Archive for October, 2013
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Children of divorce: Group KidMin13 – What It Takes to Engage These Families (Deeper learning track)
The following is a copy of the handout for the Group KidMin Conference on “What It Takes to Engage These Families”. The PowerPoint slides for this workshop can be found at the bottom of this post. Objectives for this session Ministering to the child of divorce takes a lot of energy and passion fuels the energy needed. Divorce can be messy for church Read more…
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Alarming increase: children living in single-parent families
It’s alarming. Fully one-third of all children in the US now live in single-parent families. From the Annie E. Casey Foundation we learn: “In 2012, 35 percent of children (24.7 million) lived in single-parent families.” The report goes on to state that “the percentage of children living in these households has increased by 13 percent (4 million children) since 2000. Kids living in Read more…
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Family Sculpturing and the Balloon Demonstration: visualizing with impact (Group KidMin 2013 Conference demos)
Kidmin and children’s ministers want a lot of hands on, visual and role-play kind of presentations. Two of my favorite demonstrations in to use in teaching about the child of divorce and used at the Group KidMin conference were Family sculpturing The balloon stress demo Family Sculpturing In the family sculpturing we have participants role-play different parts. We have a Child Mother Father Read more…
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Question of the week: Why do you find it important to be on the program and visible at children’s ministers and KidMin conferences?
I find it is important to be at these events because children’s ministers and church volunteers can impact a child of divorce in tremendous ways. Children of divorce should find hope, comfort and help in the church family. But the reality is many don’t. I have just returned from an 8 day trip where I spoke at LifeWay KidMin conference in Nashville, TN Read more…