Each key theme has four or five weeks of short devos. Each week features a Scripture reading plus:

• Reflect on ties to the Bible reading.
• Talk about can be used anytime parents want time to talk with their children.
• Go deeper is perfect for families who want to dig deeper into God’s Word.

You can send these to families through a social media post, text, email, or a card in the mail. Families can use these any time they have a few minutes together—during mealtime, bedtime, or even in the car.

Here’s a Peek at What’s Included:

• God Fights for You
• God Forgives
• God Heals
• God Is Always There
• God Is Everywhere
• God Is Trustworthy
• God Provides
• God Speaks
• Jesus Is Your Good Shepherd
  
  

Plus, give kids the change to chronicle prayer!

It’s important for children to learn how to pray, but they also need to remember and celebrate their prayers by making them an active part of daily life. You can use the ideas in this download to help your students make prayer a habit in their lives as they learn to pray.

At Church focuses on engaging the students in memorization through hands-on instructions and student interaction.

Online tailors the activity to better suit a virtual environment.

At Home adapts the activity so families can do them with one or more children. 

It’s our hope that, as we begin to better understand the children and families we serve, we would each choose a curriculum to best support them in their walk with God.

Look Inside the Table of Contents:

4 – Introduction

5 – Important Kidmin Topics
6 – Identity & Kids’ Place in God’s Big Story—Sharing the Truth of the Gospel
9 – The Importance of Life Application—Faith in Action
11 – The Need for Evangelism—Sharing Jesus and His Good News
14 – Why We Need Inclusive Ministry—Every Child in Community with Jesus and His Church
17 – The Importance of Cultural Applications—Celebrating People of Color: African American Heritage and Faith

19 – Children’s Ministry Curriculum: What You Need to Consider
         with links to additional resources to help you on this journey

23 – Find Your Match: Children’s Ministry Curriculum Resources
24 – Identity: Wonder Ink
25 – Life Application: Bible-in-Life
26 – Evangelism: Gospel Light
27 – Inclusion: HeartShaper
28 – African American Heritage: Echoes

A Look Inside:

• Our Team
• Vision & Values
• Joining the Team
• Volunteer Expectations
• Safety Policies
• Incident Report
• Recognizing and Reporting Abuse
• Food and Drink Allergies
• Check-In & Check-Out Procedures
• Discipline Policy
• Restroom & Diaper Procedures
• Sickness & Cleanliness Policies
• Emergency Policies & Procedures
• Kids with Special Needs
• Inclusive Children’s Ministry: Special Needs Form
• Code of Conduct

Grab this free resource and equip your volunteers today!

In this guide, you’ll gain insights for how to strategize and reach your people where they are. Each of these sections can be applied to your church ministry as a whole or to specific ministries within your church family.

Hear from David C Cook and The Ministry Spark Team on the following topics: 

• Remember and Reflect
• Evaluate the Need Now
• Dream and Plan
• Move
• Keep the Cycle—Evaluate, Plan, Move

Plus, get access to a checklist and space to take notes!

This download is one that you don’t want to miss—no matter what your ministry looks like right now.

Inside this download, you’ll find each of the following per lesson:

• Episode Link for Families—This is the link you will send to families each week with each episode and at home materials. They can view this on a computer, tablet, phone, or even through streaming to their smart tv.

• Communication for Families—This has messages you can use through any of your platforms to communicate this lesson with families.

• Grow It Leader Resources–Here are bonus options you can use (or send out!) to help kids dive into God’s story and put their faith in action!
  1. Consider It Leader Devotion
  2. Create It Crafts
  3. Play It Activities
  4. Remember It Scripture Memorization
  5. Take It Printable

You’ll also get downloads for:

• How It Works
• Onboarding Parents
• Sunday School & Small Groups
• Tips to Share with Parents
• And Additional Resources—including the Scope & Sequence, Helping Kids Love Jesus, and Downloadable Graphics

These lessons are great for at home or at church—get them today!

