31 Things I’ve Learned From 31 Years in Children’s Ministry

I’ve been serving in full-time kids’s ministry for over 31 years.  In these 31 years, I’ve discovered quite a lot of life and ministry classes.  Most of what I’ve discovered comes from errors I made.

I assumed I’d share among the issues I’ve discovered with you.  My prayer is that this stuff will provide help to keep away from the errors I’ve made and empower you to guide effectively. 

1. People do not observe you due to a title. They observe somebody they love and respect.

2. Love and respect should be earned.

3. It’s not what you are able to do, it is what you may empower others to do.

4. Be a thermostat (units temp) as a substitute of a thermometer (measures temp).

5. Good leaders are stars.  Great leaders create stars.

6. You can do quite a lot of issues mediocre or you are able to do a couple of issues with excellence.

7. Be an equipper greater than a doer.

8. Who you’re is extra vital than what you do.

9.  The biggest skill is availability.

10. Take care of the backstage areas of your life and God will deal with the front-stage areas. 

11. Every baby issues to God.  

12. The smartest individual within the room is the room.

13. Be a life-long learner.

14. Don’t imagine your press studies…both approach.

15. Do your greatest and let God deal with the remaining.

16. Go the second mile. There is all the time loads of room there.

17. Use the ministry to construct individuals as a substitute of utilizing individuals to construct the ministry.

18. The greatest approach to achieve success in kids’s ministry is to remain in kids’s ministry.

19. Reaching kids and households for Jesus is a very powerful factor we will do.

20. Invest your time, treasure and expertise into what actually issues.

21. Your first ministry precedence must be your personal household.

22. Greatness in ministry just isn’t measured in years. It is measured in a long time.

23. When you present a baby that you simply actually care about him, he’ll open his coronary heart and obtain what you’re sharing.

24. Make positive you say “thanks” to each volunteer each time they serve.

25. Change takes time.  Don’t run over individuals.  Instead, make it a course of.

26. Don’t bounce to the entrance of the meals line.  Let others go earlier than you.

27. Have 3 mentors in your life. One that’s youthful than you (they may provide help to navigate new tendencies).  One that’s the similar age as you (they’re going by way of among the similar issues you’re going by way of). And one that’s older than you (they have been down the street farther than you might have). 

28. Put the highlight on different individuals as a substitute of on your self on a regular basis.

29. Serve for the result…not for the revenue.

30. Always do probably the most loving factor.

31. People do not care how a lot you recognize till they know the way a lot you care.

Your flip. What are some issues you might have discovered? Share it with us within the remark part under.