We should always be looking to better ourselves and to make our team better. 
Every year I go to the Children’s Ministry Conference in Redlands, CA and I bring some of our team. This is an awesome 2-day conference, and the teachers are great. 

We’ve been talking about starting an in-house training and the time is upon us. I have a general outlook and even some specific topics that I want our staff to be trained in, but I don’t want to be living in a vacuum. So today we’re going to discuss some ideas for training topics. 

A few things we try to cover:

• Why do we need training?
• Training Topics brainstorm
  • Facilitating (crowd control
  • Acting
  • Action Songs
  • Teaching
  • A/V (audio/visual)
  • Puppets
  • Outreach
  • Bus Ministry
  • Scripting
  • Infrastructure (building sets, decor, cleanup etc.)
• Scheduling