Finding the right material for your children’s church ministry can be a challenge. But week after week, the kids in your church depend on you to teach them about God. One of the most used sections of this website is our Bible lesson plans for kid’s church.
That’s why I’m letting you know about another great ministry resource. Kristin McPherson, the creator of the Children’s Church Ministry website, contacted me with a really cool offer. She has released a helpful new ebook titled “Four Weeks of Children’s Church” – and she wants to give away three 3 copies here on our site. If you’ve never heard of Kristin’s website, you should check it out. She has tons of free content to help with children’s church.
This Contest Has Ended
Thanks again to everyone who entered and to the contest sponsor!
Just leave a comment below saying something like “I want to win.” For extra fun, you can tell me something unique about your kids church ministry. Next Monday 31 August 2009, I will randomly draw three winner from the comment section below. Make sure you enter the right email address when you fill out the comment form or I’ll have no way to contact you if you win.
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I want to win because I have been teaching children Sunday School ages 2-11 for the past two years. I am always looking for tools to help me, especially with bible based games and crafts.
hi, George i really want to win something from this site and thank you. Our kids are on and off and only my Pastor’s kids are always inn and the elders as well. I would really love to have more children in the sunday school and i am praying about it. God bless
I want to win.
winning would be great!
I want to win! We just had our planning meeting for our Children’s Ministry for the year and I have been so inspired by your articles. Thank you so much!
I wanna win! I am the children’s director of a new start church — this would be great!
Funny how God works….I was just sending my sister a link to this site, when I saw this offer. She has just started a childrens church at the church she attends. Their church is small, mostly elderly folks, and operating on a small budget. But she decided they needed something for the little ones. I think this would be perfect for it.
Winning would not only be great, but a blessing for them.
I would love to win because I’m always looking for new ways to engage and inspire our kids for them to have a passion for Jesus. We have around 60 1st through 5th graders in our Kids Cove area at church and I know this book would be so helpful to our ministry!!!!!
Our children’s ministry is stuck in a rut- winning would be nice!!
What a great tool for me to use at our church. I would love to win this. Then I would tell everyone where I got it too!!!
I want to win b/c I just got a new job as the Director of Youth and Family Ministry and I don’t have a budget as this time, but plan to do fundraisers to raise money. I also have to come up with the curriculum for Children’s Church!!
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I also love your site! Thanks!
I want to win!!! As Children’s Church coordinator for the past three years, I am always looking for new ways to teach our children more about Jesus and reach them in ways that will make God’s word meaningful to them. Thanks for offering this opportunity!
I would like to win. We are church planting missionaries. We have started a number of churches and love working with children.
I want to win! My husband is the Children’s and Youth Minister for our church. It’s hard to find good Children’s Ministry materials and I really like what you guys have here! This could really help him out!
Would like to win this! Our children’s church could use some new material!
I want to win, we are just starting a really biblicallly solid Children’s ministry. My husband is the pastor of our little church and we just hired on a great Pastor to Children and Families, and we need all the help we can get! The children at our church have been neglected, but by God’s grace…NO MORE! This would be helpful in that pursuit! Thank you for considering my request!
I want to win!!! 3 months ago I took over the director position of children’s ministry. I was relying on guidance from my pastor, who unexpectedly left the church a week ago! So needless to say, I need as much helpful advice as possible!
I would love to win this. Always looking for new material to use in teaching children. Love your Newsletter and Magazine!
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I want to win because I am always looking for new ideas!!!
I want to win because I’m in a small church with little finances and we’re trying to attract families with children to grow our church. I’m mainly with the music ministry, but I also help out with the education ministry where I can and I hope to be able to do more in the future.
I would love to win! We have a small church with limited financial resourses so we provide our own materials. With a growing bus ministry (all children!) we have around 20 in children’s church. This book would be very helpful for us to give fresh ideas.
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I want to win.
I want to be one of the three privileged winners so that I can be a channel of blessing to others. The materials will not only be a great resource for my children ministry in my church here in Kuala Lumpur but also for those under my care in my Central district. I can even put it in our children’s blog, which we plan to get it started soon.
