Host: Austin Toews
Learn how to communicate in ways that kids remember and respond to. This session will walk through the core elements of dynamic communication used in effective large group ministry, including movement, vocal technique, attention resets, and storytelling strategies that make truth stick. Built from field-tested large group practices and updated from last year’s highly rated workshop.

Cheryl Andringa In this breakout, Cheryl will share helpful tools in ministering to our littles.  She will cover elements of language usage in a preschool setting, successful art activities, story telling, and  managing transitional moments.  Participants will also view a preschool environment that will capture their imaginations as to how they can implement these ideas in their own settings.  This will be an interactive breakout with opportunity for Q & A.   

Host: Crystal Henderson
Children experience grief differently than adults. This session equips you with practical tools for walking with kids through loss, trauma, and significant change. Crystal will help you understand how kids process grief, what language is helpful, and how to create safe spaces for healing within your ministry.

Hosts: Josh Dewling & Naomi Rutagwena
Teen volunteers can be extraordinary contributors when they are empowered and trained well. Josh & Naomi will share how to recruit teens, prepare them for success, coach them through challenges, and build a leadership pipeline that grows future ministry leaders.