
Is Children’s Ministry the Frontline of the Church? The Survey Says Yes
If you look at children’s ministry as the frontline of the church, perhaps this podcast featuring Nick Blevins will cause you to reconsider. In this podcast, Nick reveals the results of a children’s ministry report that only heightens the importance of reaching the lost as early as we can with the good news of Christ.
Podcast: Important Children’s Ministry (2019 Statistics) – Ministry-To-Children
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Nick Blevins just released our podcast conversation talking about the latest children’s ministry statistics and what that means for local churches. We talk about how kids are coming to Christ and how families are essential at every step of that process. You can also download our full 33-page special report (PDF).
…..Tony: Sure. Nick. So what happened is, I mean, I’m looking at all this stuff. I’ve got a headache for two or three weeks in a row trying to try to just sort out and say, now what, what about this is important for what we’re doing ministry in the church. And the five key findings that I took away from this is, number one, childhood is when most people find Jesus. This is a, if you talk to the people who are adult Christians now, the most normal experience for them is coming to Christ when they were children. So that was the first finding. The second finding is that of those people, parents overwhelmingly had the most impact, most direct impact on how children come to Christ. The third one, a children’s ministry matters. We still saw, despite the overwhelming importance of parents, um, children’s ministry was over and over mentioned as a key in how people came to Christ, whether they were in Sunday school or VBS or church camp..