I really need to win!!!
I would like to receive these books. I have been teaching SS for 3 years and I am always looking for new creative ways to present Gods word. This class is very bright and easily bored. We recently had a study on Daniel and I was able to capture the interest of one of the children who is always expressing his boredom. I also want to give God the glory for this task. Praise his wonderful name.
Wow! this resource would be a huge blessing and I would love to win.
I’ve just started coordinating Kids Church this year and also running SUPA clubs and I am on the lookout for helpful resources.
Something unique about our kids church is that we are a newly planted church and have between 60 and 70 kids already between age 3 to grade 5. we do the same bible passage as what the adults are doing in hoping this fosters further discussion/learning at home.
Our children’s ministry has been looking for a fresh start. This book sounds like it would be of great help. Dale
I would love to win these plans for our children’s worship program. We have been working at building this up in the last six years and I think it would be a great asset to the church.
I want to win because I have been in Children’s Work now for over 30 years and new ideas are always welcomed. Children are our church’s greatest resource and desire a great ministry. Karen
I SO WANT TO WIN!!!!
I want to win. I have been teaching children for many years. My Church is finish constrution of a bigger church and we are going to start a Children church its is a new step for us and I am looking forward to this new challege for the Lord.
I want to win because I want to see our children fueled with passion for Jesus. This book will be great for us at this time. My church is a new small congregation in Trinidad (Caribbean)with wonderful potential for evangelising discipling kids but our resources are limited. Your website has been very helpful in providing great teaching tools for free. May God continue to use this wonderful ministry for His glory.Thank you
The elders in our church have agreed to help with children’s church each week! They need all the help they can get!
I want to win!! I am the Children’s Ministry Director of our church and It would give me just the right amount of lessons for our Elementary Children’s “JAM (Jesus and Me) Wilderness Adventure” for next summer! We go away for a weekend and do 4 lessons, have fun games in the woods, & learn to know the kids better, instead of having a regular VBS.
Thanks!
I would love to win. I have been looking at starting up a staffed nursery and children’s church ministry. Anything I can get to help me get started would be great! I hope to win!!
I want to win because I need new ideas.
We just had a great childrens concert and play.
It was awesome. Small ones dressed like skeletons
for the valley of dry bones, mimes and all kind of performances
Oh yes did I say I really want to win.
HEY I WOULD LIKE TO WIN. i AM 20 YEARS OLD AND I JSUT GOT OUT OF 2 YEARS OF MINISTRY SCHOOL. I AHVE ALWAYS ENJOYED WORKIGN WITH KIDS AND NOW I AM INTERNING AT MY CHURCH IN THE CHILDRENS MINISTRY. wE ARE LAUNCHING OUR KIDS MINISTRY SO ALOT OF CHANGES ARE BEING MADE. SO I THNK I T WOULD EB COOL TO WIN…THANKS
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It would be a blessing if the Lord added this resource to our “artillery” of Jesus things to pass on to the children for a lifetime of remembering. I would be grateful; Lord knows who to bless and how to do it. I trust Him with the results in all. What a good ministry this is to encourage those in charge of kids.
Thanks for asking!
I want to win. I am the coordinator for our elementary kids group and I lead the children’s church ministry at our church. Having more resources like this would be great.
hey i’d love 2 win!
I would love to win this curriculum. Our church is small and does not have a budget for children’s ministry. It comes out of our own pockets and our creativity each week. We are small, but our children are learning so much about Jesus. Thanks for this opportunity!!
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I want to win…always looking for new tools.
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I would love to win, I need all the help I can get. I just started teaching and we don’t have a set curric., I’ve been searching the web for ideas. This sound like a great source. Wish me luck
Always looking for new tools!
I am the “Middler” (age 8-11) Sunday School Teacher at our church. I want to win because we are a small church with limited resources (financial and English speaking people). Our Friday night service has very low attendance because we do not have any kind of class for kids; thus they get bored sitting in the sancturary with parents and in the end parents stop attending. I feel that if we could offer a type of “children’s church” during the Friday night service, perhaps attendance would increase if parents and children know there will be some kind of “entertainment” or “childcare” where kids will learn and still have fun. I think our church has great potential for reaching our community, but need the right resources.
