Children’s Ministry Training Centre
Everything Kid’s Ministry is first and foremost a children’s ministry training centre. Saturday workshops as well as full weekends will equip you to meet the needs of the children in your community.
4-Level Training
Everything Kid’s Ministry runs 4 levels of training for children’s workers: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Specialty. The more serious you are about answering the call of God on your life to minister to children, the more we can offer you. From the basics of Lesson Planning, Storytelling and Scripture Memorization through to specialized areas of children’s ministry such as Puppetry, Ventriloquism and Toddler Training.
Check out what’s on offer:
Foundational / Beginner
The aim of this track is to equip CM to:
- Establish a solid practical foundation to effectively reach and teach children.
- Establish a standard for CM who teach age-specific classes within a Children’s Church Program.
This is a 1-day course which is run at Everything Kid’s Ministry on a Saturday, from 9.00am to 4.30pm. Alternatively, we can come to your church to assist you with this basic training for your volunteers and workers
Intermediate
The aim of this track is to equip CM to:
- Increase the effectiveness and ability of CM’s to reach and teach children with a wider range of topics.
- Equip CM’s to effectively run a multi-aged program within a Children’s Church Program.
- Enable teachers to teach basic church doctrines to the children, at their level
This is also a 1-day course that is run at Everything Kid’s Ministry on a Saturday. It is usually held in conjunction with our “Beginner” and “Advanced” programs thereby assisting churches to bring back their volunteers for training on a yearly basis. These 4 basic training programmes are usually held twice a year, in January and July.
Advanced
The aim of this track is to:
- Prepare well-trained Leaders for Children’s Ministry.
- Give good structure for effective ministry to children
- Equip leaders to prepare volunteers for ministry
- Build strong teams to reach out to children
A 1-day training held at Everything Kid’s Ministry, twice a year – January and July
Specialty
The aim of this track is to:
- Assist CM’s to increase their range of abilities to further impact the lives of children.
- Equip CM’s to specialize in specific areas to broaden their reach to children and to prepare people to begin to teach the body of Christ on these topics.
All of the specialty programs are usually run either as a 1-day course on its own, or even a weekend, depending on the topic. Much more time is needed to equip people to begin to grasp these wonderful teaching tools for children. Regular promotional flyers are sent out to our database to advise churches of these courses.
A course for “Special Needs” ministry is usually held in conjunction with our other basic training courses. This is a specialized ministry however, we try to run it as often as we can to assist the church with this ever-growing need. In the past, special needs has been largely ignored. Everything Kid’s Ministry hopes to change this by providing training as regularly as we can.
Parenting
Full day course that equips parents on what the Bible says about children and being a parent. Includes:
- What God says about children
- Parenting Styles and their outcome
- Being a great dad
- Being a great mom
- Discipline in the home
2 Day Parent course that gives parents a further understanding of the role that God expects them to play:
- The different stages of being a parent
- Understanding a child’s spiritual needs
- Children and the gifts of the Holy Spirit
- How to conduct Family Devotions