The Corner
71 Ways To Do a Memory Verse
71 Ways to Do a Memory Verse Are you helping children memorize Scripture? It’s one of most important things you can do! When people learn Scripture as children, sometimes it stays in their minds for the rest of their lives! What an opportunity! ...
Find Me Faithful
After months of work, our family album is almost completed. Here is a preview of one of the songs and the dedication from the CD cover. It all started with a prayer… As Fran Hamilton was having her devotions in 1968, God spoke to her heart and said, “I want you to...
Nursery Rhyme Theme
Years ago, our vacation Bible school theme for the summer of 2004 was "Building a House." We highlighted the verses in II Peter 1:5-7 about adding to your faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. We had a house that...
Freedom Service
We're getting ready for a children's service this Saturday. Today has involved preparing some goody bags to pass out for this and brainstorming for the service. Would you like to brainstorm with me? What brought this on? I've come to the realization that I only have...
Get Your House in Order
Our most recent kids' hour theme has been "Set Your House in Order." The inspiration for this theme was a sermon by Bro. Johnny Wade from several years ago. He talked about the house in our hearts and getting rid of the things that did not match. Bro. Johnny deals in...
Discouragement
Have you ever been discouraged over small numbers? If you have sixty children coming to your children's service every week, I am very happy for you! But I wanted to take some time to encourage those of you who just have a handful! It matters! Last fall, while I was...
Fall Printable
It seems like we have a holiday for love- including hearts and chocolate. And then Americans have a holiday for fear, death, hate, and other evil. This time of year seems fun to many, whether it is fake murder scenes in the yard or grotesque masks. But my heart...
Breath of Life
"Slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee." II Kings 4:24 In a recent blog post, I was attempting to get back to ideas for children’s ministry. I had received a text from one of my nieces Constance asking for ideas for her young teenage daughter who was doing...
Handpicked by God- Fall Theme
Three-Lesson Fall Theme Philippians 1:6 He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. (We have the children do the same verse for the whole theme. We have found that they learn the verse better that way.) We had a little...
How can we do children’s ministry during THIS time?
The last six months have been…interesting! In March, everyone’s world was vastly changed. Ours was too! Abigail made up Sunday school/craft goody bags for the children, but it seemed that the children were getting shortchanged. Not only were we all mandated to...