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
The True Difference Between Teaching and Students Learning
For years, teachers have had to goal to teach. But what happens when these same teachers set their goal to student’s learning? Curriculum publishers sell boxcar loads of printed pieces…
How to Help Children Navigate The Influence of Our Crazy Culture
Today’s kids are a different breed. Sure they face similar pressures to the ones we did, but let’s face it: the influences of culture are vastly different than ours were. …
The Common Questions on Sexuality That Kids Ask at Each Age
As children grow, they have more and more questions surrounding their sexuality. Here are common questions for each age and ways that you can respond appropriately. Children and Sexuality: Age…
How to Tailor Your Lessons to Kids’ Learning Styles
Want to know how to conquer kids’ learning obstacles? If after every lesson your kids can say, “We came, we saw, we heard, we touched,” they’ll also be able to…
Preteen Ministry: Three Simple Steps to Breaking the Ice
Looking to keep preteens showing up to your ministry? This simple three-step “welcome wagon” to help break the ice for your preteens’ ministry. 1. Lights, Camera, Action Prepare a video…
Get Smart with These Discipline Tips for Children’s Ministers
Discipline is an ever-present need in children’s ministry settings. Get smart with these discipline tips. Inevitably it happens. If you’ve volunteered in children’s ministry, you’ll never forget the day you…
14 Playful Ways to Reinforce Sunday School Lessons
Use these 14 playful ideas to reinforce your lessons about the Word of God. It’s been a long week, and Saturday night has you scrambling through your lesson plan. Quickly…
Children’s Ministry: Here’s Why What You Do Matters
Someday, your name will be hailed as the one who changed a life. Here’s why everything you do in children’s ministry everyday matters — a lot! In the busyness of…
4 Helpful Tips for Preparing Preschoolers for Christmas
A preschooler’s senses heighten as he experiences the sacred and secular activities of Christmas. Church leaders and parents often struggle to balance the magic of commercialism with the birth of…
