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Let Kids Use Their Talents | Children’s Ministry

Let Kids Use Their Talents in Children’s Ministry

I attach to a link to a blog article detailing all the children who have won and done very well in the America’s Got Talent competition.

Kids Dominate America

In my years leading children’s ministry I have found that developing the kids talents always paid off.  I have made children’s music bands as soon as I could.  I encourage parents to enroll their children in music lesson and let them perform their songs as soon as they are willing.   The best puppet plays have been when kids do parts.  (Usually it is helpful to have an adult behind the puppet stage to guide them.)  If you write your own Christmas plays, recruit kids to co-write with you.  You will be amazed at the good ideas that come out.

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Standing on the Promises

Children’s Worship Songs – Standing on the Promises of God

Here is an excellent track to help children learn the old hymns.

Standing on the Promises of God

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Strong-willed Children

Strong-willed Children – how to best reach them in Children’s Ministry

Below is a quote from a Focus on the Family blog.

Strong-willed children have a genuine need to know why a task is worthy of their effort. Convince them, and you’ve won half the battle already. In large part, motivating a strong-willed child involves showing confidence in their intelligence, rather than insulting it. Even when they’ve slipped up, strong-willed children want freedom to choose how to remedy the situation in the way they think best.

In children’s ministry we deal with all types of personalities, and I have found over the years that the children labelled as “strong-willed” often were the ones with whom I could have the deepest most intelligent conversations about spiritual matters.  These kids really think about what they have been taught.  They don’t take things at face value.  If it doesn’t make sense to them, they need to be persuaded from the Word so they understand things from God’s perspective.

 

Read the full article here. https://www.focusonthefamily.ca/content/what-sets-them-off-understanding-your-strong-willed-child

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Balloon Stomp Game | Children’s Ministry

Balloon Stomp Game for Children’s Ministry

Here is a game sure to be a hit in your children’s church.  I envision this game to work well in a classroom setting with about 20 children.

Have fun and feel free to let us know how it worked for you.

http://www.greatgroupgames.com/balloon-stomp-game.htm

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Credibility | Keeping Your Word

Credibility | Keeping Your Word

Below is a link to a blog from Insight for Living Ministries about credibility.  Here is a quote from the article:

“Jurors often have reason to doubt the testimony of a witness on the stand. Parents, likewise, have reason at times to doubt their children’s word (and vice versa). Citizens frequently doubt the promises of politicians, and the credibility of an employee’s word is questioned by the employer. Creditors can no longer believe a debtor’s verbal promise to pay, and many a mate has ample reason to doubt the word of his or her partner. This is a terrible dilemma! Precious few do what they say they will do without a reminder, a warning, or a threat. Unfortunately, this is true even among Christians.”

I remember when I was a young Christian and I came to understand the bible verse Psalm 15:4 “The righteous man swears to his own hurt, and does not change.”

This is MOST DEFINITELY a response that does not come naturally to children or adults and yet when you see this put into action it is a very powerful witness for the Lord.  Let us not neglect this most fundamental character development.

https://www.insight.org/resources/daily-devotional/individual/a-bridge-called-credibility-part-one

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Understanding Personalities

Understanding Personalities

Below is a link to an article posted by Focus on the Family.  As a Children’s Minister you might want to forward it on to the families in your church.

How I found this related to me in the Children’s Church setting, was in understanding my daughter.  Although she was and is my greatest helper, because of the familiarity, she could try to “take charge”.  Fortunately I recognized early on, that the reason she is like that is because she is a natural born leader.  Understanding her personality helped me to avoid a lot of conflict.

https://www.focusonthefamily.ca/content/understanding-your-child-s-personality-and-yours-too

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Children’s Church Games

Children’s Church Games

Here is a link to some Children’s Church Games that are faith related.  Perhaps one of them will suit your topic this week.

http://childrensministry.com/articles/active-indoor-games-faith

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Children’s Worship Song: A Gift To You

Children’s Worship Song:  A Gift to You

Here is a beautiful children’s worship song, easy for the children to learn.  It is important for kids to be able to worship God with songs that are uncomplicated, easy to sing from the heart.

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Turning Points Part Two (From Insight for Living Blog)

God never wastes times of testing. The pain and struggles you face only SEEM futile.

— Charles R. Swindoll

 

TURNING POINTS PART TWO

Below is the link to the rest of the blog article from Insight for Living.

This life has times of suffering.  No one is exempt, not even children.  I myself lost my father to cancer when I was 9 years old.  ONLY Jesus makes life make sense.    Children who have a living relationship with Jesus always have hope.  The strength of child hood, I believe, is that we really do seek to know Jesus, just for the sake of knowing him.  As adults sometimes our pursuit of him gets more complicated especially when we have life and ministry responsibilities.

May we all seek to know Jesus more, just to know him.

https://www.insight.org/resources/daily-devotional/individual/the-turning-point-part-two

 

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TURNING POINTS

Turning Points

As a parent and children’s minister I am always praying that God will get a strong hold of the children’s hearts.  I pray that the Word of God will take strong root and that if any of them head down the wrong path, they will have a turning point back to God.  In so many ways I have found God unresistable.  His love and presence and the joy his words bring, keep me unsatisfied with the “pleasures” of this world’s system.

Here is the first half of a good article by Chuck Swindoll.

https://www.insight.org/resources/daily-devotional/individual/the-turning-point-part-one

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Children’s Games

Children’s Games for Kids Church

 

Hi friends I am always on the hunt for games that I can do in kids church.  I like to start out the service with review games especially if I can cover the bible story from the previous week.

Attached is a link for some really good children’s games.  I especially like the one called “Chatter Bee” .  I think I will try it this Sunday.

Have Fun!

http://www.umcom.org/learn/icebreakers-and-fun-games-for-kids-and-youth

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