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Acts 11 Lesson: Early Church Growth & Change

Kelly Henderson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:01:19 +0000

This children’s Bible lesson continues the study of the Book of Acts. The lesson is about Peter explaining God’s hand in the conversion of Gentiles. The lesson focuses on how change brought growth for the Church. Kids need to know that God can be trusted in times of change. The original setting for this lesson plan was older elementary Sunday School. Feel free to modify it for younger students and modified for Children’s Church.

Bible Story: The Early Church Grows
Scripture: Acts 11
Target Age Group: Age 9 – 11 (U.S. 3rd – 5th Grade)
Learning Context: Sunday School
Target Time Frame: 60 minutes
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Supply List: CD player for memory verse, butcher paper with phrases of the verse on it and tape to place the phrases on different walls in classroom, Bibles, paper, pens, dress up clothes and map showing areas from passage of Scripture.

Learning Goal: Students will learn that when change occurs God can be trusted because He always brings good from it.

Learning Indicator: Students who participate in a writing assignment will be able to identify the changes they have experienced and reflect on how God is using that change for good in their life. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the Bible lesson by answering review questions.

Learning Activity #1: For children arriving who enjoy dress up direct them to the supply of dress up clothes. This activity is an active way for students to ‘change’ clothes.

Learning Activity #2: Create a writing activity to encourage children to reflect on changes they have faced. As they identify the changes they have experienced they can journal how they felt about the changes. After they journal about the way they felt have them think about how God is using (or has used) the changes in their lives. They can end by writing a prayer to God about what they discovered and ask Him to help them to trust Him no matter what change comes in their life.

Learning Activity #3: As the students find their seats (to prepare for the Bible Lesson) and are settled in announce that you are going to make some seat changes. Direct students to their new assigned seats. For the students who only sit by their close friends this change may bring disappointment. That is the point of this activity. Make another change by saying today we are not going to use chairs and will sit on the floor. (If you normally sit on the floor sit in chairs) Other ideas might be to have your lesson outside on the ground under a tree. Most of us don’t like change and we are disappointed when things are different than we are used to. At the end of the lesson ask the students how they felt about the ‘changes’. Some may have enjoyed the changes while some may not. Whether we liked the changes or not God’s Word was still taught to us this morning. The comforts we are accustomed to may have changed but our need to hear and understand His Word did not.

Test: Review Questions

Memory Verse: Acts 11:18 “When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

Memory Verse Activity: Play a game like musical chairs only the students walk around the room near the phrases. When the music stops the groups standing at each phrase say it as the verse is recited.

Bible Lesson: Gentile conversions bring change and the Church experiences growth.

(The following is a guide to help teach the lesson.)

Give Bibles to all students who did not bring one. Pray as a class before beginning the Bible Lesson.

Many of us do not like change. When we are used to things being a certain way we find a form of comfort from routine. When the things we are used to suddenly change we feel insecure and sometimes fearful.

What are some changes that students your age face? (Moving, divorce, sickness, death, different school and so on.) As believers we can always trust God when we face whatever changes come our way. When we put our faith in Jesus, God began the process of making us more like His Son. (Romans 8:28-29). As we grow in our faith and allow God to make us more like Jesus we can see that He uses change for our good. When God changes us others are able to see Jesus more clearly in our lives and they can come to know Him as their personal Savior.

The only way we can handle the twists and turns of change that happen in our lives is to walk closely with Jesus everyday. Reading our Bibles and spending time in prayer with God allows us to respond appropriately to the changes that sometimes disrupt our lives.

As we open our Bibles who remembers last week’s lesson about Cornelius and Peter? We learned that God had broken the barriers between Jews and Gentiles when Cornelius and all his guests believed in Jesus and received the Holy Spirit.

This exciting event that fulfilled God’s promise to include Gentiles in His plan for all people to be saved brought change to what everyone had always thought to be God’s plan.

Today we are going to see how change affected the Church. What is the Church? All people who have believed in Jesus. Up until this point the only people in the Church were Jewish believers. Word about Cornelius the Gentile along with his guests receiving the Holy Spirit spread quickly.

Let’s turn in our Bibles to Acts 11. Read Acts 11:1-3. What is happening in these verses? Allow students to summarize in their own words.

