Yes! We want you to use our content.
This page offers some guidelines for re-publishing our content online and in print. As always, we want local churches to printout and distribute our materials within the church. These are suggestions are for other uses beyond direct kids ministry. If you have additional questions just leave a comment on this post.
Can I teach these lessons in my church?
YES – that’s the whole point of our website. You have our permission and blessing to use our lesson plans and articles in the context of your local church ministry.
May I copy an article from your website and post it on mine?
- YES – with a few conditions. Your webpage should link back to the original source url on our site and give credit to the author. Please use this in moderation, only one copied article per month. Contact us if you need more.
- Example – we want you to repost our articles on your church website or personal blog. Just follow our guidelines about linking back and citing the author.
What form should I use to credit the author and Ministry-to-Children.com?
- We do not have a mandated form but ask that you include the name of the author, the name of the website (Ministry-to-Children.com) and a link to the original article.
- We would suggest something like “Article written by [AUTHOR NAME] for Ministry-to-Children.com ([ORIGINAL ARTICLE URL])
May I reprint an article from your website in my publication?
- YES – for nonprofit publications as long as you include our website url and credit the post author.
- Example – if you have a church newsletter you should just add something like “written by ____ for Ministry-To-Children.com.” This also works for denominational newsletters or magazines.
- For other uses you should contact us first.
May I upload an image from your website to my website?
- MAYBE – some of our images are from Stock Exchange and you’ll need to check permissions there for the specific image.
- Please do not copy the coloring pages, just link back to the post that features them.
May I use an image from your website in my offline publication?
- MAYBE – some of our images are from Stock Exchange and you’ll need to check permissions there for the specific image.
- For coloring pages, printing them in your church is good but please don’t upload them to your any websites.
May I package and sell your materials or lesson plans?
- NO – we want our content to stay free.
Further Explanation
Our main concern with online use of the materials is having duplicate content in the search engines. Adding a direct link back to the source page (per the guidelines above) will prevent any problems.
Our main concern with offline use of our content is giving proper attribution to the writer. We want to make sure people know who to thank when they get to heaven.
If you do choose to use our content, and we hope you will, we would appreciate it if you would send us an e-mail letting us know what you are using and how. That information helps us to tailor the site to meet the needs of our users.
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We are planning a VBS using your Panda theme. Our local paper does an advertising supplement each spring featuring children’s activities in the area for the upcoming summer. The circulation in our community is terrific and we would like to advertise the VBS. These are paid ads (the VBS will, of course, be free). I found an image on your site that I would like to use in the ad. Is that an acceptable use? What are the requirements?
Thank you for the excellent content, by the way!
It depends on the specific image, I will contact you by email.
I have used several of your lessons recently the ones about Jonah they were received very well and throughly enjoyed by the children. Ages 4-11. I always make sure the name of the web sight is on the material. Thank you for being such a blessing to so many. God bless. Linda
We will be starting a new curriculum in September for our Sunday School.
I put together a year’s worth of lessons from Ministry to Children. We have only 8 kids in our SS, ranging from Preschool to 5th grade. We will have a different presentor each week with a lesson. They will either have a craft or game to complete the time. We will cater to the little ones as well as the school age. We will also provide a bank for each child for weekly offetory. In December will will give a portion of each bank to our local Angel Tree project. This year will be a challenge, but we are looking forward to and anticipate lots of excitement. Thank you for providing us with all kinds of lessons. God Bless your ministry.
thanks for your helpful materials
God bless you abandonely
I do not understand what is said about the coloring pages – the whole point of coloring pages is to print them and give them to children to color – what does it mean?
“Please do not copy the coloring pages, just link back to the post that features them.” and ” For coloring pages, please email us first with the details of where and how you would like to use the image.”
thank you
@Tascha: Using in your church is 100% okay for the coloring pages. Sorry for the confusion.
The line you quoted is talking about uploading them to your website.
Thank you for all the wonderful material you provide! I teach some of our littlest ones, and find the lesson plans very adaptable for whatever ages come in on Sunday morning!
Thank you for permission to use material on our webpage. I have posted a copy of Where is God on Sunday Morning? to our website and referenced the author and your ministry with the article. I have also added a link to your website to ours. My hope is to encourage those who already serve in our church nursery and to recruit new people to help out.
Thank you again!
@Lynda: We’re so glad to serve you and your church in this way!