Above all else, the Gospel is the message we are trying to share with the children, youth, and adults God places in our life path and in our community. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is the power of God to change hearts and bring salvation (Romans 1:16). Come learn a versatile technique to share the gospel in any situation and any conversation, especially in our postmodern world. We’ll use teaching, video, demonstration, and practice to equip you to clearly and concisely share the gospel message with anyone the Lord places in your path.

Spiritual transformation happens when we cooperate with the Holy Spirit and allow Him to do the work of transforming us into the people God created us to be. Bringing about spiritual transformation doesn’t just happen. We have to know what the Creator intended, and what it takes to bring about the changes necessary to transform. How do you do this with your younger children? Come learn how to focus on three things to transform the lives of your small group.

This workshop identifies the major children's ministry evaluation question that rarely gets asked about Sunday School, much less evaluated, and yet it is the most important question to consider weekly. We will uncover the detrimental consequences of not asking and evaluating this question carefully, gaining vision for the value of carefully considering the probable outcomes. Discover solutions to this question, including five difference-makers, three things the church can do, four things children’s ministry can do, and three things parents must do to positively impact the spiritual development of the children in your ministry.

Leading a small group of kids: an idea that both terrifies to the very core and truly gets the adrenaline pumping...sometimes both at the same time. Whether we’ve been called or guilt-tripped, whether this is our first year or last, the truth is simple: each week, God is placing you in a position to shape a generation for Christ. There’s no ‘magic formula’ for great small group leadership. Many of the most challenging small group kids grow up to be some of the most influential world changers. Come learn the 7 Keys to leading a small group of kids to help them come to know, love, and serve the Lord Jesus Christ.

How do you keep your leaders and helpers engaged? How do you help them feel encouraged? How do you let them know how much you appreciate them? This workshop gives you practical and unique ways to connect with your leaders and keep them on your team.

Above all else, the Gospel is the message we are trying to share with the children, youth, and adults God places in our life path and in our community. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is the power of God to change hearts and bring salvation (Romans 1:16). Come learn a versatile technique to share the gospel in any situation and any conversation, especially in our postmodern world. We’ll use teaching, video, demonstration, and practice to equip you to clearly and concisely share the gospel message with anyone the Lord places in your path.

You as a children’s worker face a variety of situations. Each class is different. Each year is different. Each leader and child is different. Remember, discipline is teaching by what we say and how we live. God teaches us by grace. We need to show that same grace to the kids in our clubs. Learn how applying the Biblical definition of discipline in your kid's classroom creates an environment of consistency, energy and excitement.

Building Student Leaders - What better place than your church to plug in a wanting-to-serve-the-Lord teenager as a student leader?

Student Leaders are as diverse in personality, abilities, and spiritual gifts as your adult leaders. Come learn how Titus 2 describes how to mentor and equip young people for powerful lifetime service to the Lord.

We'll use the model described in Titus 2 for detailing the training of student leaders (high school age students) in your church: who they are, what they can do, how they can energize your ministry, and how to carry out the equipping/mentoring process.

We'll lay out all the details: exactly what a student leader needs to know, what a student leader needs to do, and what the student leader gains from the experience.

These principles apply to young adult students serving in any ministry, whether it be youth ministry, Awana Clubs, VBS, Sunday School, day camps, worship team, ushering, or any ministry in your church - student leaders trained under a Titus 2 model will produce amazing results for the Kingdom of God.

“I want to see my grandkids follow the Lord!” All Christian grandparents would say that, but many lack the vision of what they can do; others have huge obstacles blocking their influence; still others just need some tools.

Surprisingly, you would be hard-pressed to find a church in America that has a ministry focus on grandparenting, yet grandparents are second only to parents in their ability to influence children spiritually.

Grandparents, with incredible potential to influence the next generation, are overlooked, under-resourced, ignored, and mislabeled.

Instead, we want to see millions of Christian grandparents use their influence to its fullest potential, and to see churches recognize and support our power to disciple?

Join us in this incredible new movement!

We recognize the world has changed and those changes have filtered down to our churches. How have the many cultural differences in our churches: ethnic, economic, family background and lifestyle, affect the ways children react in our kid-ministries? How do we engage children by meeting their needs as well as possible and create a sense of belonging for all kids so we can reach them for Christ and make life-long disciples of Jesus? Gal. 3:28 gives us God's perspective and the direction we should take.

Come discover techniques and tips for working kids as we learn how we can avoid missing the differences in families, values, and priorities.

Why? So we can be most effective at reaching kids and families with the Gospel.

“I want to see my grandkids follow the Lord!” All Christian grandparents would say that, but many lack the vision of what they can do; others have huge obstacles blocking their influence; still others just need some tools.

Surprisingly, you would be hard-pressed to find a church in America that has a ministry focus on grandparenting, yet grandparents are second only to parents in their ability to influence children spiritually. Grandparents, with incredible potential to influence the next generation, are overlooked, under-resourced, ignored, and mislabeled.

Instead, we want to see millions of Christian grandparents use their influence to its fullest potential, and to see churches recognize and support our power to disciple? Join us in this awesome new movement!

Leading a small group of kids: an idea that both terrifies to the very core and truly gets the adrenaline pumping...sometimes both at the same time. Whether we’ve been called or guilt-tripped, whether this is our first year or last, the truth is simple: each week, God is placing you in a position to shape a generation for Christ.

