Nick Blevins Family Ministry Podcast: Children | Youth | Students | NextGen

In this episode, we hear from Trisha Peach about the children's ministry principles she has learned and implemented and encouraged in churches worldwide. Trisha also shares her experience in helping relaunch a church plant post-pandemic and how it has grown both in-person and online.

Trisha Peach

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Episode NotesTransferrable principles for churches of all sizes:

• Rely on kids/youth to be involved in ministry
  • Allow teenagers to lead in kids ministry
  • Create unique teams for young people to serve within and have ownership
  • “You will keep the ones you involve”
• Creativity always trumps budget
  • Creativity matters no matter what size church you lead in
  • Incorporate music into everything
  • Use lots of visuals

Church Plant:

• Ask the question “Why would they want to come back into the church?”
• Same applicable principle: “You will keep the ones you involve”

Children's Ministry Online (with a church plant):

• Amped up online presence
• Recording LIVE to post online later
• The Both/And (in-person and online)
  • Don't exclude either group
  • Consider those you currently serve (sick, elderly, unable to gather, etc.)

Links for Trisha's resources:

• Book: Children's Ministry From Scratch
• Book: Your Children's Ministry, Beyond Basics
• Book: Why We Quit
• Website: www.kidmin.ninja
• Youtube: The Peach Buzz

Action Items

1. Get older kids/students involved
2. Write down everything you would do (do what you can with what you have)

In this episode, Lisa Molite from Community Chrisitan Church joins Jarrod Harris to continue a conversation on kidmin large group and some best practices to consider as you enhance your experience for kids. This is part one of a two-part discussion. Tune in to Episode 231 to listen to part one.

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Episode ExtrasEPISODE CONTACTS –  

• Lisa Molite
  • Email

Action Items

1. Write volunteer job descriptions
2. Schedule a large group training – maybe improv
3. Run rehearsals

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In this episode, Kenny Conley, Jarrod Harris, Annie Tucker, and Tony Caniglia have a conversation on kidmin large group and some best practices to consider as you enhance your experience for kids. This is part one of a two-part discussion. Tune in to Episode 232 for part two.

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Episode ExtrasEPISODE LINKS –  

• The Fabulous Reinvention of Sunday School Book
• Anthem Church – Gainesville, FL
  • Anthem Church Instagram
  • Kids Youtube
• Hope City Church – Las Vegas, NV
  • Elementary Instagram
  • Preschool Instagram
  • Kids Youtube

EPISODE CONTACTS –  

• Annie Tucker
  • Email
• Tony Caniglia
  • Email 

Action Items

1. Intentionally plan your large group time – cue sheet
2. Identify staff or volunteers who can own creativity – a team
3. Tighten up transitions (create questions)

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In this episode, Kenny Conley shares five hacks for how to effectively recruit and retain volunteers through a next-level onboarding process. Within many church ministries, there is always a need for more volunteers, and this episode focuses on how to create momentum for your teams through successful orientations.

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Episode ExtrasEPISODE HIGHLIGHTS –  5 Hacks Sneak Peek

• Stop recruiting
• More orientations
• Utilize texting
• Automate texting/messaging
• Host a “Volun-tour”

***For the full detail on these hacks, please download the PDF below.

Action Items

1. Download the 5 Onboarding Hacks PDF
2. Start a volunteer orientation
3. The Volunteer Pipeline

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In this episode, we share a conversation with some other ministry leaders from a Ministry Boost zoom call around a different focus for volunteer recruiting.

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Episode ExtrasCOURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Volunteer Boost
• Volunteer Pipeline
• Volunteer Playbook

Action Items

1. Get the Volunteer Bundle
2. Do what I said – 2 lead measures this week
3. Make a list of prospects

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In this episode, Tom Bump gives some helpful tips for restoring ourselves as leaders, focusing on self-care as an important daily routine. Tom also shares about his ministry which seeks to restore leader's hearts, souls, and minds through retreats, connection groups and more.

