Saved By Grace Games

Last night, we played the games that the kids had made the week before. We were covering what it means to be saved (accepting Jesus as your Savior) and what it means to be lost (not living consistently like you have Jesus as your Savior). 

It was pretty interesting to see the games that the kids came up with. They could use three cones, 6 balls and/or 5 hula hoops for their games. I think the kids had a good time during their "free" play. : ]

Lord's Prayer Skits- Five Groups!!

Three weeks ago, the kid's were learning the Lord's Prayer. I wanted to make it interesting so this is what they had to do:

They had to take 30 minutes and come up with a skit, from scratch, that had all the words from the Lord's Prayer in it. They couldn't be in order and the story was supposed to make sense.

The following posts are the result. : ]

Lord's Prayer Skit Group 1 from Pastor Dave on Vimeo.

Lord's Prayer Skit Group 2 from Pastor Dave on Vimeo.

Lord's Prayer Skit Group 3 from Pastor Dave on Vimeo.

Lord's Prayer Skit Group 4 from Pastor Dave on Vimeo.

Lord's Prayer Skit Group 5 from Pastor Dave on Vimeo.

Two Wednesday nights ago the kids were learning a verse that I really like. We were learning John 15:14. Here is the audio file of them yelling it out!

New Stuff!

Yesterday was awesome!

We started our new kid's service (New Families Welcome!) called Father's House. It was fast-paced! It was hip. It was a lot of drama and music and fun! I loved it.

Our actors did an awesome job! Danika ran media for us and did an awesome job too!

I will have to post some pictures soon.

Then we went straight into Deeper. Deeper is a way for kids to learn even deeper stuff about each other and our God. It is small group oriented with a corporate worship time for Kindergarten through Fifth grades. I loved to see the modeling of the 5th graders for our Kindergartners. And it was also cool that our 5th graders can learn from our Kindergartners. Then, they split back up into small groups and "break it down."

Good stuff.

I was talking to someone today and we were talking about how much fun it was and also the sweat we put into it. It made me think about an old Karate instructor I use to have when I was in college. He always wanted to put a sign up that said "You sweat in here so you don't bleed out there!" I always liked that. This ties in, just hang on. I was thinking how we practice and give our VERY best so that we can learn about God and be prepared out in the world to really show others who our God is. We don't have to bleed out there. Jesus already did that for us.

Pretty cool, huh?

Just Teasin'!

Here is the first video for helping everyone understand where to go to find out the latest and greatest stuff going on in Children's Ministries at Eagle Church of the Nazarene!

So make sure you check out www.kidpassionateministries.com! It has a lot of new content! There is even some special content for those that are volunteer ministers in the church! Contact me to get a passcode!

Last Question

When you love others, you're quick to forgive.

Who is a person you need to forgive?

Interesting enough, these were dominated by brother and sisters that needed to be forgiven. Although one did put:

One other one that made me think of about how I treat my child was the one that simply said, "my Dad."

I don't know who that child was or what needed to be forgiven, but have prayed that that there is healing and forgiveness there.

Kid's are awesome aren't they?

Question Three

Who is a person that, with God's help, you can begin to love who you haven't been very nice to in the past?

Some highlights:

Brother

Sister

Brothers and sisters

Lots of friends listed

Here is one of them:

In case you can't read it, it says something along the lines of "I think God can help me love the people who aren't being nice to me like someone who can be difficult to my sister."