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Keeping Your Children's Ministry on Mission

Practical Strategies for Discipling the Next Generation

Practical Strategies for Gospel-Centered Children’s Ministry

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When building a children’s ministry at a church, there is so much to consider: Which curriculum should we use? How many volunteers do we need? How do we keep parents in the loop? And that’s before we run into stalled check-in computers, missing activity sheets, and floors that need to be vacuumed. While all of the tasks of children’s ministry are important, leaders can get easily distracted with the everyday work of doing ministry and lose sight of the main focus—the gospel.

Writing from personal ministry experience, Jared Kennedy shares a four-fold approach for gospel-centered, missional children’s ministry: hospitality, teaching, discipleship, and mission. This practical resource covers a variety of topics ranging from creating child protection policies to putting together lesson plans to catechism, helpful for children’s ministers and volunteers alike as they disciple children with the powerful message of the gospel.

  • Applicable: Includes questions for reflection and evaluation
  • Helps Leaders Disciple the Next Generation: Features advice for sending kids and their families on mission 
  • Ideal for Nursery–5th Grade Teachers and Leaders: A practical and helpful resource for children’s ministries
  • Published in Conjunction with the Gospel Coalition (TGC)


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Contents

  • Introduction

    Part 1: A Gospel-Centered Vision for Children’s Ministry
    Chapter 1: Stop! Believe! Christ Sent Me.
    Our Both-And Mission to the Next Generation
    Chapter 2: Knowing What We Shouldn’t Do
    Warnings from the History of Family Ministry
    Reflection on Part 1

    Part 2: Create Welcoming Environments
    Chapter 3: Meeting Jesus at the Front Door
    Welcoming and Including Kids and Families
    Chapter 4: Safety and Security in a Corrupted World
    Our Responsibility to Protect Kids from Abuse
    Reflection on Part 2

    Part 3: Connect Kids to Christ
    Chapter 5: Three Ways to Tell a Bible Story
    The Priority of Gospel-Centered Teaching
    Chapter 6: The Proud King’s Nightmare
    Putting Gospel-Centered Interpretation into Practice
    Chapter 7: Hands-on, Real-life, Engaging Discovery
    Teaching with Excellence
    Reflection on Part 3

    Part 4: Grow with Kids and Families
    Chapter 8: Step-by-Step, Stage-by-Stage
    Helping Kids Embrace the Gospel as They Grow
    Chapter 9: Catechizing the YouTube Generation
    An Ancient Path toward a Gospel-Formed Life
    Reflection on Part 4

    Part 5: Go! Send Kids and Families on Mission
    Chapter 10: Graceless Parents, Overly Spiritual Ministry, and Sticky Notes
    Empowering Families with a Gospel-Fueled Witness
    Reflection on Part 5

    Conclusion: Courage for the Harvest
    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    General Index
    Scripture Index

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Contributors Jared Kennedy
ISBN 9781433576874
Format Paperback
First published March 2022
Dimensions 133mm x 203mm x 15mm
Weight 0.27 kg
Language English
Pages 240
Publisher Crossway
Endorsements

Timothy Paul Jones

C. Edwin Gheens Professor of Christian Family Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

For years, when students have asked me, ‘What’s the one children’s ministry book that I should read first?’ I couldn’t recommend just one. Instead, I recommended three: one about organization, one about teaching, and one about keeping children safe. Now I can recommend just one to read first because Jared Kennedy has managed to fit all of those essential elements into a single book!

Marty Machowski

Family pastor; author of The Ology, The Gospel Story Bible, Long Story Short, and other gospel-rich resources for families

Keeping Your Children’s Ministry on Mission delivers as advertised. Kennedy rightly knows that the gospel is the only means by which we will have a lasting impact on the next generation. To this thesis Kennedy adds a wealth of practical help and instruction to guide your ministry. Every senior pastor and children’s ministry director should read this book and get it into the hands of all their teachers, helpers, and parents.

Champ Thornton

Author of The Radical Book for Kids

I can’t think of a ministry in the church more complex than children’s ministry, and I can’t think of a better guide through that complexity than Keeping Your Children’s Ministry on Mission. Whether you’ve worked with kids for days or years, you’ll find this book comprehensive (from abuse policies to age-graded teaching), balanced (holding onto what’s biblically ideal and practically realistic), and immediately helpful. Jared has packed more than a decade of experience and breadth of perspective into ten short chapters. It’s like having your own children’s ministry consultant only a shelf away.

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