A Vision for Visiting Families— “Where are your shoes?!” “We’re going to be late—just get in the car!” “Are any of my friends going to be there?” “I don’t want to go!” “I’m hungry. Will there be food there?” These are just a sample of the “conversations” that a new family, or [...]
Letting Our Great God Power the Long View of Discipleship— Virginia Beach pastor, Jimmy Brock, and I did a video workshop for the Grow Virtual Conference in August with this title. We looked at the Scripture, Stories, and Suggestions for children’s ministry with the long view of discipleship in mind. In the [...]
We long for the covenant children in our churches to be shaped by worship and to grow to be lifelong worshippers. Unfortunately, research shows that American churches have failed to do that. According to a Barna Group study in 2019, nearly two-thirds of American 18- to 29-year-olds who grew up in church have withdrawn from [...]
Lots of Styles: Teaching to Engage a Variety of Learning Styles by Looking to the Master Teacher— This may be obvious, but everyone learns. And we all learn in a lot of different ways. If you studied education in the 1990s and early 2000s, you most likely learned about the three main [...]
Children and Worship: The Conversation of 2 Pastors— Part of our Grow Virtual Conference was a question-and-answer session between Stephen Estock and Josh Johnson. These two pastors discussed children and worship and the character of God seen in His name Yahweh. Please enjoy some of that conversation here. This is not verbatim, [...]