every single week well that's a bit of a myth so can we bust that myth
hello everyone I've got some friends who come over for
a cup of tea and you may know them this is Susie and this is Karen hello and
we come together today and we were brainstorming ideas of how to get people
involved in children's ministry now that's not always easy is it but at the
beginning of the year we are always looking for people to come and be
involved so we have come up with how many ideas? 7 yep and they're not comprehensive
we're just gonna share with your thoughts and hopefully it'll help you to start
thinking about who you can invite to be part of your ministry so the first thing
that we thought was probably the most important Susie's gonna share it with us
so prayer we need to pray we need to ask God who in their lives that might be
involved in our sort of ministry pray that openings will happen maybe
even do a prayer walk around to a ministry area so that you can really
just hand it all over to God because after all it is his ministry that's
exactly right and for him to impress people... that's happened to me lots of
times of you know somebody stepped out of a certain area and then I've got a
list of all the people I've connected with who might be interested in this
ministry and sure enough I ring one of those people and I said you know what I
was just looking for something to do in my spare time and it's like no I don't
believe this yes we do believe it. there is power in prayer...number one go ahead and pray for your ministry and pray that God
will put people on your mind to ask be involved and then we were thinking about
where's another one Oh Karen this one is for you to invite people.. people won't be
involved unless they receive an invitation and Jesus went out and personally
invited people to come along with him and we need to do the same and we've
all got friends and family and people at church in our small group just other
people we might know to personally go up and give them the
invitation to come along and be involved oh the other thing we were thinking
about was putting a note in your church bulletins or newsletters yes just so
people will see it and to do it week after week as you're just starting to
get your ministry going so that's important too as well so what are some
other ways that we can ask people to be involved in your children's ministry so
let's go with that one yeah well we often have functions to to help our team
so we invite them to maybe babysit to help with catering help me set up and
put down all those little things or even come along and help with craft or
something like that so those sorts of things that just gives them a little bit
of a taste of oh this is a pretty positive group to be part of yeah they
are helping you in a big way Easter and Christmas often have lots of
opportunities to invite people along you might be running bigger programs with
any might just need more eyes and other set of hands and it's just great to be
involved and then with once the people have seen the work that's in this
ministry but you can pray informed way yeah and I find - God works and it opens
their eyes that yeah children are a wonderful area that they can serve and
you get so much back from kids so there are many different ways that
you could possibly ask people to help another thing is just praying for you
asking someone to be your prayer partner for the year and pray
specifically for your class and when you're teaching
that's a huge important part of being involved what about even for some people
who maybe want to get involved but they can't because they might have babies or
children they have somebody else could could babysit for them but you might
even be able to swap you can do some ministry you know one week and another
one another mother you could look after her children and she could do it another
week for another time yeah I remember when I had my first child and I was
teaching some classes and a young adult from our home group said hey I'll look after
your baby while you go and teach and she would actually meet me there and she
would just go for a walk pushing the pram while I went and
taught the class and I just remember that that was such a ministry to me that I
could actually still be involved in what I was doing and she would just go for a walk often little idea
I think of her often - of what she did for me
I had the same experience myself.... yeah, me too.
4th little idea that we were talking about was to come and see how do we get people to come and
see they may not be ready to teach anything how do we do that well I think
sometimes people are scared when you say that there's a need to have more people
involved in kids ministry and they may think that if they express an
interest they'll be given a class first up we need to make a clear that we
actually we don't we're not going to put people without training and without
prior experience to have the responsibility of running a class that
would just be wrong yeah so it's great to come along and see
perhaps they have some barriers in their mind preconceived barriers that actually aren't right
and don't exist and perhaps over the course of time
when they come and have a look they could see that it might be for them
or maybe for someone else they know
or they could just be a helper
not just, its a very important role
depending on your ministry, your church or organisation
you might need to have some requirements or things in
place before you can go into the situation so make sure you check that out
but we're talking about now the helpers sort of thing mm-hmm what does
that mean being a helper what would that involve? it could be different for different
people but just having another person in the classroom or in the building
where you are being praying yep helping with handing out books helping with
activities even just a word of encouragement with the children
or if a helpers got specific skills like the leading songs or whatever like that
they could easily just take the parts of they're comfortable with so initially if
I have an assistant with me they're just really observe the second person
walking around the classroom giving positive smiles nothing very hard at
all and then grow and do the things that they're comfortable with
Its important not to be prescriptive because each of us have got different
gifts to bring to this ministry and it may simply be being there but and it may
progress to something more in time it's up to the person themselves as to what
they feel comfortable with and how God has gifted them that's right then
sometimes I've gotta a group of boys mucking up at the back of the room
and I just ask my helper can you just go stand behind them
really well or even sitting in the story time just sitting near the kids that are
kind of mucking up that is really really helpful
other thing is is recently our church is growing and we're getting lots and lots
of kids in the program and we just don't have enough hands look after all the
gorgeous little bodies and we just need someone to come and and just
be an extra hand be an extra adult to help to help show them where to go or
help with a craft or that sort of thing so I really am enjoying being a helper
in that content and we need them anymore please think don't think just because
you're not teaching the Bible lesson that you're not, you know that, you're not
fit for this ministry there are so many things that you can
and the other thing that actually happened to me is one year I had a
friend from my Bible study group and she I asked her just to be a helper I
remember it throughout the year she said I'm really happy being a helper you know
because I asked her, do you want to actually take a lesson... oh no, I'm
happy being a helper in and then later as the year went on um we needed someone
to fill it and she stepped up and she actually taught the actual Bible lesson
and she felt really good about it it really raised her confidence she realised
I can do this and what I realized what was happening is was I was actually
just pre-training and giving her confidence that yeah it's really not
that difficult and and now that person actually teaches lots of classes on her own
this past year and is taking on more classes this year and her whole intention was
Susan, I'm happy being a helper. that was her intention
yeah that's right and God equips us and helps us to actually go beyond what our own thoughts are.
