resources for effective children's ministry
Fun Ideas for the Family Friendly Church
Publisher - Group PublishingFavorite Features:
- divided into four sections - Learning Activities, Worship Experiences, Service Projects & Relationship Builders
- helpful tips in the introduction
- 50 ideas to help strengthen families
- each activity includes information as to how long an activity will take, family focus and necessary supplies
- "family friendly advice" in the margins - excellent, helpful advice
- reproducible resources
- "Taking It Home" excellent ideas for families to continue learning together at home during the week.
- each lesson includes scripture and questions to make you think, talk and live - excellent!
Family Sunday School Fun
General Editor - Tim Smith
Publisher - Group PublishingFavorite Features:
- 13 complete Bible Lessons for children and parents
- excellent tips in introduction
- each lesson includes
- scripture text
- lesson focus
- objectives
- list of needed supplies
- gathering activity provides a fun and interesting way for families to begin learning together
- Bible story time brings parents and children together to learn together - excellent
- family learning activity - fun, interactive ideas to help families continue learning together
- covenant time provides time for family members to talk together and commit to live what they learned
- reproducible resources
- field-test findings - excellent, helpful information
- helpful insights for younger and older kids for each lesson - excellent
- snack ideas
We need to commit to build and strengthen families in our church - both these excellent resources provide do-able, genuinely effective ways for churches to give the time and attention to families they need! The activities and lessons in these books are designed for families with preschool and elementary age children, but even older kids would enjoy and learn from participating in these activities with their families. These opportunities for families to learn together will provide encouragement for parents to continue learning at home on their own as they experience first hand how to pass a legacy of faith to their children. These resources are extremely flexible making them a genuinely useful and effective resource for the church. Extremely well done Tim and Group Publishing!About The Children's Department - Volume 4, Edition 2
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Last Updated November 26, 2000
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