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Title: Multiplying ministries to kids providing loving environments where the Spirit multiplies young disciplemaking followers of Jesus


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Multiplying ministries to kids
providing loving environments where the Spirit
multiplies young disciplemaking followers of Jesus
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What?
  • Our mission is to walk with Jesus in our world
  • pursuing his
  • Great Commission
  • to make disciples
  • winning the lost
  • building the believers
  • equipping the workers
  • multiplying the leaders

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Why?
  • Our passion for Jesus
  • Great Commission
  • is fueled by Jesus
  • Great
  • Commandment
  • love for God
  • and for people

GC2 Great Commandment Great
Commission ministry lifestyle
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Who?
  • The probability of a faith
  • commitment to Christ is
  • 32 at age 5 to 13
  • 4 at age 14 to 18
  • 6 at age 19
  • 75-85 of todays American Christians made
  • their initial faith commitment before age 15.
  • The opportunity and responsibility
  • to minister to kids is very great!

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A challenge
and experience
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Its about Jesus
  • You may be thinking,
  • Id like to see emerging
  • generations reached, but
  • how the heck can I ever
  • keep up with all the waves
  • of cultural change? Amid
  • our anxiety, remember
  • that although ministry methodology, church,
  • and culture change, Jesus NEVER does.

  • -Dan Kimball-Emerging Church

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Provide environments
  • Our primary goal is not to
  • provide complex
  • structures and glitzy
  • programs, but to
  • provide environments
  • where the Spirit moves
  • freely to help kids
  • consistently experience
  • Jesus life-changing love

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Hearts first
  • We must touch their
  • hearts before we can
  • reach their minds

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Build community
  • To kids, love looks like free pizza. Thats where
  • we might startbut our goal is to help them
  • experience the love of biblical community.
  • The key for building
  • this type of community
  • is leadership that is
  • love-expressing,
  • intentional visionary.

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Includeparents
  • The goal of childrens
  • ministry needs to be to
  • find ways to help parents
  • talk about spiritual things
  • with their children, helping
  • families prioritize and
  • center their lives on
  • Gods presence.
  • -Ivy Beckwith, Post-
  • Modern Childrens Ministry

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Kids reach parents
  • Every year, tens of thousands of parents are
  • brought to faith in Christ because one of their
  • children was so changed by his or her own
  • relationship with the Lord that the parent could
  • not ignore the power of Christ any longer.
  • -George Barna

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Communicate Gods love
  • The degree to which we are
  • effective in communicating
  • Gods love is the degree to
  • which we will see kids lives
  • changed.
  • -Dann Spader
  • So how do we get Gods
  • love flowing?

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Its about relationships
  • Provide places where
  • love is actively
  • experienced and
  • expressed
  • With believing kids
  • With pre-believing kids
  • Its a lifestyle, not a program
  • but get organized
  • be intentional

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Heres what to do
  • Provide opportunities for
  • loving interaction
  • Provide affirmation
  • belonging
  • Provide genuine spiritual
  • fellowship
  • Get the kids involved in
  • expressing Gods love to
  • others through ministry

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More ideas
  • Advertise the ministry to community parents and
    grandparents
  • Emphasize a values-based approach
  • Encourage kids to bring friends
  • Provide transportation (van/carpooling)
  • Encourage kids to wear cool t-shirts advertising
    your ministry at school
  • Sponsor a community event that is
    kid-oriented

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More ideas
  • Ask unchurched parents to help out in the program
    alongside churched parents
  • Plan a parent/child or family/child event
  • Involve the kids actively in the big-church
    worship service
  • Provide a nursery for pre-schoolers

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Generations workshops
To schedule day-long workshops that more fully
explore disciplemaking ministry to kids, contact
Ted Johnston, Generations Ministries director
at Ted.Johnston_at_wcg.org
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