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31 Days of Prayer: Nurturing Families
| By EGM
On January 1st, we kicked off the “31 Days of Prayer for Children.” EGM is spending the month of January praying for boys and girls around the world in a specific way each day. On this episode of “Better Children’s ...
31 Days of Prayer: Health and Wholeness
| By EGM
On January 1st, we kicked off the “31 Days of Prayer for Children.” EGM is spending the month of January praying for boys and girls around the world in a specific way each day. On this episode of “Better Children’s ...
Podcast: Entering 2019 with Thanks
| By EGM
So here we are approaching the new year. As we were thinking about what to discuss for this episode, we were thinking about what would bring us all into 2019 in the right frame of mind. So on this episode ...
Podcast: EGM’s Year-End Celebration
| By EGM
Every year at EGM, the staff gets together and we pray and discuss what will be the focus of our year-end celebration. What will be the message in our annual Christmas card. What does God wants us to share about ...
Podcast: A Call to Ministry is a Call to Prayer
| By EGM
When we serve in children’s ministry, we are leaders. And when God calls us into ministry as a leader, He also calls us into prayer. God invites us into an ongoing, intimate conversation with Him as we serve the boys ...
Welcome Them In Our Giving
| By Daniel Watts
Whenever we visited my wife’s parents, her mom always had food; usually chocolate chip cookies or something equally delicious. It was her way of welcoming us! I have to say it definitely made us feel welcomed. My children would start ...
Podcast: A Leader in Church and at Home
| By EGM
During this hectic holiday season, God’s call on our lives to minister to children can feel overwhelming. Balancing our responsibilities at home with our families and at church with our service can become very challenging. In this episode of Better ...
Welcome Them In Church
| By Alex Bruda
It was a normal Saturday night. Preparations for Sunday's sermon were complete. I felt confident that everything was in order for the next day. None of the volunteers had texted or called to see they couldn't show up for the ...
Podcast: Wisdom of Proverbs in Children’s Ministry
| By EGM
We know that the holiday season can be particularly busy and stressful for children’s ministry leaders. Because of the spiritual significance behind Thanksgiving and Christmas, our churches are often celebrating with additional services and programs. Because of that, we want ...
Podcast: Volunteer Appreciation
| By EGM
Volunteer appreciation is very valuable and very important. One of our goals through this podcast is to pour encouragement into our listeners with the hope that you can pour into those around you as well. We are especially praying for ...
Podcast: Teaching Bible Truth to Children
| By EGM
Bible truth is one of the five principles found in Deuteronomy 6 that we use at EGM when we work with churches to disciple children. Each of them -- Relationship, Experience, Truth, Discussion and Response – works to provide children ...
Podcast: Ministry in Small Groups
| By EGM
When our goal in children’s ministry is life transformation, it becomes increasingly important to ensure every child has a discipleship relationship. One of the most practical ways we can facilitate relational ministry is in the small groups setting. On this ...
Podcast: Support From Senior Pastors
| By EGM
Many children’s ministry leaders express a desire to have a better relationship with their senior pastors and senior leadership. On this episode of “Better Children’s Ministry,” Kelli Johnson and Tara Thomas talk with Jed Manimtim, Executive Pastor at Sunridge Community ...
Welcome Them
| By Daniel Watts
If you sit in church in the U.S., you will often hear, “Welcome to XYZ church. Turn to the person next to you and ‘welcome’ them.” In many cultures, welcoming someone means to invite them into your dwelling, offer them ...
Podcast: Serving in the Nursery
| By EGM
There is a special honor that comes with ministering to boys and girls who aren’t quite old enough to hear and respond to a Bible lesson – at least not in ways we can see. We are talking about infants ...
Podcast: Help When We Are Afraid
| By EGM
It’s October, which means that a lot of kids in our churches will probably be trick-or-treating and dressing up in costumes. Around the time of Halloween and our fall celebrations, the topic of fear, or being afraid, comes up a ...
Podcast: Helping Children Respond to God
| By EGM
Every Generation Ministries believes every child can experience the transformed life Jesus intends for them. That is why we help churches give children opportunities to respond to God in their real lives. The Word of God is intended to impact ...
