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Church Nursery

Children’s Development From Age 0-3

30 July | by Kristin Charles
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Children learn through play.  They’re naturals.  It’s us adults that sometimes need help!  We’ve forgotten how.  Plus it’s difficult to know how much babies and toddlers understand anyway.
Next time you serve in the nursery, play with your own little tikes, or take care of children this age, use these developmental ages and stages as a [...]

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How To Make A Church Nursery Schedule

03 May | by Tony Kummer

Creating the nursery schedule at church is one of my least favorite administrative tasks as a children’s minister. The next schedule is due out this week, so I thought I would share how I do it.

6 Steps To Making A Church Nursery Schedule
1. Revise The Old Dates
I’ve moved to a 6-week rotation for our [...]

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7 Reasons Why Your Church Nursery Service Is Vital To Your Church

23 January | by Tony Kummer
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Too often serving in the church nursery can seem like a thankless job. One of the key tasks for children’s ministry leaders is to help volunteers understand their importance. With that in mind, I offer these following 7 reasons why serving in the church nursery is important.
Please feel free to copy these and distribute them [...]

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Writing A Church Nursery Manual In A Small Church

11 December | by Tony Kummer

You must have clearly written church nursery manual regardless of your church’s size. In this article, I want to offer some tips and point you to other resources that can help you develop your own church nursery guidelines.

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Church Nursery Volunteer Worker Guidelines (job description)

26 November | by Tony Kummer

Here is a list of volunteer expectations that I have been using for our church nursery. We don’t have a formal church nursery worker manual, but these guidelines have several ideas for safety that move in the right direction. I do not use the term ‘job description’ in the document. We want our people to [...]

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God Is In The Church Nursery

03 June | by Tony Kummer

Use this article to encourage your church nursery workers. Try sending it along with their schedule and reminded everyone that babies matter to God. The church nursery can be so much more than childcare. But it begins with an awareness of the presence of God with the little children. {download here}
God Is In The Church [...]

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