Bradley Lawlor

Bradley leads The Lab, the room for grades 1 to 5, and he built it around one conviction: children this age are ready for more than they are usually given. He teaches the hard parts of a story rather than skipping them, and he keeps a question box on the wall that fills up faster than he can answer it — which is exactly how he wants it.

He came to children's ministry from classroom teaching, and it shows in how a Lab session runs: a clear arc, room to argue, and a point every child can carry out of the door. He plans a term at a time so leaders arrive prepared rather than improvising, and he reads through the questions box every week to work out what the room is really wrestling with.

Parents most often hear from Bradley when their child has asked something at home that nobody expected. He treats those moments as the whole point, and he is glad to talk through how to answer them together rather than leaving families to work it out alone.