Podcast: Bible Curriculum that Transforms
| By EGM
Most Bible curriculum is designed generally for most children to understand. However, the real-life experiences of children in the U.S. vary greatly. The life of a child in a rural southern town is not the same as the life of ...
Podcast: Having Fun is Serious Business
| By EGM
A big part of helping children experience the transformed life Jesus intends for them is creating an environment at church where children want to be, and that means helping children have FUN. Although we don’t want the whole point of ...
Podcast: Discipleship & Evangelism
| By EGM
Every Generation Ministries believes every child can experience the transformed life Jesus intends for them. That is why we help churches around the world disciple children using five principles from Deuteronomy 6. We talk about discipleship a lot on this ...
Podcast: Partnering with Parents
| By EGM
Sometimes discipleship looks like a birthday party. As a church family, we can partner with parents by simply being present in the life of their child. On this episode of Better Children’s Ministry, David Jesse talks with Tara Thomas about ...
Podcast: Developing Teen Leaders
| By EGM
Looking for volunteers? Check the youth group! Many churches have eager, excited teens who want to serve their church, and children’s ministry is often a natural fit. In this episode of “Better Children’s Ministry,” Tara Thomas talks with David Jesse ...
Podcast: Too Young to Follow Jesus?
| By EGM
It seems like there’s an undertone in many churches that children’s ministry is “pre-ministry.” The idea is that we’re serving people who are not yet old enough to follow Jesus, have true faith in God or maybe make a meaningful ...
Launching Ministry in India
| By Daniel Watts
I was a young Christian newly recruited into a children’s ministry internship at a local church when I was invited to a missionary prayer meeting. I did not know much about prayer and I knew even less about missions. At ...
Podcast: Passionate & Committed Volunteers
| By EGM
A big responsibility within children’s ministry is equipping and encouraging volunteers who are directly discipling boys and girls. On this episode of “Better Children’s Ministry,” David Jesse talks with Krysten Norkaitis, EGM’s Leadership Developer, about some of the most effective ...
Podcast: Creativity in KidMin
| By EGM
Creativity can be a scary concept for some of us. Many people don’t feel equipped to teach children because they don’t feel like they’re creative people. On this episode of “Better Children’s Ministry,” Krysten Norkaitis chats with David Jesse about ...
Measuring Spiritual Growth
| By Krysten Norkaitis
A few years ago, we didn’t think it was possible to quantitatively measure spiritual growth in the life of a child. But just last month, EGM launched an experiment that will allow us to monitor spiritual growth in the lives ...
Podcast: Welcoming Special Needs Kids
| By EGM
As Vacation Bible School season continues, David Jesse sat down with Tara Thomas to talk about her experience serving in VBS this year. Tara's church designed a VBS program with differently-abled children in mind. A recent study by the National ...
Podcast: Experiencing Bible Truth
| By EGM
Experiential teaching means helping children experience the feelings associated with a Bible truth. It is not a method invented by EGM. In fact, it is modeled by Jesus himself and takes its cues from Deuteronomy 6. In this episode of ...
Podcast: Talk About Them
| By EGM
“So in a lot of children’s ministry work, there’s Bible stories told, Bible communicated, then there’s some questions and if the kids can get the right answers, then the kids are happy, the teacher’s happy, the parents are happy….but underneath ...
Bible Curriculum Around the World
| By Alex Bruda
One of the ways EGM works to help churches fulfill the Great Commission through ministry to children is by equipping leaders to develop Bible curriculum. At Every Generation Ministries, we believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God. It ...
Podcast: Praying with them
| By EGM
As we disciple children, as we model our Savior, as we try to live out the life that he would have lived, as we model Christ and help them become more like Christ, praying has to be a big part ...
Podcast: Preparing our Hearts to Serve
| By EGM
Have you ever been personally transformed by the Bible lesson you prepared for KidMin? Spending time with God’s Word before presenting it to children is an important aspect of biblical leadership. In this episode, David is joined by Tara Thomas, ...
Podcast: So What?
| By EGM
If we only do one thing in children’s ministry, it must be helping boys and girls connect God’s Word to their real life. Even if we have a super creative Bible lesson, a fun craft and the best snack prepared, ...
Podcast: Ministering to Misbehavers
| By EGM
Is there a kid in your church who might be more -- challenging -- to love? When you see them coming, do you cringe inwardly? We've all been there. Reflecting the love of God to boys and girls is a ...
