In this episode, Jeremy O'Neill gives us a quick look into Children's ministry of Sandals Church, a multisite church in Southern California that is producing a unique and original approach to the in-person and digital experience for kids and families. Jeremy also shares some of the things that are shaping Sandals Kids teams and leadership development.
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Notes
Sandals Kids at 11 campuses:
- Use a Small Group and Large Group model
- Digital Storybook for preschool
- Range from 70 kids to over 1,000 kids (2,000 across all campuses)
- Content completely original for all kid's ministry
- Created Roku app for devices on their campuses for Kid's content
- This is where ALL content lives
- A mixture of fun and serious
- Youtube videos are mainly for fun
- The Sandalskids.tv platform is more for engaging content
What's going well at Sandals Church:
- Measurement of everything
- The return rate of attendees
- Recognizing trends
- Invite Events, Develop People, Serve Events
- Schedule these strategically for families to adopt church as a part of their lives
- Consider all your data (key audiences – survey them)
- Volunteers
- Parents
- Kids (Idea: emoji survey)
- Staff
- Ask the hard questions
- How are we doing? Is there a disconnect with how kids feel and how parents feel? What is working, what isn't, and where should we invest more of our energy?
What needs some work at Sandals:
- Bringing people around the VISION
- Address the gap in identifying potential leaders
- Identify leadership levels (pipeline)
- Simple Model for leadership development
- Tasks
- Projects
- Role
Action Items
- MinistryBoost.org/screens
- Look at return rate – retention plan
- Sample survey or visit sandalskids.tv
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