Rethinking Childrenās Ministry: Helping Kids Feel Safe at Church
Churches often focus on the programs, curriculum, lights, and music that make a Childrenās Ministry great but often forget the impact of making children feel safe, secure and loved. Feeling safe can go a long way towards helping them experience and accept Godās love.
This eye-opening training will equip pastors, youth leaders, and ministry volunteers to see the connection between the hard things we all face and our ability to facilitate healthy, loving relationships.
Our early relationships, whether smooth, rocky or abusive, set the tone for how we trust, set boundaries, and ask for help as adults. Additionally, traumatic experiences, both big and small, greatly impact who we become. Being informed about how connection and trauma impact our relationships is key in helping us to love others as Jesus loves us.
Pastors and ministry leaders will leave this workshop equipped to better serve those who have experienced trauma. We will discuss what trauma is, what its impacts are, and how it informs behavior along with practical strategies to serve children in their ministries, as well as a plan of action to empower other leaders and volunteers.
Participants will leave with a better understanding of the impacts of trauma, practical tools for working with children who have experienced trauma, and a plan of action to equip their church leaders and volunteers.
Please let us know if you have any questions or if we can help you in any way. You can reach us at info@onebighappyhome.com or by CLICKING HERE.
Ryan and Kayla are experts on Trauma-Informed Childrenās Ministry. They are the best I know on this subject.
– Jason Johnson
Director of Church Engagement, Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO)
Books
- The Connected Child
- The Whole-Brain Child
- Anatomy of the Soul
- The Body Keeps the Score
- Parenting from the Inside Out
- The Out-of-Sync Child
- Wounded Children, Healing Homes
- Parenting is Your Highest Calling
- Born for Love
- Childhood Disrupted
- Mindset
- Daring Greatly
- Positive Discipline
Media
Our team and those from the other churches were blessed to receive such expert and applicable training. Everyone present walked away with specific strategies to implement in their ministries to support families in caring well for their kids, not to mention the practicality of how I can parent better at home. Kudos to the Ryan and Kayla for the stellar way that are leading in transforming our city and beyond.
– Jeremy Varnell
Children’s Pastor, Irving Bible Church
Nurture Groups
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Handy Model of the Brain
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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