Podcast: The Buzz
| By EGM
There is often a temptation in ministry to judge our success by big numbers and big programming that creates a lot of “buzz” around activities. God uses high quality events and programs to do amazing things. But the goal in ...
Podcast: The Dreaded Saturday Night Text
| By EGM
Yep, you know the one. "Listen, I am SO SORRY but I won't be able to make it tomorrow..." Why is it so difficult to find volunteers who want to serve in children's ministry? In this episode of "Better Children's ...
Jesus Loves Me, This I Know
| By EGM
As EGM's fiscal year comes to a close this June, we are celebrating the powerful truth that boys and girls around the world can know and experience "Jesus Loves Me." Will you join us in thanking God for the work ...
Launching Ministry in Jordan and Lebanon
| By Daniel Watts
Early in the biblical story of Genesis, we see external factors affecting the people of God. These factors created whole new twists and turns in God’s dealing with people. Turmoil specifically envelopes the family of Jacob, ending with the brothers ...
Why Go On Short-Term Ministry Trips?
| By EGM
Every Generation Ministries supports ministry to children in 14 countries. Part of that support includes sending teams from the United States overseas to connect with what's already being done through the local church in those areas. Short-term ministry trips connect ...
Bible Resources by Africans, for Africans
| By EGM
Our national ministry teams in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been working hard to provide children's ministry leaders in their communities with Bible resources for teaching boys and girls. In a region of the world that relies ...
EGM’s Latin America Ministries Gather
| By EGM
EGM's ministries in Latin America are gearing up for an exciting gathering this February! Teams of leaders from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico will be joining together in Mexico City on February 18-23. They will also be joined by Oliver Cardenas, ...
31 Days of Prayer: Confidence in God
| By EGM
Through the month of January, EGM is sharing 31 ways to pray for children around the world. On day 29, we pray that God would help children have confidence in His plan for their lives. Let’s face it — life ...
31 Days of Prayer: Godly Grandparents
| By Daniel Watts
Through the month of January, EGM is sharing 31 ways to pray for children around the world. On day 15, we prayed that God provide wisdom, knowledge and understanding to children. Gladys Watts was my grandmother, and she had an ...
31 Days of Prayer: Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding
| By Alex Bruda
Through the month of January, EGM is sharing 31 ways to pray for children around the world. On day 15, we prayed that God provide wisdom, knowledge and understanding to children. One of the great examples of biblical wisdom is ...
31 Days of Prayer: Children with Special Needs
| By Krysten Norkaitis
Through the month of January, EGM is sharing 31 ways to pray for children around the world. On day eight, we are praying that children with special needs receive love and understanding. Jesus lived a very strategic life. In ...
The Wondrous Awe of Christmas
| By EGM
“Come!” they told me… "A newborn King to see!” “Our finest gifts we bring…” “To lay before the King!” “So, to honor Him when we come.” Children love Christmas. There’s something about the season that grabs their attention. They love ...
God Sent a Child
| By Daniel Watts
The young 21-year-old was "helping" in the two-year-old's children's ministry class where he volunteered on Sundays. The Children's Director knew that he was struggling to understand the gospel but still wanted to serve. He was a physics student desperate to ...
3 Ways to Make Sibling Rivalry Even Worse
| By Daniel Watts
Being aware of sibling rivalry is a crucial element in relational children's ministry and of course it is not something new. When I was a young children's pastor, I met a couple with two children -- a daughter and fun ...
Taking School Out of Children’s Ministry
| By Daniel Watts
Children's ministry work has some classic stories, none more famous than the teacher who began her Sunday School lesson asking the children to guess what she was describing: "This thing lives in trees (pause) and eats nuts (pause)..." No hands ...
More Than Babysitters
| By Daniel Watts
Did you ever notice that Jesus never asked for volunteers? Those who followed Him were people called to join Him in ministry. Volunteering is just agreeing to do something without getting paid for it. Ministry is a matter of hearing ...
There Are Gifted Leaders Everywhere
| By Daniel Watts
What do a Polish Pastor, Coptic Monk and Ugandan Bishop all have in common? They are dynamic Christian leaders who have had an enormous effect on my life. God uses diverse people, in diverse contexts, to grow His Kingdom Zygmunt ...
