Our world isn’t getting any more settled or easy to understand. All of us will face a variety of crisis in our lives including the children in our Sunday school classes, small groups, and other ministries. This session is designed to help children’s directors, teachers, pastors, and anyone who ministers to children and their families become better equipped to bring a Biblical perspective to coping when life is hard. Taught by Roxie Garner, Atlantic Baptist Association Discipleship Director and Director of Youth and Children’s Ministry, Atlantic Missionary Baptist Church.

This session is designed to give actual strategies that can be used with many different types of students that our churches encounter to include the autistic, dyslexic, non-reader and more. Techniques for communicating God’s love and Biblical truth to the child will be demonstrated. This session is designed to help the teacher, assistant, or children’s director/minister adapt curriculum and develop a teaching plan within your regular structure for children with special needs. The class will be taught by Jordan Carswell, special education teacher for Carteret county and Barbara Swigart who has 40 years of experience teaching students in all of the special needs areas. THIS COUNTS AS TWO SESSIONS.

Maybe your church only has a few children or perhaps it is filled with children & families who make church a regular part of life…the question is how do you reach the unchurched child and his/her family. Where do you start? With a vision for the lost in your community and in particular children who have no church access. That’s just what one church in our Association did this past summer and they saw God do some pretty amazing things. Come learn how to reach YOUR community and its children through summer day camp. Led by First Baptist Beaufort. Children’s Outreach Team.

GROWTH! It’s what we all want for our ministry. Are you starting out to build your children’s ministry or looking to take it to the next level? Are you thinking about ways to restructure your children’s ministry in order to be prepared for growth or about ways to be more effective in reaching the kids God has entrusted to you so far? In this session we will discuss two major factors to consider when thinking about restructure, consistency and volunteers! We will break these two factors down and give you some practical ways to think about structuring or restructuring your children’s environment in order to be prepared for all that God wants to do in the future. Led by Alex Padgett, Elementary Children’s Director, 1st Baptist Jacksonville, Jacksonville, N.C.

This session is designed to help you move past coloring pages and structured “art” in your classroom to helping your children internalize the Bible truths you are teaching through exercising their creativity. After all, one of the ways we were created in God’s image is with the ability to create and express ourselves through art! Led by Charmaine Daughtry, member of CCBC and local artist.

This session is designed to help you get the most out of incorporating music in your classroom to help you teach everything from Bible memorization to the story itself. Children love music and expressing themselves through music and it’s a fun way to share God’s love with them. Led by Mrs. Barbara Swigart, Music Director, Parkview Baptist Church. Barbara has a master’s degree from Kansas State and many years of experience teaching vocal/instrumental music and drama.