by Shannon Rains | Feb 7, 2024 | Leading KidMin
Last summer, I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to Kenya in East Africa. It is a lovely country, friendly and culturally rich! During the first half of the trip, I traveled with my LCU colleague and mission professor, Shawn Tyler. Since I had only one...
by Shannon Rains | Sep 17, 2020 | Leading KidMin, Special Topics
In any normal year, almost every children’s minister I know would be eagerly planning Trunk or Treats and Fall Festivals. Something about pumpkin spice hitting the local coffee shop, fall sales at the favorite craft store, and a stocked candy aisle scream, “it’s time...
by Shannon Rains | Jul 14, 2020 | Family Ministry, Leading KidMin, Parenting, Special Topics, Vision for KidMin
For those that study children’s spiritual formation, John Westerhoff’s book Will our Children Have Faith? is a classic, must-read book. For brevity, I am going to oversimplify and summarize his answer to his question. Westerhoff contends that, no, our children will...
