All profits benefit at-risk children.

Kidmin Leadership

by Jim Wideman

Kidmin Leadership focuses on the top-twenty principles all leaders need to know. This book compiles the experiences of a select group of kidmin ministers who have dedicated a substantial amount of time to being mentored by renowned kidmin minister and leadership coach, Jim Wideman. Topics include: knowing God’s will, self-leadership, priorities, thinking in steps, how to do what you don’t want to do, visioneering, team building, caring for others, and much, much more.

Stretch

by Jim Wideman

Just a Minute

by Wess Stafford

Do you remember that one moment (or maybe there were several) that changed your life when you were a child – and shaped part of who you are today?
Does it bring a smile to your face? Tears to your eyes? A wistful gaze back through time?
We all have those stories and we can all, now, make those stories happen! All it takes is one moment out of your busy day, and you can be that someone in the life of the very next child who comes across your path. It may be your own son or daughter. Or perhaps it’s the child down the street playing soccer. Or maybe it’s the one having a meltdown in the grocery store.
Read these powerful stories of lives changed because someone took just a minute to really connect in the life of a child.

Events that Worked for Us

Edited by Judy Comstock

A comprehensive events guide for children's pastors, Christian educators, and church leaders. This guide is developed in partnership with the International Network of Children's Ministry and provides the strategic information needed to plan and implement a wide range of children's events. Each article is written by a children's ministry expert who has "been there, planned that."

Included: Camps, Christmas Celebrations, Family/Baby Dedications, Easter Festivities, Fall Festivals, Family Get-togethers, Fundraising, Missions, Preteen Sleepovers, Special Needs, Summer Programs, Volunteer Appreciation, and much more!

Includes a CD-ROM for easy customization of event promotions and access to forms.

Ready, Set, Teach!

Ready, Set, Teach! is full of a wealth of practical ideas for equipping classroom teachers. It covers everything from explaining the church’s need for teachers, models of teaching today, ages and stages of children, ways of learning, age level concepts, learning styles, and more!

How to Wow Your Church Guests

by Mark L. Waltz

Mark Waltz takes an honest look at what keeps people from walking in our church doors in the first place…and what keeps them from coming back. The good news? Every one of his observations includes action steps that any church – even yours- can take to not only welcome new people, but to truly wow them with the love of Jesus.
Inside the pages of How to Wow Your Church Guests, you’ll discover 101 benchmarks for quality. Each one will challenge you to consider your church’s culture and what you’re expressing to others through your actions). Even if you embrace exponentially lift the quality of guest services in your church or organization.

Rock Solid Volunteers

In Rock Solid Volunteers, you will learn seven biblical principles, drawn from the book of Nehemiah, that will help you more effectively motivate and mange volunteers. You will look at the obstacles Nehemiah and his volunteer workers faced – including fatigue, weakness, loss of vision, peer pressure and opposition – and examine the seven steps Nehemiah took to lead his team to success. Using the principles you’ll discover inside, you can attract, inspire and keep talented, committed volunteers, no matter the challenge!

Almost Christian

by Kenda Creasy Dean

Almost Christian investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity and at the same time so apathetic about genuine religious practice. Dean argues that ardent faith in American young people depends upon churches' ability to recover a sense of mission and model ways of being Christian that go beyond self-serving spiritualities by embodying God's self-giving love for others. She shares the four important traits that the most committed young people in the National Study of Youth and Religion shared.

Already Gone

Why Your Kids Will Quit Church and What You Can Do to Stop It

by Ken Ham & Britt Beemer

If you look around in your church today, two-thirds of the young people who are sitting among us have already left in their hearts; soon they will be gone for good.

This is the alarming conclusion from a study Answers in Genesis commissioned from America's Research Group, led by respected researcher Britt Beemer.

Already Gone reveals:

• Why America's churches have lost an entire generation of believers
• The views of 1,000 twenty-somethings, solidly raised in the church but no longer attending - and their reasons why
• Relevant statistical data effectively teamed with powerful apologetics

The study found that we are losing our kids in elementary, middle school, and high school rather than college, and the "Sunday school syndrome" is contributing to the epidemic, rather than helping alleviate it.

Though the statistics reveal a huge disconnect taking place between our children and their church experience, Already Gone shows how to fight back for our families, our churches, and our world.