There’s no ‘magic formula’ for great small group leadership. Many of the most challenging small group kids grow up to be some of the most influential world changers. Come learn the 7 Keys to leading a small group of kids to help them come to know, love, and serve the Lord Jesus Christ.

Did you invest more time and thought into potty training than how you will prepare your child to follow God’s plan?

Do the demands of your child’s school, grades, sports, and college aspirations overshadow any plans you hoped would prepare your child to be a life-long disciple of Jesus?

Come join the journey as we learn the 5 Challenges they will face and detailed action steps to hit the target every parent desires for their child: a young adult who knows, loves, and serves Jesus more than anything else.

Above all else, the Gospel is the message we are trying to share with the children, youth, and adults God places in our life path and in our community. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is the power of God to change hearts and bring salvation (Romans 1:16).

Come learn a versatile technique to share the gospel in any situation and any conversation, especially in our postmodern world. We’ll use teaching, video, demonstration, and practice to equip you to clearly and concisely share the gospel message with anyone the Lord places in your path.

This workshop identifies the major children's ministry evaluation question that rarely gets asked about Sunday School, much less evaluated, and yet it is the most important question to consider weekly.

We will uncover the detrimental consequences of not asking and evaluating this question carefully, gaining vision for the value of carefully considering the probable outcomes.

Discover solutions to positively impact the answer to this question, including five difference-makers, three things the church can do, four things children’s ministry can do, and three things parents must do to positively impact the spiritual development of the children in your ministry.

Recruiting and keeping rock-solid volunteers is much more than just saying “help!” It is inviting others to answer the high calling of children’s and youth ministry.

Using the book of Nehemiah, we will find that effective and lasting recruiting must target the mind, imagination, heart, and commitment.

God did a miracle in completing the wall of Jerusalem in just 52 days – with burnt out, exhausted workers. Could He desire to do the same in your ministry?

Come learn to follow Nehemiah’s example to recruit and keep your volunteers motivated when times get tough.

When it comes to lifelong discipleship, how is your church children’s ministry doing?

Ten recently released critical research findings express the ‘pain-points’ and passion areas of faithful KidMin leaders across the USA, and identify and analyze barriers to truly effective discipleship.

This fresh research equips you and your ministry team to make the kind of changes that are needed to reach this generation of kids, and beyond.

Through engaging teaching and discussion you will be challenged to identify and implement practical next steps to increase lifelong discipleship effectiveness in your church, children’s ministry, families, and kids.

Above all else, the Gospel is the message we are trying to share with the children, youth, and adults God places in our life path and in our community. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that is the power of God to change hearts and bring salvation (Romans 1:16).

Come learn a versatile technique to share the gospel in any situation and any conversation, especially in our postmodern world. We’ll use teaching, video, demonstration, and practice to equip you to clearly and concisely share the gospel message with anyone the Lord places in your path.

Building Student Leaders - What better place than your church to plug in a wanting-to-serve-the-Lord teenager as a student leader? Student Leaders are as diverse in personality, abilities, and spiritual gifts as your adult leaders. Come learn how Titus 2 describes how to mentor and equip young people for powerful lifetime service to the Lord.

We'll use the simple model described in Titus 2 for detailing the training of student leaders (high school age students) in your church: who they are, what they can do, how they can energize your ministry, and how to carry out the equipping/mentoring process. We'll lay out all the details: exactly what a student leader needs to know, what a student leader needs to do, and what the student leader gains from the experience.

These principles apply to young adult students serving in any ministry, whether it be youth ministry, Awana Clubs, VBS, Sunday School, day camps, worship team, ushering, or any ministry in your church - student leaders trained under a Titus 2 model will produce amazing results for the Kingdom of God.

Think you do all the right things to keep your children’s ministry running well? Afraid to discover that you might actually be a ministry sabotage expert? In this fast-paced workshop you will learn from a veteran ministry saboteur the 21 key things that apply universally to all ages of children’s ministry and how you can avoid unintentionally undermining your children’s ministry effectiveness.

The statistics are appalling: -George Barna tells us one out of every two college students who were raised in the church walk away from it. -Only 10-15 percent of young people have a Biblical worldview. -61% of adults age 20-30 who had been churched as kids are now spiritually disengaged.

How can we see church ministries work together to minimize this dropoff? Thankfully, Scripture does have a model to follow to raise up godly young people who stand up for truth, possessing godly character and enduring faith in God.

Come learn from Genesis 37-50 how the life of Joseph can give our churches and families a target for training up children ages 2-18, and learn five church standards you can take home to evaluate your own church ministries.

Building Student Leaders - What better place than your church to plug in a wanting-to-serve-the-Lord teenager as a student leader? Student Leaders are as diverse in personality, abilities, and spiritual gifts as your adult leaders. Come learn how Titus 2 describes how to mentor and equip young people for powerful lifetime service to the Lord.

We'll use the model described in Titus 2 for detailing the training of student leaders (high school age students) in your church: who they are, what they can do, how they can energize your ministry, and how to carry out the equipping/mentoring process. We'll lay out all the details: exactly what a student leader needs to know, what a student leader needs to do, and what the student leader gains from the experience.

These principles apply to young adult students serving in any ministry, whether it be youth ministry, Awana Clubs, VBS, Sunday School, day camps, worship team, ushering, or any ministry in your church - student leaders trained under a Titus 2 model will produce amazing results for the Kingdom of God.

Creating a dynamic ministry to integrate your children and youth into one continuous ministry. The 4-14 window is the important window of opportunity for our children and youth. This workshop will be presented by Dwight Hunnicutt, also with Awana.