Inside this download, you’ll find 30 coloring pages and biographies featuring:

Reverend Francis James Grimke
Ida B. Wells
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
George Washington Carver
Daniel Alexander Payne
Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson
Dr. Herbert Smitherman
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Dr. Howard O. Jones
Jesse LeRoy Brown
Jarena Lee
Jo Ann Robinson
Lacey Kirk Williams
Maggie Lena Walker
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Octavia Albert
Roberta Evelyn Martin
Rosa Young
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Wilma Glodean Rudolph
Dovey May Johnson Roundtree
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
Thomas A. Dorsey
Dr. Dorothy Height
Theophilus Gould Steward
Dr. Charles Clinton Spaulding
Harry Thacker Burleigh
Katherine G. Johnson
Florence Spearing Randolph

Grab these free pages and share with your church!

In nearly every circumstance of ministry, we have a good understanding of what needs to be done. In light of today’s events—our nation and world facing the pandemic and resulting closures—that is no longer true. We have no experience in attempting to carry out the mission of the church when Sunday morning worship is canceled for months, small groups are not able to gather, and any face-to-face meetings might cause more harm than good.

The moment we closed our buildings to staff, members, and guests, we knew everything had changed. Unfortunately, there was no model for us to immediately adopt. Instead, our executive team gathered for our last in-person meeting in order to put together a playbook of how to move forward. 

This is what we developed. We don’t pretend it’s the perfect solution, but it does give our four individual congregations a roadmap to follow over the next few months. We don’t encourage you to copy exactly what we have done, but we do encourage every church to ask similar questions, go through the same process, and formulate your own game plan.

Inside this download, you’ll find ideas for:

• Executing for Weekend Services
• Connecting with People
• Spiritual Growth
• Meeting Needs
• Influencing Giving
• Empowering Staff

Grab this guide and be empowered during these unprecedented times! 

Hear this clearly: You can get heard. (And ministry leader, Keith Ferrin, is going to help you.)

What you do has eternal value. The kids and families you invest in will be forever impacted by how you serve them. Your impact will be infinitely greater if you are consistently improving the clarity and effectiveness of your communication.

And here’s the clincher: It’s not as hard as you might think!

When someone whose career depends on effectively communicating with senior leaders hires me to help them, these are the first four actions we dive into:

1. Prepare with a Plan
2. Run Better Meetings
3. Write Better Emails
4. Give Better Presentations

Dive into these actions in this robust guide from Ministry Spark. Get the support you need.

This report puts the research in context with current church attendance trends and in a tool kit to help you plan in 2020. You can use it to spark ideas for your kids’ ministry, especially outside the walls of your church.

Inside this guide you’ll find:

• Church Attendance Trends: The Numbers Don’t Lie
• Kids’ Ministry Research Highlights: Survey Says: Opportunity
• Tools to Stay Relevant: Brainstorming and Planning Kit

Grab this free guide to reach kids in your community!

A glimpse inside:

• God Made the World Activity, Toddlers
• God Gives Me Good Things Game and Activity, Toddlers
• Noah Game and Activity, Toddlers
• People Puzzles Game, Preschool
• Do What It Says Game, Elementary
• Love Fulfills the Law Game, Elementary
• Tell the Good News Game, Elementary
• Picture Hunt Game, Elementary
• Musical Cans Game, Elementary
• Chopstick Relay Game, Elementary and Preteen
• Witness Walkabout Game, Elementary and Preteen
• Bible Book Cards Game, Elementary and Preteen

Inside this download, you’ll find coloring pages, hero bios, Scripture verses, and questions for kids to respond to. Watch the Bible come to life as they discover these heroes and what God did through them:

• Rebekah
• David
• Jesus, as a child
• Zacchaeus
• Mary Magdalene

Grab these free pages for some coloring fun! (If your kids like these pages, you can purchase the full coloring book here.)

On this journey, you will go through 5 areas to help prepare for and plan re-entry to your church building—Remember & Reflect, Reset, Reestablish, Reimagine, and Re-enter.

Children’s ministry will look very different from adult Sunday school during this time. And small groups will look different from your senior adult ministry. That’s okay!

This guide can be used as a re-entry planning tool during this COVID-19 season for your entire church or for a ministry within your church body.

Inside this download, you’ll find ideas and planning prompts in the following categories:

Remember & Reflect: Recalling What Worked

It’s important to remember where you’ve been, while remembering that where you’ve been doesn’t have to be where you’re going. Recall what has worked, and what hasn’t.

There has been no greater time to change-up what you’re doing!

Reset: Getting in the Appropriate Lane

As we move forward, let’s ask ourselves and our teams what lane suits your church at this specific time (or in your current phase). You may need to reset expectations while also being sure you are staying true to your ministry’s mission and core values. This is about getting in the best lane that works for your body of believers.