and it's lovely if there's a child there something might have happened during the
week like our pets died or something and you just don't have time to
actually spend that time listening to that child and just affirming them and
they helper can just sit down beside them and and just have that little
conversation a little prayer and you know that child's needs been met which
you can't do that when you've got a bigger group that's exactly right and
there are so many occasions like that they want to tell you everything
you guys know that too.
the other thing that I wanted to talk about was it was kind of a myth and that is with timing
and how much time you have to give to a ministry that might be you might think
it's fully all year long you know every single week, well that's a bit of a myth
so can we bust that myth
people have an idea I think, that in children's
ministry that you have to be female and without children yourself and
being able to commit to a whole year it's not the case at all. perhaps week on
week off might be a good idea perhaps you could commit to one term and maybe
you're going to go overseas during the course of the year and think that
therefore you can't be involved at all you're going to go inter state to help
with your grandchildren you can still be involved and just commit to one term
perhaps one semester or half-year and maybe somebody else can do the other
half of the year maybe no one will be there to take the other half just to be
involved for whatever you're able to do that's exactly right you know I
find that in most ministries children's ministries if you let them know ahead of
time that you're gonna be away then that's okay you know that's okay to say
you know and I'm not gonna be here for the month of you know May because I'm
going on a cruise.. a lot of my friends are going on cruises but
anyway they think, oh I can't commit you know and
I think no no we'd love you to be involved when you're in town and if you just give
enough advance notice then yes you can be involved and we can organize and
coordinate and make sure that that everyone knows when you're there and
when you're not there because I know we all like to commit to a year don't we?
Sometimes I've noticed that people I've got time in one of our teams we've got a father and
her daughter and they co teach that's between
your class so when he can do it he does it when she can do it she's got four
children she homeschools he's got a company but between them it's their
class so that works well and another thing we're looking for is for those
people who have committed but then they're going to be away relief
instructors yes so they are willing to fill it yeah
that's a person so that you know if you have part-time work or or shift work or
whatever you can be rung and so today we've got a vacancy are you available
and you can say yes or you can say no and so you know just another option out
there that's still helping the team helping it all work out but it's not that
big commitment of the whole year. our final little thing we wanted to cover was
training and this is the training Queen
but I see the need that's why we instigate a training every term it's not
just about the training actually well but that is an element all right
it's good to get different skills and updated and and learn different ideas as
much from each other as it is from the trainer but there's something about a
group of like-minded people getting together and just just sharing being
part of the the blessings that God but in our life doing the ministry we're
doing instead of being in some ministries you feel like you're the
weary warrior nobody knows you're doing or once a year you might get back
on the back and not that it's about that of course but it is about being a
part of a team and sharing share ideas susan has all the technical stuff
different people have different ideas and not that we'd never want to be
intimidated that we can't do it but but we do pick up ideas I love it every year
in training... if it's the trainer or somebody else this I did this
nativity scene or we used these Easter eggs and sometimes you'll even know it
but you just haven't done it for a few years and you see a reminder you do
reminder that idea or you borrow their resources and you borrow them it
was very happy to share so it is really and there's lots of training some
there's different websites that will show where the training of your
particular ministry is on so that if it doesn't suit you in your local area or
you might into Brisbane, Toowomba or Sunshine Coast
wherever you happen to be around the world so that you can link in and
I suppose we've got to be the best we can for Jesus.
none of us are perfect but we're always growing and learning and
sharing and we need to be learners and that's and be willing to learn and to
get new skills I mean I have been a teacher for a long long long long time
professional and volunteer and every time I go to a training I come away with
a new idea and it just Spurs me on like you said its the community of people
we sharpen one another
so and also you can go to trainings without being in the ministry yet so
I know of someone who felt that she couldn't be involved in the
kids ministry just wasn't for her but but could see how important it is and
supports kids ministry through prayer and so she came to a training session
once just so that she could pray in a more informed way that was so helpful
and encouraging to me and I know that she continues pray for our work.
Well anyway, we have talked - just 7 little tips or 7 little ideas I know there's much more outside
of this if you know some things can you please put them in the comments?
there's also another way to get training...I know it's good channel
Wright Ideas with Susan
Thanks so much for joining us and thank you Karen thank you Suzie for doing this little
filming and helping me with this little Q and A and and I just hope that you
found it really helpful and we'll see you next time. Bye!!!
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