Kid's Ministry Coffee Break | A Few Minutes of Spiritual Refreshment for Children & Youth Ministers.
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
"VISIT OTHER CHURCHES' WEBSITES" Kids Ministry Coffee Break 17: The resources available to us are endless; are you taking advantage of this gift? Connecting and learning from others is key.
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One of the greatest things about being in ministry is the age of our trade.
People have been ministering for Jesus Christ and The Gospel for 2,000 years.
There are 380,000 churches in the United States alone.
—all striving for the same mission.
They strive in different ways, yes, but they have the same goal.
When is the last time you visited another church’s website?
When is the last time you called another church and had conversation or met for coffee with the minister who serves the same group you do?
Google is amazing.
Or Bing, or whatever you use to search.
Search for churches in your area.
Find a few churches that share in your identity: Baptist, Methodist, Non-denominational, DOC, COC, Roman Catholic, or whatever your church’s identity is.
If there aren’t any churches that share your identity, then look for one that’s about your same size—in a community close in size to yours.
Look at their website.
What are they doing in ministry?
What activities are they creating?
What does their ministry page look like?
What do you see?
Can you find contact info for their minister?
Email or call them.
Introduce yourself and arrange a time to meet.
Ask them about their ministry
Tell them about yours
Share ideas
Share experiences
Learn from each other
Teach each other
You are not in this calling alone.
You are a part of an ancient tradition.
Find people whom you can partner with as peers.
Find a conference you can attend and gather with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of fellow ministers.
See what ideas are out there.
Every idea that’s ever been done in ministry was inspired by the same Holy Spirit, yes?
So glean from the work of the Spirit in others’ ministries to help your own inspiration.
Take an idea, play with it, adapt it, share with your volunteers, pray over it, and let the Spirit help mold it for your ministry in your context.
Then share with other ministry leaders in your community about it.
Help them learn and grow.
Become a community of ministry leaders and take advantage of this wonderfully large community of Jesus Christ disciples at our disposal.
Iron sharpens iron.
But that can only happen when you actually bring the pieces of iron together to connect and impact one another.
Visit other church’s websites.
Call and connect with your peers.
Share ideas.
Share in prayer.
Help each other get better.
And put the calling of unity into practice for the good of the calling.
Message brought to you be Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).
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