Children’s Ministry
Bonus Resources
At home, in class, and in service—aka big church—we have bonus resources to enhance your children’s ministry.
SERVICE
Some kids’ ministries have yet to open. Here you’ll get some ideas for activity packets for families attending worship services.
HOME
These family resources are great to keep your ministry going while kids are at home with their families. Help parents with content for devotional times and more!
IN-CLASS
Whether your student ministry is meeting online or at church, these resources will help you navigate COVID-19 restrictions while using your current curriculum.
How-to Guides
These helpful guides provide ministry leaders and teachers with line-specific tips and ideas for:
- Using content for virtual and hybrid Sunday school classes.
- Delivering lessons to families.
- Engaging parents in online classes and activities.
- Creating packets for families.
In-Class Activity Library
Icebreaker Videos
These videos are a great way to help kids get their wiggles out and have some fun instead of awkwardly waiting for the lesson to begin! These videos are the perfect tool to use to get class started or to transition to another activity in the lesson. They help draw in students’ attention and get them engaged with the lesson right from the start. And these games and skits are all very open ended, making them suitable for a wide range of lessons.Inspiring Kids to Pray: Activities for Elementary Kids
Prayer can often be intimidating for children. These activities help teachers bring a fun twist to lesson prayer time. Along with the activities, we include suggestions for how students and families can chronicle their daily prayers so they become more aware of how God works through prayer.Scripture Memory Activities
We have compiled a list of fresh, fun ways to engage kids and families to memorize scripture. These simple activities can be done wherever and however you are engaging with kids. We have included instructions that will help whether you are teaching in the classroom, online, or sending content home. Created for online use, these activities engage kids in and out of the classroom.At-Home Activity Library
Fun-Sized Family Devos
These devotions encourage families to dig into God’s Word together. Each devo centers around a Scripture passage and includes questions to spark family discussions about who God is and how the Bible impacts their faith lives today.
Each key theme has four or five weeks of short devos. Each week features a Scripture reading plus:
- Reflect on ties to the Bible reading.
- Talk about can be used anytime parents want time to talk with their children.
- Go deeper is perfect for families who want to dig deeper into God’s Word.
You can send these to families through a social media post, text, email, or a card in the mail. Families can use these any time they have a few minutes together—during mealtime, bedtime, in the car, or even while they wait.
Family Prayer Challenges
Designed for ministry leaders to send to parents by text, e-mail or social media post, these prayer challenges, give families a new and fun way to engage with prayer each week. Challenging students to go beyond repetitive prayers and discovering what an active prayer life can truly be.
Created for online use, these activities engage kids in and out of the classroom.
Children's Leader Helps
These resources are specifically designed to equip leaders and teachers to engage children in ministry online.
Articles cover topics including:
- Creating Curriculum Presentations
- DIY Teaching Tools
- Ministry Tracker
Children’s Leader Helps complement David C Cook’s children’s curriculum lines.
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