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hildren’s Ministry has shifted from traditional Sunday School to an impacting, vibrant, growth-causing ministry in the life of local churches. ACCkids resource the wider church leadership through conferences, training events, formal education and mentoring.
Over the past two years, ACCkids has been focussed on Leadership development through the demographic of Children’s Leaders. In that time we have held our annual National Conference ‘Kidshaper’ in 2019, along with that Kidshaper National Tour event, a five-city training event held over one week. We have continued with our successful Mentor Program, lauched a weekly Leadership Podcast, partnered with Champions Clubs to bring training and resources to churches in the area of additional needs, as well as launching the ACCkids Academy in conjunction with Youth Alive. Like everyone, we all had to adapt and change our approach in 2020 but through the strength of the programs and initiatives we have been running, we were able to support Kids pastors and leaders through COVID restrictions. We held four Online Conversations with over 70 Kids Pastors talking through response and strategy. As there was no physical conferences, we held Kidshaper as a Virtual Conference, which was a huge success. We will now run this event annually as well as our in-person events. Leadership Over the last two years tere have been some changes in State Leaders. The current team is: National Leader: Andy Kirk QLD/NT: Jason Van Vuuren NSW: Allyson Parker taking over from Hannah Shand VIC: Barry Newton taking over from Ezra Boots WA: Jordan Keehan SA: Alice McInnes Stats Kidshaper Conference (2019): Kidshaper National Tour (2019): Kidshaper Virtual Conference (2020): Number of Mentor Students: ACCkids Academy:
Up 5% on year before 1000 people attended throughout week Over 1200 People connected in 40 different churches in personal mentoring program 10 Students
Online Resources:
20% viewing increase
Training & Resources ACCkids has continued to develop it’s Mentoring program and well over 40 Kids Pastors and leaders have been trained and mentored. The launch of the ACCkids Kids Ministry and Leadership Podcast has created another platform for Kids Pastors and Leaders to upskill weekly. The Podcast has seen the leading Kids Pastors Internationally feature along with incredible Australian Pastors and Leaders from within our Movement. ACCkids Academy launched in 2020 in partnership with Youth Alive.After many years of incredible success training Youth Pastors, we were thrilled to partner with Youth Alive. This is a key strategy to see leaders formally trained with a Kids Ministry focus. 35
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