Leadership & Volunteers

Children’s ministry is often talked about in terms of care and programming—safe check-in, engaging lessons, energetic volunteers. All of that matters. But when children’s ministry is treated as something separate from the church’s overall strategy, we miss its true purpose. Children’s ministry isn’t just support for the “real” church.It is the church—forming faith, shaping culture, […]

Most children’s ministry leaders don’t struggle with vision.They struggle with translation. We know what we want our ministry to feel like — safe, welcoming, joyful, intentional — but somewhere between the planning meeting and Sunday morning, that vision gets lost. When that happens, volunteers don’t disengage because they don’t care. They disengage because they’re unsure.