Pastor Todd actually grew up at Glad Tidings, where he currently serves as children's pastor. For a period of about four years, he worked in the building and grounds, children's ministry, and youth pastored. When the time came for him to switch from youth to children's ministry, others assumed he did something wrong! Interestingly, a huge percentage of churches grow because of a great kid's program. There are even adults who come into the services without particularly enjoying the services, but will continue to come for their children.
Children's ministry and youth ministry obviously are very different. Every weekend, he needs around 100 people to make sure everything goes according to plan. One big thing he is trying to do within the kid's ministry is to bring parents alongside their kids to grow spiritually. Pastor Todd wants to partner with the parents to help the children to grow spiritually.
Every week, the children get a "God-time" card. With every God time card, the kids have to come spend time with their parents and go over a verse in the Bible. This ensures that children are learning from God's word at home, and at the same time spend time with their parents.
One of the big things we talked about was VBS. VBS is huge at Glad Tidings, so a lot of work goes into it. There were creative themes, such as PS3, Video games, DDR, etc. I really enjoyed this part of the class because we got to discuss how a large church like Glad Tidings does VBS. It was really neat to hear how they do it and then try to learn from that and incorporate that into our own churches. Also, it reminded me that my church VBS is coming up in THREE months and I'm SOOO excited=D=D=D
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