Publisher Description
Promiseland is Willow Creek’s highly successful children’s ministry. Using examples from Promiseland and churches of all sizes around the country, this book provides step by step guidance and creative application exercises to help churches develop a thriving children’s ministry—one that strives to be the best hour of every kid’s week. Included are Scripture-based principles and practical resources for church staff members and volunteers who agree with the critical role children’s ministry plays in a local church.
Making Your Children’s Ministry the Best Hour of Every Kid’s Week, based on twenty-eight years of experience at Willow Creek, explains four ministry foundations: Mission, Vision, Values, and Strategy.
Content includes:
Detailed answers to questions facing every children’s ministry:
•What does Jesus expect from children’s ministry?
•How can we evangelize lost kids and disciple saved kids at the same time, and should we?
•How do we engage kids so they don’t become bored?
•How do we get better at recruiting and leading volunteers?
•How can our ministry be a safe place for children?
•Six specific ministry values that address the needs of today’s children
•Practical first steps for ministries that want to get serious about change
•Clear indicators of success in children’s ministry
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About the Authors
Sue Miller is the author of While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, Inventing the Abbotts, and The Good Mother, many of which made the New York Times bestsellers list.
Christian Taylor is a veteran actress with twenty-five years of experience in performance and voice work spanning stage, film, television, radio, and audio books. A Catholic University Drama Department graduate, she began her career with the National Players, portraying Hero in Much Ado About Nothing and Muriel the Goat in Animal Farm. Other stage credits include The Wife in Rashomon and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Her audiobook credits include An Hour on Sunday, Making Your Children’s Ministry The Best Hour of Every Kid’s Week, Dragons: Tears of a Dragon, and Dragons: Circles of Seven. She and her family live in Wheaton, Illinois.
About Christian Taylor
Christian Taylor is a veteran actress with twenty-five years of experience in performance and voice work spanning stage, film, television, radio, and audio books. A Catholic University Drama Department graduate, she began her career with the National Players, portraying Hero in Much Ado About Nothing and Muriel the Goat in Animal Farm. Other stage credits include The Wife in Rashomon and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Her audiobook credits include An Hour on Sunday, Making Your Children’s Ministry The Best Hour of Every Kid’s Week, Dragons: Tears of a Dragon, and Dragons: Circles of Seven. She and her family live in Wheaton, Illinois.