NWMN Fusion CM Podcast - Video

Workshop from Fusion Children's Leader Conference 2017. Ministry presents new challenges every day. Grab a few tools to help you overcome them!

Workshop from Fusion Children's Leader Conference 2017. We say we believe in the power and importance of prayer, but is that reflected in our churches? In this workshop we will discuss ways to create a culture of prayer within your kids ministry.

Workshop from Fusion Children's Leader Conference 2017. Are you teaching to early childhood in a way they can engage and learn accordingly to their developmental stages? This workshop will be taking a closer look at how to use key stages to better equip you to teach the little ones successfully.

Brent, Ashlee, and Stephen discuss how to keep the momentum going in your children's ministry, during the summer dip. What creative, summer activities do you incorporate in your ministry? Give us your feedback!

Brent and Stephen discuss hiring people. Do you feel prepared to hire someone, after your training or interning leading up to ministry? What are your qualifications for hiring? They discuss the value of analyzing the person's potential for the future and overall culture of the church or company. Give us your thoughts!

Brent and Stephen discuss how to say "no." It is vital in your ministry to learn how to prioritize and turn down opportunities, when needed. What's your experience with this? Give us your feedback!

Brent and Stephen ask the question, "Where do good ideas come from?" How do you come up with themes for events? What technologies do you use creatively in your children's ministry? Can you take ideas from current culture and use them in your ministry?

Brent and Stephen discuss the learning styles of children. What are the basic learning styles? How do you understand the learning styles of others, without being biased towards your own learning style? Let us know what methods you use!

Brent and Stephen discuss the learning styles of children. What are the basic learning styles? How do you understand the learning styles of others, without being biased towards your own learning style? Let us know what methods you use!

On this bonus episode, Stephen and Ashlee (Brent's assistant) discuss whether or not kids should eat in Children's Ministry. Give us your feedback!

Brent and Stephen discuss how to define your target audience in children's ministry. Who are you reaching? Who are you building your ministry for? Give us your thoughts and feedback!

How do you create a brand around your ministry? Brent and Stephen discuss the importance of branding in children's ministry. How do you make your "brand" compatible with the mission and brand of the church, without making the children's ministry a separate entity?

Brent and Stephen discuss how to reach kids, whose parents don't go to church. How do you strategically reach out to "non-church" kids? Do you change your check-in/check-out system? How do you compel kids to want to come to church, even if their parents aren't there? Give us your thoughts and feedback!

Brent and Stephen discuss how to fire volunteers. How do you determine whether a volunteer is healthy for your ministry or not? Do you meet with volunteers personally or do you delegate hiring volunteers out to other people? They discuss the benefits of being up front with volunteers from the beginning and talking about what happens if it doesn't work out. Watch, subscribe, and give us your feedback!

Brent and Stephen further discuss how to preach to kids. Do you use a curriculum or write your own material? What types of sermon series do you use? Do you use story telling with drama/skits?

Brent and Stephen discuss their recommendations for pastor's and children's ministry. They highlight their top 5 recommendations, with one bonus favorite! What books are in your top resource list? Book Recommendations: 1. "Think Orange" by Reggie Joyner 2. "Communicating For A Change" by Andy Stanley 3. "Christian Formation" by James Estep 4. "Creativity, Inc." by Ed Catmull 5. "Hacking Leadership" by Mike Myatt Bonus: "Stuff Christians Like" by John Acuff

Brent and Stephen discuss the importance of setting goals and how to strategically look forward in ministry and set parameters for evaluating ministry, outreach, and success. Do you set several small goals or a few large goals? Do you use Ministry Action Plans (MAPS)? Or Wildly Important Goals (WIGS)? How do you measure goals? What kind of timeframe do you set on goals? Give us your feedback!

Brent and Stephen discuss how to know your role in your church, on staff and under your senior pastor. How do you create successful systems and strategies, without losing spiritual values and principles? How do you manage the business and spiritual sides of ministry? Give us your feedback and perspectives!

Brent and Stephen discuss getting stuff done and being productive in your ministry. How do you manage tasks? Do you use any productivity database? Give us your ideas and feedback! Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/ Asana: https://app.asana.com/

Brent and Stephen discuss the importance of Sunday security in your children's ministry. What check-in system do you use? Do you utilize a church database? Give us your thoughts and feedback!