How do you feel when you are criticized? Peter was being criticized by Jewish believers because they still held their prejudicial views about Gentiles. They were criticizing Peter because he went into the home of a Gentile and ate with him.

Peter is filled with the Holy Spirit and gives us a good example of how to respond when we are criticized for obedience to God’s instructions. Let’s read how he responded to the Jewish believers in Acts 11:4. Peter didn’t get defensive and argumentative. He simply began to explain to these believers exactly what God had done. (If the lesson on Acts 10:23-48 was not taught to your students summarize Peter’s explanation.)

As Peter recounts the details of what happened he remembers something. Read Acts 11:16. Jesus told the disciples in John 14:26 “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you.” The Holy Spirit was reminding Peter of something that Jesus taught when He was on the earth. By remembering Jesus’ Words it made Peter realize that what was taking place was God at work.

If we are believers we have the same Holy Spirit living in us that will teach us and remind us the thing we have learned from studying God’s Word. Since the Holy Spirit teaches us and reminds us what we have learned, what is an important responsibility we each have to do? (Read and study God’s Word) If we don’t make daily reading and studying God’s Word a priority we won’t have much to remember when God wants to use us to share Jesus with others.

Read Acts 11:17. Peter knew that he was obeying God and it was God at work in the hearts of the Gentiles. He knew that if he tried to stop God he would have been fighting against God’s plan.

These Jewish believers had been introduced to a change in their thinking. Remember they took God’s laws about clean and unclean further than God intended. Just like us we don’t always understand God’s plan. They wanted to please God and made extra rules to keep them pure and holy. They were the ones that had made up the rule not to associate with Gentiles and considered them unclean. Now they were faced with a major change they could either accept was from God or reject as something Peter made up.

Let’s read how they responded to change in Acts 11:18. This is our memory verse for this lesson. What we can learn from their response is that they heard Peter, a man who was filled with the Holy Spirit explain how God saved Gentiles. They accepted his explanation and praised God because He was allowing the Gentiles to be saved.

God’s changes always bring eternal results. What do I mean when I say eternal results? (Allow students to use their own vocabulary to respond. If they don’t know explain that eternal results are when people are saved and lives are changed.) Let’s continue in the passage to see what kind of results the changes brought to the Church.

Have a map to show the areas that the believers who scattered after Stephen’s stoning. Some believers only shared the Good News to Jews. Let’s read Acts 11:20-21. What eternal result happened as believers began to share the Good News with people other than the Jews? The Lord’s hand was with them and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

Although the new change to Jewish believers thinking may have been hard to accept, it was hard for anyone to deny that God’s hand of blessing was upon those sharing the Good News when more Gentiles were saved in Antioch.

We were first introduced to Barnabas in Acts 4:36 and Acts 9:27. What do you remember about Barnabas? He was an encourager.

News of many Gentile believers in Antioch reached the Jerusalem church. They sent Barnabas to visit the new believers. Let’s read Acts 11:23-25. Barnabas encouraged these believers remain faithful to the Lord with all their hearts. Even more people were brought to the Lord. The change that came when God allowed Gentiles to be saved was causing the Body of Christ, the Church to continue to grow.

As the church is growing Barnabas travels to Tarsus and brings back a man whom God changed in a mighty way. Who remembers the name of the man who once persecuted followers of Jesus? Saul met Jesus on his way to Damascus and was changed from a persecutor to a powerful preacher for Jesus. Barnabas brought Saul back to Antioch and they both stayed at the Antioch church for a year teaching a large number of people.

What were the believers called at the Antioch church? Acts 11:26 (Christians)

The Church was about to experience some more change. As we finish this chapter we learn that a prophet named Agabus game from Jerusalem to Antioch. The Holy Spirit spoke through Agabus and told the believers that a severe famine was going to spread over the entire Roman world (all the areas that Rome was ruling at the time).

Famine would definitely bring change to the lives of all who were affected. What do you think you would feel like if you found out that there was going to be a famine?

This change that was coming gave the believers living in Antioch an opportunity to trust God and be used by Him to help other believers. Let’ read what they did in Acts 11:29-30.

