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KBC Annual Preschool Children's Ministry Conference
Training and Equipping Conference
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Ministering to children today takes more than a willing spirit and a loving heart. Effective children’s ministry today has teachers and volunteers that are well trained, facilities that meet needs, and plans that direct the vision of the church. Whether your congregation already has a thriving children’s ministry or is just starting out, you will find inspiration and education at the Kentucky Baptist Convention Imagine Preschool & Children’s Ministry Conference.
Join leaders from every walk of children’s ministry ... from pastors to parents ... for a fresh, visionary look at how to minister to children. In addition to hearing our guest speakers, participants can select from more than 20 breakout sessions and browse our Expo where more than 30 vendors will provide guests access to the products, curricula and services mentioned during the conference.
Register by Feb. 4 and pay only $25/person. After Feb 4: $35/person. Click here to register now.
Schedule
| Friday, Feb. 11 | |
|---|---|
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Main Session with Shane Garrison, assistant professor of Educational Ministries, Campbellsville University |
| 8:15 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. | Breakout Sessions |
| 9:15 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. | Come to the Expo! |
| Saturday, Feb. 12 | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Main Session with Bill Emeott, lead childhood ministry specialist, LifeWay Christian Resources |
| 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Breakout Sessions |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Breakout Sessions |
| 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Come to the Expo! |
Breakout Sessions
Extreme
- Different Curriculum Ideas for Sunday School: (Led by Jan Stickle)
Need a change. Explore a variety of different Sunday School curriculum for children. - Launching a Performing Arts Ministry for Children: (Led by Marnie Clagette)
Go beyond children’s choir and create a ministry that brings out a unique set of gifts in children and teaches them to serve out of these gifts. - A New Approach for Recruiting Volunteers (TBA)
Learn to recruit volunteers to a vision and not just a task. - What is Thinking “Orange” (Led by Robert Johnson)
Red represents the church and yellow represents the family. When they are combined they create orange. Learn how to think and use the orange principals and curriculum in your church. - For Children’s Ministers Only (Led by John Bennett and Karen Goderwis)
If you are a Preschool/Children’s Minister and need support, resources, ideas, encouragement, spiritual renewal and a new vision for your ministry, come to this conferences and explore a new ministry just for you.
Extraordinary
- “The Princess and the Kiss” and the “Squire and the Scroll” (led by Susan Henson)
Discover an amazingly powerful and fun mother/daughter and father/son Bible study. - Ministry-to-Children.com (Led by Tony Krummer)
Discover and explore how to use one of the largest and most effective children’s ministry websites in the world. - Foot Steps (Led by Lecia Guill)
Explore a simple new curriculum for teaching children to locate book, chapter and verse. - Christian Teachers in the Public School (Led by Roger Dillion)
Understand the legal and constitutional rights Christian teachers have in public school system. - Creating a Special Needs Ministry (Led by Julia Yuen)
Learn what it takes to create a children’s special needs ministry of inclusion in your church. - Out of the Box Children’s Discipleship (Led by Missy Harris)
Learn how two separate churches created a discipleship ministry for children that has captured teaching, mentoring, and the use spiritual gifts for the purpose of growing them in their relationship with Jesus.
Excellent
- Safety and Security (Led by Ashley Purcell)
Learn the principals, strategies, and resources to ensure your preschool and children’s ministry is safe and secure. - Teaching and Discipline in the Classroom (TBA)
Managing behavior is a real issue in teaching children today. Learn simple but effective strategies to ensure your children’s class is safe, fun, filled with learning and in control. - Empowering and Equipping Parents (Led by Dr. Shane Garrison)
Discover simple and applicable strategies to equip and empower parents to be spiritual leaders in their home. - Leadership and Leadership Development (Jeff Goodyear)
Do you have leadership role in your church? Make the move from just being a manager to becoming a leader. - 10 Things Every Kid Should Know about God (Led by Tina Bryson)
Discover the 10 things kids should know about God and how to communicate these is a clear manner that children will embrace and understand.
Explosive
- Launching a Monthly Family Worship Service: (Led by Lee Ann Vincent)
Ever wanted to start a family worship service? Learn and see demonstrations of how Parkway Baptist created and developed a dynamic family worship experience. - Launching and Customizing AWANA (Led by Tim Welcher)
Would you like to launch an AWANA ministry or bring new life to your existing AWANA ministry in your church? Discover and learn the strategies for creating a powerful and effective AWANA ministry. - New Christians Class for Children (TBA)
Learn how to use the Curriculum “I’m a Christian Now” to ensure children are off to a good start in their walk with Jesus. - 50 Mission Projects for Children (Led by Linda Crawford)
Discover 50 fun mission projects for children as well as fresh strategies for launching and customizing a mission education/ministry for children. - Kid’s Café (Led by Nelle Thomas)
New Hope Community Church in Elizabethtown Kentucky buses in over 150 children from low income areas each Wednesday night for the Kid’s Café. Learn how this amazing ministry is done and how you could do it at your church. - Leading a Child to Christ (Led by Vickie Donaldson)
Learn the appropriate and healthy way to lead children to Christ; a way that is spirit led and ensures children will understand exactly what they are doing when they give their life to Jesus.
Guest Speakers
Shane Garrison
An assistant professor of educational ministries at Campbellsville University, Shane Garrison is also president of Maple Trail Ministry Consultants. He has served on multiple church staffs and is co-author of
Theology 4 Kids soon to be released by B&H Publishing. Shane is married to Jennifer and they have two sons, Isaac, 5, and Ethan, 3. You can follow him at shanegarrison.org or at twitter/shanegarrison.
