The Essential Kidmin Events Calendar
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The Essential Kidmin Events Calendar

Whether you’re just starting out in kidmin, or you’ve been in it for a while, you know there are events and a lot of them.  But which ones should you be doing? Is there something you’re missing? What can you do that’s fun and impactful for your ministry?

Every church is unique and has its own set of events that works well for their community.  That said, there are patterns we can follow. 

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3 Holiday Practices to Keep Jesus First
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3 Holiday Practices to Keep Jesus First

A few years ago, I hosted the biggest Easter Egg Hunt my church had seen to date.  We had hundreds of kids and thousands of eggs.  We saw many kids accept Christ and everyone had fun.  It was all a big lead up to the next day, Easter.  As I drove home thinking about the wins and losses, it hit me like a kid remembering his semester long project is due tomorrow and he’s done nothing.  Easter is tomorrow.

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Crafting the "Perfect Easter": Planning for Guests and Their Return
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Crafting the "Perfect Easter": Planning for Guests and Their Return

Easter is just a few months away and that means that you’re thinking about and preparing for the Super Bowl of Christendom.  This is a season where we ministers pray, plan, and prepare for the largest attended Sunday, and hopefully the biggest harvest. But what should you do on Easter Sunday?  Should you do an Egg Hunt? Family pictures? A kids musical? An adult musical? Communion? Baptism? Big giveaways? Small giveaways?

The options are endless, and the short answer is yes… and no.

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The 3 Lowest Attended Sundays (and What To Do About Them)
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The 3 Lowest Attended Sundays (and What To Do About Them)

This post is coming out Thanksgiving weekend, and for most churches that means we’re heading into one of the lowest attended Sundays in the year. These days can be frustrating and disappointing. You put as much time and effort into making the day great and then it feels like no one but your most faithful show up. Even then, some of them didn’t come either.

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5 Ideas to Celebrate Dad on Father's Day
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5 Ideas to Celebrate Dad on Father's Day

Father’s Day is next week, and your church may be thinking of some ways to celebrate dad. In a lot of churches, this day is overlooked. Especially since so much time and resources were spent on Easter and Mother’s Day, this day gets the scraps. However, Father’s Day can be made just as special as these other two days with some intentionality and creativity.

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How to Celebrate Easter When You’re in Ministry
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How to Celebrate Easter When You’re in Ministry

It’s the Friday before Easter. You’ve been busy with all the marketing, event planning, service prep, and inviting. You’re probably a little tired and the light at the end of the tunnel that is Monday is looking better and better.

But you also have a family and obligations there too. If you’re like me, it’s far too easy to let work overtake the home. All the focus is on what the Church is doing, and your family gets the leftovers. It’s not fair to them, and it’s not fair to you.

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5 Easy Steps to Promote Your Summer Events this Easter
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5 Easy Steps to Promote Your Summer Events this Easter

With Easter in just a few weeks, you’re probably deep into prep for the big weekend. Whether you’re doing an egg hunt, planning your worship set, or just getting your volunteers ready, there’s a lot of focus put on this weekend.

Not to pile on, but there’s one more thing to consider for Easter. What are you doing this summer?

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How to Have an Easter Egg Hunt Part 1
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How to Have an Easter Egg Hunt Part 1

Easter Egg Hunts. Love them or hate them, it’s one of the most popular Kidmin events leading into the Easter season. I know it’s only February, but if you want to have a successful outreach event, you need to start planning now.

In this series of posts, I’m going to share my system with you. If you leave me a comment with your email, I’ll share my to do list that will walk you through every step.

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6 Steps to a Great Family Service
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6 Steps to a Great Family Service

Family services. Love them or hate them, they have their place. I'm an advocate for family services because I believe children’s ministry needs to be more than a ministry held in another room never to be seen or heard from. These services can be a great tool for emphasizing ministry to the next generation, highlight the great things that are happening, and give your volunteers a much needed week off.

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4 Ways to NOT Do Registration at Your Fall Festival (and one good one)
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4 Ways to NOT Do Registration at Your Fall Festival (and one good one)

It’s Fall, and that means it’s time for your fall festival, trunk or treat, Holy Ghost Weeny Roast or whatever you call the event you do this time of year.

This is a unique event because a lot of people who may not come to your church may come to your campus for the very first time.

Unlike events like VBS or Egg Hunt, fall festivals offer a specific registration challenge.

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A Follow-up Plan for Easter
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A Follow-up Plan for Easter

Easter is the Super Bowl of Christendom. More people come to church on Easter than any other Sunday of the year. I know last year’s Easter was different than any in recent memory, but now with churches opening up again, and others, like mine in Florida have been open for a while, we’re looking to see the people to come back maybe for the first time in over a year. Looking at 2019’s stats, my ministry doubled in size for that one Sunday. But with all these new people how do we get them to come back? How do we connect them to our church?

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