Reestablish: Creating Best Practices

You’ll create the roadmap and build best practices for your ministry in this section. You’ll use what you reflected on in the previous sections—Remember & Reflect and Reset—to build these.

Reimagine: Dreaming to Planning

Now that you’ve set the best practices, don’t stop! Dream how to move forward with what you’ve dreamt up. Dream big! From your dreams and what you’ve built this far will lead you to planning. With your plan, you’ll get ready to Re-Enter.

Re-Enter: Walking into the Future

Walk into the future. And remember—this roadmap is a guideline for you as you plan and pivot moving forward. You can always go back to Reimagine and build a new path from there.

Grab this guide and get ready for this new season after COVID-19 with your church body!

Inside this download, you’ll find 8 fully resourced lessons featuring:

• God Is Provider: Abraham & Isaac
• God Is Faithful: Jacob Wrestles with God
• God Answers Prayer: Peter Delivered from Prison
• Jesus Is Compassionate: Feeding the 5,000
• God Never Fails: Joshua
• God Is Good: Joseph
• God Is Love: The Parable of the Good Samaritan
• Jesus Is the Lord of Life: The Book of Romans

Grab these free lessons and share with the families in your church!

Use these lessons to remind kids that Jesus is with them, and He loves them SO much!

Inside this book you’ll find easy-to-do lessons!

• Session 1: How Jesus Loved Shepherds
• Session 2: How Jesus Loved John the Baptist
• Session 3: How Jesus Loved Andrew
• Session 4: How Jesus Loved a Rich Man
• Session 5: How Jesus Loved James the Less
• Session 6: How Jesus Loved Nathanael
• Session 7: How Jesus Loved Zacchaeus and His Sinner Buddies
• Session 8: How Jesus Loved Faithful Followers
• Session 9: How Jesus Loved a Roman Centurion
• Session 10: How Jesus Loved Lazarus and His Sisters
• Session 11: How Jesus Loved Thomas
• Session 12: How Jesus Loved Peter
• Session 13: How Jesus Loves Us

Grab this free book to help kids find a friend in Jesus!

Inside this download, you’ll find verses, practical questions, life application, and simple prayers. Watch the Bible come to life as families dive into these topics:

• When You’re Lonely
• When Hope is Hard to See
• For Impossible Times
• When You’re Anxious
• When You Feel Angry
• When You Get Tired of the Rules
• When You Feel Trapped
• When You Think About Others

Grab these free devotions! (And, if your kids like these, you can purchase the full devotional here.)

Inside this download, you’ll find 5 stories and coloring pages featuring:

• Jesus and the Children (Matthew 18–19; Mark 10; Luke 18)
• Jesus Gives Life (Matthew 9; Mark 5; Luke 8)
• Jesus Enters as King (Matthew 21; Mark 11; Luke 19; John 12)
• Jesus Is Alive! (Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20)
• I Am with You Always (Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; Acts 1)

Grab these free pages for some coloring fun! 

(If your kids like these stories, you can purchase The Easter Storybook here.)

A glimpse inside:

• Tell All Megaphone, Coloring Craft
• Jesus Lives Story Wheel, Coloring Craft
• Jesus is Alive “Smush Book”, Coloring Craft
• The Empty Tomb, Color by Number and Puzzle
• New Life Butterfly, Craft
• “He Is Risen” Message Plate, Craft
• Joyful Relay, Game and Discussion
• Peace and Carrots, Science Experiment and Discussion

Grab these free activities and be ready for Easter fun!

Inside this Checklist you’ll find a further dive into these 6 question categories:

• Is it based on the Bible?
• Does it bring children closer to Jesus?
• Does it value relationship?
• Are lessons taught at the correct age level?
• Does it focus on transformation?
• How much time does it take to prepare and teach?
• Additional questions!

Grab this free checklist and evaluate curriculum like a champ!

This leadership guide walks you through 6 key areas so that you can stand strong in your ministry. These areas include:

• Keeping the Gospel Central
• Spiritual Qualities Every Kidmin Leader Needs to Develop
• Spiritual Exercises to Strengthen Your Soul
• Building Your Own Circle of Support
• Finding Rhythm and Balance
• Training Your Mind to Think Like a Leader