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It’s Just a Phase So Don’t Miss It: Why Every Life Stage of a Kid Matters and at Least 13 Things Your Church Should Do About It is unavailable, but you can change that!

Every church knows that kids matter. That’s not in question. A better question is, does your church act like every kid matters at every phase in their lives? A phase is a timeframe in kids’ lives when we can leverage distinctive opportunities to influence their future. That means the whining toddler, the dramatic fifth grader, and the stressed-out tenth grader are not just “going through a...

Just remember, you shouldn’t prioritize your content based on how adults feel. You need to prioritize based on how kids learn. What if a Kindergarten teacher got tired of teaching the alphabetand was ready for a little Shakespeare? What if a dad was tired of throwing a plastic baseball to his toddler, so he got a real one instead? Sure, it can seem monotonous teaching the same thing year after year, but it’s the way kids learn. They learn through creative repetition. (Think about how many times a
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