Ministry Training
Churches today are navigating changing culture, busy families, volunteer challenges, and growing questions around faith formation.
Scripture Union Canada provides practical, Bible-centred training that helps churches strengthen discipleship at church and at home. From children’s ministry workshops to faith-at-home conversations for parents and grandparents, our sessions are designed to support lasting faith across generations.
“Training is their strength!
SU’s staff bring loads of experience, deep faith
and love for the Church
and God’s Word."
- Church Partner
Church leaders care deeply about discipling children and supporting families, but ministry today comes with real challenges. Churches are navigating busy families, volunteer shortages, digital culture, faith formation, inclusion, safety, and growing questions from children and parents.
Scripture Union Canada provides practical children’s ministry training that helps churches strengthen discipleship beyond Sunday morning. Our sessions are engaging, interactive, rooted in Scripture, and shaped by decades of experience in children’s and family ministry.
We work alongside churches to equip volunteers, support leaders, strengthen Bible engagement, and help ministries build lasting faith in children and families.
What Training Covers
Scripture Union Canada offers practical and discipleship-focused training that helps churches equip volunteers, strengthen faith formation, support families, and grow confidence in evangelism and discipleship.
Training topics include practical children’s ministry skills, Bible engagement and resilient faith, faith-at-home and Christian parenting conversations, and evangelism training that helps children, youth, and adults share and live out their faith with confidence.
Customized Training For Your Church
Every church context is different. Scripture Union Canada works with churches to shape training experiences that best support their ministry goals, challenges, volunteers, and community.
Training can be customized for:
- Volunteer teams
- Ministry leaders
- Parents and caregivers
- Camps and outreach ministries
Training is available online or in person as workshops, conference sessions, or multi-session training series for volunteer teams, ministry leaders, parents, youth leaders, camps, and whole-church discipleship conversations.
Conferences and Events
Our team regularly speaks at denominational events, local churches, leadership gatherings, and ministry conferences across Canada.
Our team has presented at conferences including:
- Toronto Children’s Ministry Conference
- Awesome KidMin Conference
- Denominational ministry events
- Church leadership retreats and training days
Conference sessions are practical, engaging, and focused on helping churches disciple children and families in today’s ministry context.
We can also bring a curated collection of discipleship and Bible engagement resources for purchase. These resources are consistently popular with ministry leaders because they are practical, carefully selected, and affordably priced for churches and families.
Free Children's Ministry Training
During COVID-19, when in-person ministry training became difficult, Scripture Union Canada began developing a growing library of practical training sessions to continue supporting churches in evangelism and discipleship. Today, School of KidsMin offers free, on-demand videos designed to strengthen children’s and family ministry across the church.
Sessions explore topics such as:
- How children grow spiritually
- Customized discipleship for children and youth
- Teaching children to pray
- Responding to children’s faith questions
- Inclusion and accessibility
- Family faith formation
- Camp volunteer training
- AI and ministry
School of KidsMin helps volunteers, parents, and ministry leaders grow in confidence as they disciple children and support faith formation beyond Sunday morning.
Bible Engagement Training
Dr. Lawson Murray travels around the world teaching people how to read, reflect and respond to God’s Word. He’s taught Bible Engagement courses at seminaries, trained small groups, led week long conferences, consulted church leaders and preached from the pulpit. Invite him to come and teach on Bible engagement.
Children’s ministry leaders, volunteers, pastors, parents, youth leaders, and church teams.
Yes. We work with churches to shape training around their ministry needs, goals, and context.
Yes. Training is designed for churches of all sizes and ministry capacities.
Yes. All training is rooted in Scripture and focused on helping children and families connect with Jesus and His Story.
Scripture Union Canada is non-denominational and works with many different churches and denominations across Canada. We are part of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.
Training costs are affordable and will depend on how long your sessions are. Travel costs from Pickering, ON also need to be factored in.
Our trainers will travel to your church, but we can also discuss hosting a training at our office. We are based in Pickering, Ontario (just outside of Toronto). Our team is willing to travel if it is possible. We’ve flown across Canada (to Vancouver and Halifax) to speak at conferences.
A Note From Our President
We’d love to chat with you on the phone about your vision and needs. Let us explore how you can equip your church to connect with Jesus and His Story
dr. Lawson Murray
President
