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10 Ways to Create Parent Connections That Actually Work

Learn how you can create parent connections that work with today’s families. It’s a children’s minister’s fantasy: Every parent involved in your ministry. You hear weekly, firsthand reports about kids’…

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Top 10 Things Parents Value About Your Children’s Ministry

The top 10 things parents value about your children’s ministry, from our exclusive research. 10 Things Parents Value About Your Children’s Ministry 1. Safe and Fun Environment Parents’ first question…

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5 Proven Strategies to Make Connections Between Home and Church

Too often, parents don’t know what happens at Sunday school. Here’s how to make a better connection between home and church. Almost every Sunday, Mrs. Anderson drops her daughter, Katie,…

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5 Keys to Open Up Faith-Building at Home

Today’s parents are different; you need these 5 keys to open up faith-building at home. Use these tools to understand them—and help them pass on their faith to their children.…

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Use These Practical Ideas to Help Your Ministry Partner With Parents

If what ails children’s spiritual growth is primarily parents not knowing what to do, we’ve got practical ideas for you to partner with parents now. Imagine that you’ve become sick…

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10 Tips to Manage Kids’ Stress Levels in Your Children’s Ministry

Kids seem to be incredibly stressed nowadays. Here are 10 tips to reduce the stress level of children in your ministry. Let’s face it: it can be stressful working in…

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What to Say When Families Grieve

Use these expert insights so you know what to say when families grieve a divorce, terminal illness, miscarriage or still-birth, or the death of a child. Loss and grief, just…

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How to Design the Perfect Parent Support Group

Here’s how to design the perfect parent support group to help you intentionally partner with parents and build connections to further grow the impact of your ministry. Family Ministry Opportunities…

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7 Benefits of Recruiting Parents to Help in Your Children’s Ministry

We created a Parent Partners program to help parents get involved more easily in our children’s ministry. It’s a great way for recruiting parents in children’s ministry. We actually began…

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The Stress Test: 3 Types of Stress and How to Help Stressed-Out Kids

Expert insight on how family, society, and crisis create stress for kids — and their faith. When we consider kid culture today, we typically tick off evidence of their 21st-century…

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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 babysitter they leave their kids with before…

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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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13 Ways You Can Equip Parents to Lead Their Children Spiritually

Here are 13 easy ways you can equip parents to lead their children spiritually at home right now. Parents need simple, quick faith-builders that’ll make an impact on their children.…

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When Your Team Loves the Curriculum — But Parents Don’t

Rolling out new children’s ministry programming or curriculum with your team can be stressful. But when the people you serve aren’t on board, it can be downright painful. Leaders all…

A mother and daughter sit on the ground in front of their couch. The mom is helping to nurture her daughter's faith at home.

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Practical Ways to Help Families Nurture Faith at Home

A spiritual home will produce a spiritual child who matures into a spiritual adult. Here are specific activities to help parents build their children’s faith at home. Family devotions are…

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7 Practical Ways to Help Parents Cultivate Faith in Families

Help parents care about their children’s spiritual growth so they cultivate faith in families. Growing up on a farm, Joani Schultz learned early the meaning of faith. Each year her…

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Why Parent Feedback Is Critical—and How to Get It

Parent feedback is vital to your ministry’s growth, health, and longevity. Here’s the ultimate guide on how to ask for it. Parents are our greatest allies in children’s ministry. Children’s…

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6 Secrets to Getting Parents to Commit to Your Ministry

Here’s how to successfully get parents to genuinely commit to your children’s ministry — without making them crazy or eating up all of their spare time! Today’s parents. They’re returning…

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Advice From Parents of Children With Special Needs

We asked four ministry experts to share their wisdom and experiences as parents of children with special needs. As these parent-experts shared their thoughts, several themes emerged. Here’s what they…

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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…

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3 Ideas to Celebrate Children’s Spiritual Heroes at Home

Honoring faithful leaders for serving kids week in and week out isn’t limited to your ministry team. You know too well that disciple-making isn’t only an at-church exercise; it’s an…

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10 Ways to Create Parent Connections That Actually Work

Top 10 Things Parents Value About Your Children’s Ministry

5 Proven Strategies to Make Connections Between Home and Church

5 Keys to Open Up Faith-Building at Home

Use These Practical Ideas to Help Your Ministry Partner With Parents

10 Tips to Manage Kids’ Stress Levels in Your Children’s Ministry

What to Say When Families Grieve

How to Design the Perfect Parent Support Group

7 Benefits of Recruiting Parents to Help in Your Children’s Ministry

The Stress Test: 3 Types of Stress and How to Help Stressed-Out Kids

5 Important Ways to Help Parents Pass On Faith to Kids

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

13 Ways You Can Equip Parents to Lead Their Children Spiritually

When Your Team Loves the Curriculum — But Parents Don’t

Practical Ways to Help Families Nurture Faith at Home

7 Practical Ways to Help Parents Cultivate Faith in Families

Why Parent Feedback Is Critical—and How to Get It

6 Secrets to Getting Parents to Commit to Your Ministry

Advice From Parents of Children With Special Needs

The Top 4 Reasons Parents Avoid Church Nurseries

3 Ideas to Celebrate Children’s Spiritual Heroes at Home

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