Hope lives, and that hope is personified in Jesus Christ. We can offer that hope to our world but we are also to help relieve the pain and suffering so prevalent in our world. So let's go on a journey together and take our children with us. A journey into the heart of Jesus. A journey that transforms hearts. A journey in which the words of God are proclaimed and the works of God are done. A journey of restoration.
Hope Lives, a five week series, is more than a group Bible study and devotional experience because it provides opportunities for kids to take this heart-changing information and apply it. Children apply what they learn though prayer, service, commitments, and relationships. Use this series to encourage your children to develop a Jesus-centered, compassionate response to poverty.
Lessons Topics: Week 1: The Rich Young Man Week 2: The Good Samaritan Week 3: Esther Week 4: Believers Pray for Peter Week 5: Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Kit Includes:
Leader Guide with multi-age ideas to use in class
Children's CD-ROM contains: - Fun scripture songs - Hope Cards - 28 reproducible full-color cards introduce your kids to real people who, with God's grace and the work of Compassion International, have triumphed over unimaginable poverty, hardship, and disease.
Throw and Tel Prayer Ball unique and fun tool to help kids learn to pray with purpose and passiion
Compassion changes everything: how you view the world…yourself…even Jesus. Produced in partnership with Compassion International, this five-week exploration of compassion touches both the head and heart—And helps participants discover (and share) God’s heart for the poor.
The book contains 25 daily readings, divided into five one-week segments. Each of the 25 daily readings includes Scriptural support for the author’s arguments, a page for journaling responses to challenging questions about the day’s reading, and a prayer asking God for guidance through the issue at hand.
Jesus said, “Let all the children come to me.” Not some. Not most. All the children. And that’s just what you strive to do each week in your class—help your kids know and love Jesus. Typical kids and kids with special needs.
That can happen, by the way. And you’re the key. You can create a classroom environment that welcomes all kids, including kids with special needs. A classroom that celebrates kids’ individual strengths. That reflects how wonderfully made each of your children is. There are things you can do this week to welcome kids with special needs into your classroom. This little book can help! Using the techniques contained here will help you reach every child as you share Jesus’ unconditional love.
This Pocket Guide to Special Needs is packed with specific information, tools, and tips to help you get started. You’ll quickly leap forward as you learn more about these unique children in your class. You’ll get proven strategies for teaching kids with a variety of special needs, plus additional tips to connect with parents, and make your class more accessible to all. When you provide a place where kids with special needs are included, valued, and loved, you model wholeheartedly what Jesus tells us to do. So get ready to let all the children come to him!
The Christmas season is a time of great excitement, especially for kids. It’s a time of wonder, love, and anticipation! Help your kids feel the excitement and anticipation of the amazing news the angel brought to Mary. You want them to model the obedience that Joseph showed when the angel brought him the same astonishing news. You want them to joyfully celebrate the miraculous birth of our Savior. And you want them to worship Jesus as the wise men did.
This little book can help! Use these easy, fun, faith-filled activities to help kids keep Jesus at the center of the Christmas season. Add these ideas to an existing lesson, or build a lesson of your own! Either way, you’ll be filling kids with the faith they need to follow Jesus every day of their lives!
Would you like to turbocharge your children’s ministry? To see it propelled forward with new passion and vision, operating at a higher level of effectiveness?
If the answer is yes, then you’ve picked up the right resource. This book was born from the desire to see children’s ministries everywhere make a difference in their communities. We’ve leaned on 29 years of combined ministry experience to bring you the best ideas, practices, and philosophies to energize your ministry.
Our ideas didn’t come from just “talking” about ministry, but from front-line, hands-on experience. Over the years, we’ve seen these practices bring great spiritual and numerical growth in the ministries we have led. We believe they can do the same for you.
Our prayer is that senior pastors who read this book will be reminded of the importance of children’s ministry in their churches. For children’s pastors and directors, we hope to create a burning desire for next-level ministry. And for volunteers, here are tested ways to transform your program.
Let’s be honest, though. Turbocharged ministry is risky. It will move you out of your comfort zone. It may mean some ministry engine overhauling. You may wonder if making the switch to turbocharged ministry is really worth it. We would say yes…a thousand rpm over!
The countdown clock is ticking on our opportunity to make a difference. We must reach kids while their hearts are still open to the things of God. We must reach out to families and offer them hope before many of them disintegrate. The kids and families in your city need a turbocharged children’s ministry!
May God use this book to turbo charge you and your ministry!