Ask the students how they felt about the ‘changes’ that were made earlier before the lesson started. Whether we liked the changes or not God’s Word was still taught to us this morning. The comforts we are accustomed to may have changed but our need to hear and understand His Word did not.

This chapter we studied today is filled with many good examples of how you and I should respond when change occurs in our lives. If we are believers we can trust God to use the change for good. We don’t have to be afraid of change but see it as an opportunity to grow deeper in our relationship with Jesus. As we grow deeper we trust Him more and more and we don’t live in fear but live our lives to serve Jesus and please Him.

If you are not a believer the change you need to make in your life is to turn from your sins and believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, was buried and raised from the dead three days later. When you place your faith in Jesus God changes you and makes you a new creation. You will have the Holy Spirit living in your heart and He will enable you to follow the examples we learned about in today’s lesson.

Close in prayer.

Review Questions:

Who criticized Peter? (The Jewish believers)
How did Peter respond? (He explained in detail what God had done)
How did the Jewish believers respond? (They had no further objections and praised God)
What happened as the Good News was shared in Antioch? (Many Gentiles were saved)
Who visited the believers in Antioch? (Barnabas)
Describe Barnabas. (good man, full of the Holy Spirit, and faith)
Where did Barnabas go to get Saul? (Tarsus)
How long did Barnabas and Saul teach in Antioch (1 full year)
What were the disciples first called in Antioch? (Christians)
How did the believers respond to Agabus’ message of a coming famine? (provided help for believers living in Judea)
How will you respond to changes that happen in your life this week?

Need More Ideas? Then browse all our Sunday School Lessons for children. You will also enjoy our free Bible coloring pages.

Children’s Bible Story Lesson Plan: Jesus Is The Bread Of Life from John 6:22-40

Tony Kummer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:03:44 +0000

This Bible lesson plan for children can be used in Sunday school or kids church. You can download this children’s church lesson as a Word document from the following link — Children’s Bible Lesson Plan: Jesus Is The Bread of Life John 6:22-40.

You can also download my other Children’s Church Lesson Plans

Bible Teaching Lesson: Jesus Is The Bread Of Life

Text: John 6:22-40

Learning Objectives: After this lesson, children will demonstrate understanding of three claims Jesus makes in this passage … by restating these truths in their own words.

1. Jesus can give eternal life.

2. Jesus is the bread of life.

3. Everyone who believes in Jesus will have eternal life.

Target Age: Kindergarten – 5^th

Teaching Setting: This lesson was first taught in our broadly graded children’s church on Sunday morning to about 35 children. Our kids begin in the sanctuary with their families and are dismissed to children’s church before the pastor’s sermon. Before the lesson the children participate in several songs and group Bible memory exercises. I aim for no longer than 15-25 minutes with each lesson plan depending on learning activities.

Items Needed:

Marked Bible for this passage. Prepare the copy in advance by highlighting the significant points to emphasize. Underlining words or ideas that will need additional explanation. I typically make small notes in the margin.
Clue Phrases: Write the underlined words from the statements above on single sheets of paper. Eternal life, bread, believes in Jesus
Paper and drawing/coloring supplies. The children will have an opportunity to illustrate ideas taught in the lesson. You will need enough supplies for every child to have a piece of paper and drawing/coloring supplies. To add variety you can have the children paint or use other methods to illustrate the ideas.

Explanation: This story builds from last weeks lesson where Jesus fed the five thousand. The crowds begin to follow Jesus looking for more bread, so the Savior uses this as a teaching moment. He explains that bread alone will not satisfy their deepest need. Rather, they can have eternal life by believing in Him.

This lesson presents a good summary of the Gospel promise of eternal life. However, it is best suited for children who have a solid foundation in Bible teaching. Many of the concepts present in this story will require previous knowledge. These include: manna from heaven, eternal life, the nature of true faith and how Jesus died to purchase this salvation.

The symbolism of Jesus as “bread from heaven” may be difficult for preschool aged children. This rest of the chapter continues this theme and should be read as you prepare to teach.

Jesus Is The Bread Of Life – John 6:22-40
Sunday School Lesson For Children

One Page Teaching Plan

Hook
Ask the learners, “Have you ever gone without eating for a whole day?” Explain that your body begins to get weak if you don’t get food. Food is one of our basic needs – we all must eat to live.