Brent and Stephen film in front of a live audience at Fusion Children's Leader Conference 2016, held at Stone Church in Yakima. Watch as they discuss leveraging technology in your kids ministry.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Chantel Rohr teaches a workshop on early childhood development and classroom techniques. What do you do with little ones? This workshop will demonstrate practical tools of storytelling and classroom management techniques that fit the learning styles and developmental stages of children in your nursery and preschool rooms.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Noah Naipo leads a workshop on the importance of safety and risk management in ministry, an aspect often overlooked but so vital for every ministry.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Stephen Salmon teaches a workshop on Sunday morning programs. This workshop provides resources to incorporate in your services on Sunday's.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference: The fourth General Session featuring Pastor Don Ross, Network Leader at the Northwest Ministry Network.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Don Ross leads a workshop on making courageous decisions. When the stakes are high and tension is mounting, your values are tested and you have to make a choice, that's called a courageous decision. They are always tough and you'll have to make many during your ministry. This workshop will give you guiding principles that will help you be both decisive and obedient.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Brent Colby teaches a workshop on secular verses sacred culture. What does the culture of your Children's Ministry feel like? What type of content is brought or should be brought into your services? Let's explore what it can look like to be in the world, but not of it.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Chad Dickenson teaches a workshop on doing ministry beyond Sunday morning. Every week you have 60-90 minutes with the kids in your ministry. But what happens during the other 10,000 minutes that week can either reinforce the lessons they've learned or distract them from them. In this workshop, we'll look at practical ways to minister to students throughout the week without adding on to your already busy to-do list. Spoiler alert: It's more than parent partnership.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Dorene Heeter teaches a workshop on spiritual milestone markers in ministry and how to steer family discipleship. This session is designed to give you some tools to help parents succeed in being the spiritual leaders of their homes. We will describe spiritual "milestone markers" throughout the life of a child include baptism, communion, and dedication.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Jessica Downs leads a workshop on how to serve under your senior pastor's authority. Servant leadership is a concept we learn from Jesus Himself, but what does that look like for us as Children's Pastors? How do we lead the people under us with authority and yet support and submit to those in authority over us?

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Emily Wright teaches a workshop on the value of ministry that is gender specific. Today more than ever, girls and boys need to understand God's design for their lives. In a world where gender identity and marriage are being redefined by culture, the church can help bring clarity to what it means to be a godly man and woman. We'll be discussing the specific needs of boys and girls and why gender specific ministry is vital today.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Greg Backes teaches a workshop on how to produce quality videos for your ministry, on a limited budget. In this workshop, he presents a quick look at how to enhance videos for your ministry including a brief overview of how to properly light subjects, determine composition, and a hands-on set up of shooting a scene.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Paul King teaches a workshop on how to handle gender confusion and pressures from today's society. Due to the increasingly visible culture of homosexuality, moving from acceptance and normal to celebrating and promoting, you might be curious how to approach this sensitive topic with parents in your ministry. In this workshop, we will discuss how to counter the culture of gender confusion, as well as talk through scenarios and give resources to help equip you as a leader.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Michael Anderson leads a workshop on how to create unforgettable environments in your ministry. Do you ever feel like your kids gatherings are lacking in dynamics? Are kids bored? Are your volunteers falling asleep during small groups? Learn the importance of speaking the language of today's kids, and helping them experience the gospel through creating engaging environments.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Nick Caalim teaches a workshop on how to train and disciple parents in your ministry. Equipping parents to be the primary spiritual leader for their children is one of the biggest impacts your ministry can have. But every family is different, with dynamics which are unique to just themselves and not enough time to fit in all that a parent would like to do to lead their kids. The spiritual parenting principles can provide parents with a framework on how to think about their spiritual influence rather than 'have-to' tasks.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Sean King and Kyla Hedge lead a workshop on how to create a culture of worship in your ministry. Do I really have to pay people to use their gifts for Jesus? How does a church create a culture of worship where musicians want to be involved without expecting a "kick back"? How do they attract talent and know what to do with them when they show up? And, the age old question, how do you answer, "Do I have to do a hymn in order to keep the 'older folks' off my back?" In this session we will take a look at: the elements of worship, the product of worship, the people of worship, and recruiting and raising up church musicians.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Shawn Backus teaches a workshop on the importance of mentoring. How do we take the wild enthusiasm of a boy and help him to follow the path to becoming a passionate "Christ-like" man?

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Dave M. Cameron leads a workshop on spirit empowered children's ministry and the history of the Pentecostal faith. Children's Pastors and Leaders today continue a great legacy of children's ministry aimed at training up the next generation of believers. Come learn some of the stories of the heroes of the faith and discover historical principles that apply to children's ministries today.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference: The third General Session featuring Pastor Brent Colby, Children's Director for the Northwest Ministry Network.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference: The second General Session featuring author, Rebekah Metteer.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Brent Colby teaches a workshop on recruiting and leading volunteers, and leading them on fleek... whatever that means.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Rebekah Metteer teaches a workshop on how to deal with disappointment in life and ministry. What to do when life and ministry are not what you had planned and how to find divine appointments among the disappointments.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: Al Soto teaches a workshop on the importance of emotional health in your teams. All the empirical research gives evidence that the personal health of a leader is what strongly influences the effectiveness and health of how leaders are able to build and maintain ministry leadership teams. In this workshop one will discover how a family system's approach to leadership can help one begin to identify and understand how leadership is an emotional journey that is a continuous process of unpacking life events that shape how a person manages conflict as well as shares power which emancipates team members to graduate to new levels of maturity.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference: The first General Session featuring Pastor Al Soto, lead pastor of Bayside Church of Placerville in Placerville, CA.

Brent and Stephen discuss how to successfully run a meeting, keep your team on task, and improve the efficiency and productivity of your ministry.

Brent and Stephen talk about strategically planning holiday events, how to reach the community, and how to evaluate and assess the success of the event.

Brent and Stephen discuss how to creatively and practically incorporate worship in Children's Ministry.

Brent and Stephen discuss the how to's of preaching to kids.

Brent and Stephen discuss the how to's of keeping your Volunteers in Children's Ministry.