David Reneau 10/4/24 David Reneau 10/4/24

4 Steps to Mastering Your Ministry To-Do List

One thing about ministry is that you’re busy. Depending on how small your church is you can find yourself doing a lot of things that don’t fit within your “job.” Even if you work at a large church you can look up at the end of the week and wonder where the time went.

David Reneau 8/4/23 David Reneau 8/4/23

4 Types of Work in NextGen Ministry

The dirty secret of children’s ministry, specifically, and NextGen ministry in general is that very little of your time as a pastor is spent ministering to that age group. In reality, you will spend 1-3 hours a week actually leading them, while the other 40+ hours are spent doing other things.

David Reneau 6/2/23 David Reneau 6/2/23

5 Steps to Managing Your Time this Summer

It’s summertime and for many in NextGen ministries this is not a time to kick back and relax, but the busiest time of the year. You have more and bigger events over the three summer months than you have for the rest of the year. Add to that you have vacations, volunteer turnover, absences, and overall lower attendance, it can be exhausting and overwhelming.

So, what do you do? How do you juggle all the things and still grow the ministry or at least survive the summer?

David Reneau 1/15/18 David Reneau 1/15/18

Five Ways to Strengthen Your Time Management Skills

Working in a smaller church as a kids’ pastor can be really tough. Yes, I have fewer kids than most of the larger churches, but I also wear a lot of “hats” in addition to children’s ministry director. These responsibilities can include building maintenance, pastoral care, event production—the list could go on and on. With all these other responsibilities, focusing on children’s ministry can be difficult. I’ve heard many first-year children’s pastors ask the question, “When do I actually get to work with kids?”