Children's Ministry Essentials for Facilitators

About this course This is the Facilitators course which should only be purchased as part of the Children’s Ministry Essentials for Facilitators programme, read more below. About Children’s Ministry Essentials Children’s Ministry Network has created ‘Children’s Ministry Essentials’ training programme which . . .

Taketime Schools Practitioner Training: May 2025

In order to purchase your seat on the May course, Taketime will use eventbrite. Follow this link to purchase your seat for £40 (£20.00 for existing Taketime Practitioners) and your Taketime Instructor will enrol and welcome you into this TheologyX . . .

Taketime Practitioner Training: April 2025

In order to purchase your seat on the April course, Taketime will use eventbrite. Follow this link to purchase your seat for £40 (£20.00 for existing Taketime Practitioners) and your Taketime Instructor will enrol and welcome you into this TheologyX . . .

Children's Ministry Essentials 10: Leadership and teamwork

This module considers how leaders create vision and help their teams through effective goal setting, planning and communication, as well as sustain their own wellbeing and growth.

Children's Ministry Essentials 8: Contexts of mission and ministry with children

This module encourages you to think about the wider context of your mission and ministry, and the impact this context has on the children you are working with. Time is given to thinking about how you can work better with organisations in your neighbourhood and ‘join up’ engagement in school with the church and home…

Children's Ministry Essentials 7: Participation

Children’s ministry is sometimes seen as something that it is done ‘to’ rather than ‘with’ children. Perhaps another reason why many children are put off from joining in. In this module we are going to consider what healthy participation looks like and how to facilitate it

Children's Ministry Essentials 6: Inclusion

This module helps us celebrate our differences, and explore how we can ensure that children and their families in our communities do not feel excluded because of differences in physical or intellectual abilities, gender or sexuality, race or ethnicity, education, language or social-economic background.

Children's Ministry Essentials 5: Creating space for children in our church communities

This module focuses on creating welcoming spaces for children in all church communities. Exploring more than the physical factors it helps us think about how to nurture children’s faith and spirituality through care and consideration of what and how we do things when we gather.

Children's Ministry Essentials 4: The role of play in faith formation

This module explores the innate spirituality of children and the importance of play, not only for a child’s emotional and physical wellbeing but also for their spirituality and faith development. It considers the benefits and drawbacks of digital play, storytelling and different types of play, and introduces Godly Play.

Children's Ministry Essentials 1: The world of the child

In this module we start to explore the world of the child as shaped by the culture that they are born into. Both our own experience and that of the children we work with will shape why and how we do the mission and ministry we are aiming to develop through this course. So as…

Children's Ministry Essentials 2: The developing child

This module gives an overview of how children change and develop as they get older and introduces faith formation theory. As we understand better how they think and interact with the world and its creator so we can better enhance their relationships and wellbeing.

Children's Ministry Essentials 3: Biblical perspectives on children

This module introduces some biblical perspectives on children, including how these influence practice. It also considers conflicting views and approaches to using the bible with children to nurture faith.