Take a moment to pause and check that your ministry admin is in good shape for the year. There’s a whole lot of information that needs to be collected from parents and leaders of the ministry – so how do you effectively keep track of what needs to be collected, and how often?

How might the concept of Identity Moratorium impact on the way you disciple young people going through identity formation?

Ensuring to not miss out on the heart when preparing to teach the bible.

Both friendship and leadership are essential characteristics and concepts that we ought to hold dearly. However, taking one without the other can lead to an imbalance in our practice.

Tips that may help in your ministry context as you get to know the young people with disability in your ministries and welcome them as people invited into God’s Kingdom.

Helping young people see that SRE is not like other subjects at school. It’s about a God who is very real and wonderfully good. A God we can not only learn about but be in right relationship with, because of Jesus.

How well do you know the other members of your church? Do you feel that you belong at church? Is it an essential community for you? So much so, that it is difficult to imagine spending a weekend without seeing other congregation members.

As youth leaders, our calling is to teach and model to young people how to navigate life as a disciple of Jesus— and now this includes discipling them toward a better culture of smart phone use.

Practical steps to make your SRE lessons engaging and keeping your kids focused.

What could your church do to foster intergenerational relationships and help young people thrive and flourish in faith?

What does intergenerational ministry look like from the child’s perspective?

A drill you could use to teach children, youth, leaders and parents to handle the Bible well.

A refresher of the Module 3 training, Preparing and Delivering a Lesson (Primary).

How many weeks a year can I ask parents and other adults of my church to join the children’s ministry roster?

Al James talks to Mike Snowdon about his new book A New Freedom: How God’s Word Equips You for Life.

Hear Linda’s encouraging story of teaching SRE to a high school special needs class.

Have you ever seriously considered what is involved in being a School SRE Coordinator? Consider what it looks like from their perspective as SRE settles back into part of the normal school week.

It takes skills and confidence to manage a group of children well. These often come with experience supplemented with training and support. Here are some tips on how to grow in your management skills in children’s ministry.

How to teach your SRE lesson in a way that allows each student to learn effectively.

We crave for connection, meaning and significance for our lives and nowhere is this more acutely felt than in the teenage years

As youth leaders, we long to share our lives with the young people we disciple, but for all kinds of reasons, so often we’re met with a brick wall of one-word answers.

Who can you bring to church in your spare car seat?

How to encourage our teenagers to be evangelists through a peaceful and quiet life.

What are the steps to building SRE in our schools? Here are a few that you might consider taking.

Connecting bible teaching with a child’s world.

Strategies that our young people can use to evangelise those in their various spheres of influence.

The young people in your youth or children’s ministry might be: scared, sad, uncertain, confused, angry or any number of other responses.

And all of this raises the same question I had for my family: as a community of believers, how do we deal with this collective adversity?

Evangelism is at the heart of the Christian faith. Sharing the Gospel, the ‘good news’, of the Kingdom of God is the first thing that Jesus did in his public ministry. Learn how to equip your youth to engage in evangelistic conversations.

As a new year begins and the SRE Teacher’s Manuals are pulled out and dusted off, it’s a great time to remember the basics of an effective SRE lesson and set a goal for continued improvement.

You’ve kickstarted a fantastic home discipleship routine. Whether you managed it in five weeks or took a little longer, well done on completing the 555 Challenge! So, what’s next?