Grow Podcast
This is CDM’s GROW Resources: Children’s Ministry with Purpose. CDM’s mission is to strengthen the Church through connection. We want to connect you with people and resources to strengthen your ministry to children. You are not alone. We want to help you remember that you are a part of God’s covenant community and your investment in the little ones really does matter to God.
Reflection and Planning
Reflection and Planning- As servants in children’s ministry, we can sometimes get fixated on detail after detail. How many supplies do we need to buy? What room will be big enough? Where [...]
Advent While Suffering
Advent While Suffering- With God’s help, we remember. Advent is a special time for individual families and for our covenant church families as well. The decorations, the music, the lights, the nativity [...]
Now the Light of Life Has Come!
Now the Light of Life Has Come!— “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5). To live in December is to know the yearning for [...]
Grow Virtual 2025
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge..." — Proverbs 1:7a Grow Virtual 2025 Information coming soon. The 2025 conference will be held on August 8-9, 2025. [...]
How to Encourage Parents to Fear Not When You Are Not a Parent Yourself
How to Encourage Parents to Fear Not When You Are Not a Parent Yourself— Being a Children’s Ministry Director can be very rewarding. It can also be challenging. No surprises there, right? [...]
Be Present
Be Present— He repeatedly screamed at the top of his lungs, “Shut the _ _ _ _ up!!”, spitting in my face, as I did my best to hold this terrified 4-year-old [...]