The Project Sponsors

CGMC
The Consultative Group on Ministry among Children was constituted in its present form in 1972. It is an official network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI). It exists to bring together all those with national responsibility for work with children in denominations and Christian agencies who are in sympathy with the aims and objectives of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.

Children Matter!
This coalition represents a growing movement of Christians committed to doing their bit for the children of our nation as part of the UK church. Everyone is welcome. Connect with others and interact with a wealth of information covering all aspects of children’s ministry and the world of children. Join us (it’s free) and contribute your thoughts, interesting links and discussion starters. As a member, join or create a group, share resources, promote your events and vacancies and even add your own blog.

Core Skills for Children’s Work
This exciting training scheme seeks to resource all those who work with children in the church, and provides part of the foundational training for children’s leaders in the Methodist Church and United Reformed Church. The material is creative and interactive, making it highly accessible as one-off two-hour training programmes for children’s leaders within the local church. Devised and developed by members of CGMC, the six stand-alone modules cover key areas of children’s work

Arise Ministries
Arise Ministries is an exciting initiative of The Girls’ Brigade England & Wales and Viz-A-Viz Ministries that will help you to pioneer new outreach to children in your community.

“On the doorstep of every local church there are communities of children, many of whom know little about Jesus, most of whom never engage with church – what a challenge! Almost every one of these communities of children has a local church within easy reach – what an opportunity!” – Ruth Gilson, Co-Founder Arise Ministries

Baptist Union of Great Britain
Baptist people are a Christ-centred people. Having responded to the Lord Jesus Christ in believer’s baptism, we should long to live out that mission lifestyle formed around his teaching. But how do we live this out in our contemporary world and what sort of Christ-centred people should we be when we consider the place of children in our midst and the wider community.

Bible Reading Fellowship
The Barnabas project from BRF exists to resource you for your work with children under the age of 11. On their website you’ll find details of an extensive range of books and resources, along with feature articles and reports from the Barnabas team on their work with churches and primary schools, a wealth of ‘off-the-peg’ ideas to use with the children in your church or group (e.g. to help you get going with holiday clubs, drama, music, worship, storytelling, puppets), and much, much more.
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Children Worldwide
Whether you work with children full-time, part-time or spare-time there are many reasons for joining us. Between us we are from a wide variety of denominations and are involved in just about every aspect of children’s work: – puppetry teams, Sunday schools, holiday clubs, camps, assemblies, all-age worship, training seminars etc. Children Worldwide exists to support and encourage excellence in children’s work in all its forms.

Children’s Ministry
If you’re involved in the evangelism, discipling and teaching of children – whether they’re under 5s, 5-9s or young teens – you’ll find a wealth of information and resources here to inspire and equip you.

Church of England

Thank God for children’s work!

Does your Church encourage children to express their theology like the child who drew this picture? In other words, does it:

• take children seriously?
• recognize their gifts and ministries?
• nurture their spirituality, or just feed them Bible stories?
• see them as equal partners with adults on the journey of faith?

Children have their own particular gifts and ministries. Does your church provide an arena for them to use their gifts and develop their ministries?

CPAS
CPAS is committed to developing leaders at every level in churches and those with different roles and responsibilites. Our vision for leadership development involves a commitment to work with leaders of youth and children’s ministries, both in local churches and through Ventures and Falcon Camps.

Girls Brigade
The Girls’ Brigade (GB) is a Christian, international charity working alongside girls and young women of every background, ability and culture. Since our foundation in 1893, GB has become known worldwide as a fun, interesting, challenging and relevant provider of activities, skills, care and Christian love for hundreds of thousands of young people. GB is led by Christian women from local churches.

Methodist Children
MethodistChildren is part of the Connexional Team of the Methodist Church in Britian. We aim to be a beacon of innovation and good practice in children’s ministry, working with children’s workers to encourage and inspire children of all ages; enabling the voice of children to be heard.

Salvation Army
‘With all the emphasis of which I am capable, I plead for the intelligent, compassionate, religious and persistent duty of saving children and young people… This is the shortest, surest and most economical method of saving the world. And having brought them – labour to hold onto them. Jesus must save the children, but we must help him.’ General William Booth

Scripture Union
God has called Scripture Union to serve a world in great spiritual need. Our long term vision, which inspires and motivates our mission, is for:

• every Christian to be engaging enthusiastically with the Bible and growing in their faith;
• every church to be fully equipped to make disciples of children and young people; and
• every community to have a vital Christian witness to children, young people and families.

Urban Saints
Since 1906 Urban Saints (formerly known as Crusaders) has been reaching out to children and young people with the good news of Jesus Christ. We are passionate about working with children and young people who have no church connection, helping them to realise their full God-given potential as they journey from childhood to adulthood.

United Reform Church
The United Reformed Church combines its commitment to the Reformed tradition with a passionate belief that all God’s people should be one. It seeks to work with Christians of all traditions, and rejoices in being part of more than 400 Local Ecumenical Partnerships, with the Methodist Church and others.

Vineyard
Discover the values that drive us forward in our purpose to expand the Kingdom of God in the UK and around the world.