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Why does your church have a children's ministry? Is this truly
important to the church? Why should children's ministry have a budget?
so big? How high is the cost to provide them with care?
cults?
Do you have a good response ready at the moment?
questions? Are you taking the right steps to combat these perceptions?
Not only can you have answers to these and many other questions that challenge the
Ministers of children, it is also possible to give greater importance to children's ministry
So that they do not do it again.
Christ himself valued children, often mentioning them in His
teachings, and by taking time to minister to their needs. On one occasion,
when the disciples began to question each other who would be the most
great, Christ put a child in the middle of the group, saying: "He who receives in me
name a child like this, receive me; and he who receives me does not receive me
but to him who sent me "(Mark 9:37). Also Matthew, Mark and Luke recorded
in his gospels the occasion when Christ received different little children and He
He began to put His hands on them, and to bless them. The disciples were outraged
Seeing this, they started to scold the parents of the children. But Christ,
again he stressed the importance of children, saying: "Let the children come to me, and
do not stop it; for of such is the kingdom of heaven "(Matthew 19:14). Through
From the Bible we can read the importance that children have in the eternal plan of God.
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The statistics reaffirm the benefit of children's ministry. In numerous
studies, conducted by the Barna Research Group, it has been found that
There are definitely great benefits when you minister to children. Among other
things, they discovered that ...
• Half of those who accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior
they do before they turn 13 years old
• 61% of adults who attended church when they were children, still
they do regularly
• 78% of adults who did not attend church when they were children are absent
frequently
• People who convert to Christianity before their years of
adolescence are more likely to remain in it "absolutely
committed "that those converted after adults
It is imperative that our churches have an appropriate perspective of the ministry of
children to reach them, evangelize them and disciple them effectively. If we do it from
this way, we will be joining God in fulfilling the Great Commission, and also
prepare to win a generation for Christ.
