Children’s Ministry Talk is the podcast devoted to providing straight talk for children’s ministry leaders, by children’s ministry leaders, on all things related to children’s ministry. Hosts Dick Gruber and Jason Rhode answer your questions, discuss current trends and issues, and help share their perspective on contemporary children’s ministry.

Their goal is for this podcast to be very much listener-driven and reallly be interactive. They want you….the listener…to contact them with questions or comments on anything related to children’s ministry.

There are many convenient and FREE ways for you to participate in the podcast, all of which are posted at childrensministrytalk.com. You can send and email to: childrensministrytalk@gmail.com; call us and leave a voice message at 206.202.3066, or even bookmark a site in del.icio.us using our podcast tag “childrensministrytalk” that you’d like us to talk about.

Dick Gruber's Evangel Art: Reproducible Art for Children's Ministries is offered for FREE and includes:

• over 40 evangel pages
• 385 picture words
• 124 scripture pictures

This song, written by Dick Gruber, clearly expresses the prayer of a children's ministry leader seeking to be used by God to see children come to know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and grow in their relationship with Him.

It is Dick's desire that EVERYONE involved in children's ministry EVERYWHERE receive a copy of this song to be encouraged and to use this song to help inspire others to greater ministry service to children.

Listen to the song below and download the mp3 for offline use. To download, just right-click the button for the song version(s) you'd like and then select "save target as" to save to your computer. *Note - The size of each audio file is 4.49 mb

CMUO courses cover a wide variety of very practical topics related to building and leading a successful children's ministry. Samples of CMUO online instructional presentations are offered as free children's ministry training workshops that provide a glimpse of the quality instruction that you can expect from CMUO.

Some topics include:

• Beyond Babysitting?
• Recruiting and Keeping Substitute Staff
• Learning Disabilities & ADD/ADHD

Click here to view all workshops.