Elementary - Childrens Ministry Online

What’s the Deal with Elementary?

by Erin English | Aug 30, 2017 | Ideas, Leadership, Volunteers | 0

It’s easy to lean in one direction or another when it comes to prioritizing age groups....

Winter Camp: A NextGen Project

by Kenny Conley | Dec 10, 2013 | Ideas | 1

Yesterday I posted about how we made a strategic move from Summer Camp to Winter Camp. Well, that’s not the only risk we took on. For a variety of reasons, we put all our eggs in one basket and we’re hosting this Winter Camp for both kids and students at the same place on the same weekend. That means we’ll have 3rd grade through 12th grade all together on this weekend. I’m very excited about this effort that has been in the works for the past 18 months.

I’ll be brutally honest from the start. I’m not 100% convinced that this is a great idea. There are aspects that are right on, but there are also aspects that take away from the experience because we’re doing it all together. Let me first share with you the reasons why we’re doing a NextGen camp.

Question for the CMO tribe

by Kenny Conley | Dec 20, 2010 | Ideas | 4

Late last week I got an email from Skip Coulter. He said he had a question for the CMO tribe. I liked that. I know there’s a decent little crowd of regular readers and the “CMO tribe” has really helped me out...

Lee Strobel makes a case for kids

by Kenny Conley | Feb 9, 2010 | Ideas | 3

Last year while visiting North Point, I spent a lot of money in bookstore! One resource I picked up was a series by Lee Strobel for kids linked to his “A Case for Christ/Creator/Faith” books. I picked up the...

Help with a name!

by Kenny Conley | Jul 13, 2009 | Ideas | 14

Hey, I need a name for a two day event. I could use some of your ideas. We’re doing a leadership event at our church called Advance. It’s a two day retreat over a Friday and Saturday. In the past we’ve offered...

Elementary small groups

by Kenny Conley | May 20, 2009 | Ideas | 3

Yesterday I wrote about how small groups are where it is at in Children’s Ministry. I also wrote a somewhat controversial post about how Sunday School doesn’t work. So, how do you do small group? It depends on your...

Should I play spin the bottle?

by Kenny Conley | Oct 27, 2008 | Random | 4

We’re in the middle of our Soul Revolution push as a church and so I’m creating a Soul Revolution activity for each Sunday during the 9 weeks. Normally the kids would do 3 separate activities in small groups that go...

Elementary Schedule using 252 Basics

by Kenny Conley | Sep 10, 2008 | Ideas | 6

Three weeks ago we launched small groups on Sunday mornings for 1st-5th graders. This last Sunday we launched 252 Basics. It was phenomenal. I started using 252 a year ago when I was at Cross Timbers. It was not the easiest...

Gateway’s “new” elementary program

by Kenny Conley | Sep 9, 2008 | Leadership, Volunteers | 0

It’s been a very busy summer. The week I got here I shared with my elementary production director (my only staff member in the elementary area) my vision for what elementary ministry would look like in the fall. It would...

A huge day for our elementary program

by Kenny Conley | Sep 8, 2008 | Random | 4

Yesterday was a big day for us at Kids Quest. I posted here a few days ago about how we moved to small groups on Sunday’s. That was a big day and something we had been planning for all summer. But it was on September 7th...

Taking small group leaders through the pipeline

by Kenny Conley | Aug 20, 2008 | Leadership | 1

I wrote a few weeks ago about Gateway’s leadership process. Coming into this new role at a new church, I had to get my hands around who were leaders and who wasn’t. I had people who had been through the leadership...

The elementary attrition

by Kenny Conley | Jul 30, 2008 | Random | 5

I’m curious as to how this is for others out there. Since coming to Gateway, one of my priorities has been to help transition 5th graders into the middle school. We promote on August 24th. Over the summer we’ve had 4...