Ministry building is the process by which a church congregation can implement and sustain a focused effort that fulfills its commitment to serving a selected group...in the case of LOGOS churches, that group is children.

The key components of this process fall into three broad categories that operate in an integrated manner to underlie an effective ministry:

Establish ministry direction – defining what the ministry will accomplish

- Discern God’s call on the church to serve
- Correlate the call with the broader church mission
- Define a ministry vision, mission and set of objectives
- Secure buy-in from church leadership
- Create an overall ministry design

Develop ministry team – engaging the congregation in the ministry

- Identify volunteer staffing requirements
- Initiate a call process to bring gifted volunteers into the ministry
- Place called volunteers into ministry roles and provide training and resources
- Establish a team-based environment with an emphasis on communications
- Provide ongoing coaching to the ministry team to support performance

Focus on ministry effectiveness – maintaining a commitment to achieving results

- Continuously monitor ministry results and outcomes
- Evaluate results and outcomes against ministry vision, mission and objectives
- Identify opportunities for improvement and change
- Make changes to the ministry that facilitate ongoing effectiveness

In today’s environment, effective ministries are a response to God’s call and are carefully built in response, not taken down wholesale from the church program shelf and used without any further thought or planning.

A ministry that is prayerfully established to serve God’s purpose and thoughtfully developed to work within a specific church setting will deliver the following benefits to the church and its members:

- Contribute to a faithful relationship with God since it derives from God’s call on the church
- Integrate with other ministries and initiatives in support of the church’s broader mission
- Establish a strong bond with the congregation by engaging called volunteers and welcoming their participation
- Offer a ministry approach that reflects the culture, style and capabilities of the church
- Reinforce a focus on disciple-making results and outcomes rather than on program and activities
- Maintain flexibility in order to ensure the ministry’s sustainability under changing conditions

Ministry building represents an approach to serving that helps to ensure that the ministry fits the needs and circumstance of the church and is the congregation’s faithful response to God’s calling.

LOGOS is committed to helping churches build children’s ministries that build young disciples. We have been in this role for more than 45 years. As a key resource to church leaders, LOGOS offers:

Children’s ministry training – LOGOS sponsors public training events all over the United States, creates customized training for individual churches, and offers topical online training webinars to support the learning needs of children’s ministry leaders. LOGOS training gives ministry teams the theories, ideas, and concepts that form the foundation of effective e\ministry.

Children’s ministry coaching – LOGOS has a team of children’s ministry professionals that can work as an integral part of individual church ministry teams to help assess, plan, problem solve and build effective ministries. LOGOS coaching helps ministry teams to put their training into practice...to take action that creates results.

Children’s ministry resources – LOGOS offers ministry teams a variety of curricula, online reference tools, and ministry aides that can support their efforts toward building and sustaining effective ministries. LOGOS resources have been developed especially for children’s ministry leaders like you.

LOGOS knows children’s ministry and how the elements of effective ministry work together to create a sustainable, disciple-making response to God’s call on congregations to serve children.