All-in-One Bible Fun - The perfect children's program for teachers on a budget or who are looking for a simpler approach. Packed with everything you need, lesson preparation will be a snap. Each book has 13 lessons with your choice of arrival activities, a Bible story, a Bible verse and a prayer, games and crafts, and reproducible pages all based on a clear message stated in words your children can understand. Children will explore Bible stories from new perspectives; develop a love for, and a relationship with, the Bible; come to know the Bible as THEIR book; learn and play together.
This series contains the following titles: Favorite Bible Stories, Heroes of the Bible, Stories of Jesus, and Fruit of the Spirit. These titles are available for Preschool and for Elementary children.
Ready to Go: Missions - Whether a youth leader wants to take a youth group down the street or out of the country, the leader will find something in this book to help with the planning and programming of the trip. This is a very hands-on, practical handbook for anyone wanting to lead a mission trip.
Included are six short-term local projects and six week-long, greater-distance trips. Each mission includes project descriptions, destination ideas, travel and cost helps, small-group discussion guides, plans for following up after the trip, and suggestions for getting the whole church involved in the youth mission trip.
Samples and reproducible pages are included.
Ready to Go: Service Projects - This book explains to youth workers the theory behind service-learning, helps them identify meaningful but easy-to-do projects that will make a difference in their community, gives them practical tips on incorporating reflection and relationship-building into their service projects, and shows them how service-learning can change young lives.
This is a very practical, hands-on book filled with information about developing a "Service-Learning" environment with youth ministry. The second part entitled 'Readying Your Hands" includes Easy-to-use sessions that you can use for exploring the value of service, what Scripture has to say, what gifts each person in your group brings to service, as well as for understanding your group and beginning to explore the community. The third part in called "Hands in Action" and includes sample service project ideas, reflection questions, prayers, Scriptures, stories about youth in service, and resources for further study.
The fourth part includes reproducible pages to reinforce the "service-learning" idea.
Ready to Go: Devotions - This book provides devotions for before, during, and after a mission trip or service project. The CD-ROM gives you all of the devotions in a digital format along with resources to help you create custom devotional books for your youth and their parents.
The topics include hospitality, cultural differences, evangelism, humility, sacrifice, homesickness, cultural differences, language barriers, and thanksgiving.
Each devotion ties together three elements: Scripture, the mission or service experience, and life back home. Students are challenged not just to read the devotions but also to respond to them through writing, reflection, and prayer. By working through the devotions, students should be able to think about their experiences and start their days better equipped for service.
Children First: Worshipping with the Family of God - This book is a how-to guide for family worship services designed specifically for children and their families. Within the worship service, the children have the opportunity to serve in leadership roles and creative elements such as art, drama, songs, storytelling, current events, poetry, and prayer reinforce a central theme while helping children connect with God.
The elements of worship include: Gathering and Prelude; Group Singing; Opening Prayer; Sign of the Day; Good News; Expression of Faith; Puppet Scripts; We Believe; Gloria Patri; Musical Call to Prayer; The Lord's Prayer; Musical Prayer Response; Teaching Moment; Offertory; Doxology; Benediction among other elements. There is a complete worship service for each month in the book as well as all the music on an included CD-ROM.
Barbara Bruce considers this book "a must-have for churches who want to nourish children in the faith."
We Believe curriculum samples on display, too!
Teach them to your children,
talking about them when you are at home and when you are away,
when you lie down and when you rise.
Deuteronomy 11:19
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