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Midwest Connection: Trinity Children’s Ministry

Midwest Connection: Trinity Children’s Ministry. Vision, the Spirit, and Backward Design. Introductions. Where you are from? What ar e the c urrent Children’s Ministries at your church? What led you to choose this seminar among those offered?. Trinity Story.

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Midwest Connection: Trinity Children’s Ministry

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  1. Midwest Connection:Trinity Children’s Ministry Vision, the Spirit, and Backward Design

  2. Introductions • Where you are from? • What are the current Children’s Ministries at your church? • What led you to choose this seminar among those offered?

  3. Trinity Story • Began with seven families in 2003 • Optimistic and well-funded • Paid musicians and childcare • Children’s Ministries: Children’s Church (PreK-2nd) and Sunday School (Pre-K/K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-8) • One person lead Children’s Church • Curriculum and well-developed procedures

  4. Change is inevitable • Budget tightened • Congregants, including charter members and great leaders, moved out of the area • New lay people assumed positions • Some inconsistency because of time and energy demands • A new pastor called

  5. Vision Created Use of educational resource: Backward Design Team created: Pastor, Worship leader/youth pastor, intern, new Director of Children’s Ministry Meetings: Throughout spring and summer for Fall 2010 implementation

  6. Backward Design Identify learning goals•    What do you want students to know?•    What do you want students to be able to do?Determine acceptable evidence•    How will you know that they got it?•    How will you assess that they got it?Plan learning activities and instruction•    What activities will you use to make sure that they get there?•    How are these activities connected to students’ understanding? https://tle.wisc.edu/solutions/lecturing/%e2%80%9cbackward-design%e2%80%9d-processunderstanding?

  7. Backward Design Identify learning goals•    What do you want students to know?•    What do you want students to be able to do? What are the big ideas that we want our kids to be able to transfer to the next stage in life? What do we want them to be able to know and do? Deliberate and intentional formation of kids.

  8. Backward Design Determine acceptable evidence•    How will you know that they got it?•    How will you assess that they got it? What do we want our students to look like when they leave us for college? What kind of long-term church experience would we like them to have?

  9. Backward Design Plan learning activities and instruction•    What activities will you use to make sure that they get there?•    How are these activities connected to students’ understanding? What practices do we want our kids to participate in? What Sunday School curriculum will best meet our goals and values?

  10. MISSION The aim of the Children’s Ministry at Trinity Presbyterian Church is to guide children to encounter the loving God, embrace the gospel of Christ, and to participate in the Spirit-formed community.

  11. CORE VALUES 1. A focus on the gospel in the story of creation, fall, redemption, and new creation and in the doctrinal wisdom of Scripture. 2. An intention that children participate in the listening, learning, and worship of God. 3. An emphasis on compassion for others and service in the Kingdom in response to the generous love of God the Father.

  12. PRACTICES Age-appropriate goals and values for grade levels

  13. PRACTICES Experiences that will shape our children and work to fulfill our aims and core values

  14. Vision Shared Communicated vision in parent/volunteer gathering Deliberate effort to include children in the service and life of church Shared responsibility— • All are called to care for children • Two teachers per classroom in Children’s Church and Sunday School Volunteers for Children’s Church on 2-week rotation with assistant-leader/leader for consistency Reduced age level to Age 3- 1st grade for Children’s Church Rearranged grade levels for Sunday School

  15. YEAR 1 • Volunteer Leaders • Children’s Church • Sunday School

  16. YEAR 2 • Excellent leadership • Children’s Church • Sunday School

  17. IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES Children and the Session • Are members of the session/future session actively involved in children’s ministries? • Is there someone on the session who is actively asking questions about how decisions affect kids in the service? • Remember: the Pastor is the pastor of the kids.

  18. IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES Children and the Service • How do we help train kids to be actively engaged in listening to the sermon? Tools to help parents? • How is the youngest attender able to engage in worship? • What components of a service are kids missing if they are in a children’s church program?

  19. Evaluation and Adaptation Particular times of evaluation • What have we learned that has worked well and what hasn’t worked? • Are we hitting our goals and reflecting our values? • Have the circumstances changed, causing us to need to revise our current structures and approaches? • Don’t beafraid to tweak and make changes. • Set realistic goals and expectations.

  20. Evaluation and Adaptation Remembering to connect Children’s Ministries • How does children’s ministry relate to youth ministry? • If we have kids for 18 years, what do we hope that they have experienced?

  21. YEAR 3 • Leadership • Children’s Church • Sunday School

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