KMC Better Together Newsletter

**A KIDS MINISTRY COLLECTIVE RESOURCE NEWSLETTER**

In Today's Better Together Newsletter:

The Walking Together Collection
2026 Children's Ministry Safety Trends
Tools for Time Management
Storytelling in 2026
Set up a Clarity Call with a KMC Coach

KMC Collective Podcast

Anxiety is affecting children and leaving many parents unsure how to help; this KMC conversation with Katie Robinson draws on The Long Game to explore practical ways to support children and families. You can use it to equip your team to respond with empathy, give parents hopeful next steps, and keep emotional resilience in view over time—not just in a Sunday-morning moment.

Watch or Listen

The Walking Together Collection

The Walking Together Collection by Katie Robinson is a series of chapter books for elementary-aged kids that explores hard, yet common, topics through the lens of faith. Each book offers relatable stories,

practical tools, and reminders of God’s faithfulness through life’s challenges.

The Walking Together Collection

 Book 1: The Fourth Grade Plan — Trusting God even when things are out of our control

 Book 2: The Unexpected Summer — Even when we don’t understand, God is good

 Book 3: The Day Everything Changed — God can give us peace, even in the hardest moments

 Book 4: The Long Game — God can be trusted even when our worries feel real

2026 Safety Trends

Policies, screening and onboarding, trauma-informed volunteer training, incident reporting, safe room design, family communication, and age-appropriate ways for children to speak up. Use it as a prompt to review one part of your safety system with your team; it is a practical industry resource, not a national survey.

Check it out!

Tools for Time Management

Wake Forest offers two practical experiments: the 1–3–5 planning rule (one major task, three medium tasks, five small tasks) and a three-day energy audit to match demanding work with your focus peaks. You can adapt the ideas to your ministry week by naming one priority that moves the mission forward and protecting a realistic block for it.

Check it out!

Storytelling in 2026

This free guide explores how story shapes faith, identity, and formation, with practical planning resources for worship, outreach, Christian education, and leadership development. You can borrow the focus on storytelling to help children connect biblical truth with their own lives and give volunteers a shared language for formation.

Check it out!

Every leader has questions. Every leader faces hard choices.

Where do children’s ministry leaders go when you have questions that you need to not only get answers to but, to help you contextualize and implement in your context?

Facebook groups? Webinars? Video courses? Those aren’t bad options, and I’ve used all of them. But is that really where you’ll find the best answers for you in your ministry context?

An experienced ministry coach can ask questions to clarify and dig deeper into what you’re really looking for. They won’t tell you how to do it, but they will help you find the answer that is right before you.

SET UP A CLARITY CALL WITH ONE OF OUR COACHES