Children’s Ministry Talk is the podcast devoted to providing straight talk for children’s ministry leaders, by children’s ministry leaders, on all things related to children’s ministry. Hosts Dick Gruber and Jason Rhode are joined by other children’s ministry leaders to answer your questions, discuss current trends and issues, and help share their perspective on contemporary children’s ministry.

Meet the Hosts

Dick Gruber is co-founder and one of the original online instructors and course content developers for Children’s Ministries University Online, teaching a wide variety of courses and serving as program co-director. As the Children’s Ministries Specialist at Valley Forge Christian College, Dick has developed a Bachelor’s Degree program in Children’s Ministries and is training young people to be children’s pastors, evangelists, and missionaries. He also travels nation-wide speaking in children’s ministries training events. Dick is a husband, father, pastor, professor, author, poet, composer, and artist. He has illustrated over twenty discipleship booklets for children as well as produced numerous Scripture picture Bible memory helps for Sunday School teachers.

More information about Dick is available on his website at dickgruber.com.

Jason Rhode is co-founder of CMUO and serves as the instructional designer, course developer, and co-director. He has been involved in children’s ministries for over 15 years in a variety of volunteer and full-time positions, including the Director of Children’s Ministries at Christian Life Fellowship, Port Edwards, WI for nearly 5 years. He oversaw all ministries to children ages birth thru sixth grade and parents at CLF, which included over 250 children and 150 volunteers. As an educator, Jason actively shares his children’s ministry resources and various FREE children’s ministry training resources at childrensministryarchive.com and childrensministrytraining.com.

Jason has earned a B.A. in Children’s Ministries from North Central University, a M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction from Seattle Pacific University, and a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University.

More information about Jason is available at jasonrhode.com.