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 told Jim…
Teaching Tips
It’s critical to recruit volunteers to your children’s ministry who love God, love serving, and love kids. But what’s even more important for a healthy ministry is equipping those volunteers with resources and information to help them grow into their roles as teachers. This is the section for that!
What You’ll Find
In our teaching tips area, you’ll find articles like “How to Infuse Life-Long Faith in Preschoolers,” “3 Hard God-Questions Kids Ask (and How to Answer!),” and “4 Mistakes to Avoid When Teaching Kids the Bible.”
You can also search our teaching tips by age range, including nursery, preschool, elementary, and preteen, or you can search by topic, such as discipline. So whether you need help crafting better questions, tips on making Scripture stick, or ways to calm high-energy kids, we’ve got you covered.
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About Teaching Tips
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…
4 Ways to Reintroduce Yourself to the Wonder of Jesus
Make the miracles of Jesus captivating to children by using these 4 ways to remind yourself about the wonder that surrounds Jesus. We’ve covered the feeding of the 5,000 five…
Posting and Praying Over Signs for Your Children’s Ministry
These children’s ministry signs will do more than provide information on what room to go to. It also brings your team together in prayer! “If two of you agree here…
How Preteen Brain Development Impacts Faith Development
Preteen brain development offers a unique window for life-impacting faith development. Have you ever felt frustrated that your preteens are just not remembering what you’ve said? Does it seem like…
7 Steps in Fostering Healthy Spiritual Growth in Kids
What to foster healthy spiritual growth in kids? Here’s how you can instill healthy confidence and God’s love in kids—one carefully chosen word at a time. Wide-eyed, 6-year-old Jacob could…
Radically Transforming Children’s Faith
Profound faith growth radiates from this relationship-based ministry. It’s a snowball fight at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Entire families are gleefully tossing white balls of paper at…
What New Parents Need Most From Your Nursery
Discover what new parents need most from your nursery at church. Every pew was filled waiting for the pastor to teach when I noticed an elder nod to the mass…
Preteen Ministry: Know Their Struggles, Grow Their Faith
In your preteen ministry, do you know your preteens’ struggles? Your preteens will need a strong spiritual foundation to face serious distractions such as doubt, peer pressure, temptations, and stress.…
Building a Bridge of Support for Children of Divorce
Forget bleak statistics about kids of divorce. Use this blueprint from a leading expert to build a bridge to connect to these kids. “Kids are resilient.” I’ve heard this said…
