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Teaching Kids to Pray for Miracles

We want kids to pray and trust God for answers, but when it comes to the really big prayers — the ones that need miracles — how do we pray…

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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. You started class…

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6 Creative Ways to Help Kids Build Friendships

As kids enter elementary school, they also enter a time when friendships become a central element in their lives. Kids this age are still learning how to make friends, and…

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3 Tips for Teaching Your Nursery About God’s Love

Looking to teach the children in your nursery about God’s love? Here are three tips that will help make God’s love real to them. Recently I shared the story of…

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Creating the Perfect Place for Preschoolers

A dash of age-right hospitality can radically impact learning and faith for preschoolers. What’s a bright spot in your church that can continually bring in—and keep—new families? Why, the preschool,…

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3 Craft Tips to Make Your Preschool Sunday School Run Smoothly

With these three preschool craft tips, you can make preschool craft time at your Sunday school organized and accessible. 3 Craft Tips to Make Your Preschool Sunday School Run Smoothly…

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How to Respond to the Anxieties of Children at All Ages

Children of all ages face anxieties. Here is what you need to know about these worries, and how you can help ease their concerns. Children’s Anxieties – Ages 2 to…

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Kids Should Be Seen and Heard: 5 Ways to Make Conversation Part of Your Ministry

Conversations with kids are free, require no supplies, and are a snap to drop into a lesson. And best of all, they deliver huge value! At Group, we make conversations…

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How to Solve the Sixth Grader Challenge in Your Ministry

In preteen ministry, you must face the sixth grader challenge. Here’s how to meet the needs of these preteens in your ministry. “Everybody is shrinking!” That’s what one sixth grader…

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29 Time Crunchers for Sunday School Teachers

When time gets away from you week after week during your lesson, use these 29 time crunchers for Sunday school teachers to keep the Sunday school lesson on track. “Time…

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Top 20 Supply Closet Organization Tips for Children’s Ministry

Whether the school year is coming up or spring is just around the corner, you may have some cleaning goals for your children’s ministry supply closet. But where do you…

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How to Encourage Smooth Transitions for All Ages

When it comes to slipping into a swimming pool, there are two kinds of people. There are the Jumpers and the Inchers. The Jumpers don’t care how cold it is.…

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13 Ways to Build Friendships With the Children You Teach

Don’t miss these 13 practical, healthy ways to build friendships with the kids you teach in your children’s ministry. Each week, we face rooms with children excited and ready to…

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8 Ways to Make Your Nursery Ministry More Than Babysitting

When you understand that your children’s ministry is way more than babysitting, you’ll see your ministry — and church — grow! When new families try your church, they’re often willing…

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4 Ingredients to Take Your Preteen Ministry to the Next Level

While not all great ministry models look the same, I believe there are four core ingredients to embed into any preteen ministry to take it to the next level. I…

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The Top 4 Reasons to Purchase a Children’s Ministry Curriculum

Children’s ministers have a lot of choices to make to ensure ministry provides the best spiritual experiences for kids—while staying within the limits of time and budget. Curriculum is one…

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Highly Effective Preteen Teaching Tip: Distract and Discuss

An effective way to get preteens to open up is to distract them. While their hands are busy, it’s amazing how much their minds and mouths open up. Try any…

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A Simple Truth: Memorable Music Makes Scripture Stick! 

There’s an “Alphabet Song” for a reason. Putting information to music helps kids—and adults—remember more. The same is true when it comes to remembering Scripture. That’s why, over the years,…

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4 Quick Ways to Build Bonds With Little Ones in Your Church Nursery

Use these 4 quick ways to build bonds with little ones when they first come in your church nursery. Very young children often have a difficult time away from their …

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The Power of Music in Your Preschool Classroom

Music is a powerful teaching tool for preschool leaders. Have you ever thought about why? Music activates unique brain networks, supports long-term memory of lyrics (like Bible verses), and encourages…

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3 Powerful Tools to Measure Kids’ Spiritual Growth

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

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