Rotation Basics

A Practical Guide for Sunday School and VBS

It seems like everyone is talking about rotation models for Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. But which rotation model is right for your situation?
Rotation Basics breaks through the hype and gives you a practical look at each rotation model from those who are using that specific method.
Topics include:

• Why Rotation?
• Making the Rotation Transition
• Large Group/Small Group
• Site Rotation
• Modified Rotation
• Workshop Rotation
• The Small Church and Rotation
• Adopting Curriculum

Protecting Your Church Against Sexual Predators

by Voyle A. Glover, Esq.

They sit in our pews. They come to our church picnics. They may even teach Sunday school or serve on a committee. They are sexual predators, and no church or ministry is immune to the devastating effects of child sexual abuse and the resulting litigation.

Good intentions alone will not stop the physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual damage resulting from just one incident of abuse. This invaluable guide, written by an experienced attorney and active church member, provides must-have information on important questions such as:

This book is easy to read, written in an honest and straightforward way. It contains vital information no church should be without.

Better Safe Than Sued

Keeping Your Students and Ministry Alive

by Jack Crabtree

Better Safe Than Sued is an essential guidebook for anyone in youth ministry - paid or volunteer, veteran or rookie. Along with questions to get you thinking about your own ministry context after each chapter, inside you'll discover how you can make your ministry a safe place for students and leaders as you read about:

• Safety while riding in buses, vans, and cars
• Avoiding sexual misconduct
• Camps, retreats, and conferences
• Establishing a No-Bully Zone
• Selecting staff
• How to handle injuries, and much more

Includes CD-ROM of evaluation tools,sample forms,policies, safety information handouts

Keeping Your Church Safe

by Ron Aguiar

Keeping Your Church Safe is a practical blueprint for churches covering all aspects of church security and safety for staff, premises and members. Itaddresses issues and offers solutions to church risk management concerns. A conscientious and well run safety program gives a sense of security and comfort to those who attend and helps provide an atmosphere where worship, fellowship, edification and service can take place without incident.
Chapters include Security, Building Protection, Civil Disobedience, Child Abuse, Children’s Area Security Preparedness, Terrorism and more.

Collaborate

by Michael Chanley

An unprecedented collaboration of 35 remarkable ministers, teachers, leaders and thinkers, blending their ideas on how you can connect family + church. They share what they are doing to reach kids and prepare them for the real world while staying grounded in Christ. They all have the same goal,to impress the things of God upon the hearts and minds of the next generation.

It Worked for Us

Best Practices for Ministry with Children and Families

Edited by Judy Comstock

A Comprehensive guide for children’s pastors, educators, and leaders.

Developed in partnership with the International Network of Children’s Ministry, this guide provides the strategic information needed to plan and implement a complete children’s ministry.

• Each article is written by a children’s worker who has actually “been there, done that”
• Provides comprehensive information for key areas of children’s ministries
• Supplies training for paid and volunteer staff
• A one-source guide for multiple topics
• Includes a CD-ROM with forms and information that can be customized for different settings and churches

Managing the Millennials

Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce

by Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja, and Craig Rusch

Managing the Millennials delves into the differences between the generations at work today in businesses around the country, and digs deep to explore what makes the Millennial Generation so different from the ones that came before. It identifies nine crucial points of tension that result from clashing value systems among these generations, and then provides nine approaches to resolve clashes, build communication, nurture collaborative teams, and create long-lasting relationships across generations of colleagues.

The Quick Guide to Discipline for Children's Ministry

101 Good Ideas for Bad Behavior

Give this book to every leader on your children's ministry team!

You’ll love this at-your-fingertips handbook for discipline issues that frazzle your nerves and leave you wondering what to do. Look to this guide for effective techniques that eliminate and redirect behavior challenges.

From A - Z you'll find help for: anger, ADHD,bad language, biting, bullying, crying, disrespectful behavior, lying, sarcasm, safety risks, tattling...and more!

Shift

What it takes to finally reach families today

by Brian Haynes

Whether you’re just getting started ministering to families or you’ve got a full-blown family ministry, Shift helps you equip parents to become spiritual leaders in their homes.
And you don’t have to rework your entire ministry to make it happen!

Get a practical, workable plan for leveraging the milestones your church is already marking as families move through their faith journey together. You’ll tap into the natural patterns of childhood development and family life, equipping parents when they’re most open to shaping their children’s faith.

