Kids Bible-Bridge to Student Ministry 

By Crystal Mazzuca 

Today I’m thrilled to be internet hosting a brand new visitor blogger, Crystal Mazzuca. Crystal is on the frontlines of ministry within the Pacific Northwest serving as Director of Kids Ministry at Westwood Baptist Church in Olympia, Washington. She additionally has years of expertise with college students as a former high school trainer and ministry chief. She speaks with expertise and knowledge on the subject of serving to church buildings bridge age group ministries collectively. I’m excited so that you can be taught from her!  – Jana Magruder 

High college commencement is widely known with pomp and circumstance that may not be beat. We work tirelessly to organize these younger adults for the twists and turns of the large world they’re about to launch into. And but, too usually we will make too little of one other extremely vital transition within the lives of those younger folks we care a lot about. That transition is the transition into center college and pupil ministry. 

As Kids’ Ministry staff, we give our all to construct a stable basis of religion within the lives of these we’ve been known as to. We even have the distinctive alternative to organize and launch them nicely as they cross the bridge into center college and pupil ministry. 

Crossing the Bridge at Church 

When college students transition into pupil ministry, they’re transferring into a brand new and international world. We can assist alleviate a few of their uncomfortable emotions by deliberately connecting them earlier than they transfer. Invite the coed ministry employees and small group leaders to satisfy and join with their soon-to-be college students. Have your children go and go to what can be their new house. Host a time the place your children get a preview morning or night of what their future ministry life will seem like. The extra acquainted they’re with what’s to return and the extra identified they already really feel, the smoother their transition into pupil ministry will go. 

Crossing The Bridge at Home 

Just as we must be intentional with serving to our youngsters transfer up, we have to accomplice with and put together households for this time as nicely. The identical manner you welcome the coed ministry employees and volunteers to attach together with your children, encourage them to satisfy together with your mother and father. Allow them to share their imaginative and prescient and coronary heart for ministry, serving to these new households know that their children can be in secure and caring fingers. Consider internet hosting household nights or lessons the place you may put together mother and father and households for what to anticipate as their children transfer into this new season of life. 

Crossing The Bridge in Their Hearts 

The distinction between elementary college and center college is monumental. One of one of the best issues we will do for our youngsters is to organize them spiritually for what’s to return. We can do issues like investing in a pupil Bible for every youngster and giving them instruments to dig into God’s phrase themselves. We can pair them with a caring mentor who will decide to praying for them and strolling alongside them via their teen years. And we will have a pomp and circumstance stuffed night with them and their households the place we pray for and ship them off into all that God has for them. 

“The extra intentional we’re with this transition time, the higher our youngsters can be set as much as thrive within the great world of pupil ministry.” Click To Tweet

The extra intentional we’re with this transition time, the higher our youngsters can be set as much as thrive within the great world of pupil ministry. 

Crystal Mazzuca has served in household ministry for 20 years and is at the moment a Director of Kids’ Ministry in Olympia, Washington. She has a Master’s Degree in Christian Education Administration from Regent University and likes to encourage and equip leaders to disciple the subsequent technology. She is a single mother to three boys, a proud nerd, and would cross oceans for a great cup of espresso. 

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