Robert Hubbard's Blog (2)

I don't want to appear to be generalizing but I'm merely speaking from current personal experiences both as a lay and a paid childrens worker. In a recent children's work meeting at the church I worship at I made a comment that I hadn't thought about until after I said it. The meeting was about the future of childrens and youth work at the church. As can be all to common the work is run by retired people who are nearing a time in their life when they are becoming ready to retire from running chu… Continue

For the past couple of months I've been thinking about what effective children's ministry will look like in the future and even if our ministry is as effective as it could be now. I'll say now that I have yet to come to any firm conclusions on either question. I would like to share some thoughts that I've had so far and hopefully together we can prepare for the future. For a recent essay I wrote I read two books which argued that the church had moved away from it's roots, not in the past few yea… Continue