You Can Do It Family Ministry Events

Building faith and community in the families of your church

by Susan Martins Miller

You Can Do It Family Ministry Events offers specific plans for church-organized events that minister to the family.

• Clear step-by-step instructions remove the uncertainty of "Is this really going to work?"
• Patterns and reproducibles ease preparation and help the artistically challenged to go beyond their own limits as they plan activities.
• Age-level tips make sure that participants across the ages can contribute in meaningful ways.
• Biblically-rich content ensures that families have the opportunity to take critical faith-building steps.

Turbocharged!

100 Simple Secrets to Successful Preschool Ministry

Studies show a child's spiritual formation begins in preschool - it's a critical, formative stage of life! For children's leaders at church, that means we must be equipped and passionate about preschool ministry. This book is the tool to make that happen.

Turbocharged! is all about helping you reach out to preschoolers and their families. It's about making a difference. One child at a time. All of the time.

The strategies, ideas, and philopsophies in this book flow from hands-on preschool ministry experience. We've seen them work for our kids. We know they'll work for yours.

Lasting Impressions

From Visiting to Belonging

By Mark Waltz

Discover how to create a church culture that encourages connections – lasting impressions – and continually draws people deeper into the life of your church…and the kingdom.

• Identify what you can   - and can’t do to help others grow.
• Develop experiences that encourage people to explore, discover, and grow in their personal journeys toward and with Christ.
• Understand the value of organic relationship.
• Honor God as you offer your best to your people – and your community.

Whether someone is fresh to your church or has been with you for decades, there’s a next step to take. A step closer to God. A step deeper into the mission and ministry of your church. A step from simply attending to belonging.

Emergency Response Handbook for Disaster Relief

Authored in partnership with The Salvation Army! This rapid-response field manual is designed for volunteers who want to assist in the recovery efforts of hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, fatal car accidents, and more. Includes expert advice from disaster response professionals on what to say and do when you step on the scene of a natural or man-made crisis.

Every solution is backed by:

1. Counseling & care tips
2. Scripture connections
3. Case studies
4. Additional resources

Includes chapters on:

• Crisis of faith
• Bereavement/death
• Depression
• Suicide
• Financial crisis/material instability/unemployment
• Stress & anxiety/fear
• Managing expectations
• Special needs (children, the elderly)
• Isolation/loss of support system
• Dealing with multi-faith/unchurched issues & worldviews

Special Needs Smart Pages

Created by Joni and Friends (DVD and CD-rom Included)

This comprehensive resource from Joni and Friends will help you meet the great need to minister to children with disabilities such as autism, physical disabilities, developmental disabilities and emotional and behavioral disorders.

It's crucial that these cherished children and their families learn about Jesus' love for them and know Him as their Savior. This indispensable guide provides the resources that will help you meet the spiritual, physical, social, and emotional needs of children with disabilities ages 4 to 12.

Compass

A Guide for Character and Spiritual Formation in Children

by Vernie Schorr

Compass: A Guide for Character and Spiritual Formation in Children is a fresh, relevant, twenty-first century source of information and materials for integrating character and spiritual formation activities into family, school, sport, and church curriculum. In these pages, Christian educators, parents, and other leaders of children will find the rationale and resources they need to help children become people who reflect God's Character.

Energizing Children's Ministry in the Smaller Church

by Rick Chromey

Children's ministry in the smaller church has the same amazing potential to grow and thrive as a mustard seed. It's all in how you cultivate it. This practical guide provides insights that will encourage you in your children's ministry, along with ready-to-use tools for evaluation, budgeting, and teacher training. Energize your children's ministry with innovative strategies for mega-impact with limited resources, people, and money.

Comforting Children in Crisis

Know what to say, what not to say, and what you can do

Children face emergencies, too - and shouldn't endure them alone. When children are burdened by life's struggles, what do you say? What if you make things worse?

This go-to guide gives you the confidence to share God's love and comfort with hurting children and their families.

Each topic includes:

Real-life narrative - Learn from someone who has been there

Care & counseling tips - Support children through a wide range of their most common emergencies

What to say & what not to say - Respond in the most helpful way possible

Also includes: Scripture connections, guidelines for referring children to professional resources and caring ways you can stand by children in need.

