4 Ways to Equip Your Kidmin Volunteers (Before Sunday)
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4 Ways to Equip Your Kidmin Volunteers (Before Sunday)

Picture this.  You’ve been working hard to get ready for Sunday morning.  You laid out the crafts. You loaded the slides. You queued up the songs.  You’re excited for what lies ahead and the change that’s going to happen in kids’ lives.  But then you realize that you’re not alone.  In fact, your volunteers are leading worship, games, and small groups.  You can’t be in two places at once and do it yourself. So how are you supposed to equip your volunteers so they can be prepared before Sunday?

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3 Tips for Creating Your VBS Budget
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3 Tips for Creating Your VBS Budget

I often see questions from people asking their VBS budget.  How many kids? How big is your church? How much do you spend?  Those are all great questions because your budget will depend on those three things, the size of your church, the size of your event, and how important it is to the church’s outreach strategy. 

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4 Steps to Scheduling Your Volunteers
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4 Steps to Scheduling Your Volunteers

When you’re the leader and the pastor, you have a push and pull. You want to make sure all your positions are filled, but you also don’t want to burn out your volunteers. What is the best way? Does everyone serve with the same frequency? What about if you have multiple services? Multiple days? Or just one? And what about fifth Sundays?

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How to Set Ministry Goals that Lead to Growth
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How to Set Ministry Goals that Lead to Growth

At the end of the year, one of my favorite things to do is to look back at the year that was and the year to come.  What were my wins and losses?  What worked? What didn’t?  What curveballs did I knocked out of the park and what ones slipped by?  It usually takes a few hours for me to go through it all, but my overall effectiveness as a leader and minister has increased every year since I started this practice over 10 years ago.

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3 Must Haves for Your Kidmin Area
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3 Must Haves for Your Kidmin Area

Picture this, you’re given free reign to create your perfect Kidmin space. Whatever theme for décor? You get to do it. However many classrooms? You can have them. Whatever kind of seating? Here you go.

Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it?

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5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Church Management System
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5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Church Management System

So, we landed on option 3. Find another system. But that’s far easier said than done. After weeks of meetings and weighing our options, we finally landed on a cloud based system that suited our needs far more than our previous system.

If you’re starting the same journey, here are 5 questions you should ask before you pick one that’s best for your church.

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