Children’s Ministry in a New Reality

Discover a new vision for children’s ministry that invites and involves your whole Church.

Kids’ ministry is a powerful opportunity to cultivate resilient faith in the lives of young people.

Yet a majority of children’s ministry leaders (56%) agree at least somewhat that children’s ministry is often forgotten by their church.

To shine a light upon and bring new insight to this important work, Barna partnered with Awana to study children, families and resilient faith in our rapidly changing world.

Together, we’ve created a data-driven report called Children’s Ministry in a New Reality, and through our research, two important themes have emerged:

First, to truly prepare our children for faith-filled adulthood, we need to consider reframing “children’s ministry” as something closer to “child discipleship,” a model we unpack in detail throughout the report.

And second, the work of discipling children should not fall solely to kids’ ministry staff or to parents—it must become a point of focus and effort for entire church bodies.

If you’re passionate about doing everything you can to train up kids who will become future leaders inside and outside of the Church, we created this report for you. We encourage you to pick up a copy today.