Training for Children's Ministries

We use Community Health Evangelism, or CHE, in our ministry and we recently gave the training for children's ministries using CHE to several of the Christian leaders we work with.

CHE is a wholistic, community-based development strategy that combines relevant evangelism with health education and development principles to bring about the transformation of individuals and communities.  This method seamlessly integrates evangelism, discipleship, and church planting with community health and development.

The future lies with the youth of today and so we continue to invest in children's ministries.  The CHE training for children's ministries is a uniquely different approach with a goal to empower the youth to be the ambassadors for Jesus equipped with practical life lessons and Biblical discipleship!

The learning process is participatory allowing ideas and solutions to come from those attending the training.  We give out a problem and divide the attendees into groups to discuss and write up their ideas that will then be shared with the whole group.

Here Ellen is using a story with simple pictures and then asked questions to gain group input.

Here is part two of an object lesson.  She was sharing that children are like a bag... what's the problem with this bag?

This is a simple drama teaching the concept of multiplication.  One person knows a game, rock-paper-scissors, and they teach someone else, who then teaches someone else...  

Here they are building water towers from readily available materials.  We discussed what the important concepts behind the construction of a water tower and how that relates to our training others.  Can you think of any ideas?

We actually tested the water towers and both passed!!

We often use simple skits or dramas to introduce a theme.  People can learn their lines, ad-lib, or read from a page as they are doing.

This is just to show how simple the skits are and also how much fun they injected into the training!

There is also the opportunity for people to use drawings to share concepts!

Here's a group project where they have to decide on the proper order for the cards.

We had moved to our new house and moved the training there!!  Here the dining room became the training center!

Our training included learning how to share a simple plan of salvation and to train others!

More practice in sharing basic Biblical concepts and Scriptures!!

There's always time for more café!!

We even had some dramas on sharing salvation!

Notice how the group notes are crawling across the ceiling!

Here is our whole group!

28 hours of training and I think they really would have liked to keep going... they will by applying it!  One beautiful aspect of the group was that it was a blending of folks from different churches all who happily work together in serving the Lord!

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, 

always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you 

for a reason for the hope that is in you; 

yet do it with gentleness and respect.  1Ptr 3:15