Typically, children’s ministry leaders focus most of their attention on kids, parents, volunteers, and staff. Many don’t consider their senior pastor on the list of those they lead. Or at least whom ...

About 10 years ago, when the state of Pennsylvania passed a law requiring a background check for anyone who worked with children, Megan Benninger volunteered to help her church comply. At the time, ...

In an article for Leadership Journal, Lillian Daniel, senior pastor at First Congregational Church in Dubuque, Iowa, wrote, “I can’t go anywhere without seeing a current, former, or potential ...

Protecting children from abuse remains a key concern, with the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection urging early ...

California pastor Russ Ewell and his wife, Gail, know firsthand the struggles of finding churches that know how to care for ...

GREENWOOD, S.C. (WSPA) – Connie Maxwell’s Children’s Ministries is celebrating a $1 million donation, made by the Kauffmann family. Doug and Sally Kauffmann served on staff at Connie Maxwell from 1996 ...

Mitzi Dean: ‘We want to make a shift from the knee-jerk child protection reaction to investing in prevention, investing in support, investing in keeping families together.’ Photo via the BC Government ...

Mitzi Dean, latest to head the challenging Children and Families Ministry, has a background in child protection and social work. Photo via the BC Government. Mitzi Dean is the 15th minister to helm ...

Michael Agwanda, a visiting Kenyan missionary, spoke from the heart Monday when he talked about problems facing his home country. During Monday’s Aiken Rotary Club meeting, Agwanda, founder of Life ...

As the economic crisis intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic drives higher unemployment and extreme poverty in Brazil, more and more children have been forced to live on the streets of large cities.

HOLMES, N.Y. − Among doodles of purple butterflies and pink flowers on a wrinkled white T-shirt, Yaritza Fernandez wrote three thin, neatly lettered words in turquoise: Hope, Justice, Empowerment. It ...