NWMN Fusion CM Podcast - Audio

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.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Toddlers to Titans" - Chantel Rohr teaches a workshop on early childhood development and classroom techniques. What do you do with little ones? This workshop will demonstrate practical tools of storytelling and classroom management techniques that fit the learning styles and developmental stages of children in your nursery and preschool rooms.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Spirit Empowered Children's Ministry" - Dave M. Cameron leads a workshop on spirit empowered children's ministry and the history of the Pentecostal faith. Children's Pastors and Leaders today continue a great legacy of children's ministry aimed at training up the next generation of believers. Come learn some of the stories of the heroes of the faith and discover historical principles that apply to chlidren's ministries today.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Courageous Decisions" - Don Ross leads a workshop on making courageous decisions. When the stakes are high and tension is mounting, your values are tested and you have to make a choice, that's called a courageous decision. They are always tough and you'll have to make many during your ministry. This workshop will give you guiding principles that will help you be both decisive and obedient.

2016 Fusion Children's Leader Conference Workshop: "Capturing the Hearts of Boys and Girls" - Emily Wright teaches a workshop on the value of ministry that is gender specific. Today more than ever, girls and boys need to understand God's design for their lives. In a world where gender identity and marriage are being redefined by culture, the church can help bring clarity to what it means to be a godly man and woman. We'll be discussing the specific needs of boys and girls and why gender specific ministry is vital today.