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Explore our resource library to find helpful articles, devotionals, podcasts, training, and more to help you grow in your faith and prepare to lead a session of The Gospel Project.
August 12, 2014
5 Tips for Training Leaders
The weeks leading up to Promotion Sunday lend the perfect opportunity for volunteer training as you embark on a new year in Kids Ministry. Everyone from the bright-eyed newbie to the gray-haired veteran can benefit from a thoughtfully constructed training session. Here are some tips to consider as you train your leaders 1) Be prepared In today’s busy, program-driven...
January 10, 2014
Raising Kids to Care About Missions
The Great Commission that Jesus gave in Matthew 28:18-20 is still a work in progress. According to the U.S. Center for World Mission’s Joshua Project, 2.91 billion people in the world are considered “unreached.” Unreached is defined as “a people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this...
November 20, 2013
Making the Christ Connection for Kids
One of the great features of The Gospel Project for Kids is its chronological plan through the Bible. Kids will study stories from Genesis to Revelation over three years. They will learn how familiar (and not-so-familiar) Bible stories fit together as part of a bigger picture—God’s plan to save people from sin. Each session contains a Christ Connection, a few...
October 2, 2013
What We Need Most Is Jesus!
This is a guest post by Jeff Hutchings, the Pastor of Family Ministries at The Journey (Tower Grove) in St. Louis. Among others things, my parenting generation is known for doting on our children. Multiple blogs and sermons regularly chide parents for indulging kids with things. Even though parents have good intentions by giving their kids what they didn’t...
September 25, 2013
"Closing the Pharisee Training School" by John Murchison
John Murchison has been the Director of Children’s Ministry at The Austin Stone for 8 years. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two daughters. You can follow him on Twitter here. I was about three years into my career in children’s ministry when I realized something was fundamentally wrong. We said all the right things—that we...
September 20, 2013
"Teaching My Kids the Bigger Story" by Angela Suh
This is a guest post from Angela Suh. Angela lives in Austin, TX. She is wife to Halim, a pastor at the Austin Stone Community Church, and mom to three fun and crazy kids, Malachi (5), Evie (4) and Moses (2). You can read more from her at suhangela.wordpress.com. From my childhood, I remember listening to the Bible as a...