Equipping the Children’s Ministry Teachers at Beechwood Baptist Church Louisville, Kentucky

Abstract

This project aims to equip children’s ministry teachers of Beechwood Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, to teach biblical foundations to the children. Chapter 1 presents the purpose, goals, context, rationale, definitions, limitations, delimitations, and research methodology of the project.Chapter 2 provides the biblical and theological basis for the church’s responsibility to teach the gospel to children. First, the chapter examines God’s commandment to teach children to love, obey, and fear God. Second, it discusses the sufficiency and authority of the Scripture for effective teaching. Finally, the chapter demonstrates that children’s ministry teachers should be a godly example to children. Chapter 3 addresses theoretical and practical issues related to children’s ministry teachers as developers, trainers, and disciplers of children. The chapter examines notable studies on the teaching, training, and discipling of children. Chapters 4 give a detailed description of the implementation of the project and the analysis of the data. Chapter 5 present the evaluations of the project.