NWMN Fusion CM Podcast - Audio

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Milestone Markers & Family Discipleship" - Dorene Heeter teaches a workshop on spiritual milestone markers in ministry and how to steer family discipleship. This session is designed to give you some tools to help parents succeed in being the spiritual leaders of their homes. We will describe spiritual "milestone markers" throughout the life of a child include baptism, communion, and dedication.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Advanced Video Production Basics" - Greg Backes teaches a workshop on how to produce quality videos for your ministry, on a limited budget. In this workshop, he presents a quick look at how to enhance videos for your ministry including a brief overview of how to properly light subjects, determine composition, and a hands-on set up of shooting a scene.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "How To Follow Your Senior Pastor" - Jessica Downs leads a workshop on how to serve under your senior pastor's authority. Servant leadership is a concept we learn from Jesus Himself, but what does that look like for us as Children's Pastors? How do we lead the people under us with authority and yet support and submit to those in authority over us?

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Spiritual Parenting Principles" - Nick Caalim teaches a workshop on how to train and disciple parents in your ministry. Equipping parents to be the primary spiritual leader for their children is one of the biggest impacts your ministry can have. But every family is different, with dynamics which are unique to just themselves and not enough time to fit in all that a parent would like to do to lead their kids. The spiritual parenting principles can provide parents with a framework on how to think about their spiritual influence rather than 'have-to' tasks

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Safety and Risk Management" - Noah Naipo leads a workshop on the importance of safety and risk management in ministry, an aspect often overlooked but so vital for every ministry.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Countering the Culture of Gender Confusion" - Paul King teaches a workshop on how to handle gender confusion and pressures from today's society. Due to the increasingly visible culture of homosexuality, moving from acceptance and normal to celebrating and promoting, you might be curious how to approach this sensitive topic with parents in your ministry. In this workshop, we will discuss how to counter the culture of gender confusion, as well as talk through scenarios and give resources to help equip you as a leader.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Dealing with Disappointment" - Rebekah Metteer teaches a workshop on how to deal with disappointment in life and ministry. What to do when life and ministry are not what you had planned and how to find divine appointments among the disappointments.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Preparing Kids for Their Next Step" - Sean and Linsey lead a workshop on how to prepare your students for the next stage of life, entering youth ministry.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Cultivating a Culture of Worship" - Sean King and Kyla Hedge lead a workshop on how to create a culture of worship in your ministry. Do I really have to pay people to use their gifts for Jesus? How does a church create a culture of worship where musicians want to be involved without expecting a "kick back"? How do they attract talent and know what to do with them when they show up? And, the age old question, how do you answer, "Do I have to do a hymn in order to keep the 'older folks' off my back?" In this session we will take a look at: the elements of worship, the product of worship, the people of worship, and recruiting and raising up church musicians.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Sunday Morning Programming" - Stephen Salmon teaches a workshop on Sunday morning programs. This workshop provides resources to incorporate in your services on Sunday's.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Map to Mentorship" - Shawn Backus teaches a workshop on the importance of mentoring. How do we take the wild enthusiasm of a boy and help him to follow the path to becoming a passionate "Christ-like" man?

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Emotional Health and Teams" - Al Soto teaches a workshop on the importance of emotional health in your teams. All the empirical research gives evidence that the personal health of a leader is what strongly influences the effectiveness and health of how leaders are able to build and maintain ministry leadership teams. In this workshop one will discover how a family system's approach to leadership can help one begin to identify and understand how leadership is an emotional journey that is a continuous process of unpacking life events that shape how a person manages conflict as well as shares power which emancipates team members to graduate to new levels of maturity.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Leading Volunteers On Fleek" - Brent Colby teaches a workshop on recruiting and leading volunteers, and leading them on fleek . . . whatever that means.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Sacred & Secular: Gatekeeping Culture" - Brent Colby teaches a workshop on secular verses sacred culture. What does the culture of your Children's Ministry feel like? What type of content is brought or should be brought into your services? Let's explore what it can look like to be in the world, but not of it.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Doing Ministry Beyond Sunday Morning" - Chad Dickenson teaches a workshop on doing ministry beyond Sunday morning. Every week you have 60-90 minutes with the kids in your ministry. But what happens during the other 10,000 minutes that week can either reinforce the lessons they've learned or distract them from them. In this workshop, we'll look at practical ways to minister to students throughout the week without adding on to your already busy to-do list. Spoiler alert: It's more than parent partnership.