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Workshops & Training

Several ministries offer workshops and training on a number of topics for ministry leaders, staff and/or parents. Consider hosting a weekend event that includes training as well as special programs for kids, families or your entire church body. If you prefer training only, please combine two or more topics for a half day or full day seminar.

Andy Holmes Andy Holmes
(TX and Nationwide)

1. Making the Moments Matter
2. Nine Secrets of a Vibrant Life
3. Leading in a Season of Change
4. Raising the Lid for Your Volunteers
5. Recruiting and Using Teens
6. Teaching Techniques of Jesus
7. Little Things Make a Big Difference
8. Advanced Puppet Techniques
9. Developing a Special Puppet Character
10.Developing Your Puppet’s Personality
11.Getting Beyond the Silly Voice
12.How to Start and Develop a Puppet Ministry
13.Hands on: Puppet Proficiency with the Pros
14.Puppet Scriptwriting
15.Puppet Skit Improvisation
16.Questions and Answers with Andy and Gerbert
17.Subtleties in Figure Manipulation
18.Subtleties in Puppetry Technique
19.Techniques for Ad Libbing
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Baskin 'N' Sonshine Baskin 'N' Sonshine
(GA and Nationwide)

1. How to Lead A Child to Christ.
2. How to Keep Your Class from Taking You Hostage
3. Now that I’m Saved, What Next? (Christian Growth)
4. Creative Ways to Teach Bible Stories
5. Creative Teaching Ideas
6. How to Start a Puppet Ministry
7. Bringing Out the Clown in You
8. Inner City Mobile Ministry
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Blake Caldwell Blake Caldwell
(WA and Nationwide)

1. Safe Kids
2. Outrageous Object Lessons and Illusions
3. A Road Map to the Next Level!
4. Out of the Box Talk
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Brent Weber Brent Weber
(GA and Nationwide)

1.Establishing a Super cool Interactive Worship Service for Kids
2.Tips on Teaching Kids and Adults to Lead Worship
3.Volunteer Recruitment & Ownership
4.Priming the Production Pump
5.Lights, Action, and Who Does What? Production Roles
6.You Must Be Kidding, Did you Just Encourage Me?
7.Learning Simple Technology with a Big Return
8.Entertaining Kids for Christ, Is it Good, Bad, or Just Perfect
9.Tips on How to Plan a Budget and Justify It
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Gene Cordova Gene Cordova
(TN and Nationwide)

1. Gospel Illusions for Beginners
2. Introduction to Ventriloquism
3. Puppetry for Beginners
4. Creating Voices for Puppets and Clowns
5. How to be a Total Airhead! Creating Balloon Sculptures.
6. Tell me a Story - With Balloons!
7. Prop us your Storytelling
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James and The Professor James and The Professor
(CA and Nationwide)

1. Scripts That Create Real Moments with Real Characters
2. Don’t Be the Othe rDummy!
3. Humor-More than just Jokes!
4. Beginning Ventriloquism and Puppetry, Part 1
5. Beginning Ventriloquism and Puppetry, Part 2
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Jesse the Juggler Jesse the Juggler
(VA and Nationwide)

1. Juggling 101 - How to Juggle and Use it in Children’s Ministry
2. Participative Bible Stunts - Using Kids in a Variety of Fun Stunts that Teach Biblical Truth
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Keith Coast Keith Coast
(OK and Nationwide)

1. Super Market Magic
2. Balloon Basics
3. Cartoon Balloons
4. How to use Balloons in Ministry
5. Being a BALLOONATIC!
6. Throwing Up for Beginners
7. Magical Messages
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Mark Thompson Mark Thompson
(WA and Nationwide)

1. Powerful Children’s Worship
2. Humor With Kids
3. Creative Teaching That Rings the Bells with Kids
4. Dynamic Communication with Children
5. A High Quality Puppet Ministry
6. Promoting Your Special Events
7. Children in Performance, How to Make it Zing
8. Skits for Children’s Gatherings
9. Beginning to Intermediate Ventriloquism and Puppetry
10. Advanced Ventriloquism and Puppetry
11. Add Humor to Your Skits
12. Developing an Act
13. Marketing Your Act
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Mel LaMar Mel LaMar
(CO and Nationwide)

1. Juggling
2. Gospel Magic
3. Balloon Animals
4. Ventriloquism
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PlaySoup PlaySoup
(CO and Nationwide)

1. Basic Puppet Manipulation
2. Developing Live Performance Skills
3. Scriptwriting for Ministry
4. Keys to Effective Stage Communication
5. Beginning Ballooning
And MORE!
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Robert Smith Robert Smith
(OK and Nationwide)


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Ronnie Caldwell Ronnie Caldwell
(TN and Nationwide)

1. Children’s Praise and Worship
2. Using Skits and Costumed Characters in Children’s Church
3. Staying Out of Routine Ruts!
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Sandy Noe Sandy Noe
(IN and Nationwide)

1. Creative Storytelling: An Introduction
2. Storytelling: From a Different Point of View
3. Using Character in Children’s Church
4. Children’s Church Potpourri
5. Children’s Sermon Ideas for Pastor
6. Adapting to Your Church’s Budget
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Steve Winger Steve Winger
(TX and Nationwide)

1. Juggling Classes
2. Motivation in Motion
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Tony Borders Tony Borders
(CA and Nationwide)

1. Making the Puppet Come Alive!
2. Interactive Storytelling
3. Training your children’s church workers

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Uncle Charlie Uncle Charlie
(FL and Nationwide)

1. Learn tons of exciting, catchy action songs with hand motions!
2. Fun, high energy songs with great visuals your kids will love to sing!
3. Easy to learn worship songs!
4. Helpful tips on making children’s worship fun and meaningful!
5. Philosophy & purpose of kids worship
6. Song styles: How & when to use them!
7. Drawings for giveaways!

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Yancy Yancy
(OK and Nationwide)

1. Praise & Worship That Rocks
2. Turning Volunteers into Worship Leaders
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