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Energizing Your Children's Ministry
Seasoned ministry leaders know that volunteers are hard to find. Parents are often busy and stressed. Youth workers get confused and burnt out. It’s easy to be discouraged by or question the impact of your church’s children’s ministry!
Overview
Seasoned ministry leaders know that volunteers are hard to find. Parents are often busy and stressed. Youth workers get confused and burnt out. It’s easy to be discouraged by or question the impact of your church’s children’s ministry!
Cynthia Brown, author of Energizing Your Children’s Ministry, deeply understands the eternal significance of children’s ministry. That’s why she gathered her vast experience (over 40 years in children’s ministry) and personal anecdotes into a practical tool for church workers and volunteers who are passionate about outreach to God’s littlest disciples.
She starts with the foundational understanding that re-evaluating your children’s ministry is as basic as your ABCDs: assess your church’s needs, build relationships, create a leadership team, and then define the focus.
These crucial steps are key in creating and leading children’s programs that inspire and educate children and their families.
So whether you teach Sunday school, VBS, preschool, or another children’s ministry, this inspiring book will encourage you to intentionally and prayerfully reach children with the Good News of the Gospel.
Endorsements
Seasoned ministry leaders know that volunteers are hard to find. Parents are often busy and stressed. Youth workers get confused and burnt out. It’s easy to be discouraged by or question the impact of your church’s children’s ministry!
Cynthia Brown, author of Energizing Your Children’s Ministry, deeply understands the eternal significance of children’s ministry. That’s why she gathered her vast experience (over 40 years in children’s ministry) and personal anecdotes into a practical tool for church workers and volunteers who are passionate about outreach to God’s littlest disciples.
She starts with the foundational understanding that re-evaluating your children’s ministry is as basic as your ABCDs: assess your church’s needs, build relationships, create a leadership team, and then define the focus.
These crucial steps are key in creating and leading children’s programs that inspire and educate children and their families.
So whether you teach Sunday school, VBS, preschool, or another children’s ministry, this inspiring book will encourage you to intentionally and prayerfully reach children with the Good News of the Gospel.
Endorsements
“Energizing Your Children's Ministry is an excellent resource for churches seeking to understand how to organize their children's ministry. Leaders who are either new to ministry, revitalizing their children's ministry, or desiring to train their teams to better understand the scope of children's ministry will benefit from this quality resource.”
— Dr. David L. Rueter, Associate Professor of Christian Education and DCE Program Director, Concordia University, Irvine; author of Teaching the Faith at Home (CPH 2016)
“Cynthia Brown invites you to grab a cup of coffee and sit down for an intriguing discussion in an often-overlooked area of the church—children's ministry. You may wonder what questions you would ask this veteran of front-line ministry with children and their families. But no worries; she supplies fourteen critical questions (and answers) that guide the children's ministry novice, volunteer, veteran, or professional on a journey that will energize ministry with children and their families. Professor Brown outlines a biblically based, relationally focused process, which helps you develop direction, plan and organize, recruit and train others, to move your vision forward in children's ministry!”
—Dr. Steve Christopher, Family Life Program Director, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI
“Wouldn't it be incredible if every child and family the Lord gave us the opportunity to serve was welcomed warmly, taught with joyful enthusiasm, and was excited to participate every Sunday and bring their friends? If your children's ministry needs some energizing, this book by Cynthia Brown could become your new best friend with resources and blueprints for considering and guiding change. Every family ministry or children’s ministry leader (lay or professional) would benefit from reading it personally and then recruiting a group of committed volunteers to read it together and begin looking at positive steps that can be taken to energize children's ministry in the local congregation. One size doesn't fit all, and the people best equipped to solve the challenges of ministry are those who live it every week in their own church. This book can help with that.
This is a timeless and timely book designed to help all of us 'up our game' so that precious children are brought to Jesus without hindrance. I can’t wait to order multiple copies and get a group going to consider how we might better serve families and energize ministry to children at my church. Thank you to Cynthia Brown and Concordia Publishing House for a book that brings research, ideas, and practical wisdom all together in one place for all of us to use!”
—Jill Hasstedt, DCE, Zion Lutheran Church and School, Belleville, IL
— Dr. David L. Rueter, Associate Professor of Christian Education and DCE Program Director, Concordia University, Irvine; author of Teaching the Faith at Home (CPH 2016)
“Cynthia Brown invites you to grab a cup of coffee and sit down for an intriguing discussion in an often-overlooked area of the church—children's ministry. You may wonder what questions you would ask this veteran of front-line ministry with children and their families. But no worries; she supplies fourteen critical questions (and answers) that guide the children's ministry novice, volunteer, veteran, or professional on a journey that will energize ministry with children and their families. Professor Brown outlines a biblically based, relationally focused process, which helps you develop direction, plan and organize, recruit and train others, to move your vision forward in children's ministry!”
—Dr. Steve Christopher, Family Life Program Director, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI
“Wouldn't it be incredible if every child and family the Lord gave us the opportunity to serve was welcomed warmly, taught with joyful enthusiasm, and was excited to participate every Sunday and bring their friends? If your children's ministry needs some energizing, this book by Cynthia Brown could become your new best friend with resources and blueprints for considering and guiding change. Every family ministry or children’s ministry leader (lay or professional) would benefit from reading it personally and then recruiting a group of committed volunteers to read it together and begin looking at positive steps that can be taken to energize children's ministry in the local congregation. One size doesn't fit all, and the people best equipped to solve the challenges of ministry are those who live it every week in their own church. This book can help with that.
This is a timeless and timely book designed to help all of us 'up our game' so that precious children are brought to Jesus without hindrance. I can’t wait to order multiple copies and get a group going to consider how we might better serve families and energize ministry to children at my church. Thank you to Cynthia Brown and Concordia Publishing House for a book that brings research, ideas, and practical wisdom all together in one place for all of us to use!”
—Jill Hasstedt, DCE, Zion Lutheran Church and School, Belleville, IL
| Number of Pages | 128 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13 | 9780758654953 |
| Vocation | Children's Ministry |
| Authors | Cynthia Brown |
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