Children’s Ministry Links

The best Sunday School and Children’s Ministry teachers are able to build life long relationships with the kids in their ministry. This makes the teaching much more powerful and the experience more rewarding for the teachers. How you relate to the children you teach will always affect how they receive the Bible lessons  you teach. … Read more

Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales, has a new web-based ministry for children.  It is called Jelly Telly.  The essence of the website is to provide a safe-haven for children to “surf” the web.  There is a daily “television” show with puppets, computer animated characters, and live actors teaching a God-centered lesson. You can check … Read more

I just ran across a great article written by Karl Bastian. He asks a question that just might change everything about your children’s ministry. What if Jesus taught in your children’s church? Karl writes: Jesus didn’t come and undertake an educational ministry, but rather a relational ministry! Jesus came to this earth, born as a … Read more

Over the past week, I’ve been helping set up a new site for Christian devotions. The site works like an RSS aggregator and pulls all the best daily bible devotions into one homepage. The end results is an extremely user friendly way to make use of these excellent online devotions. Going forward the site will … Read more

Teaching children about missions is important. Tonight I found several great websites that offer missions education for children. These were links I found on the Kids page from Wycliffe Bible translators. Just for fun, I asked my 8 year old Son to check out these sites and give me a few comments for this post. … Read more

Sojourn Church in Louisville KY has a wonderful children’s ministry called SojournKids. This is the same ministry behind the book “Pastor Daddy.” Now, they’ve launched a blog for parents and ministry workers. It’s very promising and will be one I visit frequently. I know some of their leaders and they share a powerful vision for … Read more

I just found this very interesting report on the Children’s Ministry Magazine website. It gives the salary breakdown for children’s ministry jobs and even lets you calculate and compare your salary based on very fine tuned demographics. NOTE: That tool is no longer available since they updated their website. You can read their 1995 survey … Read more

Have you ever had to modify a lesson plan because it didn’t line up with the Bible story it was supposed to be teaching? Children’s ministry workers and Sunday school teachers should always be careful when teaching from a Sunday school curriculum. Most publishers have a statement of faith and editorial reviews to ensure sound … Read more