Kid’s Leader

One way to make an all age service truly ‘all age’ is to ask a family, or an extended family, to lead the prayers. Everyone loves hearing a family pray. But some children (and their parents!) find standing at the front of church and leading prayer frightening, so we want to encourage you…

I had a text from a mum friend before church, “Have you got crackers – I can’t survive church without them, and we are out.” I didn’t have any, but I totally understood the question. Church with little ones (and particularly under 3s) is hard. Round 1 - getting out the …

Here it is! Our BRAND NEW package of resources for Christmas - ‘The ultimate Christmas feeling’ - There aren’t enough fairy lights to see, Christmas puddings to taste, carols to hear or wiffy candles to smell to fully express the wonderfulness that Jesus brings to our homes! Christ…

It may come as a surprise to hear that the midweek toddler group is the London Marathon of outreach ministries. These groups take months and months of slog to get anywhere worthwhile as relationships are never built quickly. The preparation of the fiddly craft, the set-up of all those plastic toys a…

In my opinion it really is the greatest families' ministry initiative and deserves a weekend to be carved out in every church calendar! This all sounds like marketing hyperbole. Let me justify that claim. During my time as the Children’s Worker, Dangerous Camping was an initiative we developed to re…

I want to give up children’s ministry. One day, you will say this. You will start by saying it to yourself. Perhaps it will be on a Monday morning as you heave your weary body out the door to another week. Perhaps it will be on a Friday night when dinner is a piece of toast before heading out …

In our last blog, we suggested 6 games you could play at Christmas events.Here are 6 Christmas Talk Illustrations. You’ll still need to study the passage, prepare your talk and make it suit your context; but maybe there is just the seed of an idea here that could get you going. Shopping list.…

So it’s Christmas again – and as a children’s minister I groan at the list of Christmas events, parties, nativity rehearsals, assemblies, over excited children, snotty noses and diva strops from the kid who wanted to be a donkey … such a marvellous time of year… for p…