The daily trials and triumphs of children's ministry. Please share your comments with me, and let's bounce ideas off of one another as we share in the excitement that children's ministry brings.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Spiritual Gifts
Looking ahead to the fall:
I'm wanting to do a series in the preteen group on spiritual gifts. Anyone know of any good inventories, ideas, curriculum?
[you don't have to post this] It's fun and exciting for people to do gift and personality inventories but my pet peeve is that, after at least 10 different inventories over 30 years and 5 different church situations, I have yet to be part of a group that actually does something with the information afterwards.
Yeah, I know that pet peeve well. The adults are doing an inventory, and I'm not sure what they have in store for a follow up, but I plan to have people from different areas of the church come in and talk about ways kids could serve using each type of gift and then hook them up with a service day. I'll post more on that later.
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I don't have anything, but I am looking to create a special pre-teen class this fall. I'm really excited about it!
I'd recommend picking up some jr. high or high school material for your group and using that.
Yeah, I looked for some jr high stuff yesterday, but I didn't see anything on spiritual gifts. I think I'll adapt the one the adult class is using.
YEA! Preteen class! You'll love it! I look forward to reading about it.
[you don't have to post this] It's fun and exciting for people to do gift and personality inventories but my pet peeve is that, after at least 10 different inventories over 30 years and 5 different church situations, I have yet to be part of a group that actually does something with the information afterwards.
Yeah, I know that pet peeve well. The adults are doing an inventory, and I'm not sure what they have in store for a follow up, but I plan to have people from different areas of the church come in and talk about ways kids could serve using each type of gift and then hook them up with a service day. I'll post more on that later.
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