This week, Dan Scott, Curriculum Director for 252 Kids and Preteen at Orange, and Brittany Compton, Director of Preschool Strategy at Orange, join hosts Mike, Gina, and Kellen to talk transitions and how to plan for moving kids from one environment to the next. (Also on the agenda: the napacinno—real or mythical?)

This week, author and volunteer-recruiting expert Christine Kreisher joins hosts Mike Clear, Gina McClain, and Kellen Moore to talk recruiting and scheduling summer volunteers.

Orange VBS Director Amy Fenton joins hosts Mike Clear, Gina McClain, and Kellen Moore talk leveraging VBS to create your Very Best Summer.

Hosts Mike Clear, Gina McClain, and Kellen Moore talk planning for Easter—including new volunteer recruitment and training, great signage, and check-in and follow-up for new families.

Hosts Gina, Mike, and Kellen share their personal experiences with handling the salvation conversation and tools for how to invite parents into the process. Also: free stuff!

Dr. Jim Burns of HomeWord ministry joins hosts Mike Clear, Gina McClain, and Kellen Moore to discuss phase-appropriate ways of introducing sexual integrity to preschool and elementary students and how to equip and support parents to have these conversations.

Aaron & Karen Collier, children’s pastor and preschool director at Piedmont Church in Marietta, Ga., visit to talk communicating with your ministry volunteers when it comes to training, vision casting, and celebration. Mike, Gina, Kellen, and the Colliers focus on the value of placing relationship before ministry role.

Pull out the party hats, noisemakers and super fancy party drinks (for those in the preschool ministry world). It’s a new year! And you’ve discovered our brand-new Orange Kids Podcast, where we talk kids’ ministry and discuss practical solutions to our weekly challenges.

Welcome to the first ever Orange Kids Podcast where we talk kids’ ministry and discuss practical solutions to our weekly challenges! You’re in on the ground floor. The birth episode. Numero cero. It’s inaugural. Premier. All delivered straight from the Orange offices where the staff dreams, ideates, delegates, debates, regulates and creates—and where, clearly, Mike makes good use of his thesaurus.