Effective Children's Ministry

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Cullen Wood of CullensABCs.com has a Youtube channel loaded with great ideas. Here’s one for the warm weather days. You can make ice cream without a machine if you follow Cullen’s instructions. A yummy treat for you and your child.

Would you like to see a video of two of the cutest kids on the planet showing what they have learned about the Crucifixion? They use finger gestures to help recall the “5 mighty miracles of the cross”.

Hop over to FreeCMStuff.com .

I defy you not to grin from ear to ear when you watch the girls and then try to remember the gestures so that you can teach your kids!

Cullen Wood is an experienced Christian pre-school worker. She has her own channel on YouTube with sections for children’s action songs, activities, stories and Christian songs.

Cullen shows us how to help kids remember Bible truths and songs by using finger play. She interacts with Gator the puppet, encouraging little ones to focus and follow the teaching. She demonstrates craft and other activities that she has used successfully with tinies and shows how you can set up these fun times for your children.

Her site, Cullen’sABC’s is rich with all sorts of inspiring stuff. It’s ideal for anyone who has young children in their family or Sunday School class.

Every time I watch Cullen and Gator, I end up with a big smile! They are not only informatiove, but very uplifting. Best of all, from the comments made by her users, Cullen has quite a fan club of toddlers and tots!

If you are looking for an idea for decorating your class room or club room, a  great idea has been posted by Tony Kummer at Ministry-to-Children.com.

Here’s how Tony introduces it:

To complete our new children’s church decorations, we used the children’s painted hand prints as leaves to complete the tree mural. The project was not too complicated, but it took real coordination on the part of our adult volunteers to pull it off…

There are full instructions on the site, and even a video showing every stage very clearly. It looks fun!

A free gift to us from Damaris.org, a wonderful source of thoughtful aids to communication in our culture today.

This is not particularly to do with children’s work, but it is a beautiful video, and well worth pausing for a few minutes of reflection.

Thanks to Ian Britton for this lovely Christmas piece.
>>His blog has many other visual treats, too!

There are several places online where you can see this charming video. But I wanted to direct you to >>this page, because there is so much else you will find there by way of free Christmas resources and ideas for your children’s ministry. Ministry-to-children.com is a wealth of stimulating ideas, tips and links. No connection with our ChildrensMinistryFreeStuff.org site – but hey, there’s room for us all in the Lord’s work!

From Family Worship.org comes a simple but poignant song, presented as Christmas music video. The Youtube page will give you a taste of this inspirational worship experience.

It is good to know that, if you would like to use this for a Christmas service,
>> it is available to buy as a high quality DVD or download.

Hot news!!
Now available from the web site of Damaris.org are some great new free resources, based on the new film “NATIVITY”.
They include scripts for children’s talks, video clips for discussion starters, a free school assembly outline with all the media clips and even the heading and bullet points to add to your PowerPoint presentation. You can preview everything, then download for free.

We haven’t seen the movie, but many of your friends and neighbours, with their children, may go to see it. This could be a way of connecting with them, and showing the relevance of the Christmas message for today. The Damaris material gives you ideas and materials with which to take advantage of this.

I came across this beautiful and challenging video on Cameron Smith’s blog.

The method of presentation is striking.  How many of us can write backwards?!  The design and layout of the words and images is very creative. But the words and music are simple and clear. They drive deep with their message. Whether active in children’s ministry or not,  every one will find this video intriguing and challenging.