I would like to win. I have been teaching 1 year thru 5 years. I have been asked to help with the first thru 5th grade. I could use all the help I can get. Thanks
I want to win because our church doesn’t have an active children’s ministry yet, but we’ve been praying about it, and my husband and I feel strongly led to DO something… We could use all the resources we can get while we start!
I want to win! As Children’s Church Director, I am always looking for resources to keep the children interested in the word of God and His plan for their lives.
I expect to win! God has been so good to provide everything that I need to rebuild a youth ministry at our church. Sadly, our youth ministry was destroyed several years ago before I came to the church because of a pedophile who was later convicted for his actions. The program was dead and the community didn’t trust our church. Their have been other churches in the area of who have fallen victim to the same sin and my prayer is that they will believe God to help them in their journey of healing and training to prevent such sin. By the grace and power of God, the youth ministry is rebuilding with safe practices and informed parents. Any materials that are available to help us share the love and freedom of Jesus Christ to reach out to youth, we believe God will provide. He is an amazing God! We just have to believe that He is able to do what He says He will do in our lives and our ministries! I believe God has a special call on the children that I work with with and the ones to come and I plan to believe God to provide any and everything they need to be all that God has called them to be!
We wanted to have a summer program to draw unchurched, neighborhood kids to God. However non-traditional school years presented a challenge because many of the church school leaders were also volunteers/workers in the non-traditional schools which demanded they return to the Monday to Friday job after just a few weeks with Summer Church School. The non-traditional school calendar so impacted our program that we didn’t have a summer church school this year. This resource might be just what we need as a core around which to reestablish that summer community and year-long connection.
I want to win. I feel like I am in a dry spell, I need something different. (Help)
I’d love for our church to win this. I’ve been assisting with the kids; for a small church we have more kids than some of the larger churches in our area. And yet we’re the ones who struggle most in ministering to our children.
My vision for our children’s ministry is not only for them to learn about God’s love for them, but for them to be aware that when they become Christians that they have a responsibility to minister to others.
Right now, the situation is rather sad regarding Children’s ministry. Every week the children’s church is taught by rotation, and there is no curriculum. Everyone just does what they want to; sometimes it seems they don’t even get a lesson but just get to play games and/or color.
If anyone does pray for those who comment, I’d ask for prayer for our children’s ministry. And for God to show us where and how we need to proceed.
Thank you for doing such a great job! God bless you!
Please, God, let me win! I need to win. I want to win. I have to win.
amen
I want to win.
I am the children’s ministries coordinator in a very interesting community in Eastern Idaho. I’m building our children’s church from the ground up.
Would love to have this resource for our ecumenical resource center!
We would love to win this resource. Our entire church in the midst of change -We are acquiring a new pastor, new faces are entering the doors, and the children’s ministry is growing. Each and every week we are met with new challenges to face, and God gets us through them. What an exciting give-away!! Thanks for the chance to win.
Please enter me in the book give away. We are starting to rebuild. This would be a perfect resource.
In Him
I would love to win!!!
I am of director of a christian child care center and service children ages 6 weeks to 12 years old. We are always looking for new and creative ways to worship.
What a great help to a small country church this could be
I would love to win!
I’d love to win to bring new ideas to our children’s ministry! Thanks!
I really want 2 win!!!!!!!!!
I would love to win! I am also a Boyce Alumnus Children’s Pastor, Go Bulldogs (though they did not have the bulldogs when I graduated in 04)!
Yes, I would like to win. We have no budget for Sunday School (very, very small church & Sunday School, with combined children classes) so, I am always looking for good and easy to use ideas.
I. Want. To. Win.
I want to win. I’ve just became leader of the Children Ministry of my church. We just had a summer retreat and we had a awesome time.
I am a children’s Church teacher who has a physical disability. I am in a wheelchair. I must win because I am on the computer trying to find exciting ways I can make the Bible come alive for my 4&5 year olds. YES! I must win.
I would love to win. Why? Because I need fresh ideas to reach the young kids of today. Jesus loves them and so do I. They need to know that!!
