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Heard About the National Bible Bee? (Bible Memory Contest)

29 May | by Jeri Tanner
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The 1st annual National Bible Bee will be held 5-6 November 2009 at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C.  Prior to that, on 12 September 2009, local Bees will take place all across the United States. The Bible Bee is “very similar to a spelling bee, except contestants are required to recite Bible passages [...]

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Getting To Know Kids In Your Children’s Ministry

26 May | by Tony Kummer

The best Sunday School and Children’s Ministry teachers are able to build life long relationships with the kids in their ministry. This makes the teaching much more powerful and the experience more rewarding for the teachers.
How you relate to the children you teach will always affect how they receive the Bible lessons  you teach. The [...]

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New Blog “Free Children’s Ministry Stuff”

10 May | by Tony Kummer

I just ran across a new blog about children’s ministry called Free CM Stuff and is written by a children’s minister from North Carolina.
Basically, he links to free resources on the internet that could be helpful for people serving in kids ministry. He already has a good collection of administrative forms and documents for [...]

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Children Desiring God 2009 Conference Notes & Audio Links

04 May | by Tony Kummer

Every other year, John Piper’s church puts on a conference for children’s ministry leaders. It’s always packed with practical help for kids ministry, but comes from a very God-centered angle. Plus, they share the content on their website without charge. So, here are the links for you to read about & listen to this amazing [...]

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Two Links About Adoption

02 May | by Tony Kummer

One day my wife and I dream of adopting a child. We’ve been serving foster kids for over 10 years and expect God to open all the right doors in his time.
Just last month, we had three non-English speaking children in our home. Their parents were in jail and they were very afraid. They were [...]

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Ministry Spotlight: Jelly Telly

23 April | by Terry Delaney

Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales, has a new web-based ministry for children.  It is called Jelly Telly.  The essence of the website is to provide a safe-haven for children to “surf” the web.  There is a daily “television” show with puppets, computer animated characters, and live actors teaching a God-centered lesson. You can check [...]

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Teaching Children’s Church Like Jesus

17 April | by Tony Kummer

I just ran across a great article written by Karl Bastian. He asks a question that just might change everything about your children’s ministry. What if Jesus taught in your children’s church? Karl writes:
Jesus didn’t come and undertake an educational ministry, but rather a relational ministry! Jesus came to this earth, born as a [...]

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Share Your Fresh Ideas For Easter

07 April | by Tony Kummer

Every year I’m amazed at all creative ideas for ministering to children at Easter time. This year is no different. So, I wanted to point out a few links and then open up comments. Please share your fresh ideas for Easter Sunday School or Children’s Church. You can even describe an Easter craft that you [...]

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The BIG LIST of Kids Ministry Blogs

31 March | by Tony Kummer

This site had something of a milestone today (3/31/09). For the first time we’ve passed the 200,000 mark for pageviews in a single month. That brings our all time total pageviews to just under 2 million. That is a mark I expect to break before Easter.
All I can say is WOW.
When I think of all [...]

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Children’s Ministry Vision: Redeemer Persbyterian Church, New York City

26 March | by Tony Kummer

The following is the Children’s Ministry Vision of Redeemer Persbyterian Church  New York City. I was impressed with the clarity and simplicity of this Gospel-driven statement.

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Online Devotions For Christians

17 March | by Tony Kummer

Over the past week, I’ve been helping set up a new site for Christian devotions. The site works like an RSS aggregator and pulls all the best daily bible devotions into one homepage. The end results is an extremely user friendly way to make use of these excellent online devotions. Going forward the site will [...]

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Reach More Children: New Survey Tells You How

13 March | by Tony Kummer

You have heard of Lifeway VBS. But did you know they also have a research division? They just released a new study that really caught my attention. They asked non-religious parents if they would allow their children to go to church if asked by a trusted neighbor. The results were amazing:
76 percent would said yes!
As [...]

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Missionary Stories For Kids

11 March | by Tony Kummer

Teaching children about missions is important. Tonight I found several great websites that offer missions education for children. These were links I found on the Kids page from Wycliffe Bible translators.
Just for fun, I asked my 8 year old Son to check out these sites and give me a few comments for this post. I’ve [...]

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God-Centered Children’s Ministry: Sojourn Kids

13 November | by Tony Kummer

Sojourn Church in Louisville KY has a wonderful children’s ministry called SojournKids. This is the same ministry behind the book “Pastor Daddy.”
Now, they’ve launched a blog for parents and ministry workers. It’s very promising and will be one I visit frequently. I know some of their leaders and they share a powerful vision for God-centered [...]

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