Entries Tagged 'Children's Ministry Links' ↓
May 8th, 2008 — Children's Ministry Links
The Desiring God blog has posted an article about helping kids love missions. Their ideas are geared toward families being missions minded with their kids. Here are the ten ways they pointed out. Click through to their website to get more details on each.
- Pray for missionaries.
- Read missionary biographies to your children.
- Supporting missionaries financially as a family
- Find a missionary kid pen pal for your child
- Welcome missionaries into your home.
- Take risks as a family.
- Encourage the traits that missionaries need
- Teach your children to be world Christians.
- Read missionary prayer letters to your children.
- Use missions fact books and resources
Reading this list reminded me how much work I need to do on this emphasis at our church and in my family. Missions is not top of mind in our small town. This year we’re actually doing our first missions emphasis week and we are getting the kids involved as much as we can.
How do you teach children about missions?
If you have a great idea about teaching kids about missions, leave it below this post as a comment. I’d love to hear your feedback.
May 3rd, 2008 — Children's Ministry Links
One of my goals for this site is to interact more with other children’s ministry bloggers. To make that happen, I’ve made three major upgrades to my website, just for you.
- Children’s Ministry Blog Aggregation: I’ve added a new page that lists a massive blogroll and the latest posts from every children’s ministry blogge I know. To date I’ve found 40 blogs for this list. This page is linked in my main navigation menu, so feel free to link that page directly from your blog. If you’re name is not on the list email me at TonyKummer@gmail.com
- Comment Luv Plugin: This little tool pulls the latest post from your website’s RSS feed and automatically adds it as a signature in your comment. This gives readers another chance to discover your blog.
- Top Commentator Plugin: This script takes the top 7 comment writers from the blog over the last 30 days and gives them an automatic link in the sidebar. These links do pass Google PageRank and will drive some traffic to your blogs. So, join the conversation.
My hope is to generate more reader engagement and community. Remember it’s us children’s ministry types that are always preaching learner participation. Continue reading →
April 28th, 2008 — Children's Ministry Links
Sunday School Thoughts By A Ten Year Old
Read this post where SelahV tells about how much her granddaughters loves going to church and especially Sunday school. You might even pass it along to your teachers at church.
Encouraging Letter For Children’s Ministry Worker
Gretchen shares a letter she wrote to help her friend who was feeling discouraged with their church’s outreach to children.
Little Girl Singing The Lord’s Prayer
Peter Lumpkins posted this cute video on his blog and I thought it might encourage you too. Be sure to watch it to the last line of the song - she really gets into the song!
If you’re reading this in the email newsletter, click here to watch the video back on my website.
April 23rd, 2008 — Children's Ministry Links
Today, I took my 7 year old son along with the “Senior Saints” from our church to visit the Creation Museum in Covington, Kentucky (Near Cincinnati).
The drive is only an hour from our church and we’re doing the Answers In Genesis Vacation Bible School this year. So, I thought I would make the trip.
From the start I was very impressed with the level of technology and sophistication of the Creation Museum. All the exhibits were very well done, often using world class technology to present their solutions for the Bible versus Science questions. Everyone from our group was also impressed and several are making plans to come back with their grandchildren.
My 1st grade son was very interested, although he doesn’t have much interest in Evolution. At this point he simply says, “Dad, that apes turning into people stuff is so old, it doesn’t even make sense.” I have assured him that many people really have problems believing the Bible, he just doesn’t get it. I guess this is the beauty of a childlike faith.
Throughout the Creation Museum there were audio video presentations that added to the immersion learning environment. The dinosaurs moved, as did several of the biblical characters. Their overview of Bible history was compelling and held the whole time line of history together.
Some might object to the Creation Museum’s strictly young earth interpretation of Genesis, but I was glad to see them taking the Bible at face value on those issues.
It took our group three hours, which was probably a little short. I would say younger children would not be as enraptured with the museum as my son, although several families did have kids in strollers. If you are in the Cincinnati area, you should visit the Creation Museum.
April 9th, 2008 — Children's Ministry Links
One way I try to keep current in children’s ministry is by reading all the major websites and blogs that cover the field. I often run across some great articles that I want to pass along to my readers. Please leave a comment or email me (TonyKummer@gmail.com) if you find this new feature helpful.
Free Mp3 Audio Bible Stories For Children
Christian Communicators Online has posted some children’s Bible stories in audio format.
Grandmother and experienced Bible teacher Joelee Chamberlain originally recorded these audio overviews of books of the Bible for her grandchildren, in an effort to help them understand the chronology of the Bible. . . We’ve found that children between the ages of 5 and 10 like them best, though younger children will probably enjoy them in the car or at nap time (many have trouble sitting still to listen at other times.)
Stories include: The Book of Genesis, God the Builder (argument from design for children), The Book of Exodus, The Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, The Book of Joshua, Judges and Ruth, 1 Samuel, The Life of Jesus, Acts.
How to have a Devotion with an 18 month old
Emily Wallace has written about her experience leading her toddler in devotion time. Be sure to read her helpful advice. This might be a good one to pass around your preschool ministry.
10 Week Vacation Bible School Strategy
Pastor Mike Stover has posted a guide to help you get on track with your VBS planning. Check it out and see if you’re on pace for a great Vacation Bible School.
