Jeff McClung

Last year I did a post on 5 DOS and DONTS of Teaching Kids. As I've taught since then I realized there were a few tips I missed. Here's 5 more: 6. DO take make time to prepare A lot of times when I hear people give advice about time management they say to "take" time for certain … Continue reading 5 More DOS and DONTS of Teaching Kids

Visiting kids on their turf may be one of the best ways to grow your Children’s Ministry. Jesus tells us to “GO and make disciples.” So why is it we almost exclusively ask people to COME? Why do we expect the lost to come to us? Why should they, especially when we don’t much of … Continue reading 1 Super Simple Tip To Grow Your Kidmin

But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple. Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.” … Continue reading Why Your Volunteers are Miserable (and what to do about it)

Over the past few months we’ve be retooling how we bring volunteers onto our Children’s Ministry Team. Everything from our application, orientation manual, interview questions, and more has been up for grabs. Nothing was off-limits. I’m really excited about how everything has come out, so I decided to put what we’ve done into this kit … Continue reading Free Kidmin Volunteer Orientation Kit

Last week I gave you the first five steps toward getting a Kids' Ministry job (you may want to read Part 1 for context to Part 2). Here are the last five: 6. Present yourself well You can’t be someone you’re not. You shouldn’t even try. People can smell a fake a mile away (especially … Continue reading How to Get a Kids Ministry Job, Pt. 2

Finding the right job can feel like chasing a rainbow: it’s out there, but you can’t ever seem to actually reach it. Getting my first Children’s Ministry job was easy. It was at my home church. Getting my second one was tougher because it was on the other side of the country. Getting my current … Continue reading How to Get a Kids Ministry Job, Pt. 1