Children’s Ministry Talk Podcast

Children’s Ministry Talk is the podcast devoted to providing straight talk for children’s ministry leaders, by children’s ministry leaders, on all things related to children’s ministry. Hosts Dick Gruber and Jason Rhode answer your questions, discuss current trends and issues, and help share their perspective on contemporary children’s ministry.

Their goal is for this podcast to be very much listener-driven and reallly be interactive. They want you….the listener…to contact them with questions or comments on anything related to children’s ministry.

There are many convenient and FREE ways for you to participate in the podcast, all of which are posted at childrensministrytalk.com. The easiest of them all may be to simply send and email to: childrensministrytalk@gmail.com with your question, suggestion, or idea!

Evangel Art

Dick Gruber’s Evangel Art: Reproducible Art for Children’s Ministries is offered for FREE and includes:

• over 40 evangel pages
• 385 picture words
• 124 scripture pictures

All artwork is provided in .jpg format and can be easily incorporated into any word processing, desktop publishing, or presentation software. To request a free download of Dick Gruber’s Evangel Art, simply complete the download request form at cmuo.com/evangelart. You will then receive an email with more details for downloading your free copy.

The Book of Hebrews: 13 Weeks of Children’s Church Lessons

Welcome to an adventure in children’s programming. It is rare that a children’s church leader finds his way to the book of Hebrews for lesson material when teaching boys and girls. The occasional memory verse or reference to chapter eleven’s "Hall of Faith," is about as deep as most curriculums dig. Dick Gruber has developed a complete quarter’s worth of lessons taken from one of the most exciting books in the New Testament. You have been provided with thirteen weeks of lesson ideas in outline form. Each is based on the individual chapters found in the book of Hebrews.

Download the FREE lessons in either PDF or Microsoft Word format. To download, just right-click the button lessons and then select "save target as" to save to your computer.

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The Children’s Pastor’s Prayer

This song, written by Dick Gruber, clearly expresses the prayer of the children’s ministry leader seeking to be used by God to see children come to know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and grow in their relationship with Him.

It is Dick’s desire that EVERYONE involved in children’s ministry EVERYWHERE receive a copy of this song to be encouraged and to use this song to help inspire others to greater ministry service to children.

Listen to the song below and download the mp3 for offline use. To download, just right-click the button for the song version(s) you’d like and then select “save target as” to save to your computer. *Note – The size of each audio file is 4.49 mb

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Workshops

CMUO courses cover a wide variety of very practical topics related to building and leading a successful children’s ministry. Samples of CMUO online instructional presentations are offered as free children’s ministry training workshops that provide a glimpse of the quality instruction that you can expect from CMUO.

Some topics include:

• Beyond Babysitting?
• Recruiting and Keeping Substitute Staff
• Learning Disabilities & ADD/ADHD

Click here to view all workshops.