Christian
Parenting and Family Engagement
- Making Un-Churched Children and Families Feel Welcome – Terry Delaney discusses different ways to make children and families feel wanted and accepted in your services.
- How to Partner With Parents in Kids' Ministry – Follow these 5 steps from Mimi Bullock to walk alongside parents in discipling their children.
- Preschool Moms Ministry: Preschool Play Day – Use this idea by Amy Brown to host a play day with preschoolers so that their parents can take a break, go on a date, and not have to deal with children for a moment or two.
- 6 Things New Families Want to See - Mimi Bullock has found that most new families are very similar when they are first looking at a church, and has made a list of 6 things every family wants from a church.
- Getting Families Connected on Facebook - Mimi Bullock writes about some ways to use Facebook for good and not ill in the context of Sunday school.
- How to Connect Older Adults and Children in Your Church – Jeri Tanner gives you 5 ways to integrate the entire body of Christ together.
- Raising Kids Who Don't Need a Preacher Beeper – Tony Kummer shares a video and discusses our need to raise Christians that are mature in their faith.
- Raising Christ-Like Families in a Secular World – Daniel Lowery discusses 3 passages that speak to how and why we must be raising our children with Christ at the center.
- How to Raise a Fake Christian – Tony Kummer points out 9 ways parents may be unintentionally feeding their children a false, useless faith.
- 5 Point Strategy to Fight Preacher's Kids Syndrome – Emily Mullens shares 5 steps you can follow to help pastors and minister's kids not get burnt out by their parents' ministry.
- Helping an Older Sibling Adjust to a New Baby – This article by Brandi Riddle outlines the ways you can support parents by helping their children adjust to siblings.
- 3 Tips for Ministering to Siblings - Use these 3 suggestions from Mimi Bullock to help treat siblings well.
- 4 Things Moms (and Dads) Should Teach Kids About Prayer - Use this article by Mimi Bullock to help equip parents to engage with their children in a more meaningful way.
- Family Devotions with a Kid-Friendly Pirate Theme – Kristin Charles shares some different devotions that families can do together, all centered around pirates.
- 5 Family Devotions to Welcome Spring – These devotional ideas from Kristin Charles share 5 different ways your family can celebrate the oncoming of Spring.
- Five Snowy Day Family Devotional Ideas – Kristin Charles shares 5 ways families can teach their children about Jesus in the snow.
- Creepy Crawly Family Devotions – These ideas from Kristin Charles can help you engages your youngsters as they explore the vast, crazy world God has made.
- Family Devotions for the Big City – Whether or not your kids grew up in the city, you can use the lights and the traffic to spark family devotional time with these suggestions from Kristin Charles.
- Cooking Up Family Devotions with Your Kids – Kristin Charles shares 3 devotionals you can cook with your children.
- 5 On-the-Go Family Devotions for Summertime – These five devotionals from Kristin Charles are simple and easy to do while you're on the go this summer.
- Family Ministry Ideas for Christmas – Engage the whole family with these Christmas devotional ideas from Doug Wolter.
- 8 Easy Tips for Family Devotions – Use one or all eight of these tips from Kristin Charles to help rejuvenate family devotion time.
- What Does it Mean for Our Children to Stand Firm? - Notes on a sermon by David Michael discusses for parents and ministers what we need to teach children about standing firm.
- Grace Based Parenting: A Summer Must Read – Pay attention to this book recommendation from Kristin Charles as she summarizes the main points of grace-based parenting.
- 4 Ways to Build Relationships with Parents – Use these tips from Mimi Bullock to help build relationships with parents as well as their children.
- Outreach Idea: Host a Parenting Class - Mimi Bullock compiles 6 steps for hosting a successful parenting class to help your community.
- 6 Pointers for Parent Communication - Use these 6 tips from Ashley Stevenson to help make sure that parents are working with you to educate their children.
- How to Get Parents to Visit Your Ministry and Get Excited - The attitude of parents is almost as important to children as your attitude, so get them on your side with Mimi Bullock's suggestions.
- Five Ways Parents Can Disciple Kids - These 5 ideas from Mimi Bullock help parents move their children towards God.
- What Can the Church Do Better than Families? - This article by Sue Miller discusses how the church and families can work together to love children the best way possible.
