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Trauma-Informed Children’s Ministry

By: Robert G. Crosby, Lori A. Crosby
Narrated by: Doug Wedekind
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James used to laugh and joke with the other third graders. Now he was angry, aggressive, and defiant. James was hurting, but Pastor Becky didn’t know how to help. Like many children’s pastors, she didn’t realize that a child in her ministry was experiencing symptoms of trauma. She wasn’t sure how to respond to his big feelings and challenging behaviors.

Trauma-Informed Children’s Ministry: A Practical Guide to Reaching Hurting Kids helps children’s ministry leaders understand trauma and strengthen their ministries to serve and disciple hurting kids.

Divorce, bullying, adoption, abuse. Learn how trauma touches the children you love and what most churches get wrong when it comes to teaching and disciplining children who have experienced trauma.

Why does Isaac keep talking back? Why is Sara under the table crying? Make sense out of the most frustrating, confusing, and heartbreaking child behaviors.

Through inspiring, real-life stories, discover practical, research-based strategies to begin transforming your ministry this Sunday.

Good intentions are not enough. Our changing society craves authentic churches equipped to reach all children. This powerful, groundbreaking book will help you:

  • Cultivate caring relationships.
  • Eliminate challenging behaviors.
  • Encourage your team.
  • Amplify your church’s impact in the community!
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Everyone Should Read This Book

Everyone can really benefit from reading this book. Whether you are a church leader, a parent, an adult living with trauma, a childless adult, a teacher, or non-religious person, everyone can learn something profound from this book's lessons, examples and research. I myself am a childless adult who doesn't attend any church, but this book taught me a lot about how I should interact with children and be sympathetic to their plights, whether they are deeply hurting, are neurodivergent, or just plainly being a kid who wants to relate to an adult and tell their story. It also taught me a lot about myself and the experiences I went through as a kid and how I behaved/reacted, and how those experiences still affect me to this day.

The stories this book follows and the churches that implemented affective methods for helping children (and their guardians) gives me a lot of hope that there is a church that is welcoming for people of all walks of life. The trauma these children went through were heartbreaking and brought me to tears, but I was equally moved to tears hearing how the church leaders helped those children rather than turning them away or giving up on them. The bible passages were extremely appropriate and eye-opening. I can't recommend this book enough to literally everyone. If you have a child struggling with trauma, or maybe you are that child now an adult, or just simply are someone who struggles interacting with children, this book will be an immense help to you and those around you.

I almost wish this book was a required reading for all potential church leaders!!

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Very inspiring story

As a staff coordinator from a city mission church I definitely recommend this book. Very practical and encouraging!

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