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“Last night,” I said to the preteens sitting in front of me, “I went to the grocery store and bought ONE breast of chicken. I had to go to the meat counter to buy just one, because otherwise you have to buy a package of three. Then, I took that ONE breast of chicken home [...]

Last week Patrick Snow, (pictured above with Becki and Gordon West) and Nick Diliberto were at the KidMin Conference in Chicago, IL. Here are Patrick’s latest reflection on the experience: I just go back from Group’s Kidmin Conference and I have to say that I was highly impressed by it. I’ve been to quite a [...]

I love using props and gimmicks to help make a message stick in the mind of a preteen. I have to admit – it’s an idea I stole…from Jesus. He’d use things that were in people’s everyday experience to help explain abstract concepts. He uses seeds and soil, water and clouds, children and widows as [...]

This post was originally published at jcisonline.com. Last night at our Switch C-Groups I let my 6th grade boys know that we would be talking about some questions that they had over the next few weeks. These questions are about faith, the Bible, God, and Jesus. So it will be a good opportunity to ask and see [...]

This week at Fifty6 we completely abandoned our “normal” programming to give our small group leaders space to spend one-on-one time with their students. And while leaders and students were in and out of a room together, everyone else was divided in four groups (by grade and gender). Throughout the night four of our pastors [...]

The other day I had the opportunity to speak with some of the passionate pros across the pond at Hillsong: Kathryn MacDowall and Nathan McLean. I had originally shot them an email wondering if they’d be interested in chatting about Preteen Ministry. A few days later, we were calling on Skype, and, after introductions, the [...]

Shawn from St. Paul UMC in Florence, South Carolina writes: It may seem simple but we’ve recently seen success in our preteen ministry by removing the old couch from our preteen room and replacing it with colorful bean bag chairs. We have a super small preteen ministry of 6 kids but that is up from [...]

This past week was part two of our three week long “month ‘o kick off.” (Why do it just once when you can do it all month long?!) The first week was focused on registering all our students (and riding a mechanical bull). The second week was focused on connecting every student with their small [...]