Waiting Well: Trusting God in the In-Between Seasons
The fulfillment of God’s promises will far exceed our expectations. Every time. So we wait with hope, saying with faith, “Come Lord Jesus.”
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Faith Formation
We discuss the importance of and ideas for children’s faith formation in our children’s and family ministries.
Children’s Christmas Crafts and Activities
Enjoy this Christmas season and share the good news of Jesus with kids! These crafts and activities will help you share about Immanuel, God with us!
How Knowing God is with Us Changes Our Perspective
Join your kids in letting the truth of God’s presence sink deeply into your heart.
20 Fun and Easy Games for Sunday School and Children’s Church
Engage kids and have fun while teaching Bible stories! Check out these awesome children’s ministry games.
What Does It Mean to Have Victory? God’s Way Is Better
What does victory look like in God’s countercultural, upside-down kingdom? It looks like Jesus.
Sharing How God Works in Unexpected Ways
God knows us well enough to reach us in ways we don’t see coming. So watch for Him working in your life…and be ready for some surprises.
Back to School: Ideas for Sharing Truth with Kids
As kids head back to school, we want to make sure they know who God is and who they are in Him. Here are ways for sharing truth!
How to Share God’s Faithfulness with Kids
God gives us everything we need to teach our children about His faithfulness in His Word.
Why Giving Kids Opportunity to Wonder Is Important
Children’s ministry is meant to aim kids toward a full, fulfilling relationship with Jesus—where they can’t avoid being awestruck.
Actions Speak Louder than Lessons: Sharing God’s Love with the Kids in Your Ministry
Get 6 practical ways kids can experience the love of God through you—because you’ll be loving those kids in the very ways God loves you.
4 Things to Do When Teaching Kids to Pray
When teaching kids to pray, it’s important they know it isn’t just asking God for things—it’s talking to Him about everything.
Transformed: How the Holy Spirit Guides Believers
Day after day, and year after year, as we tune our hearts and ears to the Holy Spirit, God does a mysterious work in us. And we are transformed.
It’s Good Friday: The Importance of Honoring this Day with Kids
Jesus tells us that suffering is a guarantee. He teaches that to experience life in Him, we must first pick up our cross.
How Spiritual Practices for Kids Can Help Them Know God
Spiritual practices for kids are implemented in time spent with God in an organized, yet spirit-led way. They provide space to rest in God’s presence.
Known, Loved, and Led: Helping Children Know Who They Were Created to Be
It’s our job to help kids to know what is always true—what God says is true.
Every Child was Created on Purpose—They Deserve to Know It
It’s vital for our children to know that they were created by God on purpose, for a purpose.
How God Works through People in His Big Story
We want kids to know that God can and will work through their lives in unique ways. They fit into His Story and were made for wonder.
Teaching Kids How God Can Work Through Our Problems
Ask God to help your kids see problems as more than obstacles, to instead see them as opportunities as well.
Leaning In: Find Rest and Reset in God
Rest is paying attention to our God-given needs and limits and choosing to honor God through an unhurried rhythm in our everyday lives.
The Importance of Kids Celebrating God’s Wonder with Song
We have the special opportunity as children’s leaders, parents, and disciple-makers to inspire children in the wonder of worship.
Inclusive Ministry: Seeing God’s Wonder in His Children
Inclusive ministry shows that no matter a child’s ability, they deserve to know how loved and valued they are by their Creator in heaven, and by you.
Scripture Connection: Does It Really Matter?
When you connect your kids to Scripture you help them see themselves as God sees them: infinitely valuable, desperately loved, and entirely welcome.
Wide-Eyed Wonder in Faith Formation
Kids stand out as the best wonderers of all. We should encourage their wonder as we journey with them to trust in our big, amazing God!
Children’s Church: Discipling the Church of Today
Children are the church of today. Just as we are. The ministry work that takes place in children’s ministry—it’s all important.
