Kids Ministry Collective

KMC #81 That's a Wrap! Mike Johnson

Join Tom Bump and his guest Mike Johnson as they discuss how to have an amazing Christmas season. Mike share's his passion for helping children's ministry leaders make the most of the Christmas season and has created a fantastic resource.

That's a Wrap is a two-week Christmas series that can be inserted into any curriculum cycle and utilized by any size church! 

If you'd like to check it out use this link: https://iseeitproductions.com/product/thats-a-wrap-christmas/  Enter the Code:KMCPodcast you'll get 10% off too!!!

 

 

KMC #80 Teaching Kids Thanksgiving

Join host Tom Bump and his guest Christi Gordy the Founder & Executive Director of Canopy Life International which is an amazing ministry focused on making a difference in kids lives in Kenya! 

You don't want to miss this and they are offering something very special for KMC Listeners! A FREE Thanksgiving Kit that you can use on a Sunday Or another time to even connect your kids to Kenya! 

Homeschool families would benefit from this too! So Please share the podcast and info so more can learn about Canopy Life!

For our FREE Thanksgiving downloadable kid: www.canopylife.org/thanksgiving

To learn more about Canopy Life International and how your families can even go on a missions trip together head to their website: www.canopylife.org 

 

KMC #79 How to avoid a Time Famine

Join host Tom Bump and learn about some clear steps to avoiding a "Time Famine" which was defined by Micheal Hyatt " The feeling of having more tasks, than time." 

What are some steps we can take to learn to delegate so we can instead be the leaders God calls us to be and we can help the body of Christ to become what it should be.

Read Eph. 4:11-16 and consider what you are doing on a regular basis to help the body of Christ to be built up?

      Begin with honest prayer, seeking the Lord of the Harvest.

      Create a list of things you're doing and highlight things that drain you, you struggle to get done.

 1.Define. You need to know exactly what you are going to delegate. Don’t be vague.

 

2. Plan. Write down how you will present this task. List potential concerns and objections

 

3. Select. Which of your team has the best skills to deliver the results.

 

4. Explain. Tell the person why the task is important and why they are right for it.

 

5. Define success. Be clear about what success looks like, if possible with a measurable target.

 

6. Set limits. Let them know what they are accountable for and where they can get help. Don’t forget that last part. Oftentimes after delegation has started the person working on it runs into a snag and has no idea where to turn to for some help or guidance. Here is one way you separate delegation from dumping.

 

7. Invite doubt. Many volunteers start excited when delegated to but then feel that expressing doubt about the project or their ability is a sign of weakness. Encourage them to ask questions and assess the project on their own terms. Also, take note of the previous point in number six.

 

8. Get commitment. Don’t expect immediate agreement. Give them time to think it over. Never rush this stage.

 

9. Agree. Set milestones and timelines and how you will monitor progress. Get them to suggest as much of this as possible.

 

10. Recognize and reward. Successful completion of a delegated project or task should mean something. Be clear from the outset how much value you place on it and reflect that in the reward you offer.

KMC #78 Special Edition! Tom&Tom Orange Bloggers Week!

Join Tom Bump as he is the special guest on the YMSidekick Podcast with Tom Pounder 

Tom & Tom Kick-off Orange Bloggers week and you can learn about the Orange Conference 2020 

If you'd like to follow some of the excitement check out all the blogs here

 

If you'd like to know more about KMC Coaching head over to KMCCoach.net

KMC#77 Discipleship, Conference Do's & Much More! with Tom Bump

Join Tom as he shares some ideas about discipleship in Kids ministry. It's also Conference season again and he shares some top tips to make the most of it. For those unable to attend a conference, he shares a solution for you too!

finally, If you have been in hard seasons of ministry, you will want to be watching for Tom's book that will be coming soon. He's looking for leaders to share there stories as a kind of Hebrew's 11 section to younger leaders. If you'd like to contribute you can message Tom

 

For Coaching: kmccoach.net

For book interest: wbman99(at)gmail.com

KMC #76 When It's Time To Go- Mike Johnson

Join host Tom Bump and his guest, Mike Johnson (www.iseeitproductions.com)

Have you ever thought you when you enter the ministry to bring your casket with you? You should! When we enter ministry we often will encounter challenges and if you approach your calling as a life-calling, not just a job,  it can see you through many things. But, When God tells you it's time to move on, what do you do? How do you leave a ministry? Mike has some sage advice for us in this fantastic episode. It's a little long, as I couldn't bring myself to stop recording. 

You can check out Mike's Blog: www.mikejohnsonsblog.com

 

 

KMC #75 Ministry on a Small Church Budget with Bill Gunter

Join Tom Bump and his guest Bill Gunter www.smallchurchkidmin.com as they discuss the challenges of doing ministry with a smaller church budget.

We don't focus on what we don't have, we focus on what we do and we maximize it.

Learn some great ideas about how you can do impactful ministry with little.

 

KMC #74 Dear Younger Me with Lynne Howard

Join host Tom Bump and his guest Lynne Howard lynnehoward.com as they discuss a great blog post she wrote "what I would tell my non-parent self as a Children's Pastor. 