Travel Update: Krysten Norkaitis in Washington
| By Krysten Norkaitis
“The childrens ministry training was like an oasis in the middle of the desert for the churches in the State of Washington. Most especially for the Hispanic churches. It was a great idea to gather a couple of churches to ...
All of God’s Word is for Children
| By Alex Bruda
Children are like sponges. They soak up everything they hear and squeeze it all out anytime they want — especially at the most inappropriate times. It’s likely why one of the first words almost every child learns is “no.” They can ...
Fruitful Summer Ministry in Eastern Europe
| By EGM
This summer, EGM-Ukraine and EGM-Belarus ministered to hundreds of children from their local communities through summer Bible camp. God was honored through their efforts to see more children transformed in Christ. Here are a few of the highlights: Three new ...
The “Real Life” Issues Children Face
| By Daniel Watts
When I was a young childrens church worker, my view of children was simple. They were cute, quick to learn and filled with spontaneous joy. I loved being with children, playing with them, talking with them, praying for them, teaching ...
Children’s Ministry is Not About Us
| By EGM
I’m getting a little tired of hearing people talk of ministering to children as “a means to an end.” Today, I came across an article online with eight terrific tips for encouraging the children’s ministry workers in your church. The ...
Travel Update: Alex Bruda in Uganda
| By EGM
Alex Bruda — EGM's National Ministry Builder — traveled to Uganda for a week in July. He went to participate in director orientation for Patience Atukunda, the new National Director for EGM-Uganda. It was a great joy for Alex to serve ...
The Theology of Holding Babies
| By Daniel Watts
I had the opportunity to preach in my large church when I was a young children's pastor. At the conclusion of the last service, one of the elders came up to me with kind words of encouragement. Then he said, ...
Children Need the Local Church
| By Daniel Watts
I was meeting with one of our EGM supporters, just getting to know him. He told me that when he was 12 years old, he came downstairs to the kitchen one morning and found his mother lying on the floor. ...
Transformational Ministry in a Digital Age
| By EGM
Over 20 years ago, the “Internet Revolution” began. Since then, the world has been experiencing the greatest shift in communication in over 500 years. The last seismic paradigm shift of this kind was the invention of the movable type printing ...
Can Children Be Disciples of Jesus?
| By Daniel Watts
If I survey my life, I find certain qualities that are not good. In fact, there are issues I have wrestled with my entire life. When my children were born and I began parenting them, I suddenly realized that those ...
The Value of Simplicity When Teaching the Bible
| By Daniel Watts
After all the parties and celebrations, my friend took his family to dinner to celebrate his PhD. He had just graduated from USC. At the table, his eight-year old asked if his degree meant he could give people medicine. He ...
(A Lack of) VBS in Latin America
| By Alex Bruda
School is out and the time to enjoy summer vacation has arrived. It’s the perfect time to play and have fun, but there is a big problem in Latin America. Most parents need to work through summer to provide for ...
More than Cookies and Coloring Pages
| By EGM
My closest friend from middle school just revealed something to his friends and family that I’m sure was a shock to most of us. Throughout his life - and especially during his childhood - he has struggled with gender dysphoria. ...
Transformational Ministry is Relational
| By Daniel Watts
Susan was the lesson planner and organizer. Cobb was the fun-loving, relational businessman. Everyone thought of her as the “teacher” and “children’s worker.” Cobb was just helping out. Each Sunday they would serve side-by-side. Whenever I would check in on ...
Travel Update: Quinton Hufferd in Hungary
| By Alex Bruda
I was a little nervous about going to Hungary. It wasn’t the potential language barrier, the new people to meet, or the distance. It was the pressure of teaching a national ministry team that has been operating for twenty years. ...
Children Can – and Do – Respond to God
| By Daniel Watts
Years ago, I was asked to preach in a church in Quilpué, Chile. Before the sermon, they took an offering. The ushers had large, shallow straw bowls. Four of them stood in the front of the sanctuary. Down the pew ...
Maybe it Really Does Take a Village
| By EGM
In 1996, then First Lady Hillary Rodham-Clinton released a book entitled, It Takes A Village. This title was criticized for several reasons. Many people disagreed with the overall premise of the book, that the community is responsible for raising children ...
