Who Should Lead Your Church Children’s Choir

Who Should Lead Your Church's Children's Choir?

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Are you the main Children’s Ministry Coordinator at your church? Maybe you are paid. Likely you are not. But you are already busy in service to your congregation. You have curriculum to select, the very heavy burden of recruiting volunteers for all your Sunday School classes, security procedures to implement, Lysol wipes to stock, and “we have a confirmed case of hand, foot, and mouth virus” emails to send out.

I am so glad that you are reading this blog, but you should stick to the “administering” and find someone else to lead your children’s music program. You need to identify who else in your congregation you can point towards the blog for inspiration and guidance.

Consider asking these folks in your church to spearhead this ministry:

Home school mom: If a child is homeschooled, that means that they aren’t getting the music education provided by their local school. Those parents probably feel an obligation to incorporate “the arts” into their kids’ lives. Voila! 15 minutes a week of free music instruction. Free is cheaper than the $25 per hour piano lesson they are thinking about paying for.
Team of 2 musical 17-18 year olds: Are there two brothers/sisters/friends that are musical? Would following along on this blog make it super easy for them to teach the children a few songs? This would be a great way for them to begin to dip their toe into taking on leadership roles at the church. Teens often are looking for ways to volunteer because they often have volunteer hour requirements for different school groups that they are in.
The substitute church pianist: Every church who has music in worship service has to have some people who are “back-ups” when the primary musician(s) are gone. Would that person be willing to serve in a more regular way? They pass the bar for ability. Question is, do they like herding cats, I mean, kids?
Empty-nester not-yet-grandmother: Is there a woman in the church who has recently had your young adult children move out whose house has becoming achingly quiet and might be needing a little chaos in her life?
Sunday School teacher who wants to serve but needs a bit of a break: Is there one of your faithful teachers who feels called to serve children but who honestly needs a bit of a break. Maybe taking a step down to a 15-minute per week job instead of a full Sunday School class time would be a welcome reprieve for him/her.

Who is coming to your mind that you can pray about asking to give 15 minutes a week to mold little worshippers? The hardest part is getting started. But with this Start A Children’s Choir resource, you can grease the wheels for that volunteer to get started.