Nursery Smart Pages

A Guide for Nursery DIrectors & Caregivers (Includes DVD with Training Video and Reproducible Resources)

Nursery Smart Pages is a step-by-step plan for your nursery. It begins with details on how to organize your nursery and includes sections on policies and procedures, volunteer training articles, recruitment helps, updated health and safety guidelines, nursery clip art,and two years of monthly parent newsletters.

The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping the 21st Century Volunteer

By Jonathan R. McKee and Thomas W. Mckee

Adapt to the changing world of volunteer management. More than ever, today's volunteers work online, need flexible hours, and want to play a role in defining their jobs. They also want to feel a sense of responsibility for your organization's overall mission. Harness this passion and potential-with results that uplift your goals and enable your volunteers.

My First 90 Days in Ministry

"Relax - here's practical, from-the-trenches advice to keep you on safe ground as you navigate a new church culture...settle into a ministry role...and sort through a pile of priorities.

This little book points you toward quick successes. Keeps you from stepping on relational land mines. And helps you remember why you went into ministry in the first place.

We Want You! DVD

Easy Recruiting Commercials for Children's Ministry

Get the word out: Volunteers are needed to help change lives! Humorous, emotional, and thought-provoking...these powerful commercials immediately encourage and motivate new and veteran volunteers to get involved in children's ministry - and play an important role in kids' lives!

Includes 7 compelling commercials!

Sticky Faith

52 Family Messages for Big Church

Just add one of these 3 - 5 minute activities and you'll see children sit up...lean forward...and hang on every word. Which means parents and other grown-ups will be more attentive, too.

You get 52 activities that...

• require little or no prep
• complement common sermon themes or passages
• make for memorable learning for kids...and adults!

Plus, with each Sticky Faith activity you'll get...

• an already-designed bulletin insert for families to take home
• suggestions for objects to display - to keep things visually interesting

Use Sticky Faith for Sunday services...children's sermons...anywhere you want to capture kids' attention and engage entire families!

Includes CD-ROM of 52 ready-to-use, family-friendly bulletin inserts!

Preteen Ministry Smart Pages

By Gordon and Becki West

Ages 10-14

Because most children's spiritual beliefs are in place by age 13, the preteen years are a crucial time to teach kids God's truth. This resource gives you a solid, practical and comprehensive understanding of how to build an effective ministry that reaches this vital age group. Topics include: Understanding preteens, making preteen youth groups work, motivating and nurturing preteens, ministering to the families of preteens, recruiting and managing ministry volunteers.

First Impressions

Creating Wow Experiences in Your Church

By Mark L. Waltz

Before a service even begins, first-time guests usually decide whether they'll return to your church. This means church leaders need to create no-fail, practical ways to ensure a visitor's first impression is the best impression. When guests feel valued, they will return. And when they do, they'll have the opportunity to experience Jesus' love. Let visitors know "You matter to God, so you matter to us." Author Mark Waltz shares the strategies that work in his church – and takes "greeting" to a whole new level. Adapt these practical ideas to your church's unique setting, and it won't be long before everyone feels welcome.

The Discipline Guide for Children's Ministry 

by Jody Capehart, Gordon West & Becki West

Most classroom discipline problems can be headed off before they occur and this book will tell you how. You'll discover a thorough explanation of how kids mature, how your teaching style and personality affect your classroom, and what to do when nothing seems to be working.

Simply Strategic Volunteers

By Tony Morgan & Tim Stevens

Power up your ministry with empowered people! These in-the-trenches authors show you how to help volunteers use their strengths to benefit the church - and their spiritual growth.

The authors give you field-tested ideas on how to create a serving environment, structure unique serving roles, help people learn how God has wired them for ministry, and more.

Children's Ministry
Volunteers that Stick

By Jim Wideman

A great book for all church sizes! It's tough to recruit volunteers--so hang on to those you've got! You'll keep volunteers longer and keep them happier by giving them more than just a volunteer job. Instead, give them a volunteer career. Help them become leaders as well as volunteers! Here's everything you need to know to get your volunteers in the right job, then help them to grow in their skills and enthusiasm. Noted children's pastor Jim Wideman, from Church on the Move in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offers practical strategies for any size church. Learn the secrets of retention, and ideas that really work...instill proven leadership skills...and grow your church volunteers to be happy, inspired, and in it for the long haul.

