Rita B. Hays is a passionate advocate for ministries with children and has served as a United Methodist pastor to children for more than twenty years. She has taught Christian education classes at Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky. She has a BA from Mercer University, an MRE from Southern Baptist Seminary, and has a D.Min. from Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Hays is now associate pastor for children's ministries at Connell Memorial UMC in Goodlettsville, TN.
is is the best book I have seen on this topic and is an essential tool for pastors, education work areas (with insights for all of educational ministry), nursery committees, nursery workers and expectant parents. Rita Hays shares her passion for and commitment to congregations seeing ministry to infants and young children as vitally important. She tackles di cult issues like how and when we discipline children in the nursery and explores the human and spiritual development of young children. She explores biblical and theological assumptions that underlie this ministry and emphasizesWesley's understanding of God's grace at work in our ministry. She also includes clear and comprehensive lists of concrete things congregations can do to be in ministry with "little ones" and their families. The Most Important Space in the Church is engaging, practical, theological, and biblically based. I highly recommend it.-Linda J. Vogel, Professor Emerita and Senior ScholarGarrett-Evangelical eological Seminary
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