Royal Ambassadors

Missions camp offers children a unique opportunity to grow spiritually, build meaningful relationships, and discover their role in God’s mission. This guide equips missions discipleship leaders with practical tips to help families prepare, support campers, and maximize the lasting impact of this life-changing week.

Divorce is a deeply challenging experience that impacts both parents and children, often creating emotional, spiritual, and practical needs within families. This blog equips children’s ministry leaders with actionable ways to support those affected — offering practical assistance, fostering inclusion, and providing consistent care for children during a time of instability. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing behavioral changes, maintaining healthy boundaries, and understanding legal considerations. Above all, it reminds leaders of their unique opportunity to bring encouragement, stability, and faith-centered healing to families navigating divorce.

Caring adults, including church leaders, can make all the difference in a child’s early experiences with death. Children grieve when someone dies. Studies show that the most important factor in how a child reacts to death is how adults in their lives respond to the situation. Communicating with children about death is one of the most challenging experiences any adult will face, but it can also be a sacred opportunity for you, as a leader, to be the hands and feet of Christ to a hurting child and his or her family.

Southern Baptists have an amazing engine to fulfill the Great Commissions. It’s called the Cooperative Program (CP). As each church gives what they can, added together, the missions and ministries of the Southern Baptist Convention and respective state conventions are able to accomplish big things for God.

Royal Ambassador leaders, it’s time to step up your game! No, literally, step up—preferably to a target range. Archery and knife safety are the newest additions to our Royal Ambassador activity lineup, and they promise to be as thrilling as they are educational. If you haven’t already dusted off your Robin Hood hat or started practicing your best “Lumberjack Survival” pose, this is your cue.

It’s almost time for the new church year to begin. Are you ready? It won’t be long until school bells are ringing to welcome kids back into classrooms. That means it’s also time for a new year of missions discipleship! The question is, are you prepared?

Boys in first grade can be a part of Royal Ambassadors and now continue their RA journey in missions discipleship through their senior year of high school. National WMU board members approved a recomm

Most parents of children appreciate it when teachers communicate what is going on in the classroom at school whether it’s good, bad, or indifferent. Communication reduces confusion, encourages coopera

When April Curtis was a GA at Cuthbert First Baptist Church in Georgia, she had no idea the plans God had for her and her family. But He was already preparing her heart for what was to come. “I loved

It’s inevitable as the leader of a children’s missions discipleship group: You will have to answer a child’s questions about God. Whether you are a new or seasoned leader, it isn’t something to fret o

I have taught the Missions Journey: Kids curriculum for about eight years (I teach Children in Action at my church). So, before I became the design editor of children’s resources here at WMU, I felt l

If Matthew Dobson, health officer for the Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County, could tell a boy or girl in your missions discipleship group anything he wanted, first he would tell them G