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Children's Ministry
Many children’s ministry leaders talk about the importance of creating child-targeted
children’s ministry environments kids enjoy where lessons are taught with a view to each child’s developmental stage.
It’s a good thing for a church’s children’s ministry environment to be bright, playful, kidfriendly,
and safe the sort of place where kids will want to go. It’s also important to have adequate signage for new visitors,
and if you use check-in technology, it helps to cultivate a good experience for moms and dads when your system is
user-friendly and upto-date.
But kid-friendly facilities and activities are merely a first step.
It’s also important to open the door for kids and families personally.
Find a few parents who are passionate about your church’s mission and vision.
Invite them to stand in the reception area of your children’s ministry each week and encourage
them to build relationships with new families. And when you’re recruiting team members to open the front door of your
children’s ministry, look for individuals who are gifted at being outgoing and welcoming.
You’re not just looking for warm bodies; you’re looking for warm leaders.
Find a way to make these hospitality team members easily identifiable
with name tags, lanyards, or t-shirts. That helps to make your children’s
ministry environment welcoming. It also helps with the next goal.
There are a variety of reasons for that as we know, but
I think it’s a terrible shame that many churches have relinquished the battle for children’s
time and energy in favor of other competing activities. I say it’s time to reclaim those precious moments for children’s choir!
The long-term (and short-term) gains are more than worth it.
In Spirit and Truth
Singing in a worship service, and therefore helping lead the worship service, helps children f
eel the power of the presence of God in the context of worship.
It will make them better worshipers as they start to grasp the impactful beauty of the worship experience.
Singing in a choir at school or in a community group is its own unique experience. And likewise, so should singing in a children’s
church choir with the additional spiritual aspect.
You Raise the children.
Singing in a choir at an early age helps develop self-esteem, studies have shown. Performing in front of
people when the choir is fully prepared and confident imprints a powerful positive impression on the child.
And take things a step further: Performing in a musical where dialogue is employed with songs heightens the
experience and confidence level for successfully tackling the challenges of childhood (and success breeds success,
helping the child develop into a healthy adult with the confidence to tackle the challenges of adulthood).
My personal children’s choir experience, while life-changing and unforgettable, is not unique, I’m happy to report. I estimate
millions of children’s lives have been positively changed by their early choir experience. If your church doesn’t have a children’s choir,
I urge you to start one as soon as possible. Those transformative experiences are waiting in the wings to happen and will give the
participating children wings of their own.
P. O. Box 70437 Kampala +256707452109 info@ourladyofmount 1st Mass 7:00 am Luganda 3rd Mass 10:00 am English 5th Mass 5:00 pm English
Children ministry During children Mass (every first sunday of the Month
Children Mass In the Church's Main Hall
Fr. Blaise During Children Mass
Some of St. Blaise Children Choir During Children Mass
A Little Child Shall Lead Them
Every time a children’s choir sings in a worship service, it’s a special event. Uncles, aunts, cousins,
and others who might not be regular churchgoers come to church to hear their special one sing. children’s choir and
have them sing regularly or at least semiregularly to “bring in the sheaves. Church Member
It’s an Opportunity
While a cast of thousands isn’t required to support a children’s choir, it can create an opportunity to involve some
other members of your church (especially senior adults or teenagers who generally love children). Invite children’s Mass or
other individuals to sponsor and serve refreshments at a break during or after rehearsal. Then reward them by singing that is ready for
prime time as a private performance after the refreshment break. And if you prepare a musical, there are opportunities to involve some
others in the production through various additional roles if you so choose.Church Member
Music Is Transformative to children
There are plenty of quality team-building, social interaction, you-name-it activities in which children can engage that don’t
involve music. But as we know, music is a unique, God-given transformative experience like none other.
Sure, the child will probably always remember that goal they made that won the soccer match for the team, but can they sing that
twenty years later? Forgive me for comparing music with sports (although many do make that comparison for good reason at times).
But the takeaway here is that sports vs. music is truly the old apples vs. oranges equation.
The two activities aren’t mutually exclusive, and one can complement the other. But I believe music is in a league by itself,
since the benefits of music performance and music education are too numerous to document here. Church Member
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