Your February Resources Are Here!

As children’s or youth ministry leaders, the month of February often becomes a metaphorical fork in the ministry/parent ministry road. You’ve worked hard all summer to get your children’s or youth ministry team recruited, trained, and placed. You successfully launched the new ministry year back in August/September with the kids or students in your church. You’ve established your communication plan with parents, and you may have even started to see some traction in that area. You’ve started to notice a few of your ministry team volunteers catch on, and they’ve begun to engage with the parents of the kids or teenagers whom they lead (without you having to plead with them to do so). Now, this dedicated yet still budding team that you’ve worked so hard to assemble and the parents you have been serving together for an entire semester are looking to you as a ministry leader for what’s next. You have a choice to make: Option #1—You consider these first semester gains a “job well done” and drop anchor for the rest of the ministry year, hoping that the leader development/buy-in, parent equipping/engagement, and the ministry itself will continue to grow with the seeds you’ve already planted. Option #2—You lead your children’s or youth ministry to take the next step, sow/water some new seeds, and do your best to take new ground in the areas of encouraging, equipping, educating, and training your ministry team and the parents within your span of care.

If you choose (or are even willing to consider) Option #2, this month’s resources are for you! As an M2P subscriber, you already know that we believe in encouraging, equipping, and engaging parents to help them become more confident and capable in leading out (and living out) the Gospel at home through at-home discipleship with their kids and teenagers. We are also dedicated to equipping you, as a ministry leader, and those who serve alongside you with practical resources that are aimed at building/leveraging relationships with the parents of the kids or students whom you shepherd.

This month’s M2P resources are designed to do two things: #1 To help you, as a children’s or youth ministry leader, better understand your audience and what you have access to with your MinistryToParents subscription. Our Children’s or Youth Ministry Leader Blog will provide you and your team with some insights into those you lead. Our Coaching Videos will cover a more in-depth look into all the resources you have access to with M2P. You might even learn something new. We are also providing you this month with your own Children’s or Youth Ministry Leader Toolbox Resource. #2 To help you challenge and encourage parents to take the time to find the resources they need to grow in their parenting, give them some ideas about where they can look and provide them with ideas to use as they seek to lead their families. This month’s Online Parenting Classes encourage parents to do everything they can to learn and grow as a parent and to actively seek out resources that will help them, their kids, and their teens. This month’s Parent-Focused Blog Articles help parents focus on providing what their kids and teens need during the different phases of their lives. This month’s Parent Toolbox Resource is another edition of our popular bundle called Discipleship Starts At Home. This time, we are helping parents build more Biblical knowledge and confidence by providing them with a bundled resource they can use to lead their family on a study through the Book of Romans. Lastly, our social media resources will reinforce the idea that all parents need to be constantly learning and growing. Oh, and don’t forget to listen to this month’s M2P Podcast, where we have a special guest who is in the trenches at a church every day using M2P in some incredibly unique ways to help equip his parents. It’s all designed to serve you as you serve the parents in your church.

Your friends and ministry partners,

The M2P Team