Amy Csoke

AI in Real Life: Tools for Kids’ Ministry Leaders

AI is a practical tool that can support your everyday work in children’s ministry. In this hands-on session, you’ll try out AI tools that can help you brainstorm lesson ideas, simplify communication, and spark creativity—all from a ministry-minded perspective. Bring a device (or team up) and explore how AI can serve your planning, not replace your heart. We’ll also discuss clear boundaries, ethical concerns, and tips for using AI with wisdom and discernment. Walk away with tools, templates, and confidence to use AI in simple, meaningful ways.

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Angelina Hung

Connecting to God with our Imagination

Using the concept of imaginative prayer, we will learn how to facilitate imaginative prayers with our leaders and our children. We will use a hands-on approach. We will experience what is is like to connect with God using our imagination.

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Christie Thomas

Fruit of the Spirit

The fruit of the Spirit is often taught using fruit metaphors instead of concrete explanations that kids can grasp. In this workshop, we’ll explore a series of different hands-on activities that help kids understand what the fruit of the Spirit looks like, and where it truly comes from: God.

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Jonathan Murray

The Power of Experiential Learning

Children learn by doing. In this explore and enrich session we will both experience and learn the experiential learning cycle as a teaching pedagogy. There will also be facilitated times in teams to create there own lessons/games/illustrations for passages of Scripture.

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Kerry Bruce

Answering Kids’ Tough Questions

Have you ever wondered how to approach a child’s tough question? Well, in this explore and enrich session we will have the opportunity to practice handling these questions with a helpful and biblically informed guideline!

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Lawson Murray

Hands-On Bible Engagement: Engaging Children Experientially with God’s Word

Engaging children experientially with the Bible requires a blend of innovation and support. Actively explore Bible engagement techniques that cater to children’s diverse learning styles and helps them discover new ways to connect with Jesus and His Story.

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Shelley Neal

Beyond Behaviour: What does behaviour say? How do we move through it together?

This session will look at behaviour in Sunday School.  Behaviour is a form of communication.   What is it saying and how do we work through this as a team of volunteer teachers in our planning and work with the children?  How do we engage our children to work through this behaviour with us?

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Tina Rae

Through the Eyes of a Child

God is everywhere when you look at the world around you, but are you making connections and helping kids see them and helping these concepts stick? This workshop would seek to help leaders look at everyday objects and form their own object lessons that would be most effective for children to know that God is knowable. Resources would be provided to help people find good supports, but practically we will take time to look at objects and think about Biblical parallels. At the end of the workshop each person should have created their own object lesson.

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Valerie Grissom

Practicing Lament WITH Children: Stations of Lament for All Ages that Utilize Multisensory, Multimodal Embodied Practices of Lament

Lament is a powerful, embodied spiritual practice of worship that forms us to be more like Jesus. Come experience stations of lament that can be utilized for all ages, whether before or during worship, or adapted for other contexts including the home. These stations will be multi-sensory, multi-modal experiences where people can learn to practice lament as authentic, formational worship to God. Note: This experiential session can accompany the workshop on lament that I have proposed. I can have as many as 3- 12 (probably 12 is too many for the time!) stations available, depending on how many tables and space you have, so if this workshop is selected, let me know what is available, and I can plan from there. Feel free to reach out with questions.

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC

Sandra Bailey

Game-ify Your Ministry!

This session will highlight the value of ‘play’ by involving participants in various games and hands-on activities that ministry workers can use to consolidate their lessons and foster teamwork and interdependence during class or intergenerational events. This session will define what a game is and will highlight types of games. Participants will receive strategies on how and when to use games in their ministry.

Date & Time

Date | Saturday, November 1, 2025
Time | 1:15-2pm
Location | TBC