndrome

Creativity Rules: 4 Creative Exercises to Do With Your Team

4 Ways to Become a Gutsy Leader

Value Your Volunteers — Don’t Just Appreciate Them

How to Develop a Ministry for Kids With Disabilities

5 Ways to Better Equip Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers

7 Tips for Recruiting Volunteers We Can Learn From Jesus

Appropriate Faith Development Through the Years

3 Sure-Fire Things That Will Tear Apart Your Team

31 Expert Tips for Outstanding Volunteer Management

What’s the Difference Between Speaking and Leading?

6 Critical Reminders for Ministering to Children of Divorce

A Solid Strategy to Keep Your Volunteers After VBS

What the Bible Says About Casting Your Recruiting Net

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