Time for leaders is an important component of Kids Clubs. Some suggestions for making time for nurturing leaders are:

• Before each Kids Club gather together in a circle and hold hands, have someone say a short prayer, or have each person pray for the person on their left/right around the circle. This can be a simple way to remind each other that you are a community gathering together to share God's Love.
• After each Kids Club gather together to discuss how the afternoon went: joys and concerns. Then close in a short prayer.
• Create a prayer circle in your group and pray for each other during the week
• Invite your Minister or an Elder to attend Kids Club and at the end to lead you in a short devotion (15 minutes at most). Remember that you need to grow your own faith as well as the children's.
• Once every few months you might want to arrange a get together with other Kids Club leaders in your general area/presbytery to BYO lunch and discuss (informally) games that you use, craft ideas you have had, etc… Share the information, don't expect that you have to come up with all the ideas all the time. This can also be a great opportunity for growing networks and for learning that many Kids Clubs have similar issues and concerns and that together we can work through these.
• If people have email, form an egroup so that you can communicate during the week at each persons convenience.
• Take time to keep up to speed with the children, read the latest books that they are reading, see the latest movie and discuss it with them, keep up to date on the things that interest them. Obviously you wont all have time for this so tag team…you might find yourself being the latest member of the Harry Potter fan club!
• Be there for each other and nurture each other.
• Praise each other when you see something that you know that you enjoyed and the children enjoyed ... it is not just the children who blossom with praise!