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Do you need a huge budget, elaborate children's building, or expensive program to have a great children's ministry?
No.
In this episode of The Great Commission Toolkit, I'm back with my dad, Pastor Jon Williams, continuing our conversation about Celebrate Kids Sunday at Bluestone Baptist Church.
This time, we're talking about what happens when the kids and families actually arrive, and how a church can intentionally build a strong children's ministry with the people and resources God has already given them.
We talk about:
👥 Training children's workers before putting them into ministry
🎓 Giving new workers opportunities to learn alongside experienced teachers
💰 Building an effective children's ministry without a massive budget
🙌 Creating a ministry kids genuinely want to come back to
👋 How Bluestone welcomes first-time families
🎁 Simple visitor gifts and a welcome team
⏰ When they dismiss children for children's church
📖 Making God's Word the priority of children's church
🎮 Using games, songs, prizes, and object lessons
🌱 Using object lessons to develop new teachers
📝 Planning out the children's service before it starts
⏱️ Giving every part of children's church a specific amount of time
🙏 Intentionally leaving time for the invitation and counseling
One of my favorite thoughts from this conversation is simple:
You don't have to wait until you have more money, a better building, or a bigger ministry to start improving your children's ministry.
Use what God has already given you.
Train your people. Give new workers opportunities to grow. Plan intentionally. Have fun. Teach the Bible. And keep working to make your children's ministry better.
At Bluestone, multiple teams rotate through children's church, but they work from the same basic philosophy and structure while still bringing their own personalities and strengths.
You don't have to copy the biggest church in town.
Be faithful with what God has given you and ask: How can we make what we're already doing better?
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This is part of our continuing series on Celebrate Kids Sunday. In the next episode, we'll dig deeper into follow-up and what the church did to encourage visiting families to return.
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