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August 20, 2015 -- Issue #26
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In today's newsletter:
1) Lord's Prayer @ VBS
2) Teach Kids to Worship
3) Back to School Ideas?
4) Gospel Point of View
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1)
Lord's Prayer @ VBS
We have a very small church (28 to 30 people total on average) and it is had to find programs to do for VBS. So when I went looking for something that I could do with a group of kids, ranging in ages 2-78, The Prayer
of Jesus stood out. There are six lessons and we did a lesson a day. The book has game and craft ideas to go with each lesson. We followed most of them and changed some of them up so that our older
"kids" (50-78 year old) would still be able to participate. We also were able to incorporate our on-going crafts with the lessons. I am already looking into buying more books from Sunday School Network. I feel that learning to pray together as a group, a family, we have grown even closer to God. Thank
you, April G.
--from SSTN: Beautiful! Thank you, April, for sharing your success
story with us! Quite a big bite having that age range! Impressive!
Your webservant,
Sarah Keith <><
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2) Teach Kids
to Worship
Can you imagine expecting people to read when they're adults, but never teaching them the alphabet as children? Or expecting adults to be emotionally healthy, but
never giving them hugs or expressing love to them as they grew up? If these basic things are so important, then isn't it equally important to teach children about worshipping God, and
also expect them to participate in worship while they're young?
You might say there is no particularly "right way" to worship and you would be somewhat correct. We can worship God anywhere and by any number of means. For example, you might worship God in church, at the ocean, or on a mountain top. You might worship in song, with poetry, in prayer, or while serving in a soup kitchen. And all those places and techniques are just fine! But the objective of our worship must be what we give to God and
not what we get out of it. It is not about our entertainment, or for that matter our instruction, as we receive in a Sunday School class or Bible study. We must always approach worship with the idea in mind that we are . . .
Read more
about Children's
Worship.
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3) Back-to-School Ideas?
We'd love to hear your back-to-school ideas. Send
to: sstn@sundayschoolnetwork.com
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4) Gospel Point
of View
This
lesson is a way for children to understand why each of the four Gospels:
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written differently.
First, we spend time studying
the apostles and the fact that the Gospels were written by four of them. We
then read about certain events in Christ's life in different books and see
how the apostles wrote about the same event differently.
To illustrate this point, during
the teaching time I have a helper, very unexpectedly, burst into the room.
The person will have a sticker on his or her nose, a large (something easily
seen) item in hand, hands flapping over head and hopping on one foot. The
helper runs in momentarily and then runs right back out shutting the door.
The children at this point usually all have their mouths open in
astonishment. I then tell them all to please write down what they just saw
without any talking or any questions asked. We then share our accounts of
the event and see how each person saw what happened differently. Usually
only one or two children will have caught the sticker on the nose. Others
might not have noticed that the helper was carrying something. Some will
have written down what the helper was wearing and others won't.
This is a wonderful way to teach
that each person sees things differently and that is why the Gospels are
each a little different. Find this at Gospel
Point of View.
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Have you written a Bible lesson, game,
craft, or skit for
children's ministry?
Send it to: submissions@sundayschoolnetwork.com
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