Kids Bible Buying Guide for 2025
I frequently see questions about what kind of Bible to get kids. While there may not be perfect Bible out there for your kids, some are certainly better than others. It can be confusing with so many different translations and Bible types. I want to help you make the best decision possible.
Level Up Your Leadership: The 3 Stages of Delegation
Being in leadership is tough. There are so many things pulling on you, it’s hard to know where to put your focus. And if you’re in kidmin it’s no different. If you’re a children’s director or pastor, then you are a leader. And not just of children but of volunteers, parents, and staff.
No matter who you are or how productive you are, there are only so many hours in a day. Which means you can only do so much. So how can you get all the things you need to get done and still manage some kind of work/life balance?
The key is to delegate.
4 Steps to Launching a Kidmin Check-In System
One of the biggest questions parents ask when they drop off their little one is “will my kids be safe?” We don’t like to talk about all the bad things that can happen to our kids. But spending just a few minutes watching the news or scrolling through social media can make you scared of your own shadow.
As a result, we in kidmin, have to keep our kids safe and project that safety to our current parents and guests. One of the best ways to do this is to provide check-in for your kids.
4 Christmas Songs for your Kidmin
It’s almost Christmas time! While the world is ready for Mariah Carey to defrost, we in the kidmin world are busy getting ready for the season. One of the big questions for Christmas prep is what songs to sing.
4 Ways to Call Parents During Service and Which is Best
You’re in the nursery. You’re doing the best you can with a bunch of kids. But one kid is not having it. They’re inconsolable. The only thing you can do is get the parents. But the problem is they are in the service, and you’re in the nursery.
How do you let them know their kid needs them? You don’t want to disrupt the rest of the service or embarrass the parent. What’s the best way?
Leading Change in Your New Ministry Role
It’s so exciting when you’re just starting out in a new ministry position. You have all these forms to fill out, people to meet, relationships to build and systems to learn. People are looking to you for fresh vision and comparing you to the past. One of the biggest questions they’re going to ask you is “what will you change?”
3 Boundaries to Sustain Your Ministry
Ministry is tough. It can take all of you. I would argue working in ministry is extra hard compared to other professions. Ministry intertwines both our professional and personal lives.
So, what do you do? How do you maintain a healthy work-life balance while also living out your calling?
4 Steps to Strategic Volunteer Recruiting
One of the problems any ministry faces, especially kidmin, is recruiting. There always seems to be a lack of volunteers. What’s worse, if you don’t actively recruit regularly, you’ll find yourself doing ministry all alone.
So how do you recruit? How do you get people to join your team regularly? How do you find these people?
Fall Festival Planning: 3 Steps to Success (Part 2)
Fall Festivals are an incredible opportunity to reach out to your families in your community. Many families are looking for a safe place for their kids to trick or treat. You can provide that with your church.
But if you want your guests to come back to your church, you need to have a well-organized event, a solid contact information collection plan, and great follow-up.
Fall Festival Planning: 4 Essential Steps Before the Big Day (Part 1)
One of the big three events almost every kidmin leader leads is a Fall Festival. While this event can be a lot of work, it’s never been as difficult as putting together a VBS. Planning a one night 3-hour event is far easier than a 5, three hour events in sequence.
How to Handle Parents Who Want to Stay in Kidmin
There’s a common problem we all run into in kidmin. The parent wants to stay with their child. What do we do? Do we let the parent stay the whole time? 15 minutes? Say no? Do they need to fill out a background check? What about other parents? What about the kids?
5 Steps to Transition Your Kidmin to Small Groups
What does your Sunday morning service look like? Do you have Sunday School and a Kids Service (Large Group)? Large group with a small group component? Just Large group?
Many churches fall into one of those three buckets. Since any successful children’s ministry needs to have some kind of discipleship element, we need to seriously consider how we do that.
How to Help Kids Find Their Calling
I believe God calls all of us to a specific purpose. He invites us into his plan to expand his kingdom. He equips us with gifts, talents, and characteristics to fulfill his purposes. That calling may change over time, but he still has a plan.
That calling doesn’t have a start date either.
4 Steps to Get to Know New Volunteers
I’ve talked about onboarding volunteers before. It’s one of my most popular posts. And while getting your new volunteers the tools and resources they need are essential, there are some questions you need to answer before you plug them in.
4 Steps to Develop a Ministry Leader
I came to this one harsh truth early in my ministry. I can’t do everything. Sure, many of us kids pastors think we can. Sometimes It feels like the job requires it. But you can’t change diapers in nursery, give out snack in preschool, and lead worship in elementary on the same day. Most likely all those groups are in different rooms. At some churches, different buildings!
Since you can’t be in two or three places at once, you need to develop leaders.
4 Ways to Identify Your Kidmin Volunteers
There are a lot of things you can do to communicate to parents that their kids will be safe. But one of the best ways to make it easy to identify who is a volunteer and who is not.
4 Focuses for Your First Ministry Leader Meeting
The first 100 days of any new position is the most important. So much so that they even wrote a book about it.
One of the best ways I’ve started well is to have a meeting with all the leaders of the church or ministry. I’ve done it at the last 4 churches I’ve served. But why are these meetings so important?
Developing a Ministry Lead Team
One simple truth about leading in church is that you’re not going to be there forever. It may be hard to think about the day you will leave, but it is a simple reality. You will leave. Either you feel the Lord calling you somewhere else, you will retire, or you will die. There will come a time when you’re no longer the leader of your ministry.
The best thing you can do for your church and your current leaders is to prepare them for this eventuality. But how do you do that?
5 Essential Components to a Ministry Resume
How did you get your ministry job? Were you a faithful volunteer that worked your way into a job? Were you an outside hire that found your way through relationship? Or did you find a lead on a job board somewhere and landed where God wanted you to be?
In any case, there is one document that you need to at least get your foot in the door.
Your Resume.
How to Deal with Difficult Kidmin Parent Requests
Picture this. It’s time for move up and a homeschool mom comes to you with a special request. Her just turned 6-year-old is starting third grade. She thinks because her child is doing third grade schoolwork, they should be placed with all the other third graders. What do you do?
Get resources to lead well in your ministry.
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