Providing a safe and healthy environment for our kids is critical. The children’s pastor and ministry leaders must ensure they and their leaders are properly screened and that specific policies and procedures are in place. This article provides five basic steps you can incorporate in your local church to help provide the maximum safe environment for the children placed in your care by parents and guardians.

When a kids’ pastor must take on many responsibilities outside of his area of ministry, the question often becomes, “When do I actually get to work with kids?” How can you best manage your time so that the 10 percent of time spent doing what you love makes the biggest impact? Here are five tips that can help strengthen your time management and leadership skills.

In Spreading the Fire, Scott Wilson and John Bates lay out a plan to have our Pentecostal expression for the modern day. They show the reader how to be “naturally supernatural” when manifesting the more charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit. It’s still deeply spiritual, rooted in Scripture, and undeniably Pentecostal.