Travel Update: Krysten Norkaitis in Mexico
| By Krysten Norkaitis
Last month, I had the privilege of traveling to Mexico City to work with EGM-Mexico's Director, Benjamin Calderon, and a few key leaders. The purpose of the trip was to begin their training process on the five qualities of a ...
Children Are Excellent Teachers
| By Daniel Watts
Some of the greatest ministry being done in the world today is being done by children. Some of the most important lessons I have learned have been taught to me by boys and girls around the world. Sometimes we get ...
Travel Update: Emese Balint in Romania
| By EGM
Emese Balint, EGM's European Director, recently participated in a summer camp hosted by a partner of EGM-Hungary's church in Romania. Check out her video update and read the testimony below! "We had the blessing of seeing God work in the ...
Talk is Cheap: Local Ministry Needs Local Funding
| By EGM
Words are nice. But often they don’t really say much. I recently celebrated my 20th wedding anniversary. I spent months planning a trip that included as much of what my wife loves as I could fit into the two days ...
They Have God’s Full Attention
| By Daniel Watts
Four years ago, I completed a training session in Kisoro, Uganda. Several leaders asked me to walk with them to the nearby Potters Village Orphanage, run by the church. I was introduced to a little baby who was only hours ...
VBS in Romania: A Four-Wheel Adventure
| By Alex Bruda
Last week, my family and I had the privilege of participating with EGM-Romania in a Vacation Bible School (VBS) program they organized in partnership with the First Baptist Church in Manastur, Cluj. This was the 15th year of VBS at ...
Worshipping God with Pennies
| By EGM
The boy was young. He lived in a nation with great persecution. He was poor by anyone’s standards, but his gift inspired churches to rally together to advance the gospel. In 2016, EGM-Egypt saw the need to reach out to ...
Travel Update: Oliver Cardenas in South America
| By Kelli Johnson
Children's ministry in South America is growing! Oliver Cardenas, EGM's Latin America Coordinator, recently traveled down south to meet with EGM-Argentina and EGM-Chile. Check out his video update below: https://egmworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Oliver-Cardenas-LA-Update-6.16.2017.mp4 Please join us in prayer for the following: Ask ...
Being Shaped by the Potter’s Hand
| By Alex Bruda
I recently was reminded of the story of the great Potter, and how we are all in the Potter’s workshop. We are on His wheel, being shaped into His great image. The vessel is being transformed into something glorious for ...
EGM Welcomes Benjamin Calderon as the Director of EGM-Mexico
| By Alex Bruda
One of my favorite passages in the Scriptures is found in the Old Testament. It is the story when God instructs the prophet Samuel to go to Bethlehem to anoint one of the sons of Jesse to become the new ...
Every Child Deserves the Love of a Father
| By Alex Bruda
During my recent visit to Chile, a woman from a church in Santiago told me how children there are growing up in broken homes, where violence and abuse are part of their daily life. In Latin America, society tolerates the ...
When One Becomes Two Becomes Four…
| By Sarah Zawedde
My name is Sarah, and I am the Children’s pastor at Gaba Community Church in Uganda. I love children and I am always happy to see them grow into mature Christians. As the Chairperson of the EGM-Uganda Board, I look ...
When the Family Comes Together, the World Believes
| By Pavel Osenenko
From its very beginnings, EGM-Belarus has consisted of representatives from two major Church Unions: Baptist and Pentecostal. For over 10 years, I have personally been involved in the Board's work and have served as its Chairman during recent years. I ...
Working with Who’s Already Working
| By EGM
My name is Andrea, and I am the Director of EGM-Chile. I participate in the development and training of children's ministry leaders using the ministry's biblical model of discipleship. This program reflects God’s heart. I have seen how teachers are ...
Putting Ourselves Out of Business
| By David Sanger
In the next ten years, how does EGM serve 38 countries where 75% of the children live? The answer — equip local Christian leaders! Around the world, there are Christians who are just like us: they love the Church and ...
Chosen to Build the Dwelling Place of God
| By EGM
Bezalel and Oholiab walked out of Moses’ tent, and nearly collapsed out of fear and exhaustion. Words could never express what had just taken place. And what they had been instructed to do. Earlier that day, they’d been summoned by ...