Growing a Healthy Children's Ministry

A Step-by-Step Handbook to Cultivating
Christian Kids in Any Environment

by Steve Alley

Growing a Healthy Children's Ministry walks children's ministers – professional and volunteer leaders and teachers – through the steps of preparing, planting, and pruning a vibrant children's ministry. This comprehensive handbook helps experienced "gardeners" and novices evaluate the landscape of their church's children's ministry, lay out the plots of policies, procedures and programs, and get their hands dirty as they help kids grow up in Christ.

Ideas that Work

Leading Kids to Own Their Faith

Here are the Six Big Ideas you must hardwire into your preteen ministry! Attract and keep kids with…

Teaching Kids Authentic Worship

By Kathleen Chapman

Top Pick by Parents, Educators & Children's Ministers

In a time of spiritual decline, this book is dedicated to keeping children connected to Jesus for life! Gives insightful reasons why children turn away from God, while providing priceless ways to teach children how to really worship God. A must read for parents, teachers, children's ministers…anyone who works with or has children of their own.

Group's Emergency Response Handbook

You want to help. But don’t know how… Here are practical ways to love kids through their greatest challenges.

Amber just lost her mother to cancer. Sam's parents are divorcing – and he's torn in his loyalties. A job change in Dana's family means she has to move – immediately.

Children face emergencies, too – and shouldn't endure them alone.
When children in your care experience life's struggles, what do you say? How can you help? What if you make things worse?
This rapid-response handbook gives you and your children's ministry leaders the confidence to share God's love and comfort with hurting children – and their families.

Understanding Your Preteens

Inside Their Hearts and Minds

They're all heart…no, all head…no, all hormones…
Who are preteens? They're all over the map!
You can't minister effectively to preteens until you understand them and their world… and here's your cheat sheet for making those connections.
You get clear crisp insight into how God's wired your preteens socially, spiritually, intellectually, physically, and emotionally.

Teaching with Heart

A Guide to Cherishing and Challenging Children in the Christian Classroom

by Jody Capehart

This valuable guide helps teachers develop the spiritual understanding to cherish the unique personalities and learning styles of each child, while challenging them [to] grow up to be like Christ. This handbook also familiarizes teachers in the Christian classroom with the vast array of information available on educational theory while providing this information in a practical, useful, and reproducible form.

The Growing Leader: Healthy Essentials for Children's Ministry

A Practical Guide for Helping Children and Teens with Attention Deficit Disorders

by Craig Jutila

The Growing Leader will help you…

• Build healthy, effective leadership skills in your team by reflecting on Jesus’ life and using DIVE (Discerning, Influential, Vulnerable, Exalting) as a model. By diving deep, you’ll actually bring your children’s ministry up to the next level.
• Develop in your team proven strategies and ideas that build health – and work!
•  Be inspired and filled with ideas form one of the most significant, cutting-edge ministries in the world – and DIVE into leadership health.

Turbocharged!

100 Simple Secrets to Successful Children's Ministry

by Dale Hudson & Scott Werner

"I can do that!" ...is what you'll say after you discover these easy-to-apply tools and techniques to put your ministry in four-wheel-drive. One hundred high-octane "how-tos" are brought to you by children's ministry leaders who began from the ground up. They'll give you tips to make small changes that gain big results. Plus, they'll share their success stories and ideas for instant tune-ups and major repairs - all in a manual that makes your ministry easier to drive.

Reclaim your School!

10 Steps to Practically and Legally
Evangelize Your School

By Brad and Susanne Dacus

This book is an excellent tool for those who recognize the need to share Christ in our world. Written for students, parents, teachers, and pastors, it is an effective motivator for those who want to impact the public school system in powerful, legal ways. Offers ways to legally share Christ in the public school system, and gives excellent explanations and resources.

Soul Surfin'

Dean-O and the Dynamos

Song titles: Soul Surfin’ (Acts 17:2-3); Up for the Word (John 20:31); Speed of Sound (Acts 4:20); Free Inside (2 Tim. 3:15); Hey, Hey, Hey! (2 Peter 3:9); G-Mail (1 Thess. 2:13); Outta Sight (Acts 17:24-25); He’s Got Plans (Jeremiah 29:11); I’m in Good (Romans 10:9); Believe His Promises (1 John 4:9); He’s the One (Acts 4:12); Bye for Now (3 John 14)

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