Children's Ministry Monthly

I have been at Sheffield Family Life Center in Kansas City, Missouri for the past 10 years. Two of those were as an intern, but the past 8 years I have been involved in full time ministry for youth and children.
November 8th, 2009 will mark my last Sunday at Sheffield. I have taken a position [...]

Over the last ten years I’ve been in full-time ministry, most of that in children’s ministry, I’ve found myself repeating a few phrases over and over. The title of this post is one of them: “Don’t make permanent changes for temporary situations”.
Though I’ve never had a paid ministry assistant, over the years I have had [...]

If you were leaving your position in three months… and wanted to leave the ministry you’d been building in the best condition possible… what would you do in the next 30 days?
I have recently put this challenge to myself and realized I had a vision or two that I had been holding off on for [...]