While some rural churches in larger villages might have a successful children's work, smaller churches often struggle with problems such as...

• few numbers of children
• Few children but a wide age range
• limited number of helpers
• limited space for activities
• Child Protection issues

Fortunately within the Rural Evangelism Network we have some folk with considerable experience who have contributed articles you can download from below.  You will need a pdf reader such as Adobe which you can download free from www.adobe.com.

You might also be interested in Messy Church and you will find an artcle about this in the Fresh Expressions section.