When Jesus Becomes Just Another Fairy Tale
| By Alex Bruda
Around the world today, many children are being taught the Bible like it is just another subject in school. Often, they memorize whole chapters of the Bible, but it is never clarified to the children what those verses have to ...
When a Church is Transformed
| By Alex Bruda
Cami and I served with the Bunavestire Church in Bucharest for 16 years. We began with a new church plant of 30 people and started developing the children’s ministry very soon after. Eleven years ago, we started to implement EGM’s ...
Transformed People Transform People
| By Alex Bruda
Mary and Rose recently participated in the Model Children’s Worker training workshops hosted by EGM-Egypt. One of the sessions they attended was about ministering to children with special needs. Not long after that, a woman from Mary and Rose’s church ...
I Am a Mistake
| By Alex Bruda
I was recently teaching a VBS lesson in Cluj about how each and every one of us is so important to God. I shared that He sees real treasure in us – and that He paid an indescribably high price ...
What is REAL Transformation?
| By Daniel Watts
Transformation has become a buzzword in our modern culture. The Uber phenomenon has “transformed” the modern business world. The Golden State Warriors have “transformed” professional basketball with the three-point shot. The e-book has “transformed” the literary world. Although those transformations ...
Helping Children Respond to God’s Word
| By EGM
We long for children to understand what our Bible lessons mean for their real lives. Bible application is used by God to transform hearts. This is the final element of EGM's discipleship model. The children will take all they have learned ...
Leading Children in a Bible Discussion
| By EGM
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lordyour God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them ...
Truth: The Core of Every Bible Lesson
| By EGM
When you arrive at the "Truth" section of your Bible lesson, children will have participated in a relationship activity. They'll be enjoying the positive relational environment you have created. They will have also participated in an experiential activity, where they will ...
5 Ways to Make the Bible Come Alive for Kids
| By EGM
Teaching kids the Bible is most successful when woven into their experiences. We may have heard numerous sermons on prayer. But it often isn't until we are in a difficult situation and seek God's guidance and help that we experience ...
Relational Ministry Leads to Transformation
| By EGM
Every Generation Ministries has the joy of serving alongside children's ministry leaders around the world. During our coaching, teaching and training sessions, we often ask children’s workers if they remember having teachers in school who didn’t seem to even like ...
A biblical model for discipling children
| By EGM
Every Generation Ministries is working with children’s workers in churches around the world to develop transformational children’s ministry. We look to the Bible itself for ministry guidance as we learn how to disciple children. Deuteronomy 6 has been our foundation ...
Bible Truths…Talk About Them
| By Daniel Watts
Last Thursday, I had an internet video meeting with one of our EGM team members in East Africa. During that meeting, he shared the progress of our training and development programs for children's ministry leaders in the Democratic Republic of ...
Roadmap to a Flourishing Ministry
| By Alex Bruda
Not too long ago, my family came together around the dinner table at our home in Kentucky and planned a very special road trip to visit my parents in Southern California. All five of us eagerly gathered around the family ...
How We Work
| By Alex Bruda
God Determines How We Work Explaining how we work throughout the world can be a little tough, since there's a lot to it. In a nutshell, Every Generation Ministries exists to help churches fulfill the Great Commission with children - ...
7 Steps to Effective Children's Ministry
| By Alex Bruda
In the world today, many children involved in children's ministry are being taught the Bible like it is just another subject in school. Often, they memorize whole chapters of the Bible, but it is never clarified to the children what those ...
A Vision for 2025
| By Daniel Watts
Vision - Looking Back Twenty-five years ago, my wife and I were preparing to move to Poland as missionaries to help churches develop a transformational ministry with children. We had no idea then that we were laying the groundwork for ...
Spring Swing 2016 Successful in Helping Children in Conflict Zones
| By Daniel Watts
It was a beautiful day to celebrate God’s great love for children around the world. Over 200 people enjoyed a day of golfing and an enchanted evening fellowshipping with the EGM family. We prayed that God would be honored, ...
Faithful Service in Ministry: Rick Fortier
| By Daniel Watts
Fourteen years ago, I sat in a room filled with Chilean children, watching a young teacher who had been involved in training with Every Generation Ministries. Sitting next to me was Rick Fortier, the man who had organized the ...