I would love to win. I’m always looking for resources for my ‘kids’. We just recently finished creating a 10′ float to enter in our local parade themed, ‘Children of the World, United for God’. I had a blast; I think more so than the kids did. Our kids are working on a local missions project by distributing fliers all around the neighborhood to PGF. PUT GOD FIRST!!! I love to talk and share about my ‘kids’ and our little church.
I want to WIN because I want to be the biggest BLESSING that I can be to our Children’s Church Kids !
This is my 30th Anniversary of serving in Children’s Church, and my style is definitely closer to “Old School”. The real modern stuff seems kinda “light & fluffy” like a Twinkie…not a lot of Bible meat.
THANK YOU !
I would LOVE to win…I have just started teaching children’s church again after several years and am having a hard time finding interesting, exciting lessons for our kids! We have a small but growing and loving church and I want to reach these children for God!!!
Hi! I want to win and I want others also to win. I just started being involved in the children’s ministry. And I deeply feel NOW more than ever how this ministry is so VERY IMPORTANT for the kids to grow, know and love God so much. Hope everybody gets a copy and use it in their ministry for God’s glory. God Bless!
I’d be honored to win…
I would love to win this. We are always looking for new ways to spruce up out Children’s Ministry
This would really be a helpful tool in teaching children’s church!
Our children’s ministry has really kicked off this year and we are so excited that we are looking for ways to make it grow even more!
i want to win..we are having a charity walk to feed the hungry in our country
I hope to win!
The book will real help my sunday school as we have difficulty in purchasing materials. Our kids will definately benefit from this book. Winning this book is a bonus to the sunday school ministry, Thank you.
I always enjoy reading new materials and sharing them with others. I want to win so that the children and our ministry will benefit. New ideas are always welcome.
Children’s church is something we will be starting up soon. Our church is building an education building as we will have to room. At my previous church, I led our children’s worship and it had such a great impact on the kids. I am looking forward to working with children’s church again. This will be new for our church. Since we are working on the building, our budgets are very tight. This would be a great resource for us to begin with.
i would love to win! looking for new tools for
church children’s liturgy.
my self & DRE get the children involved w/responsorial
psalm readings every week.
I want to win we are relatively a small church with a growing childrens ministry we are teaching them the values of life by bringing the gospel to them through music and learning materials we are constantly looking for ways to improve their learning potential and we have looked and have been told about your material that seems to have helped other ministries bring the gospel to children so that they in turn bring it to their homes and friends. Thank you, Esteban Director of Childrens Ministry
I am sure this will be very helpful in our children’s church.
I would like to win, because we are a very small church and we are at this time trying to add more things to the children’s program. We have been doing children’s church now for a year. But we need some new life. And more children. Would also like to learn ow to use the puppet in Children’s sermon, on Sunday. Thank you for giving us the chance to be apart of this. Blessings
Linda Tindall
NC
I have been working with the children for a long time.Would love to have some new and refreshing ideas.
I want to win! Always looking for good resources.
I want to win!!!! PLEASE…..I am needing ideas for childrens church
I would love to give our children something fun and exciting. Things have become extremly tight for our program. This would be great!
I would love to win – Our Children’s Church is struggling to find volunteers and the better material we have the more volunteers we can get! Thanks!
I would love to win. I am always looking for new and fresh ideas for teaching children.
I want to win b’cos ilove teaching kids and i love to have new ways andi nteresting methods to impart the knowledge of God . God bless You ! your website is a life saver
i would love to win this. i am really strapped for money, and our church is very small. this would be a wonderful resource.
i would love to win as i have just joined the sunday school department and any of this great resources will be extremely useful to us.
I want to win.
i would like to win. i have been teaching child about the lord for years. i now also teach children and teachers in nairobi kenya and surrounding arears. it’s a nice sometimes not to have to reinvent the wheel. thanks for the opportunity.
We are a small church (about 20 children in SS, 2′s to 6th grade) We are beginning to reach children in town, but often they don’t know what to do during church. Because I am children’s director, have thought about adding children’s church. We already have a program of sorts with the 2′s, but nothing organized. Would love to have a chance to try “Four Weeks of Children’s Church”
Thanks
Brenda
I want to win!
