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Posted on September 5, 2012, 3:08 pm
Topics: Church Education
This fine book by Barbara Newman just got better with the revised edition just out.
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Posted on July 16, 2012, 4:50 pm
Topics: Sunday School
You might have a slew of new music, books, and photos waiting out there in the cloud for you to access and enjoy... but who are the people in your cloud that will cheer you on and inspire you in ministry this season?
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Posted on January 1, 2012, 10:39 am
Topics: Teaching
Where do you go to find great music to use with kids? How do you decide which songs to use for leading kids in worship? Liz Tolkamp loves to sing with kids and will share what she has learned at the APCE annual conference in a workshop called "Sing a New Song!"
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Posted on October 31, 2011, 12:03 pm
Topics: Supporting Volunteers
The October 18, 2011 issue of the Christian Century magazine has a list of five essential books on Children’s Ministry. I think the list is a good one and it includes two Christian Reformed authors. As you look at the list, what books would you add? What other favorites of would be on the list if you had made it?
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Posted on July 4, 2011, 9:48 am
Topics: Teaching
We have rituals in place to help us make sense of our world. Rituals are kid-friendly too. We sometimes like to change things up in worship or in church school because we often crave new things but it is good for us to remember that rituals are not just boring routine – they are things that often make us feel
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Posted on May 9, 2011, 10:32 am | 1 comment
Topics: Teaching
One of the wondering questions for the Parable of the Ten Virgins was "I wonder who the foolish virgins were?” A child answered, "I know, it was Jill" (another child in the class). What is the best way to respond?
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Posted on March 21, 2011, 10:07 am
Topics: Teaching
This age is a challenge for me. I plan something active, then a quiet activity, followed by something active again. Because these children are quite young I can go through many of these active/quiet sets in half an hour. Yet some days, no matter what I do, they lose interest . . .
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Posted on February 15, 2011, 12:28 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Curriculum
If your church uses the Young Children and Worship program you may appreciate the wondering approach that Dwell uses to help kids enter imaginatively into God's story. With this curriculum kids and young teens imagine themselves in all the stories of Scripture and them see that their lives are part of the one BIG story of ...
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Posted on October 25, 2010, 2:47 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Teaching
Togetherville.com is a Facebook-like social network for children. I clicked the link to check it out and was struck by their tagline: “Online Neighborhoods for Kids and Their Grownups.”
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Posted on October 19, 2010, 5:41 pm
Topics: Teaching
A scene from the Prodigal Son story flashed through my mind--the moment when the father is telling the older son, "You are always with me, and all that I have is yours!" On a smaller scale it’s like that with children’s ministry, too.
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Posted on September 16, 2010, 3:04 pm
Topics: Teaching
Okay, that advice might be a little extreme, but the first few weeks of Sunday school are critical.
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Posted on August 25, 2010, 11:52 am
Topics: Caring
Considering that about 1 in 100 people in North America live with autism, the church needs to understand and minister well to people with autism and their loved ones. What's it like to live with autism? How can the church help? Where can church leaders find resources? This article gives good, brief answers to those questions.
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Posted on June 28, 2010, 12:23 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Faith Tradition
One of the delegates challenged me to hold in mind the children who are affected by war, famine, and oppression as I read Bible stories. What would children who are displaced find in this story? What would children who are hungry hear in this story? What questions would...
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Posted on January 22, 2010, 4:42 pm
Topics: Organizing
The Grow website provides free resources to encourage, training, and support children's ministry leaders!
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Posted on November 26, 2009, 11:15 am
Topics: Sunday School
As an arrow whizzed passed my ear--much too close for comfort--I turned to face whatever kid had broken the archery rule I had just finished explaining. Unfortunately, it wasn't a kid. It was my co-leader. The co-leader who was supposed to be helping me lead archery and keep kids safe was now giving me a shrug and a casual "oops" expression.
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