- 3 Hints for Reaching Unchurched Parents - Mimi Bullock proposes 3 ways that she has found to be effective in bringing unchurched parents to church with their kids.
- Helping Kids in Kids Church with Separation Anxiety - Mimi Bullock has 4 tips to help you handle children who might struggle to be away from their parents.
- Parents that Embarrass their Kids - These 3 tips from Mimi Bullock should help you know how to handle parents that are unkind to their children.
- Kids Ministry Challenge: The Drop Off Kids - Sometimes being a children's minister means you also end up working with parents - parents who may not even come to church. Mimi Bullock gives some suggestions to help you take care of "drop off" kids.
- Ministering to Children of Divorce - This article from Children's Ministry Magazine can help you understand and know how to best love on children who may not always be present because of their parent's divorce.
- Divorce and Children: How Can Your Ministry Help? - Wayne Stocks goes in-depth to how and why you should help children with divorced parents.
- The Bible Bee Program for Families – Heather Easterday shows you how you can engage the entire family in scripture memory.
- How to Earn Trust with Parents – Jenny Funderburke shares 7 ways you as a children's minister can earn rapport with parents.
- How to Make Sure Parents Ignore Your Messages – If you do the opposite of these 6 things Jenny Funderburke “suggests,” you should be able to communicate better with parents.
- How to Get Your Message to Parents Every Time – Use these six communication tactics from Jenny Funderburke to make sure that parents are always picking up what you're putting down.
- Should Parents Force Their Kids to Go to Church? - Tony Kummer discusses the pros and cons of forcing kids to go to church.
- 4 Ways to Make Families and Children Feel Welcomed – Jenny Funderburke shares 4 tips to make families feel safe in your church.
- Bulletin Insert: 10 Reasons to Bring Your Child to Sunday School – This free printable insert by Tony Kummer shares 10 encouraging reasons for parents to put their kids through Sunday school.
- Intergenerational Ministry in the Church – This article by Kara Jenkins describes what intergenerational ministry in the church looks like and why we need it.
- Biblical Support for Intergenerational Ministry – Kara Jenkins shares about what intergenerational ministry is, and why the Bible says we should have it.
- Intergenerational Ministry and the Family – Kara Jenkins discusses the practical imperatives of this ministry, and how and why you might consider implementing it in your church.
- 2010 Connecting Church and Home Conference Summary – Tony Kummer shares a resource post that summarizes the highlights of a family conference designed to explain how and why we need to connect families in the church.
- Family Service Project: The Lemonade Stand – This idea from Kristin Charles has families work with you to raise money for people to have access to clean water.
- Biblical Parenting: 10 Tips for Fathers – Wayne Stocks shares 10 biblical principles for parenting, targeted specifically at fathers.
- Lessons Learned at 3 AM – Brandi Riddle shares three lessons God taught her through her son.
- Children's Books that Engage the Young Hero – Kristin Charles shares 3 books that she finds encourage her son to dream big for God.
- Children's Books that Engage True Princesses – Kristin Charles shares 4 books that are biblically sound for young girls.
- Dealing with the ME Generation – Terry Delaney discusses some of the generational challenges of children who grew up in the 90s and 2000s (also applicable to 2010s).
- How Can I Know if My Child is Really Saved? - Tony Kummer answers this hard question that many parents may be asking.
- Memorizing the Bible With Your Kids – Daniel Patz shares this article about helping your children memorize the Bible.
- Send Barnabas Bear on Vacation – Kristin Charles suggests that you send a stuffed animal with children in your church on their vacation. At the beginning of the school year, families can join together and share their adventures with Barnabas.
- Informed Parents Are Good for the Children's Ministry – Tony Kummer shares several ways to keep parents on the same page of your ministry as you are.
- Bedtime Prayers With Children – Use this article by Tony Kummer to help discover how bedtime prayers are useful and can be incorporated into the growth of a child.
- A Prayer for Parents – Trevin Wax shares a prayer that parents can use to help their children learn how to pray.
- Sharing Jesus: It's Just a Walk Across the Street – Tony Kummer shares how he and his son have been intentionally ministering to their neighbors.
- Children, Parenting & Spiritual Warfare – Brent Thomas shares why the family is most important, and how we can fight to keep it sacred and valuable.
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