resources for effective children's ministry
resources for effective children's ministry
More Than Mud Pies
Publisher - Group PublishingPre-school children love to make things and love to take these "treasures" to show their dad and mom! So often crafts pre-schoolers make are just that . . . crafts only, with little or no teaching value. Crafts can be utilized as a Bible learning activity so whenever children see or use the item they made, they are reminded of the Bible point that the craft helped to teach. This resource, "More Than Mud Pies" is an excellent resource filled with crafts that can be utilized to help teach the lesson.
Favorite Features:
- 48 crafts in this book especially for pre-schoolers
- each craft strengthens language skills or body skills or thinking skills or number skills
- introduction has helpful information on how to help pre-school children truly learn from crafts
- reproducible resources
- each craft includes a craft summary, learning goal, lesson connection, supply list, directions for preparation, craft time, directions, game to play with craft and directions for that game, game time, extension ideas, information to send home for parents
This resource is filled with ideas for genuinely effective teaching of preschoolers with crafts that will not just be thrown away. Extremely well done Group Publishing!
Bible Story Coloring Pages
Illustrated by - Chizuko Yasuda
Publisher - Gospel Light PublishingThere are times when we need a coloring page for our early childhood classes - this resource is an excellent resource for every early childhood department.
Favorite Features:
- reproducible
- coloring pages for all the main Bible stories
- coloring picture on one side of the page and Bible story on the other side
- 12 ideas on ways to utilize
- 62 Old Testament pages/stories
- 57 New Testament pages/stories
This is a resource you will find yourself using over and over again throughout the years. Consider using it to have a class make coloring books for kids in a homeless shelter as a class mission project. Well done Chizuko and Gospel Light!
Creative Bible Learning - Arts & Crafts
Creative Bible Learning - Science & Cooking
Author - Karyn Henley
Publisher - Standard PublishingI am sure we would agree that children - even all of us - learn better, faster and retain longer when they are activly involved using as many senses as possible! These resources are excellent additions to a Children's Ministry REsource room as they take supplies that you more than likely already have in your supply room or at home and give you an active way to involve kids in true learning.
Favorite Features:
- Arts & Crafts book has -
- seven types of crafts
- uses every day supplies
- helpful information in the introduction
- each craft lists materials needed, directions, guided conversation and Bible stories the craft
- would work with
- index listing crafts to go with specific Bible stories
- Science & Cooking book has -
- helpful information in the introduction
- each activity includes materials needed, directions, guided conversation and Bible stories the activity would work well with
- uses every day supplies
These resources are ones you will find yourself using again and again in your class and that would also work very well for use at home - families could have great times learning together from these books! Very nicely done Karyn and Standard Publishing!
Bible-Time Crafts Your Kids Will Love
Publisher - Group PublishingThis resource would prove very helpful if your Sunday School, school, homeschool class is studying Bible times or even to bring to life any Bible story.
Favorite Features:
- 47 craft projects from A to Z
- helpful information in the introduction
- each craft
- lists supplies
- explains preparation
- includes Bible background and guided conversation
- questions to help kids understand and apply application
- "fun facts" - trivia and Bible verses to bring the lesson to life
- "craft connection" helps you tie crafts together
- reproducible resources
- Scripture index
This is a fun and interesting resource kids will enjoy, remember and learn from! Well done Group!
Awesome Volunteers for Children's Ministry
Author - Christine Yount
Publisher - Group PublishingThere are so many important issues people have to deal with in children's ministry - what curriculum to use, safety issues, recruiting, training, supporting and encouraging volunteers and developing a written mission statement are the main ones . . . all of which we have talked about in previous issues. These issues are so important and central to children's ministry and while there has been much written about these topics, this new book by Christine Yount is filled with helpful information, excellent ideas and perspective that will benefit any ministry.
Favorite features:
- each chapter gives Biblical example for the topic
- quotes in the margin are excellent
- Stop & Consider give you Scripture to read and activities to do to work through application
- explains servant leadership and how to make it really work
- encourages you to develop a vision statement and how to get others to catch that vision
- how to get the most out of teams
- how to shepherd volunteers to help them get the most out of teaching and to maximize effectiveness
- recruiting
- training
- information and ideas to help you appreciate and affirm volunteers
- 84 ideas to celebrate volunteers
- seasonal affirmations
- sample job descriptions
- sample volunteer application
- sample reference check form
Volunteers are a gift from God the church - if we truly believe this it will change the way we recruit and care for our volunteers. This resource is filled with information that really works and will help your ministry more closely mirror Jesus' own. Very nicely done Christine and Group Publishing!
About The Children's Department - Volume 3, Edition 2 Copyright © Lynda Freeman Last Updated December 1, 1999 Web Page by Lynda Freeman Send an e-mail to Lynda at dfreemansr@earthlink.net
