RELEVANT CHILDREN'S MINISTRY

This week I am leading our children's ministry team in a retreat (we call it an advance).

Today we spent the entire day working on ourselves as leaders.  We spent time with Jesus, had a Bible study, talked about personal responsibility and sharpened some of our ministry skills.

Tomorrow we will spend the entire day in strategic planning.  A big part of this will be questioning everything we do.  We'll take every part of our ministry and ask these and other questions.

• Does this still correlate with our goals?
• Is this still helping us accomplish our purpose?
• Is this overlapping or duplicating something else we are doing?
• Are we seeing lives changed through this?
• Is it working?
• Does it need to be tweaked or adjusted?
• How can we improve it?
• Do we need to stop doing it?

Question everything in your ministry on a regular basis.  If you don't, you'll find yourself busy but ineffective.  Just because it worked yesterday doesn't mean it will work today.  

CHILDREN'S MINISTRY STAFF TEAM AT PLANNING RETREAT