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Children’s Church Games
Here is a link to some Children’s Church Games that are faith related. Perhaps one of them will suit your topic this week.
http://childrensministry.com/articles/active-indoor-games-faith
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Children’s Worship Song: A Gift to You
Here is a beautiful children’s worship song, easy for the children to learn. It is important for kids to be able to worship God with songs that are uncomplicated, easy to sing from the heart.
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God never wastes times of testing. The pain and struggles you face only SEEM futile.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Below is the link to the rest of the blog article from Insight for Living.
This life has times of suffering. No one is exempt, not even children. I myself lost my father to cancer when I was 9 years old. ONLY Jesus makes life make sense. Children who have a living relationship with Jesus always have hope. The strength of child hood, I believe, is that we really do seek to know Jesus, just for the sake of knowing him. As adults sometimes our pursuit of him gets more complicated especially when we have life and ministry responsibilities.
May we all seek to know Jesus more, just to know him.
https://www.insight.org/resources/daily-devotional/individual/the-turning-point-part-two
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Hi friends I am always on the hunt for games that I can do in kids church. I like to start out the service with review games especially if I can cover the bible story from the previous week.
Attached is a link for some really good children’s games. I especially like the one called “Chatter Bee” . I think I will try it this Sunday.
Have Fun!
http://www.umcom.org/learn/icebreakers-and-fun-games-for-kids-and-youth
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Hi friends, I am always looking for inspirational kids music and videos for the kids church class. I came across this one this morning. I think it is lovely and brings serving down to a child’s level.
http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=F0J2B1NU
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Attached is an article from Focus on the Family. I hope you will read it to the end. It is actually written for parents but I think there is some good advice in there for children’s ministry workers too. This is what I took away from the article.
https://www.focusonthefamily.ca/content/understanding-highly-sensitive-children
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Here is a puppet show for Thanksgiving on Thankfulness
(Characters: Stinky and Sally)
Stinky: I hate my nose! It’s an ugly nose.
Sally: I think you have a cute little nose. Why aren’t you thankful for your nose?
Stinky: Cause it’s a puppet nose! That’s why!
Sally: Would you rather have an elephant nose?
Stinky: No. And I hate my poofy hair. I can’t do anything with it! Every day is a bad hair day!
Sally: Why aren’t you thankful for your hair? Some people I know, who shall remain nameless, don’t hardly have any hair!
Stinky: Cause it’s puppet hair! That’s why! And my long floppy legs, I hate em!
Sally: Now that’s it Stinky! I have heard enough of your ungrateful attitude. Look at me. I don’t even have any legs!
Stinky: That’s cause you’re a puppet Sally!
Sally: So?
Stinky: I’m a puppet! Can you believe it? I’m a puppet! I always thought I was a real boy. But Blue Bob, told me that I’m a puppet!
Sally: (with attitude) And what’s wrong with being a puppet? I’m thankful to be a puppet.
Stinky: You always knew you were a puppet and you didn’t tell me I was a puppet? You just let me think I was a real boy!
Sally: I thought you always knew you were a puppet. There’s nothing wrong with being a puppet. You have lots to be thankful for.
Stinky: What do I have to be thankful for?
Sally: You get to come to kids church pretty much every week. Lots of the puppets backstage never get to come to kids church. Some puppets have only come to kids church one time in six years, but they don’t have the stinking ungrateful attitude you have.
Stinky: I’ve never thought about it that way before.
Sally: God uses us puppets. We are VIP’s, very important puppets. We get to give messages to kids. Kids can learn things from us.
Stinky: You’re right Sally. I’m sorry I have been so unthankful. (to the kids) Is it okay kids if I’m a puppet and not a real boy?
(Let kids respond.)
Stinky: I like my nose. It’s a cute nose.
Sally: Very cute.
Stinky: I like my hair.
Sally: You should!
Stinky: I like my long skinny legs. Sorry you don’t have any legs Sally.
Sally: I’m still thankful. At least I have hair and 2 eyes and 2 arms.
Stinky: You have a good attitude Sally. Will you marry me?
Sally: Nope.
Stinky: How come?
Sally: Cause I don’t like boys.
Stinky: But I’m not a real boy. I’m a puppet.
Sally: It’s all the same to me.
(Sally exits.)
Stinky: Girls!
(Stinky exits.)
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“Education is not a head full of facts, but knowing how and where to find the facts.” (E.C. McKenzie, 1800 Quotable Quotes)
It is important as children’s ministers to teach kids how to find things in God’s word and also how to listen to God. There are some things that can’t be taught. You have to actually spend time in God’s presence. Encourage the children to keep their inner ear tuned into the Spirit of God. Remind the kids constantly to keep an inner conversation going with the Lord and listen to his nudging.
Recently my daughter was looking for a graduation dress and I watched how the Lord led her to the most perfect dress for her. We did not want to spend a fortune and we had looked in several stores. There was a store where we least expected to find anything nice and she said, ”I just feel it inside, that I should look in this store.” Sure enough, there it was!
There is nothing more exciting that seeing the children we minister to be led by the Lord. Have times when the kids can share how they were led by God.
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“Knowledge comes by taking things apart but Wisdom comes by putting things together.” (E. C. McKenzie, 1800 Quotable Quotes)
So often when it comes to God’s word, people can read it and feel that they know all about God and they know all about the Christian way but really we only truly understand and gain an appreciation for God’s wisdom when we become a doer of the Word, not just a hearer.
Encourage the kids that we are not here just to get knowledge but to actually do the things that they learn, then they will grow in wisdom. Then they will see that God’s way is the best way.
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“The bird with the largest bill isn’t the pelican – it’s the stork.” (E.C. McKenzie, 1800 Quotable Quotes)
Of course, this is a play on words, the bill being the cost of something. In this blog I want to talk about the cost of children’s ministry.
Churches who want to thrive in years to come should put a lot of their budget towards children’s ministry. Many years ago I heard statistics that said that 80% of the people in the church said they had received the Lord Jesus as savior when they were under the age of 20 years old.
“If 50 million people say a foolish thing over and over is it still a foolish thing?” (E.C. McKenzie, 1800 Quotable Quotes)
We can say YES. Only God’s word is settled forever. Anything contrary to his word is a foolish thing. The most important thing we can teach our kids is that God’s word is true and we are not to be conformed to the world. We are not always going to agree and we need to accept that. There is going to be many things that the world thinks is truth and they are going to live their lives by and we are going to go against the flow and say it is wrong, it is foolish thing.
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Do a Little Every Day | SEVEN HABITS OF A GOOD ARTIST based on Blender Foundation Speech by Andrew Price. (You should be able to view the full series on Youtube.com)
If you are reading this blog, you most likely know that I am attempting to cartoon the entire bible (at least all the parts that have a story to illustrate). A few times I have felt overwhelmed to the point of tears at how massive this project was, but I have learned that doing a little bit everyday does add up. I am amazed at how much I do get accomplished when I block a certain amount of time each business day of the week, and stick to my schedule.
The old Chinese proverb is true that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep.
Use your little moments that you do get. Use the technology you have. Record ideas on your cell phone. Don’t lose time. Don’t lose a thought. Even if you don’t have time to develop your thoughts at this moment, at least they are recorded for the future when you do have time.
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