Category Archives: Children’s Church

Easter Object Lessons

Posted on March 21, 2012 | Leave a comment

Here’s some links for Easter object lessons and stories.

The Curtain Was Torn

Salvation Gospel Illusion

What’s Easter All About?

The Colors of Easter

He Paid the Price

The Empty Egg

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Easter Series – 3 Lessons

Posted on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment

Here are links to a series of three lessons for the two weeks leading up to Easter and Easter Sunday. I hope these are helpful to you.

This Sunday (3/25/12):

The Resurrection and the Life Part 1: Lazarus Rises From the Dead

The Resurrection and the Life Part 2: Lazarus Rises From the Dead

Palm Sunday (4/1/12):

Palm Sunday Part 1: Jesus Enters Jerusalem

Palm Sunday Part 2: Jesus Enters Jerusalem

Easter Sunday (4/8/12):

Easter Game and Skit Part 1

Easter Object Lesson Part 2

Easter Life Application Story Part 3

Easter Message Part 4

These lessons and other Holiday Lessons are available in Holiday Lessons at this link.

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St. Patrick’s Day

Posted on March 7, 2012 | 3 Comments

St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, is a day everyone loves to celebrate by wearing green and having parades. But most don’t know the spiritual significance of the man named Patrick. The story of St. Patrick would be a great story to tell the children in your ministry. You could use the story for a missions or evangelism emphasis.

Patrick was born in Kilpatrick, Scotland in the year, 387. His parents were Romans living in Britain. At the age of fourteen, Patrick was captured by a raiding party and taken to Ireland to herd sheep. Ireland, at that time, was populated by pagans and druids. Patrick, during his captivity, learned the language and culture of Ireland. He also used his captivity to grow closer to God.

Six years later, at the age of twenty, Patrick had a dream from God to leave Ireland. In the dream, he was told to escape to the coast. When he arrived at the coast, a ship from Britain was waiting for him. He returned home to his family.

Later Patrick studied for the priesthood, became a bishop, and returned to Ireland as a missionary. Patrick preached the Gospel throughout Ireland, and many were converted. He died on March 17th, 461.

The reason the shamrock is used to represent St. Patrick is because he used the shamrock to illustrate the trinity. Since the shamrock is green, that color is also used to represent Ireland and St. Patrick’s Day.

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Christmas Movies for Children’s Ministry

Posted on December 9, 2011 | 2 Comments

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A great way to teach over the holidays is to incorporate Christmas movies into your Children’s Church or mid-week program. Use movies that are around a half hour in length, and plan the rest of the service to go along with the theme of the movie.

One way to do this that’s very effective is to break up the movie into segments that end with cliff hangers. In between the segments, you can do you praise and worship, teach the memory verse, and have a short talk about what the movie is teaching.

Here’s some great movies you can use.

Charlie Brown Christmas: This movie is a classic that shows the real meaning of Christmas is not in the commercialism but to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Veggie Tales St. Nicholas – The Story of Joyful Giving: This new Veggie Tales movie teaches about the true spirit of giving.

Veggie Tales The Star of Christmas: The Veggie Tales classics teaches us to love each other.

Veggie Tales The Toy That Saved Christmas: This was the first Christmas Veggie Tales movie and teaches Christmas isn’t about getting; it’s about giving.

The Nativity – Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: This video is an animated telling of the story of Christmas.

Read & Share Bible DVD The Jesus Series – Christmas: This is a great series to teach children Bible stories.

The Visual Bible For Kids – The Birth of Jesus: The DVD tells the Christmas story word for word according to Scripture and teaches a boy the importance of sharing his faith.

There are many others, but these are the best around.

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Christmas Object Lessons

Posted on November 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

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Here’s a list of past Christmas object lessons and stories you can use in your children’s ministry:

The Legend of the Candy Cane

The Colors of Christmas

Christmas Tree Object Lessons

History of the Christmas Tree

The Three Trees Story 

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