Episode 265: Creating Fertile Soil to Help Kid’s Faith Grow with Dale Hudson

<div class="smart-track-player-container stp-color-ed702b-ed702b spp-stp-desktop" data-uid="7891af65"></div><div class="spp-shsp-form spp-shsp-form-7891af65"></div> <p>In this episode, Dale Hudson shares his experience serving in children's ministry for more than 30 years, and the growing need for creating fertile soil to help kids' faith grow within our ministries. Dale also shares some vision around building volunteer teams with weekly leaders to establish relationships with kids and families.</p> <h2>Dale Hudson</h2> <p>Connect with Dale on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DaleHudsonFlorida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dalehudsoncm2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.buildingchildrensministry.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Website</a></p> <h2>Clearstream</h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clearstream works with thousands of churches worldwide and integrates with tools your church already uses such as MailChimp, Church Community Builder, Rock RMS, Planning Center, and more. Find out more at <a href="https://clearstream.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clearstream.io</a>.</span></p> <h2>Episode Notes</h2> <p>Building Teams:</p> <ul> <li>personal asks</li> <li>casting vision for weekly volunteers</li> <li>building church culture around volunteering</li> </ul> <p>Dale's New Book: <a href="https://www.buildingchildrensministry.com/resources-1/BOOKS-c22571175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fertile Soil</a></p> <p>Creating Fertile Soil:</p> <ul> <li>Main reasons kids walk away from the church <ul> <li>25% &#8211; church disillusionment</li> <li>loss of belief</li> <li>too busy for church</li> </ul> </li> <li>What needs to be in the soil for it to be &#8220;fertile&#8221;? <ul> <li>teaching some doctrine/apologetics for kids/families</li> <li>giving opportunities to serve</li> <li>placing consistent leaders in their lives</li> <li>helping parents understand the importance of regular church attendance</li> <li>Parent-Child Dedication</li> <li>create another service opportunity (another night of the week)</li> <li>invest in parents, not just kids</li> <li>celebrate milestones</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2>Action Items</h2> <ol> <li><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Talk with parents about what would help them&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:515,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:16773836},&quot;12&quot;:0}">Talk with parents about what would help them</span></li> <li><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Plan to talk apologetics&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:515,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:16773836},&quot;12&quot;:0}">Plan to talk apologetics</span></li> <li><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Move to weekly leaders&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:515,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:16773836},&quot;12&quot;:0}">Move to weekly leaders</span></li> </ol> <h2>Ministry Boost Coaching is back!</h2> <p><a href="https://ministryboost.org/coaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here to check out the amazing benefits of coaching groups with Ministry Boost.</a></p> <h2>Get Exclusive Content from this Week's Episode</h2> <p>Use the form below to subscribe to my email list where you’ll get an email each Tuesday when a new podcast comes out. 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