We all know life gets messy, and as we minister to families these hurts appear in our ministries. In this episode, Heidi Hensley, Director of Children’s Ministry at Shadow Mountain Community Church, stops by the podcast to discuss the most common hurts we encounter as we minister to parents and kids, and how we can …

Relationships are undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of our lives. What would it look like if we could set our children up to relate differently from their earliest stages: to have friendships that build up rather than tear down, to have healthy and appropriate boundaries, to handle conflict in ways that create more …

Dealing with children’s behavior is one of the most challenging parts of serving in children’s ministry. Jenny Funderburke Smith, Minister to Children at West Bradenton Baptist Church, drops by the podcast to discuss the purpose of discipline in kids’ ministry as discipleship and helps us identify practical ways to structure the ministry and classroom environments …

Sam Luce stops by the podcast booth at ETCH 2017 to talk about what the Gospel demands of parents in our ministries. Sam’s message to his parents is all about how we need to live in transparency, suffer publicly, and trust Jesus completely.

According to statistics, we are the most addicted, in-debt, depressed, obese population in U.S. history. We go to great lengths to avoid, deny, medicate or suppress emotions. Our country is full of adults who never learned how to navigate their emotions in a constructive way. What would it look like to raise a generation of …

A long-time friend of Lifeway Kids, Kelli McAnally, stops by the podcast to help us discover ways to help parents stay connected to your ministry through family fun fellowships, including ideas like: Daddy/Daughter Date Nights, snack and chat trivia, Build-A-Nativity, and church scavenger hunts!

Though, we ultimately want every child to meet Jesus and our dream is to see all children respond to the Gospel in our services, we should also focus on creating memorable experiences that families and children want to come back to. When families find something that draws them back each week, then they stand a …

Dr. Shelly Melia, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Ministry and director for the Master of Arts degrees in children’s ministry at Dallas Baptist University joins the podcast to talk about how families are approaching church differently than generations before them. This conversation gives us insight into the mindset of young parents and discover ways …

Parenting in the digital age is an ever-changing adventure. From trying to keep up with the newest trends to effective responses when things go wrong, the right thing to do can be hard to know. Jason Gibson, Director of the Babb Center in Hendersonville, TN, joins the podcast to discuss a series of strategies that …

[This new episode of the Kids Ministry 101 Podcast comes directly from #ETCH17 that happened last week! Mark Jones stops by our podcast studio to talk about how Bible Drill revolutionized Wednesday nights at his church.] Wednesdays were boring and full of mischievous kids that were running off teachers faster than they could be recruited. …