So with all these things in mind here’s five things that we all should be working together on to help the family succeed
1. Start with the end in mind and work backwards to build a plan that will give your pastor the end result that he desires to turn children and teens into adult believers in your local church.
2. Create in children and students a hunger for the Word of God. There is a difference in Bible knowledge and a hunger for the Word. Love for the Word builds a love for Jesus. It’s more important that your young people love Jesus even more than love your church.
3. Help children and students understand the importance of spiritual service.
Desire to train children for a lifetime of service. The way they should go includes serving and ministering to others! I just don’t know why more churches don’t realize that farm clubs work in more than major league baseball. The Children’s ministry should feed everything the youth ministry is doing. The Youth ministry should use the children’s ministry as a training ground for teaching teens about serving.
4. Watch out for sibling rivalry. Speak highly of each other’s programs and help each other be better. (Iron sharpening iron) Make the kids look forward to being a part of the next ministry. How you lead laterally is just as important as how you lead in any other direction. Don’t compete for all the attention of the Pastor and the budget of the church do everything you can to make everyone on the team look good!
Don’t think for one minute you build your self-worth by cutting down another minister. Don’t hog all the resources. Settle disagreements fast. This is a key for any lasting relationship.
5. Work together to connect with parents to be a better parent. Remember Deut. 6:6-7 “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Both teens and young children need models at home! They both need consistent and intentionality to leave a mark. Parent’s must take back the time God said was their’s Morning, Bedtime, travel, when you sit at home.
Who wins when the Children and Youth Pastors work together? Everybody does, especially the family!
I love your last line about Children's and Youth pastors working together. What about when the Children's pastor is also the youth pastor or the other way around? Is there an easy way to oversee both, or if you could only hire one or the other which a church should consider? Just wondering cause our church only has one.
ReplyDeletethis is where you need to build a great team to help you. I too serve in a Next Generation Model where I oversee everything birth-college. I have a wonderful tem in each area that I could not function without!
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