Elaine Wood
National Children's
Ministries Director
405.787.7110, ext. 3329.
A cheerful disposition is good for your health; gloom and doom leave you bone-tired.
Proverbs 17:22 (The Message)
A smile of ncouragement at the right moment may act like sunlight on a closed flower: it may be the turning point for a struggling life.
Alfred A. Montapert
National Children's Ministries dedicates itself to working with and developing leaders and teachers who are currently serving in a full-time, part-time, or volunteer capacity in their local church. Our desire is to engender and encourage genuine enthusiasm and lasting commitment within established and developing Children's Ministries programs, while seeking to enhance and cultivate the leadership gifts of those individuals who are daring to change the world by serving children.
Craig Jutila has been providing leadership and creative resources for Children’s Ministry for the last 20 years. He has served as Children’s Pastor at two churches, most recently with Saddleback Church in Lake Forest ,California for the last 13 years. He has authored and contributed to more than 10 books championing Children’s Ministry. Craig founded Empowering Kids (www.empoweringkids.net), a company that provides leadership and resources for children’s leaders in the local church.
"Big or small, your children's ministry can ignite in young hearts faith that grows and spreads in ways you never dreamed. It happens all the time at Willow Creek's Promiseland, and it can happen at your church. Sunday morning can be absolutely the most exciting, fun-filled time of the week for children..." Find out more about this book HERE
(K.I.D.S. CHURCH) - The Amazing Journey gives kids more than 1,000 fun ways to experience God in their lives. It includes awesome DVDs, phenomenal praise music from Integrity Music and a curriculum that imparts life principles that kids can apply immediately - with their friends, on the school bus and at home. Kids will navigate their way through God's Word with confidence, see Jesus in every lesson and understand the chronological order of important Bible lessons and characters!
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