Children's Ministry

Kids think and act so much differently than adults that relating to them can be a challenge! The links below summarize intellectual, social, and spiritual characteristics of kids at various age levels, and offer tips for helping them grow in faith.

Before you shift gears for the summer, I suggest you start on seven little chores that will help your church make next season a success. 

We’ve got one hour with kids every Sunday morning—if we aren’t babysitting, what are we hoping for out of this time?

The key to calling volunteers is to “find people who love God and love kids; then equip them with the skills they need to lead a group of children.”

Kids today have too few images to draw on to help them think about God or share God’s story with others—they need to develop a “visual vocabulary of faith.”

Here is a Christmas devotional. Use it to awaken your imagination to the wonder of that great day! 

Check out these 30 ideas for recruiting new volunteers as well as for calling, keeping, and celebrating your current volunteers! 

The preteens in your group can vary all the way from the boys who profess to hate the opposite sex to the sophisticated young teen whose thoughts have turned to make-up and boys. Here are a few reminders for you to consider as you prepare to teach your middle schoolers.

Going to school marks a tremendous change in the lives of these little ones, a change that’s felt not only in the home but in the church school as well. Here are some of the characteristics you’ll see in children in kindergarten and first grade.

When we pass on our Christian faith to the next generation, we do so from our own tradition and perspective. Reformed Christians are no exception, but what does it mean to be Reformed? What does the Reformed worldview contribute to church school programs?

Start the season out by empowering your leaders to use the curriculum for all it’s worth!

What does it mean to be a faith model? Can we really model faith for kids and teens if we still struggle to understand God's plan, to see the way forward, and to deal with pain and shame of our failures?