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The Gospel for Children: The Importance of Jesus in Every Kids Church Lesson

24 October | by Charlie Wallace
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I took part in a roundtable discussion yesterday with pastors and staff from churches around the area. The topic and reason for the conference was the subject of evangelism.  It was a great time of church leaders sharing different ways that they try to reach people for Jesus. I was the lone children’s pastor in [...]

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Kids Ministry Game: Captain Midnight

20 October | by Charlie Wallace
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Here is another “backpocket” game that you can play if you have a large group of kids and a large area where they can run.  This can be a game that you can play to fill up time at an Easter Egg Hunt, Backyard Bible Club, or whatever the situation. Like Quiet Ball and Silent [...]

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Book Review: Family-Integrated Church

09 October | by Charlie Wallace
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One of the current buzzwords in churchlife today is the phrase, “family-integrated.” However, what looks to the casual observer as simply a “fad” is more than that: it is a theological, methodological, and philosophical conviction for those leaders in churches who are truly family-integrated.
Family-Integrated Church, by J. Mark Fox, (Xulon, 2006) is one church’s story [...]

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Avoid Ministry Burnout & Do More Through Delegation

25 September | by Charlie Wallace
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Those that lead in children’s ministry are typically expected to “do everything” – even if they are not gifted in certain areas. In fact, a common notion is that a “good” Children’s Pastor is one that teaches, administrates, leads, takes out the trash, trains teachers often, is at the church 6 days a week (at [...]

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Dealing with Ministry Conflict through Email – Should We?

19 September | by Charlie Wallace
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever received an angry complaint via email. Now, think about that incident and imagine what the “conversation” may have sounded like if it had taken place over the phone. What about in person?
The fact of the matter is that when dealing with conflict or complaints a good rule of thumb [...]

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Do You Have a Children’s Ministry Philosophy?

08 September | by Charlie Wallace
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Children’s ministry can be messy. The main reason that it can be messy is because you, as a children’s ministry leader must deal with parents of young children. Most often that means you deal with young, first-time parents. These parents love their children and will kill for them (not literally…at least I don’t think). One [...]

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What About Promotion Sunday?

12 August | by Charlie Wallace
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At the church where I serve, Promotion Sunday, that day when kids move up to the next grade/class in Sunday School and other activities, for years occurred the first Sunday of September. However, by the time I arrived the date had been pushed back to the first Sunday in June. This was done primarily for [...]

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Post VBS Review of Group’s Rome

28 July | by Charlie Wallace
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This year the church were I serve decided to do something it had never done before by branching out and doing Group’s VBS, Rome: Paul and the Underground Church. For years my church has done Lifeway’s VBS. In fact, preparation became so predictable that at times we were just going through the motions. After looking [...]

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Children’s Ministry Game: Silent Football

06 July | by Charlie Wallace

Here is another great “backpocket” game to play with kids when you need them to settle down and/or kill time. The game is called Silent Football. Many of you have perhaps heard of this game. Here is how it works:
- Have the kids sit in a tight circle
- Explain that the point of the game [...]

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Children’s Ministry Game: Quiet Ball

15 June | by Charlie Wallace
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Sometimes as a leader in children’s ministry you may find yourself in a most inevitable and unfortunate position: downtime. What do you do when you have 30 kids and 5-10 minutes to kill? When I worked at the YMCA we had a stash of ideas that we called “backpocket games.”
These games were a way for [...]

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Facilities: Do You Have Room For Your Children’s Ministry?

11 June | by Charlie Wallace
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If you were to poll 100 children’s ministers, pastors, and directors, you’d probably find that a vast majority of them would love to have “better” Children’s Ministry facilities. For those that work with children week in and week out there is always a temptation to dream about how great it would be to have ______. [...]

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Sunday School Teacher Appreciation

21 May | by Charlie Wallace

It’s that time of year again. Depending on when your children promote to their new classes (I’ve heard of promotion occuring anywhere between June and September) your church is likely winding the current Sunday school year down. Your teachers are starting to reflect on the year that was – all of the good times, the [...]

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