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When I Started in Kid’s Ministry, I Didn’t Have the Foggiest Idea What I Was Doing
I started seminary thinking I would be a pastor. However, three months later, the Lord called me to be a children’s pastor in Cleburne, Texas. We visited the church, and the pastor visited us the next day.
Pastor Lynn completely caught me off guard that evening when he asked, “Clint, will you pray about being our children’s minister?” I thought to myself, “Yeah, right!” That was not what he was thinking—he apparently had heard from the Lord before I did. Three months later, I became their children's pastor.
The first time I baptized a little girl in my church, I had no idea what I was doing. I knew what to say, “I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” But I had never been taught how to take the next step. This little girl’s name was Carry, and she was nine years old.
"Clint Is The Abundant Life I Give For Children, Too? Or is it Just For Youth and Adults?”
In the summer of 2002, I accepted a new children’s ministry position at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
Right from the start, the Lord quickly moved me out of my ministry box into a new paradigm.
The Lord began to lead me down a new path to train and equip preteens in my church for ministry.
"I Felt Something Like Fire Going Through Me." My First Preteen Mission Trip
In the spring of 2004, I felt led by the Lord to train and prepare the preteens for our first mission trip.
We taught them to lead the worship songs, teach an evangelistic Bible study, and counsel lost children.
When I shared with my church staff what I was going to do that summer, they thought I had lost my mind.
It Was As If a Veil Had Been Removed From My Eyes
My greatest joy throughout the past 33 years has been working with children in the local church.
I have loved seeing their lives transformed by the power of the Gospel working in them.
What I did not know was God’s greater plan for their lives.
During my first 14 years of ministry, I was working at an adult level.
Pouring my life into my adult leaders and equipping them for works of ministry (Ephesians 4:11-13).
I knew that if I spent time with them, it would pour over into the lives of the children of my church. It did, and it did not.
