Our ministry began with an annual Children's Pastors' Conference held in 1980 in Denver, Colorado. Approximately 35 people attended. The following year, the Conference met in Houston, Texas and grew to 60 attendees.

For several years the Children's Pastors' Conference was housed in the facilities of Denver First Church of the Nazarene in Denver, Colorado. As more publishers and suppliers of ministry resources desired to attend the Conference as exhibitors, the Conference moved to a Denver hotel and kept expanding each year to larger facilities. In 1992 a second Children's Pastors' Conference in Nashville, Tennessee was added and in 2002 a third site was added. In 2004 there were nearly 5,000 that attended the three CPC's.

International Network of Children's Ministry has continued to expand its conference training. In 1994 the national Children's Ministry Seminar was launched and conducted in over 50 cities throughout the United States and Canada. The CMS tour continues each fall as an excellent training and networking opportunity for children's ministry workers throughout North America.

Today the ministry of International Network of Children's Ministry has grown to include a full-time staff, a board of directors, a spacious office park and an ever growing ministry portfolio.