Celebrate Giving in the Middle East
| By Alex Bruda
Local Community in Middle East Supports EGM-Egypt in Their Own Backyard Sary Mikhaiel, Middle East Resource Team Director in Egypt, and his team have been invited to present Vacation Bible School programs to churches working with refugee children in the ...
Developing Leaders Around the World – Transforming Lives
| By Daniel Watts
Every Generation Ministries believes that the best people to transform children in Christ are national Christian leaders in His Church. So, EGM establishes national ministry teams that are governed, staffed and funded by the local Christian community. “Governed” means a ...
Model Children's Worker Summit 2016
| By Alex Bruda
What happens when leaders are gathered together from Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Latin America, Africa, Belarus and Egypt? We throw a Model Children's Worker leadership development summit. Nearly 30 leaders from EGM's regional team and national ministry team partners will ...
Praying for Children in Latin America
| By Alex Bruda
God has called passionate, talented, skilled, and extremely capable leaders to spearhead ministry work in Latin America. Every Generation Ministries (EGM) currently operates in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Mexico. Not only does each country have a strong leadership team in place, but ...
Testimony from a Romania VBS Camp
| By Alex Bruda
Young volunteers had the time of their lives a week ago at the Vacation Bible School (VBS) hosted in Baia Mare, Romania, called, "Blue Planet Detectives." They shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with over 150 children between the ages ...
Reaching Children in Uganda
| By Alex Bruda
EGM's East and Central Africa Resource Team Director, Emmanuel Manishimwe, recently shared this story about a Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement located in the Kamwenge district, in Southwest Uganda. The camp accommodates over 50,000 refugees fleeing from conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
Spring Swing 2015 a God-honoring success!
| By Alex Bruda
Thank the LORD for being timely with the rain. The Spring Swing 2015 went off without a hitch AND Southern CA got some much needed water. Thanks to everyone who helped make Spring Swing 2015 such a HUGE success. Participants at ...
Children's Ministry: Lead by Example
| By Daniel Watts
I remember hearing tape recordings of the public figure's private conversations and being absolutely shocked by the vulgar and crude language. In public he was dignified, even eloquent, and appeared to be a symbol of decency. Many people have been struck by ...
Summit 2015: March Madness at EGM
| By Alex Bruda
The EGM team has been busy! Every Generation Ministries had its own style of “March Madness” in the form of Summit 2015. The first ever international staff summit, simply called the Summit, was held in Southern California at the EGM-US ...
Sharing the Word of God using Play-Doh
| By Alex Bruda
Miguel Angel Castellanos shared this story from an EGM leadership program at Iglesia Monte Sinai in Oaxaca, Mexico... Nine brothers and sisters in Christ, both young and old, participated in a children's ministry teacher training at Iglesia Cristiana Monte Sinai. They were very attentive ...
Children’s Ministry Training at Iglesia Latina
| By Alex Bruda
In April 2014, Pastor Federico Salas and his daughter, Ana, drove all the way from San Diego to Santa Ana to attend an Every Generation Ministries (EGM) children’s ministry training program. They enjoyed it so much that they invited EGM to ...
Ukraine Update from the Front Line
| By Shauna Contreras
We were blessed to Skype with Every Generation Ministries (EGM) Ukraine Director, Alexander Achkasov. EGM’s Eastern Europe Resource Team Director Igor Fridrikh translated for Alexander from Russian to English the concerns and fears his countrymen, and especially the children, are ...
New Beginnings in 2015
| By Daniel Watts
2015 IS OFF AND RUNNING! Most of us have taken stock of the previous year and have already made new plans for the New Year. New beginnings are part of the world God created The four seasons cause us to think ...
The Cox family starts Enduring Treasure Ministries
| By Daniel Watts
Joe and Julie Cox came to serve with Every Generation Ministries (EGM) in 2006. Joe was given charge over operations for the ministry’s international efforts, while Julie served in communications and curriculum development. At that time, EGM was working in ...
Why the Baby Jesus matters
| By Daniel Watts
His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful by Simon Dewey In September, my wife lost her mother to liver cancer and Oleta Faye Earles went to be with the LORD. During the days leading up to and after her passing, our ...
Season of Thankfulness
| By Daniel Watts
My wife Marla teaches at a local Christian School and every year at this time, staff members gather together all the coats, sweaters, shoes, shirts and hats from lost and found. The small mountain of goods belies the world of cavalier materialism that has been created unintentionally. ...