Last week we learned how Jesus fed 5,000 families. He met their basic need for food. Today we are going to learn how Jesus can give us something we need more than food.

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Active Listening: Introduce the children to the three clue phrases you’ve written on pieces of paper. If possible display these on the wall or on a marker board. Ask the children to listen carefully for these phrases as you tell the story.

Read (and summarize) John 6:22-40. Be sure to engage the children with good story telling. Key points include:

1. Jesus can give eternal life.

2. Jesus is the bread of life.

3. Everyone who believes in Jesus will have eternal life.

Review: Remind the children of the three key phrases you’ve displayed. Read the following statements aloud. Ask for volunteers to raise their hand and match one key phrase with the right statement. Repeat for all three statements.

Jesus can give ______________
Jesus is the ___________ of life.
Everyone who ______________ will have eternal life

To use this lesson for Children’s Sunday School, you will want to add additional learning activities here like a craft to complement the Bible lesson.

Look/Took:
Picture It: Divide the class into three groups. Assign each group one of the statements. Ask them to draw/color a picture that explains their key statement. After several minutes have volunteers share their illustration with the class. Write the appropriate key statement on each child’s project.

Test / Another Way To Say: Read the key statements one at a time. Ask the children to think carefully about what those key statements mean. Have volunteers suggest another way to say the same thing with different words.

Prayer: Lead the children in a time of prayer. Pray specifically that they will believe in Jesus and his promise of eternal life.

Jesus Feeds The Five Thousand (Children’s Church Lesson) from John 6:1-14

Tony Kummer — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:59:18 +0000

This Sunday I continued my series of New Testament stories in children’s church. This Bible lesson plan for children can be used in Sunday school or children’s church. You can download this lesson plan as a Word document from the following link: Children’s Bible Lesson Plan: Jesus Feeds The Five Thousand from John 6:1-14.

You can also download my other Children’s Church Lesson Plans.

Children’s Church Bible Lesson: Jesus Feeds The Five Thousand

Text: John 26:1-14
(you can also find this story in Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17)

Learning Objectives: After this lesson, children will demonstrate knowledge of the key people and events in this passage … by retelling the story back to the teacher at the end of the session. Key points include:

Situation: Large crowd follows Jesus up the mountain.
Problem: No food for all the people.
Complication: Jesus tells his disciples to feed the crowd.
Complication: A young boy shares his lunch – but it’s not enough
Resolution: Jesus performs a miracle by multiplying a small boys gift.

Target Age: Kindergarten – 5^th

Items Needed:

Marked Bible for this passage. Prepare the copy in advance by highlighting the significant points to emphasize. Underlining words or ideas that will need additional explanation. I typically make small notes in the margin.
Snack. If you have snack in your children’s church this would be a perfect way to integrate the snack and the lesson. You could keep it basic with goldfish or go for something bigger with real bread and cooked fish.

Explanation: This story has several great themes to bring out for the children. Sometimes it has been reduced to a story about sharing, but the main focus is on Jesus supernaturally providing for his followers. There is a lesson in the fact that God chose to use the young boy’s gift, just don’t let that overshadow the main point about the divinity of Christ.

There is also the theme of compassion in this text. When Mark tells this story in Mark 6:34-44, he points out that the miracle was motivated by Jesus’ compassion for the crowd and a concern that they might faint without food returning home. There is certainly a lesson here about caring for the hungry.

This miracle is also a set-up for an upcoming lesson on Jesus as the “bread of life” in John 6:25-40. You might hint to the kids that Jesus is going to give the people something better than food next week.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand, John 6:1-14
Sunday School Lesson For Children

One Page Teaching Plan

Hook

Take out your snack and begin to eat it in front of the class. Wait for someone to ask you to share. Assure them you will share after the lesson, but ask them to think about how they would feel it there wasn’t enough food for everyone. Say, “In today’s story, we are going to learn about a time when Jesus make food for 5,000 families out of one small snack.”

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Active Listening: Ask the children to listen carefully for the details of the story, so that they can re-tell it to you afterward.

