Children's Pastor Part 3
What is a home run for you? Monica is a home run for me. Monica was eleven when she started leading worship in Super Church. Today Monica is 35 and she sings in the sanctuary. She never left the church and she has always used her gift for the Lord.
Monica is just one example. Seth is my assistant in Super Church. Kelly is one of our youth pastors. Krista and Ginger teach in our Christian school. Jacob owns his own business and he is one of my best teachers in Super Church. Adrian is the producer of a TV show at a church in Georgia. These people were all kids at one time who started out on the puppet team or the worship team or AV team and they are still in ministry today.
Jesus told us to go into all the world and make disciples. According to Young’s concordance a disciple is a “taught or trained one.” The heart of a pastor is discipleship. A pastor gives people and opportunity to do things. If you are a one-man team you are not making disciples.
I have observed that people that get involved in ministry at a young age will stay in the church. Stop complaining that you don’t have enough help and start using the people that are right under your nose. Train them up in the way they should go and they will always be faithful to you.
They say that 20% of the people in our churches do 80% of the work. Why is that? Maybe it is because we tell them when they are children that they can’t do anything in the church and they continue to believe that, when they become adults.
So, what are some things that kids can do in church? I’m glad you asked that question. Here is a list of things that kids can do.
- Take up the offering
- Pass Buckets
- Help new kids find a seat
- Write out name tags
- Run power point presentations
- Create power point presentations
- Pray for the sick
- Teach an object lesson
- Puppetry
- Drama
- Sing
- Play the piano
- Lead Worship
- Run a Camera
- Pray with kids for salvation
- Pray with kids to receive the Holy Spirit
- Intercessory prayer
In short, kids can do whatever you will take the time to train them to do. What are you waiting for? Pick one child and get started.
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