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Making Worship An Important Part of Life

By CMIV

One area I believe we are failing our children in is the area of worship. In many of today’s churches children are separated from the main worship service. This is not a bad thing because it let’s us get it down to their level. The problem is we will teach them a lesson they can understand, but leave out other parts of worship. Personally, I believe that the message or lesson is a form of worship but I also believe that music is a form of worship. We seem to have this thing about teaching children songs only on certain occasions. We need to be teaching our children songs to praise and worship God every week. Make it an important part of their life so they grow up understanding that God gave us a gift of music not to curse but to praise his name. We need to teach them what the Psalms are and how we still can use them in worship today.

Jason Graham Vaughn

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Developing A Child’s Sense of Worship

By CMIV

For a child to participate in your weekly service in an experiential way—expressing love to God, hearing from God, responding to God—the child needs to develop a proper sense of worship. Let’s cover several essential points of your service presentation, preparation, and perspective that will either develop or hinder your child’s sense of worship. Your child’s sense of worship ultimately determines his or her participation in the song service, in personal application and response to God’s Word, and the commitment to weekly personal changes during the altar time experience. » I want to read more! »

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Talents for the Lord

By CMIV

In our Children’s Ministry, we’ve been allowing the children to use the talents the Lord has gifted them with in class. The Children pick a song, to sing to, to dance to, or to play to, for the class. The song has to pertain to the Lord, and they need to let us know ahead of time, so they can show us some of what they’ll be doing. The response has been great, and many who would normally not want to do something, are coming out of their shells. It’s been wonderful.

Donna Vondran

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Pom Pom Praise and other fun tools

By CMIV

Children love to be creative when they praise the Lord. They will clap their hands, wiggle their fingers, wave their hands in the air… but let’s admit – there’s only so much one can do with the human body. We’ve found that offering the children some simple praise tools enables them to explore new ways to praise and worship the Lord.

We’ve compiled a large box full of praise tools, such as pom pons, flags, twirling ribbons, tamborines, etc. The box is located in the sanctuary and the children (under the supervision of their parent) are welcome to use a praise tool during the Sunday morning worship time. It’s a great way to get Children involved on Sunday mornings and it also makes them feel more like a part of the service on Sundays.

You’ll of course want to check with the senior pastor before making the tools available. But we have found that the children are very inspiring using these tools on Sunday mornings. Sometimes the adults will grab a flag or two!

Chadd Hatlevig

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By CMIV

One area I believe we are failing our children in is the area of worship. In many of today’s churches children are seperated from the main worship service. This is not a bad thing because it let’s us get it down to their level. The problem is we will teach them a lesson they can understand, but leave out other parts of worship. Personally, I believe that the message or lesson is a form of worship but I also believe that music is a form of worship. We seem to have this thing about teaching children songs only on certain occasions. We need to be teaching our children songs to praise and worship God every week. Make it an important part of their life so they grow up understanding that God gave us a gift of music not to curse but to praise his name. We need to teach them what the Psalms are and how we still can use them in worship today.

by Jason Graham Vaughn

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Leading Children in Worship

By CMIV

We have used Angels as the theme for our children’s church the past 4 weeks. The children’s church room was decorated like heaven with huge balloon clusters (clouds) hanging from the ceiling, pillars(made from round coat racks covered with sheets) wrapped with gold garland, a silver throne (chair covered with sliver material). The children entered through an archway into heaven and were greeted by angels. The angel worship leader lead in a warfare song as angels helped with gold and silver flags. After the message (angels watching over us) the children had a taste of Heavenly Ice Cream served to them by God’s Angel Warriors. All in all it was a heavenly morning!

by Linda Lamos

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Out of the Overflow of the Heart (Worship Lesson)

By grlinn

Theme Verse:
Psalm 44:20,21 If we had forgotten God or worshipped a foreign god, would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart? (paraphrase)

1 Samuel 16:7 Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (NIV)

Matthew 12:34 For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. (NIV)

Objects Needed:
a multicolor candied cereal box, spaghetti, large bowl » I want to read more! »

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Stick Em Up

By CMIV

Here’s a great way for kids to understand why we raise our hands in worship.

You can come out dressed as a bandit and tell all the kids to Stick Em Up! Wait and see responses from the kids. You can then express to the kids worshipping God is kind of like you’re in a hold up. You can then ask them why did they hold up their hands. Wait for responses. The clincher is that when you hold up your hands you are surrendering yourself. Just as you surrender yourself to that bandit, that’s why we raise our hands to God. We are saying to Him when we raise our hands, okay God everything I got is yours. That means your problems, fears, frustrationg, desires, etc…

I have used this object lesson many times with kids and it really brings them to an understanding why we raise our hands

by Vicky Etzweiler

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