Monday, February 3, 2014

What You Must Do Before Starting A Childrens Ministry

By Eliza Mendoza


Starting a childrens ministry is a great idea if you have a heart to help hopeless kids to build a hopeful future. However, it is not all going to be an easy thing per se. There are several things, which you must think about even before you can go ahead to start this up.

The first thing you want to do is to soul search yourself to find out whether you really want to help. You need to take your time so that it will not be just a mere feeling but something touchy and true. You may want to ask for advice from different people and to pray to God about it as well.

Human beings do things for their own reasons and as such, you need to know the reason why you want to help people. It could be because someone helped you in the past or you saw someone being raised and they go a good life. It could be anything but even then, make sure your reasons are strong enough to support the idea.

The question that you need to be asking yourself is the number of children you will be able to support. It is not always wise to pick a large number at once because you may strain ahead. The number of children you can support will be based on how much money you have placed aside for helping them. You can start with a small number and then raise that as you go along.

One of the most important blocks in the whole of this establishment is funds and you therefore need to know the exact source from which money will come. Write a perfect proposal and approach the church with it. Tell members in the congregation, through your pastor, what you intend to start and that you will need regular support to help kids out there find a hope for tomorrow. Look for sponsors and if you are good enough at talking to people, you will end up with donors.

It is always important to be yourself because it is only the best way through which you can service efficiently. The problem is that most charity organizations turned to benefiting from children rather than helping them realize their hope for the future. This is actually not right and if you were going to serve with greed, it would be best if you did something else.

It is not always going to be easy, but then if you learn to see the future the journey will always be smooth for you. If you have been helped before by a charity organization, then you already know how important it is to give back to the society. When you help others, hoping that they succeed, they definitely will.

Before your childrens ministry can become legal, you will need to get an approval from the state government. The government needs to know the reason behind why you intend to start such a mission. Once they give you a go ahead, you can start your establishment.




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