3 Baby Steps to Take to Build Trust in Your Nursery
The relationship we build with the babies in our nurseries will impact their ability to trust in God. Here are 3 tips to help foster more trust. I love sneaking…
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
3 Reasons Games are an Important of Your Preschool Ministry
Games are an important tool to teach preschoolers about the love of God. Here are three reasons to incorporate more games in your ministry. As you plan your time with…
Discipline Q & A: Handling Silly Answers from the Class Clown
Is your lesson often derailed by a child who always gives a silly answer to make other kids laugh? Here’s some age-specific advice to help. Q: What do I do…
The Big Impact of a Little Consistency with Preteens
Few things have as large of an impact on preteens as consistency. Here are three ways to encourage more consistency within your volunteers. One of my preteens recently reminded me…
3 Ways to Enhance Your Lesson By Becoming a Name-Dropper
I love to say, “Billy Graham once told me not to drop names.” Of course, the legendary preacher never told me this; the joke is in casually dropping a name…
Discipline Q&A: Should I Avoid Negative Consequences?
We all want the children in our ministries to have a good time at church. But is this a reason to avoid negative consequences? Here’s what the experts have to…
3 Ways to Create Smooth Transitions in Your Nursery
Transitions can be very difficult for children in your nursery. Here are three ways you can make their transitions smooth. It was time to promote Michael to the toddler room.…
4 Topics to Get Kids Talking and Opening Up to You
Looking to get the kids in your ministry to open up? Here’s a helpful strategy you can use to get kids to talk. “Yeah,” “Nah,” or “I dunno” seem to…
Create a Culture of Invitation in Your Preteen Ministry
Here are four ways you can create a culture of invitation in your preteen ministry. Anticipating and welcoming preteens’ friends into our church is a huge part of leading preteen…
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…
