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	You Can Preach to the Kids Too! Carolyn C. Brown Abingdon Press, 1997 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Brown explains why it is important to preach sermons that reach children as well as adults. Telling a short children's sermon and then ignoring the kids for the rest of the service isn't enough. Pastors need to reach the children in the "real" sermon.

This book not only provided inspiration to preach to the kids, it also provided techniques, examples, and prompts to help me do it. From basic ideas like kneeling down to their eye level when you greet them at the back of the church, to things you probably would overlook like scripture stories children often find offensive, this book has it all. Even the most experienced pastor is likely to learn something new.

Some other features include:
- Important events in a child's year to preach on
- Organization and delivery techniques to catch children's attention
- Childhood experiences well-suited to be sermon illustrations
- Suggestions for using themes from popular children's stories
- How to use props well
- Designing effective children's bulletins
- Ways parents can help children be more involved

The book is well-written, well-organized, and easy to read. I skimmed it in a couple of hours and have refered back to it many, many times.

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A Must Read

If you preach, then you need to read this one! Great lesson on learning to make the sermon more meaningful not only to the children but adults as well. The book doesn't just give you theory but practical ideas for application and helps. The author doesn't always give a clear reason to why we do certain things with children, but there is enough to let you know why it is important.


All God's Children

Carolyn C. Brown provides many useful tools in her book. And as is quite common with ministering to children and youth, the more tools you can equip yourself with, the better. Her ideas of finding ways to encourage children to not only sit through a sermon but also to take something away from them are easily accomplished by even a fairly new sermon writer.

After suggesting that one alternative to a children's sermon is getting rid of it entirely, Brown showers the reader with ways in which to make a sermon more understandable and beneficial to all its listeners. From using language that children will understand to finding more exciting and illuminating ways of present Scripture, Brown continues to pack our tool boxes.

Several other ideas presented in the book provide options within the worship service itself, including not only the children but finding new and exciting ways to include the adults as well.

And in the sermon preparation itself, Brown opens the door for many possibilities from illustrations that relate to children to providing the children with projects and puzzles for them to work on in the pews.

Many of the points that are shared in this book are beneficial, some may seem quite basic. However, once they are put into action the results will be unmistakable. And remember, children are not the future of our churches; they are an active, full-bodied participant in the present. Let's not only treat them as such, let's show them they are important.

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