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The ROK Method: Discipleship for kids
"The ROK Method" by Justin Hamby is a revolutionary approach to children's ministry, aimed at empowering kids to actively participate in their faith journey. Drawing on years of experience, Hamby offers practical insights and innovative techniques to create an engaging, dynamic, and spiritually enriching environment for children.
Key
Interactive Learning: Emphasizes the importance of play and interactive activities to help children learn and grow. By incorporating drama, role-playing, and creative games, kids can explore biblical stories in a hands-on and meaningful way.
Building Relationships: Highlights the significance of forming strong, authentic relationships with children. Hamby provides strategies for engaging with kids on their level, fostering trust, and creating a supportive community.
Allowing Failure: Encourages a culture where failure is seen as a stepping stone to success. By allowing kids to take risks and make mistakes in a safe environment, they develop resilience and confidence.
Experiential Marketing: Adapts retail concepts to ministry, creating immersive and memorable experiences that resonate with children. This approach helps make the Gospel message relevant and impactful.
Understanding Kid Culture: Offers insights into the environments that influence children today—physical, mental, digital, and virtual. Understanding these factors helps educators connect with kids more effectively.
Effective Planning: Provides detailed guidelines for planning and executing children's ministry activities. From pre-service meetings to post-service evaluations, Hamby outlines steps to ensure smooth operations and maximum engagement.
Altar Calls: Emphasizes the importance of altar calls in children's ministry, creating opportunities for kids to experience God's presence and make personal commitments.
Through "The ROK Method," Justin Hamby inspires educators to rethink traditional approaches and adopt a more interactive, child-centered model. The book is filled with real-life examples, practical tips, and heartfelt anecdotes, making it an invaluable resource for anyone involved in children's ministry.
Key
Interactive Learning: Emphasizes the importance of play and interactive activities to help children learn and grow. By incorporating drama, role-playing, and creative games, kids can explore biblical stories in a hands-on and meaningful way.
Building Relationships: Highlights the significance of forming strong, authentic relationships with children. Hamby provides strategies for engaging with kids on their level, fostering trust, and creating a supportive community.
Allowing Failure: Encourages a culture where failure is seen as a stepping stone to success. By allowing kids to take risks and make mistakes in a safe environment, they develop resilience and confidence.
Experiential Marketing: Adapts retail concepts to ministry, creating immersive and memorable experiences that resonate with children. This approach helps make the Gospel message relevant and impactful.
Understanding Kid Culture: Offers insights into the environments that influence children today—physical, mental, digital, and virtual. Understanding these factors helps educators connect with kids more effectively.
Effective Planning: Provides detailed guidelines for planning and executing children's ministry activities. From pre-service meetings to post-service evaluations, Hamby outlines steps to ensure smooth operations and maximum engagement.
Altar Calls: Emphasizes the importance of altar calls in children's ministry, creating opportunities for kids to experience God's presence and make personal commitments.
Through "The ROK Method," Justin Hamby inspires educators to rethink traditional approaches and adopt a more interactive, child-centered model. The book is filled with real-life examples, practical tips, and heartfelt anecdotes, making it an invaluable resource for anyone involved in children's ministry.
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Published June 1, 2024
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July 26, 2024
Book Review: The ROK Method by Justin Hamby
Title: The ROK Method
Author: Rev. Justin Hamby
Publisher: Self-Published
ISBN: 9798371527042
I moved to Northwest Arkansas in 2016. Being new to the area, I started a search for a church where my family could call home. I spent some time getting acclimated to the church where I first met Justin Hamby. Being in education, I found myself serving in the children’s ministry where Justin led our children’s program that was known as ROK (Reaching Our Kids). It is safe to say that at that time, I had never seen a kid's program quite like this in any church that I had been to. There was a stage and stage lighting, microphones set up through an actual sound system, and kids were leading in every service. I would stand at many services where I volunteered in ROK in awe and wonder at what was happening there. Dave Burges created the “Teach Like a Pirate” community, and I related this method much to that montage. Justin engulfed the kids in every aspect of the service. He would pull out costumes and props that would aid in teaching dynamic lessons that had kids fully engaged in learning the Bible.
