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From Children’s Ministry to Child Discipleship is the first in a series of books designed to help kidmin leaders learn, lead, and ultimately disciple the kids they lead and the parents they serve. We will be releasing it this September at our Child Discipleship Forum. It was written by two veteran children’s ministry leaders with nearly 60 years of combined children’s ministry experience.
Our desire is to inform your mind, equip your hands, and encourage your heart, so that you are have everything you need to do the most important ministry this side of heaven. Our book is broken into 19 chapters addressing the most pressing needs of the child discipleship pastor. We cover topics like safety, special needs, preschool, volunteer recruitment and development, and big events. These topics are covered with the gospel always at center.
We have provided the first chapter of our book for you to download.
The first chapter addresses the reality that we must first be a disciple before we are a director then applies this truth to the daily work of children’s ministry. Disciple-makers must first be disciples themselves. Scripture is not merely a tool for lesson preparation, but the foundation that forms the heart and trains leaders to hear God’s voice. Prayer is not a last resort when ministry gets overwhelming, but a formative practice that teaches leaders to listen, speak, and trust God. Together, Scripture and prayer shape leaders before they shape programs.
The first chapter calls children’s ministry leaders back to their primary identity, reminding them that they belong to Christ. The work of discipling the next generation is too important to be driven by performance or sustained by personal ability. It must flow from communion with Christ, dependence on Scripture, and a life of prayer.
If you would like to read the first chapter of our book, download Kidmin 101: From Children’s Ministry to Child Discipleship and take the next step toward leading children’s ministry not simply as a program to manage, but as a calling to form the next generation into lifelong disciples of Jesus.