Fishers of Men: Where are all the Children?
| By Daniel Watts
I have long felt that Jesus' recruitment of fishermen as His key disciples gave special status to fishing. The fact that He urged them to be fishers of men only further reinforced the importance of fishing. I should confess that ...
A Leader is Developed, Not Born
| By Daniel Watts
Whenever I feel frustrated or discouraged as a leader, I turn first to my wife Marla. Several years ago, I felt unable to help a young leader grow in effectiveness, and expressed my discouragement to Marla. I said, “How could ...
Every Generation Ministries found its Polish Director in Taiwan
| By Alex Bruda
When Every Generation Ministries (EGM) President, Daniel Watts, stepped down as the Director of EGM-Poland in 1997, the Polish Board of Directors chose Andrzej Michnik to serve as its Polish Director. Andrzej served in that role from 1998. Andrzej stepped ...
We Are Not Born Right with God
| By Daniel Watts
Why Christianity is a Foreign Religion (Part 3) Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, Poland The logic goes something like this... the message of the gospel was entrusted to the Holy Catholic Church. Anyone who becomes a member of the Roman Catholic ...
International Giving: Be Careful with the Coin
| By Daniel Watts
Why Christianity is a Foreign Religion (Part 2) Read Part 1: English Should Not be the Lingua Franca Three years ago, I stood in the sanctuary of a large church in Belarus that had the capacity to seat over one ...
In Loving Memory of Oleta Earles
| By Daniel Watts
Oleta Fay Earles Fifteen years ago, I was traveling home to Poland and spoke to Marla just before boarding my transatlantic flight. Shortly after I boarded, Marla’s mother, Oleta Earles, called Poland from California to track down my whereabouts. The ...
English Should Not be the Lingua Franca
| By Daniel Watts
Daniel C. Watts Why Christianity is a Foreign Religion (Part 1) One Sunday, a Swedish Pastor visited our Polish church in Krakow, Poland. He did not speak Polish or English, and there was no Swedish-Polish translator. Therefore, in order for him ...
Why Christianity is a Foreign Religion
| By Daniel Watts
My wife Marla and I moved to Poland in 1991, and over the next ten years worked to understand the Polish language and culture. In the beginning, we discovered the widespread perception that Evangelical Christianity was a foreign religion. Over ...
Heart Language in Children's Ministry
| By Daniel Watts
Daniel C. Watts There are several issues which have proven to be contentious among Christians. One of them involves Pentecost, and the early church experience of speaking in tongues. Amidst the controversy regarding the work of the Holy Spirit, we ...
Father and Children Camp in Romania Bridges Relationships
| By Alex Bruda
Challenge dad! Build a footbridge with dad! These two sentences are the two ways one could understand the double meaning in the Romanian title of the father and children camp organized this summer by EGM Romania. The Romanian title is “Pun’te ...
Please Pray for Oleta Earles
| By Daniel Watts
Daniel C. Watts This blog article was supposed to focus on the importance of language, culture and ministry. However, things have happened in my life that have drawn my attention elsewhere. Ten days ago, I had all my plans laid out for the ...
Global Networking Efforts with David Overstreet
| By Alex Bruda
My wife was born in a small town and when we visit, it seems like everyone knows Marla's mother. They wave when she drives by and it seems as though someone knows her in every store we enter. She could ...
How the Bible Fits Into Cross-Cultural Ministry
| By Daniel Watts
Daniel C. Watts By the grace of God, I am blessed to be part of a cross-cultural ministry that seeks to transform children in Christ through His church around the world. His grace allowed me to live in Poland for ...
Romania Celebrates 12 Years of Ministry
| By Alex Bruda
The EGM Romania National Ministry Team was registered in 2002. This year, the ministry is celebrating 12 years of serving the Lord to see more Romanian boys and girls transformed in Christ through His local churches. EGM Romania Celebrates its ...
Children Love to Celebrate
| By Daniel Watts
Daniel C. Watts Children love Christmas and birthdays because they are typically times of joy, games, food and fun. Celebrations involve friends and family, and allow children to stop and remember something important. My Children Celebrate "Doughnut Day" When our children were ...