Do you as a Kids Pastor use a curriculum or do you write your own material for you Kids Church needs? There is nothing wrong with both in matter of fact I use both. Most of the time I write my own material for Kids Church as far as the lesson goes but have been known to use curriculum from time to time such as High Voltage Kids Ministry (highly recommend) Rivers Edge Children's ministry, I have even used Elevate and Orange before. No matter what you do for you kids church needs we should always make sure we are preparing like we should. In Children's Ministry we can find our self buried in other Kid Pastor duties that lesson prep sometimes can slip away from us. We spend all in making sure everything else is good to go and that we have future plans going forward but prep can slip away. Its easy especially using curriculum to let the curriculum do your job, by glancing at it just enough you have a general idea on what will go on, what the verse is, what bible story is taught; and we think to ourselves that is ok. Maybe if we write our own we have lessons that we know are good that we fall back on because hey "I know it like the back of my hand" and don't prepare but repeat. No matter what we do whether its use curriculum or write your own lets not get trapped by the lazy bug and take time to prepare like we should. A few excuses we use on why prepping is not that bid of a deal and why that's messed up.
1. They are kids, they wont really know if you are prepared.
This is easy to fall into, after all we are smarter than kids right? They wont know if we are just winging it... Wrong! Kids can tell when you are not prepared. They can tell when you just throw something together of making it up on the spot. Kids want to feel that they are important and if we as teachers of the Gospel are going to do our job we need to prepare. Spend time in the scripture and story you will share with the kids. Make sure we are ready and prepared.
2. I just do seem to have time
Time is a hard thing to find when in Kids Ministry that is for sure (can I get an AMEN) but we can't get to busy that we cant even find time to prepare. Preparation should be high on our to do list. Even if it means coming in the office early or staying late or even prepping while at home (this is true for bi-vocational pastors, trust me I have been there myself while in school, talk about no time!) Lets not let the importance of prepping trick us and find time to prep.
3. Well I am just lazy
The lazy trap is big to fall into because in ministry although you serve with a staff and have a Pastor you respond to we are still on our own and its easy to get lazy.This is probably one of my biggest weaknesses not that I am extremely lazy, I just get board! If laziness is a problem, lets map out our day or our week, it helps keep us on track or just drink mt dew or a red bull :)
Lets not forget to prepare, after all this is what we are called to do is teach the Gospel and we should ALWAYS be prepared!
you can find the link for High voltage kids ministry by Brian Dollar here
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