Children's Minister Blog

A father was reading Bible stories to his young son. He read, “The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city, but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.” His son asked, “What happened to the flea?”

Here’s a  simple way to encourage children to pray which has been around for some years but it’s easy  for a child to learn. It’s called the five-finger prayer pattern. Have your child place his hand on the table or bed, and illustrate the following to him or her. 1. Your thumb is close to [...]

A new program of Child Safety training has just been launched by Scripture Union in Australia and New Zealand. This program and resources would be of interest to all those who work with children and are concerned about child safety. ChildSafe online provides… “Our aim is to help you create a culture of safety for [...]

To play Squiggles, you need some drawing paper for each child or adult and some crayons or pencils for each player. Give each player paper and pencil to draw four squiggles (random line drawings) of whatever sort they wish. Then get the children to swap their sheet of four drawings with one another. They now [...]

Our church is gearing up for our annual children’s holiday club (vacation bible school) in our July school holidays. This year we are following an Olympic Games theme and bible passages from Luke’s gospel. If you are looking for material to use for your Sunday School  or children’s club could I recommend two excellent resources [...]

Is there a cost in pushing our children to use an array of  tech gadgets and computer software? Read this very interesting article in The  Age newspaper which examines the world of the junior geek.

Scripture Union continues it’s long tradition of producing high quality resources for bible reading and children’s ministry. Scripture Union UK have just launched a new website which makes available thousands of resources from their “LIGHT” material archive. Fully searchable and free. http://Lightlive.org 

How to play the traditional chalk games like hopscotch, 4 square, human snakes and ladders, goalies goal, and bulls eye. Many of these can be adapted to be used along with quiz questions on a topic to review a lesson. Chalk Games for children

A simple puppet script I wrote a couple of years ago for an all-age Pentecost service might be of interest to someone who is planning to use puppets. What a gift ! at Eliab.com