Chapter two in Justin’s book, the ROK Method, is one of my favorites. “Playing Church” is so relatable. Kids love to play church. That is where many of us adults found a place to hone our natural talents and abilities that led us into our ministries as adults. Kids feel comfortable in an environment that gives them the freedom to explore and learn on their own terms. It wasn’t a free-for-all like you might think. The kids respected the space and followed the rules while they were in the space.
Chapter three would be my next favorite chapter because it discusses what I think is the (not so secret) secret sauce to Justin’s success: relationship building. Getting on the kids' level, listening to them, and relating to them is huge! Hamby takes relationship-building to the next level. You will have to read the book to understand what I mean. It’s so good!
Chapter seven talks about understanding kid culture. I have seen churches lose touch with current kids’ culture. They miss opportunities by not including the current culture in their program. Technology and themes like Roblox are highly relatable to the current culture, so why not use them? How profound! Hamby goes into this topic in detail in chapter seven, and in my opinion, this is one of the more important topics within this book.
Chapter nine brings home the importance of the altar. Hamby talks about how the culmination of all the work leads to an altar experience. What a powerful point of view! The ROK Method leads kids who will one day become adults who serve God. Children’s ministry is not just a sidebar that keeps kids busy so the adults can have church service uninterrupted. Lives are being changed as kids, but also in the adults that children will become.
It is my hope that children’s ministry leaders and workers will pick up this book and be as inspired as I am. It is an easy read. I am an average reader and finished it in about 20 minutes. We need passionate children’s ministries that can reach kids right where they are. Involve the kids anywhere you can so they can grow and do dynamic things for the kingdom. Great book to have in your library to reference time and time again.
Title: The ROK Method
Author: Rev. Justin Hamby
Publisher: Self-Published
ISBN: 9798371527042
I moved to Northwest Arkansas in 2016. Being new to the area, I started a search for a church where my family could call home. I spent some time getting acclimated to the church where I first met Justin Hamby. Being in education, I found myself serving in the children’s ministry where Justin led our children’s program that was known as ROK (Reaching Our Kids). It is safe to say that at that time, I had never seen a kid's program quite like this in any church that I had been to. There was a stage and stage lighting, microphones set up through an actual sound system, and kids were leading in every service. I would stand at many services where I volunteered in ROK in awe and wonder at what was happening there. Dave Burges created the “Teach Like a Pirate” community, and I related this method much to that montage. Justin engulfed the kids in every aspect of the service. He would pull out costumes and props that would aid in teaching dynamic lessons that had kids fully engaged in learning the Bible.
Chapter two in Justin’s book, the ROK Method, is one of my favorites. “Playing Church” is so relatable. Kids love to play church. That is where many of us adults found a place to hone our natural talents and abilities that led us into our ministries as adults. Kids feel comfortable in an environment that gives them the freedom to explore and learn on their own terms. It wasn’t a free-for-all like you might think. The kids respected the space and followed the rules while they were in the space.
Chapter three would be my next favorite chapter because it discusses what I think is the (not so secret) secret sauce to Justin’s success: relationship building. Getting on the kids' level, listening to them, and relating to them is huge! Hamby takes relationship-building to the next level. You will have to read the book to understand what I mean. It’s so good!
Chapter seven talks about understanding kid culture. I have seen churches lose touch with current kids’ culture. They miss opportunities by not including the current culture in their program. Technology and themes like Roblox are highly relatable to the current culture, so why not use them? How profound! Hamby goes into this topic in detail in chapter seven, and in my opinion, this is one of the more important topics within this book.
Chapter nine brings home the importance of the altar. Hamby talks about how the culmination of all the work leads to an altar experience. What a powerful point of view! The ROK Method leads kids who will one day become adults who serve God. Children’s ministry is not just a sidebar that keeps kids busy so the adults can have church service uninterrupted. Lives are being changed as kids, but also in the adults that children will become.
It is my hope that children’s ministry leaders and workers will pick up this book and be as inspired as I am. It is an easy read. I am an average reader and finished it in about 20 minutes. We need passionate children’s ministries that can reach kids right where they are. Involve the kids anywhere you can so they can grow and do dynamic things for the kingdom. Great book to have in your library to reference time and time again.
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