Would love to have such a resource. I’m a new Christian Education Director and I must say that our children’s church time is in need of a real boost! I just found this website and it is awsome!
I want to win! We are a small, emerging church that has a heart for its community. We just gave away over 1,000 backpacks, free food and prizes at our annual community festival. I love that our church has a heart for children.
I would really like to win this book. Our church is at a crossroads in our programming for children and youth. We just made the difficult decision to let the director of this program go due to financial reasons. It is now up to the senior pastor and the congregation to make this program successful. I think this book could be the answer to our prayers. Thank you and God Bless!
I want to win because our kids are great and deserve the best!
Well, we would surely be grateful for any help in the children’s area. There is so much out there, but not all of it is very useful or delightful to our kids. Your material surely does look good and even though it seemed as though there are too many to count in front of my post…..I STILL WANT TO WIN!
Barbara Myers
Please add my name to the pot. I’ve been teaching Sunday School for over 4 years and need something new to use. Thanks!
I would love to win this book. I just found this website and it looks really interesting. We have grown in our Children’s Church group from 8 to 25 in just a few weeks and I feel like this would help us engage our children and teach a wonderful lesson from the Lord that will one day change their lives.
I would like to win. I am looking for new and creative ideas continually.
I just found this site and seems like a great find for my resources. Thanks for all the ideas already.
I’d like to win!
i will love to win. we have recently introduced children’s church as part of our ministry. your materials are so relevant to our needs.
My husband and I are the children’s directors for our church and we have a program we call JAM (Jesus and Me) in a small town on a Wednesday evening. We would be delighted to have more resources and are always looking for ways to make teaching a delight for our staff!!
I would love to win! It would be such a blessing. I have been teaching children’s ministry for the last 8 years. It has been an honor to work with the children through the years. I now have a group of 3yr old through 2nd grade which are very delightful. We have a very small church and funds are very short right now. I do not want to bore the older children who have been known to tell me, “We’ve done this lesson before.” But, the funds are not available for new lesson plans. Any help is appreciated as I am sure each of the other posts have the same issues.
I want to win because I love working with Children and at Victory Worship Center we do our best with God’s Help to love, nuture, and grow our kids up in the Lord…plus I love reading kids church materials and will use it!!
I am a brand new youth director and would love to be able to sink my teeth into some fresh new ideas that would draw the children of our community to our church.
I want to win.
I would greatly appreciate this wonderful blessing for our ministry. Our budget has been cut by more than a third. This would be such a help.
I would like to win because I have no set curriculum to follow. I pull from various sources. Thanks, mary k.
Woo Whoo! Free stuff! I am new to this site. My husband just stumbled across it. I run a small sunday school, 15-25 children. I always have an eye out for challenging curriculum. I find this offer intriguing.
I would love to win! We are an order congregation and while there are only a few children who are members of our church, Gid has put it on my heart to be a beacon in our neighborhood, a safe haven to feel the love of Christ within our walls. Thank you ‘_’
I want to win. We have moved to a new town and I am starting to get involved with a local church and their children’s program.
I want to win because we are a small church with a growing children’s ministry. This would be great resource. Thank you.
Wow, it feel great to win something.
I’ve finally been given the opportunity to change the format of our children’s alternative worship. This could be a great resource tool.
I would love to win! Our children’s church is unique because we focus just on delivering a message to children that they can understand during the sermon…the parents love having their children in worship and getting a break during the sermon!
Hi, I’ve just stumbled onto your blogsite from my Google Reader. What a blessing! I think I’ll be able to find some great insight from your words! My husband and I co-teach a class at our chuch of 1st-3rd graders. We’ve used many curricula and are still on the search to find a curriculum that meets our needs.
I would love to win. Our children’s ministry is small and we’re on a very small budget, so I really could use help finding a good curriculum to fit our church’s needs. Thanks for the opportunity!
The random winning comments are #72, #101, #125. I’ve emailed the winners. Thanks to everyone who entered and thanks to Kristin for the giveaway!
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