Tom Bump

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Episode NotesRestoring Leaders:

• Birthed from a real sense that it was needed
• After feeling useless, felt the call the pastor pastors and help hurting leaders
• Goal: restoring wounded hearts, wounded souls, and minds

4 Saturdays of Restoration:

• Opportunity to get a sneak peek of a retreat
• Wake-up call that they aren't as healthy as they thought
• Reveals the need for real conversations about rest and health
• Most conferences don't allow for staff to rest and reflect and be restored

Practical tools from Restoring Leaders:

• One-on-One call with Tom
• Retreats
• Available to teach church staff
• Online resources

Action Items

1. Check out restoringleaders.org
2. Take a real sabbath
3. Soul day

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In this episode, Keith Ferrin shares his passion for helping the next generation engage with the Bible consistently and passionately. Keith uses a plethora of methods to encourage and inspire families to enjoy reading the Bible and understanding who God is and who they are in Christ.

Keith Ferrin

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Episode Notes

1 Corinthians 14:12 – So it is with you. Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church.

Preface – helping people move from “should” to “want” in their faith growth:

• Live events
• Books
• Physical and digital resources
• Online courses

Enjoying the Bible:

• Requires trusting the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do
• Ministry leaders should create environments where this can be championed and adopted
• Leaders/Parents: YOU MUST LOVE IT FIRST
• Most of what we have learned, we learn from the “general” to the “specific”; the same goes for the Bible
  • • Analogy: you cannot understand a movie until you watch it; you must watch it and then you can speak about it; watching the movie is the starting place
• The primary purpose for reading the Bible is to spend time with Christ, not just to learn how to live
• Study it relationally so others can see its importance in your life; share what you ready about often

Key takeaway – when we have an accurate picture of who God is and who we are in Christ, this generation will be ready to make the hard decisions they need to make because they know WHO THEY ARE.

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Action Items

1. Check out nickblevins.com/keith
2. Consider joining the community

James Sabin gives some encouragement on how student ministry has thrived in the midst of a pandemic. James also gives some feedback from the implementation of some strategies around new family/student retention.

James Sabin

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Episode Notes

Before COVID:

• Church began with 250-300 in overall attendance, only a few teenagers engaged in youth ministry
• Started with a partnership with FCA
• Grew to 120 active youth
• Group-based model

Post COVID:

• Created “Late-Night-Live” online experience for youth; whole family participated
• Core families were the core watchers, but picked up new families as well
• Regathering began; JH and HS gathered in main worship center on Sunday nights
• Student-led worship teams
• Steady with 30-40 in attendance after regathering

Student Retention:

• First-time strategy… have youth invite and own giving a gift
• Lots of swag and branded giveaways
• Ideas: Starbucks gift card (first-time gift), t-shirts, stickers, etc.

Student Ministry Online:

• Creating online experience that matches the production quality of adults
• First 15 minutes in-person is with groups, but online they wait for the large group time to start
• Make it viewable after Sunday night for those who can’t watch

Action Items

1. Stream online
2. Overhaul your retention plan – 50% off
3. Consider a rally/event/shorter/in and out

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Crystal Mazzuca participated in the Volunteer Boost Challenge through Ministry Boost, and in this episode, she shares some of her key takeaways from this course. Crystal was able to implement some simple changes, recruited, and increased her kid's ministry volunteer team by 25% in around six weeks.

Crystal Mazzuca

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Episode Notes

Key takeaways from Volunteer Boost:

• Prospects – you typically need 10x the amount of your volunteer needs in a prospect list; define your needs
• Prepare email/text scripts to use, focusing on encouraging verbiage, not from a place of desperation
• Find the “best place” for each person to serve, not just filling spots
• Have multiple orientation opportunities
• Organize your process and follow up
• Stick to a deadline

Action Items

1. Sign up for Volunteer Boost
2. Start hosting Orientations
3. Give prizes away at Orientations

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In this episode, Amber Baker shares her experience leading through the various changes in kidmin after the pandemic and the leadership shifts in her ministry team. Shifting to a new leadership model within family ministry produces some challenges, and Amber gives some practical tips for navigating some of those transitions.

Amber Baker

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Episode Notes

Getting back to the basics (Kidmin after pandemic):

• Outside in pavilion
• Bible story without a TV
• Hand-written tags
• Games in the field

Changes online since regathering:

• Focus on outside events at church over the digital
• Summer kick-off, Fall kick-off, on-campus events
• Getting more personal

Transition to new leadership model:

• Originally hired as a co-pastor over children’s
• During a pastor’s sabbatical, moved to overseeing youth
• Tension in beginning to oversee the youth leadership
• Some team members made transitions off staff
• Began to create new team culture and make hires to support the ministry

Action Items

1. Track trends for online engagement
2. Plan events, maybe small, to re-engage
3. Evaluate your model – job descriptions to support the team

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