Read (and summarize) John 6:1-14. Be sure to engage the children with good story telling. Key points include:

Situation: Large crowd follows Jesus up the mountain.
Problem: No food for all the people and they are getting really weak.
Complication: Jesus tells his disciples to feed the crowd.
Complication: A young boy shares his lunch – but it’s not enough
Resolution: Jesus performs a miracle by multiplying a small boys gift.

Review: Read the following statements. Have the children stand up if this was something that happened in this story. If it didn’t happen in this story they should sit with arms crossed – even if they are true statements taught in other parts of the Bible the children should remain seated.

Jesus turned regular water into wine to save a wedding party.
Jesus told his disciples to feed the 5,000 families.
A young boy offered to share his five loaves of bread and two fish.
Satan tried to get Jesus to turn stones into bread.
God sent down bread falling from the sky to feed the Israelites.
Jesus told the disciples to pick up all the leftover bread.

To use this lesson for Children’s Sunday School, you will want to add additional learning activities here like a craft to complement the Bible lesson.

Look/Took:

Talk About It: Ask the children to discuss the following questions to better understand the story.

Why do you think Jesus wanted to feed the 5,000 families?
What do you think the little boy was feeling when he saw Jesus use his gift for the miracle?
What does this story tell you about whom Jesus really was?

Test: Ask several volunteers to come up to the front to re-tell the story to the class. If they need help prompt them with questions like “what happened next.”

How To Rediscover Your Passion For Children’s Ministry

Tony Kummer — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:50:47 +0000

The weeks after Christmas are some of the toughest in your ministry year. Long winters bring discouragement and dull the passion of even the most devoted. Let me share a few ways I am preparing my heart to make it through discouragement in the ministry this winter. Feel free to comment and add to the list.

Focus on the long term vision.
Short term setbacks can really kill my morale. I get discouraged when my teaching falls flat or when I lose a busy volunteer. Ask yourself, “What am I trying to accomplish in the lives of these children 20 years from now?” Stay faithful to the vision and do the little things well. Then trust God to work things out in the long term.

Be thankful for past success.
Take the time to step back and see how much has been accomplished this year. Write down five ways that God has touched lives through your children’s ministry. Give thanks to God and trust him to continue his work next year.

Pray.
Nothing energized me for ministry like getting close to God. Very few real gains have ever come without prayer. Fight discouragement by seeking direct support from your Heavenly Father.

Remember that kids matter to Jesus.
When God was calling me to work in children’s ministry I was amazed to discover all the Bible verses that spell out God’s love for children. Always remember that his passion to reach the little ones will always exceed your own. All you have to do is get in line with his purpose.

Encourage others.
One of the best ways to get over discouragement is to become an encouragement to someone else. Look a Sunday school teacher in the eyes and say, “Your work matters to God and is making a difference.” Do this every week.

Spend more time with hurting children.
Sometimes I forget the pain that many of these children are facing in their own lives. Take time to connect with a child who is suffering from a rocky home life.

Visit unchurched families.
Few things energize me for ministry like getting into the “rough” homes of some of our kids. Remember, only the Gospel can break the cycles of sin that destroy so many families.

Love the unlovable.
Identify the child that causes you the most stress, the one that you may have written off as a trouble maker. Then make it your personal project to love that child and become the presence of Christ in their lives. If you succeed, you will never forget it.

What about you? What are some ways you rediscover your passion for children’s ministry?

May God bless you as you serve his church and his children.

Sunday School Safety and Security

Tony Kummer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:29:05 +0000

Safety and security is one of the biggest topics in children’s ministry today. This is true for both small and large churches. Keeping kids safe should be a priority in every church. In this article, I will discuss the leading concerns about Sunday school security and offer some ways to improve safety at your church.

Security and Safety Concerns For Sunday School

Many of the articles I’ve read about children’s ministry safety do not clearly state what dangers we need to address. I believe that is a mistake. We need to be responsible when accessing threats so we can avoid extremes. Here are the dangers that churches must work to prevent:

Accidents: Kids can always find some way to get hurt. Accidents are the most common safety danger for children in Sunday school. Often they are minor, but we should be concerned that every ministry setting is a safe place to learn and play.
Food Allergies: This is an increasing concern, and rightly so. Many food allergies are life threatening if not treated properly. Kids love snacks, but we should always be aware of the dangers of food allergies.
Kidnapping: This is every parent’s worst nightmare. While it may be a rare, Sunday school programs should establish safeguards to make it impossible to steal a child from any church program.
Sexual Abuse: Few things are more devastating to a child, especially when the predator uses religious authority to accomplish their crime. Churches have not done enough to prevent the sexual abuse of children.
Other Children: It doesn’t make the news, but the most common threat for sexual abuse is one child abusing another child. This is devastating for everyone involved. Never allow children unattended in the church facility. Even Pastor’s kids should not be set free after the church program. We have a designated game room where volunteer’s children can play until their parents are free to go.

