When teaching children to pray during a special children’s prayer meeting, or to teach them to pray in your weekly service, an important key is to keep kids’ interest by being goal oriented. Each prayer time should have a theme. If you meet weekly, you may want to keep a theme for a month at [...]
Announce to the children that you want each of them to think hard of something that they want very, very much. Let each child tell his or her "want" to the class. After this is done, ask the group what they think Jesus wants very, very much. Then focus on explaining to the children that [...]
SUPPLIES: silly putty, cartoon, newspaper with current event photos (Flatten the silly putty across the cartoon as you begin talking to your class.) Today’s lesson is about Joseph. Joseph’s life started out well; he was loved very much by his father. His father liked to do extra nice things for Joseph. During this time Joseph [...]
Ask how many of the children have learned to swim. Talk with the group about how it can be a fearful experience when one doesn’t know how to swim or is just learning to swim. See if the children know how to overcome a fear of water–by learning to swim. The more a person learns [...]
Allow the children to tell you their prayer requests. Write them up on the chalkboard. Remark that now all the children are able to "see" their requests on the chalkboard. Everyone can see what each person needs God to help them with. Express, however, that God each need long before it was ever written on [...]
SUPPLIES: Bible Ask the children if they knew that God knew who they were before they were even born? Read about it together from Psalm 139:16. "Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Impress upon the children that [...]
SUPPLIES: broken vase or cookie jar (If you do not have one, an inexpensive one may be purchased at a thrift store and then broken) Ask the children to raise their hands if they have ever broken something that belonged to a parent or grandparent. Ask the children to respond to if they broke the [...]
