I've been using Twitter, email, and cmconnect to ask churches to share their special needs leader resources. Shockingly, I received zero responses back from ministries who have a written handbook or formal leader resource for those who work with children with special needs. Even those with established special needs programs had no such resource. Help me understand: why not?

Last fall my church’s senior leaders introduced the staff to the book “The Externally Focused Church” by Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson. Over the summer I’ve been thinking about how to apply some of those principles to children’s ministry.

As I prepare for the fall, I’m reviewing a document that I go back to often titled “Busting Barriers and Mindset Changes.” I’ll share some of that document with you because that’s what I am, a sharing kind of guy.

What is the foundation of really incredible ministry?