Mission
Good News this Easter
Are you looking for help to share the good news of Easter this year? Max7.org the free resource website has some awesome animations and corresponding sessions, and they’re free to download!
Read MoreChildren in Mission
Article written by Anand Jeyakumar Anand works with children living in slum communities in Chennai, India with Metro Missions. If you are interested in exploring this topic with others from your church or community, Anand has helped create a hands-on session in the Children Everywhere Challenge. It is just one of many resources to be…
Read MoreEngaging Families
No matter who we are, what our age is, or where we are from, we are all part of a family. It is important to remember this as we plan strategies in disciple-making. Here are three ideas to use as discussion starters. These questions and activities will help your family, your team and your church…
Read MoreA Little Girl Shares a Secret
The last Aim Lower Journal featured the ‘Best Secret Ever’ cards that help children introduce their friends to Jesus. Peter Empson, the creator of the cards below shares a story of a girl in a village in Myanmar who did just that – shared the best secret ever. “I was in the heart of Myanmar.…
Read MoreGCF2018 – Budapest, Hungary 14-18 May, 2018
CHILDREN EVERYWHERE WALKING WITH JESUS This is what we long to see happening! We know that children everywhere NEED to walk with Jesus if they are to flourish and become all that He intends. Helping the church to implement this shared Kingdom vision is the purpose of the Global Children’s Forum – a pioneering, partnering community…
Read MoreBest Secret Ever
Can you join all the children together using 4 connected straight lines? There is a secret way to do it. Another much greater secret tells how God has a rescue plan for everyone in the world. Cards for Children to Reach Children This is the first in a series of illustrated cards sharing ‘The Best Secret…
Read MoreChildren and Teens in Leadership
Here are two stories from Africa on what happens when we give children and teens the opportunity to serve and lead others. Children Who Lead Can children lead other children and be one of God’s workers in the harvest? Betty in Kampala, Uganda thinks they can. Betty leads the Children’s Ministry at her church involving 1800…
Read MoreChildren-at-risk as Co-agents of Mission: The church’s call to minister to, for, and with them
Written by Michelle Sheba Tolentino and Susan Hayes Greener After the worship service ended on a recent Sunday, Erika spontaneously came up to me (Susan) and asked with a smile, ‘Can I pray for you?’ I replied, ‘Yes, you can.’ I told her about the Second Lausanne Forum on Children-at-risk and mentioned that all the people coming would…
Read MoreGlobal CHILDREN’S Forum
For nine years Global Children’s’ Forum (GCF) has been creating, developing and releasing new ways of helping children’s ministry leaders around the world engage with children in their communities to share the gospel. There are numerous projects like KidsHubs (Max7, 2Fish5Bread resource disks/USBs, 1for50 training for children’s ministry leaders) that have been undertaken by GCF…
Read MoreUnderstanding Christian concepts of ‘human flourishing’ in relation to children
In recent decades there has been a growing trend for theologians to speak about about the idea of ‘human flourishing’.[1] ‘Flourishing’ is a biological, even ecological word, which evokes images of plants, gardens or whole ecosystems growing in a healthy manner.[2] Theological ethicists and public theologians (those seeking to speak about God in the civic…
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