Comments on: Church Bus Ministry

By: LARRY Middaugh

LARRY Middaugh — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:56:44 +0000

Our church has had a bus ministry for the last 40 years but now is in jeopardy of closing down due to lack of participation. I think our church has lost site of the pros and have focused on the cons. Please send prayers that Lord will take back control. The Children are to precious to ignore.

By: Jeanne McIntosh

Jeanne McIntosh — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:25:18 +0000

We have such an awesome responsibiity with the children who ride the church bus/van. A pastor’s wife at a church I attended in the past came from this type of minitry. Recently, as I was holding one of the toddlers in my arms while the mother was in line to get lunch following church, I thought to myself “I am doing what Jesus would do”. She has been attending for three weeks now (the mother) on the van with her children. It is precious! We welcome parents to sit with the children if they would prefer – a few have. It is work, work, work, but God is blessing the ministry.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:45:37 +0000

SO SO TRUE!!!!I COULD NOT BELIEVE THIS!!!!!! Pros and cons of telling a child about JESUS!!!! The difference between going to Heaven OR Hell! As a child I was a bus kid they picked me up for ten years on the bus! now that I’m 18 i have the GREATEST HONOR of helping a bus route.They showed me how to get to heaven and how to love God! They NEVER put down my parents and they visit every Weekend to talk to me and my parents and they got to witness to them as well. All it takes is true patience and you can take a “disruptive” kid like I was and help them to grow. I agree!!!

By: Kat Patrick

Kat Patrick — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:18:21 +0000

Great testimony on these pages. I’m from a small rural church in England where our children’s work is successful enough, but a) we don’t have the room to properly run our three age-group Sunday school (up to 8s, 8-11s, 12 and up), so we’re looking into making space in a church with all kinds of conservation orders on it, when I thought perhaps a bus could partly serve as a new “classroom” for us, and b) we could reach the children in our un-reached areas of our little town with bus ministry. I’ll let you know how we get on: radical ideas outside the box don’t usually get a look-in, though!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:16:17 +0000

Im just a little curious how there can be negatives to a bus program? Busses go out each week and pick up children who would otherwise never hear about God’s Plan of Salvation. Children who come from rough homes find a place to be loved and a place of sanctuary from the outside world. I have only been running a bus for a short time but within those 4 years I have seen 6 parents saved and now coming to church on their own. (Might I mention with their children) My Pastor was a bus kid. He then surrended to the call of God and now Pastors a growing, thriving church. If the bus has negatives then our church would not be growing to the ministry it is today. (500+ in attendance, a growing Bible College, and a Christian School) Yes children can get be disruptive but thats why we need to teach them how to act properly in a church environment. Yes children move I have had riders on my bus for 2 weeks and then vanish. But what if they learned something in those 2 Sundays that will stick with them later in life. Yes they might not have gotten saved, but when they are up agiasnt a wall and troubles are coming their way they will remember what they learned in church and hopefully find a good church.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:52:33 +0000

Thanks for these positive comments! My wife and I just started visiting and getting ready to start a bus ministry at our church. God is with me on this mission! Please pray for me!

By: James McDonald

James McDonald — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:35:19 +0000

I have just started a research project into bus ministry and I’m trying to answer the question “Does bus ministry to children bring families back into the Church”.
Does any one know of any research that has been done on this subject?

By: david wyatt

david wyatt — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:02:47 +0000

I have been picking up kids and adults for about 5 years. There is a girl in a Christian college today, that use to ride the my van. I am at a different Church now, and have the opportunity to be the bus captain, getting new kids to come. I really want to bring kids to Church, part of that comes from being a bus kid myself.
What are some promotions that i can do, and what are some ways i can get kids interested in coming?
Thank you and may God bless your efforts, David Wyatt

By: Robert White

Robert White — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:03:24 +0000

Here is something to consider. I don’t think any of us like to use labels, but how many of us use the term bus kids? A bus kid is very much a label and we had a lot of problems with our kids that attend with their parents no accepting the “bus kids.” I might be a little biased because I was a “bus kid.” Also immediately as we stopped calling them “bus kids” and simply stated they were kids that road the bus, the attitude of our volunteers and kids changed. I oversee our bus ministry and I love the excitement that these kids bring to our church. Over half of the kids in our children church ride the bus to get there. They are not there because their parents made them go, they are there because they want to be there. That is exciting to me and excitement is contagious.

By: Bob Morrissey

Bob Morrissey — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:52:30 +0000

You all are invited to a Hall of Fame bus ministry Sunday on August 15,2010
Lewis Ave. Baptist Church, 6320 Lewis Ave.,Temperance,Mi.48182
Time 6:30 pm
This is the first and only Hall Fame for bus ministries across the USA