Sunday School Safety and Security Checklist

One way to think carefully about church safety is to audit your Sunday school program according to the following categories. We are also talking about safe kid check policies in our children’s ministry forums.

Are Your Sunday School Facilities Safe and Secure?

Classrooms should be in high traffic areas and have windows. We recently installed windows in every classroom door. Since we have a volunteer church handyman, the project cost was very reasonable.
If your Sunday school classrooms do not have windows, keep them open unless two adults are with the class.
Children’s ministry areas should be up to building and fire code. This would include emergency exits, smoke alarms, and fire extinguishers.
Is the furniture safe and appropriate for children? Make sure that bookcases are secured to the wall, desks do not have splinters, and chairs are in good repair.
Use safety plugs in all electrical outlets. This needs to be checked often, since these tend to get lost. Use safety plugs in the hallways and adult areas too.
If there is overhead storage, on a shelf or a cabinet, make sure it is secure and items will not fall on children if they bump up against the cabinet.
Control the access to your building. In larger churches this becomes a big concern. There should be a limited number of entrance points to your children’s ministry area.

Do You Insist On Safety For All Sunday School Activities, Snacks and Crafts?

Scissors, glues and craft materials should be safe for children.
Avoid object lessons that could be unsafe. We learned from experience not to burn anything inside the Sunday school classrooms!
Some games are not safe for small rooms. If you don’t have enough floor space for a suggested Sunday school game, go outside or substitute another activity.
Never serve a snack with nuts unless you have personally cleared it with every parent. With peanut allergies on the rise, it is better to be safe than sorry.
Do not serve hot liquids; it’s okay if the hot chocolate is a just warm.
Supervise children closely during snack time, even older children can choke on their food.

Have You Selected Volunteers And Teachers That Are Safe?

Every volunteer should be screened and interviewed by the church leadership. Many churches are even purchasing criminal background checks for all church volunteers, especially those that work with children. That is a good step, but don’t forget to use common sense and judgment. Many sexual predators abuse many children before they are caught, so the criminal background check is only a limited safeguard.
No one is every allowed to be alone with a child. Make this a rule with no exceptions.
Even in counseling situations have another adult volunteer present.
The best safeguard against abuse is preventing opportunity for abuse. As much as you can, make it impossible for children to be harmed at your church.

Do Your Policies And Guidelines Promote Security and Safety?

All the best policies won’t help unless you train your teachers. So, make training Sundays school teachers about safety and security a priority in your church.
Make 2-by-2 the rule. No child (or group of children) should even be alone with an adult volunteer.
Ask your volunteers to get trained on CPR and first aide. We have several retired nurses in our church who are great resources for minor accidents.
Establish a check-in and check-out procedure that gets every child back to the right parents after your program. This will help to prevent children from being unsupervised in the facility.
Do not allow children to be unattended before or after Sunday school programs. As one reader stated, “Children stay with parents and remain the parents’ responsibility.”
Have a definite drop-off and pick-up time. These should be clearly posted and enforced. The children of volunteers should remain with their parents or be supervised in one location. We do not allow early drop-offs.
Ask for hall monitors or greeters to patrol the facility during and after your ministry programs.
Do you have clear bathroom policies? This more of a concern for younger children, but

Resources For Improving Security and Safety In Your Sunday School

Read these articles about Children’s Ministry safety from ChildrensMinistry.com
Browse these resources for Children and Youth safety from one insurance company.
Read my post 5 Ways Christians Can Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect
Read the Southern Baptist Convention 2007 Resolution ON PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM ABUSE
Read the Statement on Abuse From the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
If you know of a good resource, leave me a comment below.