Adora Svitak is an amazing 14-year-old (she was only 12 at the time of this talk).  In this video, she shares her thoughts about what adults can learn from kids.  Watch to gain great insight about effectively connecting with kids.

Do you want to increase your personal ministry impact?

Here's a big key...
FAITHFULNESS.

Were you looking for a quick, easy answer?  There's not one.

Increased impact comes from prolonged obedience.  With long-term faithfulness comes spiritual power, wisdom, and influence.

And...long-term faithfulness doesn't happen by accident.  Here are 4 keys to increasing your spiritual impact through faithfulness.

Sustainability.  If you are going to be faithful, you must find a ministry pace that you can sustain for the long haul.

Those who win the marathon aren't the fastest sprinters.  It's those who maintain a great pace for the entire race.  Can you continue to do ministry at your current pace for the next 20-30 years?

Soul care.  If you are going to increase your spiritual impact through faithfulness, you have to be in a spiritually healthy place yourself.  If you are not, it will eventually become apparent.  You can only fake it for so long.   You must take care of yourself spiritually.  

Staying away from sin.  Sin will interrupt your faithfulness and hinder your spiritual impact.  Yes, God forgives and you can still impact others, but it may just be a shadow of the impact you could have had if you hadn't been taken down by sin.  Don't flirt with sin...run from it.  Put boundaries around yourself for protection.

Source.  Faithfulness that results in spiritual impact happens when you live in the humble awareness that God is your complete source of strength and power.  Depend upon Him for everything.

Think about the increased impact each of us can have 15-20 years from now if we stay on course.  Let's encourage and equip each other to remain faithful.

Are you finding it increasingly difficult to get families involved outside of Sunday mornings?  You're not alone.  Families' schedules continue to get squeezed.  This means they are making choices with their time.

If you want to impact the most families with key ministry programs/classes, consider offering the programs/classes on Sunday mornings when families are already at church.  The less you ask them to come back outside of Sunday morning, the better participation you will have.

Why offer a class on Wednesday night that will be attended by 5 parents when you can offer it on Sunday morning and have 10 parents attend?

Here are 6 things you can do on Sunday mornings to impact families in addition to offering worship services.

Special classes like child dedication and baptism.  Do you have a class that is required before child dedication or baptism?  Why not offer it on Sunday morning?  People can attend the class before, during, or after a worship service. 

Counseling appointments.  Set them up before or after a worship service. 

Potential volunteer interviews.  Do you have a hard time connecting with potential volunteers during the week?  Schedule to meet with them before, during, or after a service.

Volunteer training.  Do you want a high percentage of your volunteers to attend a training event?  Have it on Sunday morning before or after the time they serve.  Better yet, have it during the time they normally serve and have someone else cover their volunteer duties.
 
Volunteer orientation.  Do you have an orientation that people go through before they start volunteering?  Have it on Sunday morning.  They can attend worship one hour and the class the other hour.

Required parent meetings before events such as camp.  Are you going to have a required parent meeting in preparation for an event?  Have it on Sunday morning. 

What programs or classes do you offer on Sunday morning in addition to worship services?

If you do this, what is your strategy?

What other ideas or suggestions do you have for offering programming or classes on Sunday morning?