Leading Kids to Jesus: How to Have One-on-One Conversations about Faith

by David Staal

According to a study by George Barna, a person is most likely to become a Christian between the ages of four and fourteen. Yet the majority of evangelism training is designed to reach adults, not children. Leading Kids to Jesus equips children's ministry leaders with proven principles to help them have life-changing discussions with kids. The focus is exclusively on personal interactions, not corporate presentations or prop-driven illustrations. Readers learn the best ways to communicate God's love to toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary school children in words they understand. The book adapts two simple communication tools from the bestselling evangelism course Becoming a Contagious Christian, which helps you develop your own three-part story and the four components of the gospel message. Included is a survey of what questions to expect from kids, along with other helps and children's ministry experience from Willow Creek's Promiseland staff and volunteers. A companion volume for parents called Leading Your Child to Jesus is also available.

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

Reviews

[Heather Gmiterek · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book, I sit in my kids room with them as they fall asleep each night and listen to an audiobook with earbuds in my ears until they fall asleep. I need to buy this book it has so much good stuff in it that I need to be able to sit with it for awhile, go back to pieces, make notes, dig into ideas. I actually want to go back and do all the questions and prompts (which I admit is rare for me).

The two chapters on introducing babies and toddlers to Jesus especially filled my heart, and gave me so many tools, ideas and new vocabulary to make my ministry more fruitful.

Bonus that this book was available on Hoopla through my public library, it's only 4 1/2 hours to listen to completion.