Children-s-ministry Quote by Amy Fenton Lee

“Legitimate peripheral participation means that adolescents make real contributions to our shared life in God, even while they are still figuring out how to…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“Of all the goals and outcomes for a special needs ministry, there is one that is most important: To enable parents of kids with…

— Amy Fenton Lee

“The big-picture goal of a church's special needs ministry is to facilitate a sense of belonging inside the bigger body of Christ. Our best…

— Amy Fenton Lee

“Keep in mind that it is not the responsibility of a church leader to make all the people happy all the time. It is…

— Amy Fenton Lee

“Mark DeVries observed that the church had become the place where teenagers “are most segregated from the world of adults.”2 Churches had unwittingly cultivated…

— Duffy Robbins

“In my view, the ultimate goal for a special needs ministry is to being families into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. And in…

— Amy Fenton Lee

“Church has believed that parents probably wont' assume responsibility for their own children's growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This…

— Reggie Joiner

“By simplifying the goals for the child's church experience, the child is more likely to thrive in church,”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“When a church proactively prepares for special needs inclusion, we make a more seamless integration of the person with special needs more likely, and…

— Amy Fenton Lee

It is important that parents pour out their love self-sacrificially for their children, which includes practicing what they preach, i.e. living in the love…

— Joseph Pearce