Bill Emeott
Lead childhood ministry specialist with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, Emeott works with the LifeWay Kids team to develop and communicate their message for childhood ministry through leadership and training events.
Also Presenting
Tina Bryson | Speaker and author of the popular children’s ministry book 10 Things Every Kid Should Know About God.
Marnie Clagget | Marnie holds a degree in Theatre and Performance Studies from Northwestern University. She has performed and worked as a drama instructor with such companies as Stage One: the Louisville Children’s Theatre, the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, and California Theatre Center.
Linda Crawford | Adjunct professor at Campbellsville University and state certified early education trainer and specialist.
Roger Dillion | Director of Christian Educators Association International. Roger is a nationally recognized speaker that travels across the nation informing Christian teachers in the public school system of their constitutional rights as Christian teachers.
Vicky Donelson | Children’s Minister First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, KY KBC consultant and trainer/ instructor for Leading Children to Christ ministry.
Bill Emeotte | Lead Childhood Ministry Specialist at LifeWay publishing. As Lead Specialist Bill works with the LifeWay Kids team to develop and communicate LifeWay’s message for childhood ministry though leadership training and events.
Dr. Shane Garrison | Author and assistant professor of Educational Ministries at Campbellsville University and president of Maple Trail Ministry Consultants (MapleTrail.org).
Karen Goderwis | KBC trainer and children’s ministry specialist/consultant.
Jeff Goodyear | Children’s minister and leadership specialist/trainer at Highview Baptist Church, Louisville, KY.
Tony Krummer | Children’s Minister and designer and creator of ministry-to-children.com. Voted one of the top 20 upcoming most influential children ministry leaders by Children’s Ministry Magazine.
Lecia Guill | Designer and creator of the Footsteps Tools for Learning Curriculum: Teaching Bible students to locate book, chapter and verse.
Missy Harris | Children’s Minister and children’s discipleship specialist at Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Independence, KY
Susan Henson | Nationally recognized speaker and creator and coauthor of the Life Lessons from the Princess and the Kiss and the Life Lessons from the Squire and the Scroll. Founder of the Pure in Heart Conference ministry that is uniquely designed to reach tween girls ages 7-12 and their moms with a strategic plan for pure hearts.
Robert Johnson | Director of Family Ministries and Strategic Systems at the Epic Journey Church in Murray, KY.
Ashley Purcell | Children’s Minister and KBC Trainer at Severns Valley Baptist Church, Elizabethtown, KY.
Patty Smith | Director of Children and Family Ministries in the Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church and former Senior Product Developer for Children’s Ministry Resources at Group Publishing.
Vanessa Sims | Children’s Minister and children’s discipleship specialist at 9th and O Baptist Church, Louisville, KY.
Jan Stickle | Children’s Minister Eastwood Baptist Church, Bowling Green, KY and KBC consultant and trainer.
Nelle Thomas | Children’s Minister and Kids Café Director at New Hope Community Church in
Elizabethtown, KY.
Lee Ann Vincent | Children’s minister and family ministry specialist at Parkway Baptist Church, Bardstown, KY.
Tim Welcher | Kentucky AWANA Trainer and Missionary. Tim travels throughout the state helping churches launch AWANA ministries as well as helping churches customize their AWANA ministry to meet their specific needs.
Julia Yuen | Children’s Minister Crestwood Baptist Church and Special Needs Ministry Specialist and Trainer.
Hotels
BARDSTOWN HOTELS
- Bardstown Parkview Motel
418 East Stephen Foster Avenue
502-348-5961
— Free Breakfast
— Kurtz Restaurant at same location - Best Western General Nelson Inn
411 West Stephen Foster Avenue
502-348-3977
— Free Breakfast - Comfort Inn Bardstown
984 Front Avenue
502-349-9400
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Hampton Inn Bardstown
985 Chambers Boulevard
502-349-0100
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Old Bardstown Inn Bardstown
510 East Stephen Foster Avenue
502-349-0776
— Free Breakfast - Quality Inn Bardstown
1875 New Haven Road
502-349-0776
— Continental Breakfast
ELIZABETHTOWN HOTELS NEAR I-65
- Baymont Inn & Suites Elizabethtown
209 Commerce Drive
270-769-9616
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Best Western Atrium Garden Elizabethtown
1043 Executive Drive
270-769-3030
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Comfort Inn Elizabethtown
2009 North Mulberry Street
270-765-4166
— Free Breakfast - Comfort Suites Elizabethtown
215 Commerce Drive
270-360-0088
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Fairfield Inn & Suites Elizabethtown
1031 Executive Drive
270-769-1440
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Hampton Inn Elizabethtown
1035 Executive Drive
270-765-6663
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Elizabethtown
107 Buffalo Creek Drive
270-769-1334
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Howard Johnsons Hotel Elizabethtown
1058 North Mulberry Street
270-769-2344
— Restaurant - LaQuinta Inn & Suites Elizabethtown
210 Commerce Street
270-234-0755
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Ramada Limited Hotel Elizabethtown
205 Commerce Drive
270-769-9683
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool - Super 8 Hotel Elizabethtown
2028 North Mulberry Street
270-737-1088
— Free Breakfast
— Indoor Pool
More Information
For additional details, call the KBC Preschool and Children’s Ministry Department at 502-489-3575 or (toll-free in KY) 866-489-3575, or contact us by e-mail at children@kybaptist.org.
