FACTORS AFFECTING GROWTH OF THE CHILDREN MINISTRY

Abstract

Children are the most basic and essential resource for the kingdom of God. Childhood is the most effective period for evangelism and spiritual development. Reaching out to children with the gospel and nurturing them in their spiritual growth is deeply related to Church growth in both quantity and quality. Therefore, if Churches focus on children ministry, Church growth will be realised too. In other words without the success of children ministry, the church’s future cannot be successful. New Life Covenant Church children ministry aims at realising the growth of the children ministry. The aim of this study was to find out factors affecting the growth of children ministry. The specific objectives of this study were to establish the effects of church leadership, children ministry workforce, resource allocation and organizational structure on the growth of children ministry. This was done to help in achieving children ministry growth in New life covenant church. The study did a census of 110 people, comprising of leaders, children workers and elders in New Life Covenant Church. The Primary data was collected from respondents via questionnaires which were administered to the randomly selected leaders, children ministry workers and elders of New Life Covenant Church who were the target population. The study used SPSS to carry out the statistical analysis to address the study objectives. All the statistical tests were conducted at confidence level of 99% therefore the significance level was at 0.01. The study findings showed that church leadership had a positive relationship with growth of children ministry and therefore, implying that it is a significant factor towards the growth of children ministry. Resource allocation also had positive relationship with growth of children ministry. The ministry personnel had a significant impact on the growth of children ministry and also the organizational structure contributed significantly towards the growth of children ministry at New Life Covenant Church. The study recommended a full implementation of the results at New Life Covenant Church in order to attain a positive growth of children ministry.