OUR MISSION
Our mission is to prepare children to be God’s GIANTS in the earth and to inspire those who minister to kids to do the same.
WHAT WE DO
Our ministry programs, videos and curricula teach kids who they are, what they have and what they can do in Jesus Christ through rich teaching in the Word, creative story and quality video elements. All the sales from our curricula go into producing more.
We also believe strongly in developing young disciples in their relationship with God and his gifts through apprenticeship ministry. That's why our programs and videos are made by kids for kids through our Youth Ministry Arts Team!
Our workshops, training articles and coaching emphasize equipping children's ministers to impact children to be lifelong disciples of Jesus.
LAURA
OTTAVIANO
OUR DIRECTOR
Meet Our Director
Our GKM Director, Laura Ottaviano, has been ministering to kids and teens for more than 25 years in a variety of positions. She is the biological mother of 4 children, and she’s the spiritual Mom to many more who love and serve God. Her greatest desire is to see children know God and grow strong in mind and spirit to achieve all He has planned for them.
Laura has served a minister on church and pastoral staffs, as Associate Minister and as Director of Youth and Children’s Ministries for both small and large churches. Laura has a great hunger and passion for the Word of God and a gift to teach the Word with creative illustrations. She stands in the office of a teaching apostle, with pastoral training and a heart for young people especially to experience God. She carries a passion to exhort, lift, and encourage believers to be all they can be in Christ. Although she has years of experience, her greatest desire is to serve the Lord and His church humbly in any capacity that He needs her. Laura is ordained through Word of Grace Fellowship of Ministers as well as Four Winds Global. She is the Lead Apostle of Ottaviano Ministries bringing anointed teaching, physical and inner healing, deliverance and equipping to saints of all ages.
GET TO KNOW OUR STORY
Laura’s first assignment was as Children’s Director for a church that placed a strong emphasis on Bible teaching and training. She and her team laid out a plan to take some of the same rich teachings the adults were receiving and adapt them for the children. When she first began to present deeper truths to even young children, Laura and her team were astonished by how much and how well children could understand these deep truths when presented at their level.
Soon it became clear that children could grasp and operate in the ways of grace and faith much more than most people expected-- certainly, more than most curriculum developers at the time were assuming. Laura found herself needing to write more and more curriculum to match the hunger she saw in the kids. Many of the early Giant Kids Ministry curriculum were born out of this need to develop creative materials with greater emphasis on scripture. Laura focused on utilizing every moment with the kids by including creative, engaging and fun avenues to teach and train them in God’s ways.
The children responded with robust faith and sweet relationship with the Lord--not surprising when Jesus instructs all of us to come as a little child. Not wanting to assume any limits, Laura continued to train the children in the gifts of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit, how to meditate in the word, how to pray for themselves and how to pray powerfully for others, how to put on the armor and how to fight the battle of the mind. Amazingly, the children grew strong and truly became GIANTS for God. The Lord instructed Laura to begin to share her curriculum and programs with others to help train His kingdom kids to become GIANTS in the earth.
Laura has continued to expand her vision and passion to teach deep truths to children and those who teach them in large and small settings through not only GKM curriculum and video, but through outreaches, retreats, camps and children and youth ministry training opportunities. She continues to advocate for teaching children at a deep level without sacrificing any of the fun and relationships that make faith and community “stick” for kids.
