10 Things Your Ministry Can Do to Help Stop Racism Before It Starts
10 things you and your ministry can do to stop racism before it starts. What will you do now to embrace the “people of every tribe and tongue and people…
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
Top 10 Tips for Teaching Toddlers in Your Nursery
The 10 top tips for teaching toddlers are best revealed in the top 10 statements of the under-3 set. Discover why these traits make teaching toddlers such a joy…and a…
Movin’ and Groovin’: Why Play is so Important
Play is the foundation for this fantastic, faith-based enrichment Do you remember playing outside all summer? Up at dawn and home when the streetlights flickered on? Nothing could keep you…
5 Building Blocks for Teaching Toddlers (+ 8 Critical Safety Tips)
Discover five building blocks for teaching terrific toddlers in your church nursery. “No, Mommy! I don’t want to!” wailed my 2-year-old. She clung to my neck as though I were…
How to Help Children Grieve: Advice From a Grief Counselor
Here’s what you need to know about how to help children grieve when they’ve experienced to loss—from a grief counselor. “Mommy, I want to arrest God for taking Daddy!” Words…
10 Simple Solutions to Common Children’s Ministry Messes
Children’s ministry messes are going to happen. Here’s are 10 solutions for the most common messes you’ll face. Uh, oh! Those words, spoken by a child, can send a chill…
9 Back-to-School Sunday School Activities to Build Faith
Here are 9 great back-to-school Sunday school activities to help kids build a lasting relationship with Jesus this school year. Back to school is a critical time for your Sunday…
7 Key Points to Teach Kids About Praying Without Ceasing
How can we teach kids to pray without ceasing? These 7 key points can help. “Once Jesus was in a certain place praying. As he finished, one of his disciples…
Money Saver: 15 New Ways to Use to “Same Old” Recyclables
Here are 15 new money-saving ways to use to “same old” recyclables in your children’s ministry. There’s no doubt about it —children’s ministers are a resourceful bunch. We’re always collecting—paper…
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…
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