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Winnipeg, Man.
Children’s Ministry Leader’s Mentoring Network coming this fall


The Canadian MB Conference Board of Evangelism is launching the Children’s Ministry Leader’s Mentoring Network October 27-29, 2000 at The Meeting Place in Winnipeg.

The Children’s Ministry Leader’s Mentoring Network, based on a children’s program run by Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., is designed to train individuals who are leading children’s ministries in their churches. Many of these leaders are volunteers. Over the last five years, a growing number of churches have been restructuring their children’s ministry around a new set of values. These values include being child-centred; fun; a nurturing, small-group environment;

Linda Unruh

creative programming; teaching the Bible through skilled communicators; and using action-oriented music.

Overseeing the Network is Linda Unruh, children’s ministry director at The Meeting Place in Winnipeg. She will be networking with children’s ministry teams from 50 churches in Canada that have a potential of training over 350 adult volunteers.

Bruce Elwood, associate director of Evangelism Canada, says that this Network has the potential of becoming a model for other mentoring ministries in churches. “I know of no other ministry to children in Canada with the level of depth in training and equipping volunteers. The result is that kids and families are coming to Christ.”

 – From a release

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