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Kids Ministry: Creating Cohesion Across the Ages
Years ago, our early childhood, elementary, and youth teams created their own curriculums. They operated largely independent of each other and focused on different topics at different times. But after much research and strategizing, we realized we could be more effective if we aligned our st...
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Kids Ministry: Know, Feel, Do
What we teach in our kids ministries is obviously extremely important, but the environment we create for our kids is almost just as important. In this training, we'll talk with two LifeKids pastors about the three questions they ask themselves as they build their kids ministries: What do I want...
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Kids Ministry: Steps to Onboarding Volunteers
When it comes to kids ministry, we all want volunteers who are fully-devoted Christ followers, trustworthy servants, and energetic personalities. But volunteers with this set of criteria don't assemble themselves by magic; here at Life.Church, we have a volunteer signup process that helps us identi...
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Kids Ministry: When Less Is More
We're always looking at ways to reach more people for Christ, and sometimes that can actually mean that we stop doing certain things. In this training, we'll look at three key questions you can ask as you build your Kids Ministry: What should we keep doing? What should we stop doing? What...
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Design Philosophy in Kids Ministry
Our design philosophy for our children's classrooms is simple: keep it simple. We want parents to feel good about leaving their children with us for an hour, and that means rooms that are...
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Multiple Sites, One Kids Ministry
Because Life.Church is truly one church that meets in multiple locations, we strive for consistency throughout our children’s experiences. Four values help us filter every choice we make: excellence, consistency, safety, and evangelism....
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The Philosophy of Kids Ministry at Life.Church
A kids ministry can be so much more than babysitting or entertaining children. In our experience, kids of all ages have a God-breathed capacity for understanding the bigness, fullness, and depth of who He is. It's our job as kids, student, and youth leaders to help them engage with the Bible, with...
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Lesson Learned: People Before Policies
In any ministry—especially kid's ministry—there are often too many rules and policies to keep track of, and it's easy to get bogged down by all the procedures. If and when that happens, take stock of your priorities and bring it to God. If the rules and policies are getting in the way of safe, mean...
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The 80/20 Rule: Developing the Best Volunteers
Every church loves to have Godly, committed volunteers sprinkled through its lobby or kids ministry...but finding and retaining these volunteers can be tough. The 80/20 is a guideline we use here at Life.Church to help us find and keep excellent volunteers. It's simple: spend 80% of your time and e...
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Reopening LifeKids: Leader Communication
In a recent Facebook Live , we discussed our process for reopening LifeKids. Our LifeKids pastors talked about how important it is to communicate often with leaders, and discussed some example videos from one of our Life.Church campuses. Use these videos as inspiration as you create your own for...
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Bible Adventure: Early Childhood Curriculum Training
The Bible App for Kids Curriculum from the LifeKids Team brings all the elements your preschoolers love best—like songs, animated characters, and an interactive host—together in a two-year curriculum designed to work in tandem with the stories in Bible App for Kids. View this training for a step-by...
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How to Have a Strong Developmental Conversation
At some point in your leadership, you’ll encounter a staff member or volunteer who isn’t cutting it. And if you’re a part of any growing organization, your organization is eventually going to outgrow someone on your team. The hard part, especially for those of us who are spiritual leaders, is th...
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4 Steps for Creating an Easter Photo Op
Easter is one of the biggest opportunities of the year for your church to share Christ with your community. In addition to the Easter message, worship, and prayers, having a photo-op area is one extra touch that can provide value and community to attenders. When you invite people to take a picture...
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Setting Capacity and Leader Ratios in LifeKids
Excellence—it guides everything we do at LifeKids. It’s why we created the Excellence Walk Checklist . It’s why we carefully craft our curriculum. It’s why we never settle for “good enough.” And that includes our capacity for kids rooms. We get a lot of questions about how we determine leade...
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5 Ways the Best Leaders Think Master Class
5 WAYS THE BEST LEADERS THINK: MASTER CLASS WORKBOOK YOU’RE A PASTOR. YOUR MIND MATTERS. Find the five master class teaching videos from Craig Groeschel on YouTube . To walk through this workbook with your team, download the PDF ....