This post is my midweek round up of interesting and helpful links about Children’s Ministry. I’ve limited this list to 10 to keep things manageable. You can find many more like this in our big list of kidmin blogs. Enjoy!
The Scripture Lady sent this game out in her email this week. It’s called “You’re in the Hot Seat!” and it’s a fun icebreaker/get to know you game. It could work for kids or ministry leaders meetings.
You have to check out these statistics about children with special needs. I was surprised by some of them. This would be handy to print off for your ministry leaders or families facing a special needs diagnosis.
Julie Cantrell has posted some helpful tips on creativity and art for children. She talks about some the developmental value of art and lists 5 tips for stimulating childhood creativity.
Kidology training may be coming to a town near you (or even your church). They are sending one of their top teachers on a 2 year road trip to equip and encourage kids ministry leader. Read this announcement from Karl’s blog to learn more. You can also check out the website.
Are you stressing about finding volunteers? Here is a super practical strategy from Pudge Huckaby called Grown By One.
Here’s a powerful and encouraging reminder that you can change a child’s direction in life.
Here is a helpful list of Bible memory verses that each have a specific action mentioned. So kids can memorize scriptures along with some activity. Fun idea!
Roger Fields posted a fun wrap up video from the Children’s Ministry Expo. It didn’t have Amy & Gina thumb wrestling, but his music is cool.
Check out this free paging system for your church that works through text messaging parents.
Here is a cool idea for promoting your VBS next summer. You can build a float and enter it in your town’s summer parade. Plus you’ll have a cool sign to park in front of your church.
Same Luce has posted a quick explanation of Bible Bucks 2.0 – a creative & modern way to use a reward system in your children’s ministry. FYI, this idea was honored for it’s creativity at the CMXPO.
Why are kids always bored? Not just in church but all the time they say “I’m bored.” Read one bloggers discussion of this problem.
Here’s something a little different. PBS posted this clip from Video Games Live. It’s the theme song from Civilization IV (my favorite game for the last 3 years). The cool part is the lyrics, this song is based on a Swahili adaptation of the Lord’s Prayer. The vocal part starts around 2:10 on the video timeline. I love it and my hair sticks up just listening along.
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Thanks for the plug for Kidology to Go!
Hey, thanks for mentioning Agapage! It has been really cool to see people latching onto the idea and we really appreciate the support.
-take care
jared