Too often, when we start building a children's ministry program we begin in the wrong place:

We hurry past the crucial planning time and start staffing classrooms, creating programs, running meetings, and recruiting volunteers.

This summer, CCN will help you create a strong, focused, growing children's ministry by taking your team back to ground level - to start with the foundation first!

Invite your children's ministry pastors, volunteers and ministry leaders to join the first program in the all new CCN children's ministry training series, Children's Ministry: What Matters Most.

This month children's ministry experts Dave Staal and Kerri Mahla help you lay the groundwork for a dynamic ministry:

• Building the Heart of a Children’s Ministry

What truly matters most in children’s ministry? Take a creative journey—past mission, vision, and values—to find a compelling, kid-centered path that results in true life change by Jesus.

• Building a Thriving Early Childhood MInistry

This session unveils an exciting vision behind a dedicated early childhood ministry. Learn how to share that vision with volunteers, your senior pastor and anyone else. Assess your ministry and receive practical steps for reaching kids during their most impressionable years.

 

This year, let's start at the beginning and discover What Matters Most!

Dave Staal is the Director of Promiseland, the children’s ministry at Willow Creek Community Church. He is most passionate about helping kids start a relationship with Jesus. Dave writes for and serves as the editor of Today’s Children’s Ministry, an electronic publication and website from Christianity Today International. His books include Making your Children’s Ministry the Best Hour of Every Kid’s Week, Leading Kids to Jesus, and Leading Your Child to Jesus.

Kerri Mahla serves as Early Childhood Director at Willow Creek Community Church. Her ministry includes writing new and creative lessons, music development, development of activity stations, leading and training early childhood programming teams, and producing programs.
Prior to coming on staff at Willow Creek, Kerri was an elementary school teacher in the public schools for 5 years.