Some great tips to remember when we think about how to better minister to today's parents.

 

 

KMC #73 Heart of Worship with Yancy!

Join host Tom Bump and his amazing guest Yancy! as they discuss the heart of worship for children's ministry today. 

If you have not heard of Heartbeat Curriculum that was designed by Yancy, I highly recommend you go check it out!

Here are some links to Yancy's music and the Hearbeat Curriculum. 

YancyMinistries.com/Heartbeat

 

KidminWorship.com

LittlePraiseParty.com

YancyMinistries.com

If you'd like to have Yancy come to your church for a family concert: YancyMinistries.com/events

KMC#72 Leadership Hacks to Build Leadership Teams

Join host Tom Bump as he shares some leadership hacks to develop your own leadership team. Every leader needs help and no one should ever lead alone! So how does someone find and develop other leaders? Tom shares some tested and true principles that you can implement today to begin building your leadership team! 

If  you are looking for 1:1 coaching use this form https://forms.gle/qjYAvxvodyhXAKjv7

If you are looking for Small Church Group coaching: https://forms.gle/u7ZbEQ8C4UGzn8oMA

If you are looking for Group Coaching: https://forms.gle/8PYD6y3cZ26z5paX8

If you'd like to know more check out www.kmccoach.net 

 

 

 

KMC #71- Creating A Gospel Journey- Jason Tilly & John Tillman

Join Tom Bump and  his guests, Jason Tilley & John Tillman of Ministry Accelerator as they discuss how every leader should have an intentional gospel journey planned for their kids ministry.

Based on the 4 part blog posts:  https://ministryaccelerator.org/a-childs-gospel-journey-part-1-the-big-presentation-992a515d378d 

If you are interested in a group coaching where Jason and Tom are forming then head over to www.kmccoach.net and fill out the interest form at the bottom of the page and indicate: "the gospel journey" You will receive info regarding an upcoming coaching group. 

KMC#70 Moving from Hectic to Healthy

One of the books that have greatly influenced my life and ministry is by my friend Craig Jutila. He and his wife Mary wrote this book many years ago. Craig passed away in 2018 and is greatly missed but I'm thankful for the conversations I had with him and for this book.

If you struggle with balance in life and ministry I strongly recommend this book!!!! I share some of the topics covered in this episode.

If  you are looking for 1:1 coaching use this form https://forms.gle/qjYAvxvodyhXAKjv7

If you are looking for Small Church Group coaching: https://forms.gle/u7ZbEQ8C4UGzn8oMA

If you are looking for Group Coaching: https://forms.gle/8PYD6y3cZ26z5paX8

If you'd like to know more check out www.kmccoach.net 

KMC #69 Dealing With Discouragement-Small Church Edition#2

Join Host Tom Bump and guest Bill Gunter www.smallchurchkidmin.com  as they discuss a recent blog post about dealing with discouragement. 

For many leaders, especially smaller church leaders dealing with low numbers, small volunteer teams and unmet expectations can really bring discouragement. 

Learn in this episodes some things you can do to help prevent discouragement from taking over.

 

Small Church Coaching Groups- Beginning in Early August! 2 Groups (4 people max) will be meeting once a month for up to 1 1/2hrs and helping bring clarity and focus to their own leadership and ministry. Practical and specific help will be given to each leader and you can get 4 months of coaching for $25 a month. There will one group meeting in the afternoons and one early evening. Space is limited! In order to be considered you need to email tom at wbman99(at) gmail.com or go to www.kmccoach.net and go to the coaching section and fill out the info box at the bottom of the page. indicate you'd like to participate in the small church coaching group. 

KMC#68 How to Survive the Summer Kids Ministry Season

Join Tom Bump as he shares from experience how to survive the Summer Children's Ministry season. 

It can be so hard for so many leaders and sometimes even tempting to walk away from it all. BUT, there are some things one can do to help survive the season and even thrive in it.

Hope  you enjoy this episode.

For Coaching Info Check out www.KMCCoach.net 

 

 

KMC #67 Engaging Children with Scripture with Jesse Stone

This is an amazing episode with host Tom Bump, and Jesse Stone who serves with https://onehope.net/   They are reaching over 1 BILLION children with the Good News! 

In this episode Jesse shares why every Kidmin leader and Parent should be intentionally engaging children with Scripture and break out of the false assumptions that children cannot understand deeper things.

You will be challenged to re-examine your approach to handling Scripture with children. 

Please share this episode and we'd love it if you'd subscribe and leave a review where you listen to this podcast!

 

KMC#66 Small Church Edition1 - With Bill Gunter

The First Edition of the KMC Small Church Edition- Join Host Tom Bump and his guest as they begin a monthly series called The Kids Ministry Collective Small Church Edition. 

These special episodes will feature topics and guests that are smaller church leaders! We are super excited to share these with you

Check out www.smallchurchkidmin.com for more things Small Church!

KMC#65 Coaching vs Training! Jessica Bealer

Join Tom Bump and his guest Jessica Bealer as they discuss why every Children's ministry needs to develop a Coaching structure vs a training culture. 

