Keeping Your Children's Ministry on Mission - Practical Strategies for Discipling the Next Generation

Jared Kennedy

Beschreibung

Practical Strategies for Gospel-Centered Children's Ministry
When building a children's ministry at a church, there is so much to consider: Which curriculum should we use? How many volunteers do we need? How do we keep parents in the loop? And that's before we run into stalled check-in computers, missing activity sheets, and floors that need to be vacuumed. While all of the tasks of children's ministry are important, leaders can get easily distracted with the everyday work of doing ministry and lose sight of the main focus—the gospel.
Writing from personal ministry experience, Jared Kennedy shares a four-fold approach for gospel-centered, missional children's ministry: hospitality, teaching, discipleship, and mission. This practical resource covers a variety of topics ranging from creating child protection policies to putting together lesson plans to catechism, helpful for children's ministers and volunteers alike as they disciple children with the powerful message of the gospel.

- Applicable: Includes questions for reflection and evaluation
- Helps Leaders Disciple the Next Generation: Features advice for sending kids and their families on mission 
- Ideal for Nursery–5th Grade Teachers and Leaders: A practical and helpful resource for children's ministries
- Published in Conjunction with the Gospel Coalition (TGC)

Verfügbar seit: 23.02.2022.

Drucklänge: 240 Seiten.

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