Email
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 in your church. Download this article as a Word document for easy printing.
Reason #1
God is in the church nursery. This may come as a shock, but the Bible has specific promises about God’s presence when children are welcomed and loved in Jesus’ name. You can read my article about this titled God Is In The Church Nursery.
Reason #2
Your service in the church nursery allows church goers to focus on worship, rather than worrying about their children. In a very real sense you ministry makes it possible for the pastor to fulfill his ministry.
Reason #3
The first (and sometimes lasting) feelings a child will have toward church is formed in the nursery department. While not everyone agrees, I believe that a positive experience in the church nursery is essential.
Reason #4
When you serve in the nursery, you are being entrusted with the most important (and vulnerable) members of the church family. There is no greater treasure on this side of heaven than the little ones God has given us. You must be someone special to have a job that is so important.
Reason #5
Your service is essential for your own spiritual growth. You may have never looked at it this way, but a growing Christian is always a serving Christian. Jesus was known for putting others first, when you serve in the church nursery you are walking in his example.
Reason #6
The church nursery is the first contact young families will have with your church. Your friendly greeting and exceptional care for their children can make a great first impression for your church. If they don’t feel like their children are safe, they will not return – and rightly so.
Reason #7
Your service in the church nursery is a powerful opportunity for prayer. If every nursery worker would spend several minutes praying over the children in their care, imagine how God might begin to change this coming generation. There is no better way to create an environment of spiritual nurture than to pray while you serve in the nursery.
I hope this article will be useful to you and your church. If so, leave a comment to let me know. Your feedback is an encouragement for me to post articles like this.
What do you think about this list? If you have an 8th reason, just leave me a comment below.
Remember that God blesses those who serve his children.
Related posts:
- Writing A Church Nursery Manual In A Small Church
- God Is In The Church Nursery
- Church Nursery Volunteer Worker Guidelines (job description)
- Baby Dedication Service – Some Ideas For The Ceremony
- 10 Reasons Why I Love Upward Soccer
{ 43 comments… read them below or add one }
← Previous Comments
Hi Tony
Thanks for this article. It’s a real encouragement and reinforces in a clear way the things I’m sure a lot of Nursery leaders will already feel. It is helpful to share with the wider church. Often people don’t feel they have much to contribute into young lives or even worse they are too young to learn spiritual issues. God has really spoken to me in the past year about never despising small beginnings. We have 3 kids in our church Nursery and 2 of them are my kids including my special needs daughter. I believe no matter how small or how few kids we have, we have a great commission to minister into their lives. A possible point 8 is the importance of relationship building!!!
We are having issues with lack of service in our church nursery. I am searching for material to share and came across your blog. Pray that the ones I share this with will see nursery service as an opportunity and not a burden. Thanks!
← Previous Comments