Children’s Ministry Seminars in Your Church

Presented by David Goodwin

A.   INTRODUCTION TO HOSTING A CHILDREN’S MINISTRY SEMINAR

It is easy for you to set up a Kidsreach training seminar in your church, for your leaders. You provide the venue, some refreshments and get your team together on the day.  You might choose to advertise the seminar amongst other churches to get a bigger crowd.  David will come and provide the training which can be done on Saturday, or Sunday after church, or even mid week.

 

Most groups choose between 3 and 5 of the following list of subjects to make up either a full day or half day seminar.  Notes are provided and we can supply a coloured printed flyer to help you promote the seminar.

 

B.  SUBJECTS TO CHOOSE

Each subject is one hour but if you want a particular subject to be covered more in-depth, some subjects can also be done as 2 or 4 hour seminars. 

 

a. PASTORAL CARE AND CONNECTING WITH CHILDREN SUBJECTS

Pastoral Care of Children

Active Listening

Child Development:  Faith Development

Child Development   Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

Counselling:  Helping children in grief

Counselling:  Introduction to counselling children

Counselling:  Working with children who have ADD or ADHD

Counselling:  Helping Children with Anger

Working with special needs children

Leading children to salvation.

Follow up:  Leading children from Salvation to Discipleship.

Praying for Children to be Filled with the Holy Spirit

Self Esteem – Building children’s sense of self worth

Theology of Children

Transitioning Children from Children’s Ministry to Adult Church

 

b.  LEGAL AND ETHICAL SUBJECTS

Bullying

Safety and Protection Protocol - Duty of Care in Children’s Ministry

 

c.  PROGRAMMING, TEACHING AND CURRICULUM SUBJECTS

Teaching With Object Lessons

Teaching With Stories Part 1:  Story Telling

Teaching With Stories Part 2:  Re-Writing AWESOME Bible Stories

Class-room control

How to get the best out of your curriculum

Discovery Teaching

Running a Children’s Camp

Holiday and After School Outreaches.

How to be an AWESOME teacher

 

d.  Special Four Hour Seminars

Kids Keep Safe presentation of the Kids Keep Safe program to be taken into primary schools.

From Shame to Honour:  A life changing ministry seminar to assist adults who suffer from childhood trauma

and abuse.  This consists of teaching and ministry time.