Sample Service Format

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Are you looking for some exciting ways to vary the different lesson segments for your Children’s Church or Sunday School class?

All of us like to be in familiar settings. It makes us feel comfortable, secure, and at ease. Kids especially need this consistency in your classroom. However, consistency doesn’t mean doing the same thing in the same way week after week after week. Kids also need some change! So let’s spice it up this week! Now, don’t get carried away and change everything at the same time. Try presenting the Bible story in a different way. Do a special opening crowd breaker activity. Then next Sunday, try doing something new with the memory verse like a rebus puzzle. The next page is a basic Children’s Church service format filled with hints and ideas for adding zest, zeal and zip to your teaching and getting your creative juices flowing.

SERVICE FORMAT

OPENING
Crowd Breaker	Comedy Prop/Skit	Scavenger Hunt	Group Activity/Game
	Clowning	Puppet Song	Air Band (kids lip-syncing a song)
			Air Band (kids lip-syncing a song)
WORSHIP
Songs	Worship Video	Ensemble	Enhanced Transparency (colorful with graphics)
			Enhanced Transparency (colorful with graphics)

Offering	Team Contest	Object Lesson (i.e. Tithe Talks in Outlet Mall)	Activity (Bringing Offering as gift to Altar)
		Object Lesson (i.e. Tithe Talks in Outlet Mall)	Activity (Bringing Offering as gift to Altar)

Prayer	Group	Laying on hands	Peer Leaders
	Prayer Lines	Prayer Partners	Earth Squish Ball (making impression on world with prayer for…)


SERMON
Memory Verse	Rebus Puzzle (more info on Rebus in the Software section of the Outlet Mall)	Puppet Repetition (kids repeat after puppet)	Electronic Message Board
		Puppet Repetition (kids repeat after puppet)	Electronic Message Board


Bible Story	Ventriloquism	Roleplay	Drama
	Transparency Pictures	Puppet Skit	Ballooning (i.e. Shape-Shifting book in Outlet Mall)
	Multiple Choice		Ballooning (i.e. Shape-Shifting book in Outlet Mall)
	Fill in the Blank

Life Application	Object Lesson	Trick Cartooning	Ballooning
	Fruit Sculpture	Origami	Illusion
	Juggling	Puppet Song	Ventriloquism Skit
	Clowning	Drama Character	Mop & Broom Puppetry
	Music/Drama Video	Brainstorming Session	Open-Ended Situation

ALTAR
	Attaching Prayers to Cross	Hurting Heart (kids write hurts on paper heart)	World Maps (mark areas to pray for)
	Attaching Prayers to Cross	Hurting Heart (kids write hurts on paper heart)	World Maps (mark areas to pray for)
	Letter to God

REVIEW
	Transparency Games	Nerf Games	Quizzing Box
	Beach Ball Volley	Handouts	Sword Drill
	Concentration from Brainstorming Session