Nwmn Fusion Cm Podcast - Audio

Brent and Stephen discuss their recommendations for pastor's and children's ministry. They highlight their top 5 recommendations, with one bonus favorite! What books are in your top resource list? Book Recommendations: 1. "Think Orange" by Reggie Joyner 2. "Communicating For A Change" by Andy Stanley 3. "Christian Formation" by James Estep 4. "Creativity, Inc." by Ed Catmull 5. "Hacking Leadership" by Mike Myatt Bonus: "Stuff Christians Like" by John Acuff

Brent and Stephen discuss the importance of setting goals and how to strategically look forward in ministry and set parameters for evaluating ministry, outreach, and success. Do you set several small goals or a few large goals? Do you use Ministry Action Plans (MAPS)? Or Wildly Important Goals (WIGS)? How do you measure goals? What kind of timeframe do you set on goals? Give us your feedback!

Brent and Stephen discuss how to know your role in your church, on staff and under your senior pastor. How do you create successful systems and strategies, without losing spiritual values and principles? How do you manage the business and spiritual sides of ministry? Give us your feedback and perspectives!

Brent and Stephen discuss getting stuff done and being productive in your ministry. How do you manage tasks? Do you use any productivity database? Give us your ideas and feedback!

Brent and Stephen discuss the importance of Sunday security in your children's ministry. What check-in system do you use? Do you utilize a church database? Give us your thoughts and feedback!

Brent and Stephen film in front of a live audience at Fusion Children's Leader Conference 2016, held at Stone Church in Yakima. Listen as they discuss leveraging technology in your kids ministry.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Emotional Health and Teams" - Al Soto teaches a workshop on the importance of emotional health in your teams. All the empirical research gives evidence that the personal health of a leader is what strongly influences the effectiveness and health of how leaders are able to build and maintain ministry leadership teams. In this workshop one will discover how a family system's approach to leadership can help one begin to identify and understand how leadership is an emotional journey that is a continuous process of unpacking life events that shape how a person manages conflict as well as shares power which emancipates team members to graduate to new levels of maturity.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Leading Volunteers On Fleek" - Brent Colby teaches a workshop on recruiting and leading volunteers, and leading them on fleek . . . whatever that means.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Sacred & Secular: Gatekeeping Culture" - Brent Colby teaches a workshop on secular verses sacred culture. What does the culture of your Children's Ministry feel like? What type of content is brought or should be brought into your services? Let's explore what it can look like to be in the world, but not of it.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Doing Ministry Beyond Sunday Morning" - Chad Dickenson teaches a workshop on doing ministry beyond Sunday morning. Every week you have 60-90 minutes with the kids in your ministry. But what happens during the other 10,000 minutes that week can either reinforce the lessons they've learned or distract them from them. In this workshop, we'll look at practical ways to minister to students throughout the week without adding on to your already busy to-do list. Spoiler alert: It's more than parent partnership.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Toddlers to Titans" - Chantel Rohr teaches a workshop on early childhood development and classroom techniques. What do you do with little ones? This workshop will demonstrate practical tools of storytelling and classroom management techniques that fit the learning styles and developmental stages of children in your nursery and preschool rooms.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Spirit Empowered Children's Ministry" - Dave M. Cameron leads a workshop on spirit empowered children's ministry and the history of the Pentecostal faith. Children's Pastors and Leaders today continue a great legacy of children's ministry aimed at training up the next generation of believers. Come learn some of the stories of the heroes of the faith and discover historical principles that apply to chlidren's ministries today.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Courageous Decisions" - Don Ross leads a workshop on making courageous decisions. When the stakes are high and tension is mounting, your values are tested and you have to make a choice, that's called a courageous decision. They are always tough and you'll have to make many during your ministry. This workshop will give you guiding principles that will help you be both decisive and obedient.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Capturing the Hearts of Boys and Girls" - Emily Wright teaches a workshop on the value of ministry that is gender specific. Today more than ever, girls and boys need to understand God's design for their lives. In a world where gender identity and marriage are being redefined by culture, the church can help bring clarity to what it means to be a godly man and woman. We'll be discussing the specific needs of boys and girls and why gender specific ministry is vital today.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Milestone Markers & Family Discipleship" - Dorene Heeter teaches a workshop on spiritual milestone markers in ministry and how to steer family discipleship. This session is designed to give you some tools to help parents succeed in being the spiritual leaders of their homes. We will describe spiritual "milestone markers" throughout the life of a child include baptism, communion, and dedication.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Advanced Video Production Basics" - Greg Backes teaches a workshop on how to produce quality videos for your ministry, on a limited budget. In this workshop, he presents a quick look at how to enhance videos for your ministry including a brief overview of how to properly light subjects, determine composition, and a hands-on set up of shooting a scene.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "How To Follow Your Senior Pastor" - Jessica Downs leads a workshop on how to serve under your senior pastor's authority. Servant leadership is a concept we learn from Jesus Himself, but what does that look like for us as Children's Pastors? How do we lead the people under us with authority and yet support and submit to those in authority over us?

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Spiritual Parenting Principles" - Nick Caalim teaches a workshop on how to train and disciple parents in your ministry. Equipping parents to be the primary spiritual leader for their children is one of the biggest impacts your ministry can have. But every family is different, with dynamics which are unique to just themselves and not enough time to fit in all that a parent would like to do to lead their kids. The spiritual parenting principles can provide parents with a framework on how to think about their spiritual influence rather than 'have-to' tasks

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Safety and Risk Management" - Noah Naipo leads a workshop on the importance of safety and risk management in ministry, an aspect often overlooked but so vital for every ministry.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Countering the Culture of Gender Confusion" - Paul King teaches a workshop on how to handle gender confusion and pressures from today's society. Due to the increasingly visible culture of homosexuality, moving from acceptance and normal to celebrating and promoting, you might be curious how to approach this sensitive topic with parents in your ministry. In this workshop, we will discuss how to counter the culture of gender confusion, as well as talk through scenarios and give resources to help equip you as a leader.