For many leaders in Children’s ministry the thought of building a coaching structure seems like the impossible dream. Or that establishing people to coach their ministry could feel unnecessary

My guest today shared some amazing information at Orange Conference along with her husband Frank. Jessica Bealer welcome back to the KMC!

 

Tell our listeners about what you’ve been up to lately and your work with Generis.

 

Ok, so I was in this breakout and was so struck by the importance of changing our thinking about what it means to have a coaching structure:  I heard it said in a different breakout but it fit with what you and Frank were going to share: We recruit all year long and most of us only do 1 or 2 trainings a year, so what does that mean for those we recruit in between?  I started to wonder if this isn’t why we have leaders who quit so quickly, because they just haven't been equipped well enough from start to finish.

 

Q1-What did you mean by we develop an effective coaching structure?

*teaching them how and why we do what we do? Coaching is on going- individual who is assigned and focused to develop leaders.

Coaches are to serve the leaders.

 

Q2-So most of us have a training mentality why do you believe a Coaching mentality/structure is the way to go?

• Training events doesn’t connect with all your team, and coaching reaches all the team.
• Its personal.
• How can we put individuals in place that are “experts” to better lead the team?
• So the training happens every week.

Create an onboarding coaching

Create an existing volunteer coaching.

 

Q3- So how does one go about setting up a Coaching Structure? What are the initial steps?

1. You need to realize that you are pulling some of your Leaders away from the small group room. And ask them to step into a higher leader.  (they need to be your best) Don’t duplicate 2nd best. - They need to be good, but they need to be able to lead adults.

     *The goal is to take them off the roster and into a coach- (Huge hurdle)-

     * Help them realize what there Job is and what it isn’t.

     *Don’t let them do both.

     B.- Cast the vision to these new Coaches and what this model looks like.

         *Establish leadership and then coaches-

Q5- You gave a caution when it comes to the huddles a lot of us do pre-service: and shared that we often undermine the coaching strategy we focus on logistics: what else should we be aware of?

*You can define wins here.

 

Q6- So how would a small church leader implement this coaching model?

What would be the most important steps to take?

• You still need someone to help you. - There will be a time where you can’t do it all anymore.
• When you get to 10 or more volunteers, you need a coach.-
• Looking for 2, a Coordinator and a Coach
• 70% rule- If they can do it of what I can do, hand it over.
• You are not looking for you, you want them to start with 70% of what you can do they won’t stay there for long they will go better.
• You have to replace you.

 

We have to inspect what we expect!

When you hand something off. - go into your calendar and set up a recurring followup with them.

 

How can leaders learn more about this model? You have a coaching program opening up soon tell us about.

If you'd like to see the presentation notes from Orange conference Generis.com/orange-jess-Bealer-coaching

 

KMC#64 Unlocking Creativity with Jason Tilley

Join Tom Bump and his guest, Jason Tilley (www.ministryaccelerator.org)

as they discuss how any leader can unlock creativity to solve any challenge they face in ministry.

Q1 So why is it that leaders can struggle with Creativity?

Q2: What can a leader do to get that Creativity back or stir it up inside of them?

 

Believe you are creative.

• We are made in the image of a creative God and are therefore creative in our own right.
• Believing a lie that you are not creative is a surefire way to keep it locked up.

Q3: So we work on our belief system to embrace the God-given creativity: where does one start?

 

Define the Problem

• Make observations
• Ask questions- Why does this happen?

*Get to the root.-

 

Q4: Sometimes it can feel overwhelming our outside our comfort zones to lead creatively, what do I need to do to make sure I’m moving forward?

*God-sized problems take God-sized solutions.

 

Assemble a team- doesn’t have to be staff-

• Dreamers
• Designers
• Developers
• Doers

Q5: So I’ve looked at a problem and have a good grasp on it, I’ve started defining the challenge I have and start observing some causes and maybe even solutions. I’ve started gathering some others who have gifts to help, what next?

 

Find Your Solution

• A process by which the group finds a solution they want to try
• Constraints and Context

 

Q6- this can seem very overwhelming to leaders especially if they struggle with having any help, what encouragement can you give?

 

Start Small

• Prototype and iterate until you are happy with your solution

 

Make a Choice

• Pivot or persevere.
• Do I want to keep trying or is it time to look for a new solution?

KMC #63 Summer Day Camps! Kent Currie

Join Tom Bump and his guest Kent Currie as they discuss how any church can offer Day Camps. Kent has been doing these for years and offers some great advice and wisdom about how and why Day Camps can be a powerful ministry for churches to offer. 

KMC#62 Orange Conf 19 Recap with Steve Cullum "Student Ministry Podcast"

Join Tom and Steve Cullum, Host of The Student Ministry Podcast as they discuss what they and 7,000+ people learned at Orange Conference 2019! 

They share many of the highlights from this years You Lead Day as well as from the Breakouts and General Sessions.

This year's theme was "It's Personal" and it was an amazing conference! 

If you know of a Student Ministry leader, be sure to share The Student Ministry Podcast with them 

Steve Cullum is a great leader and he shares some great wisdom on each episode!

ENJOY!

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