TruthQuest Ministries is a one-stop shop for children’s ministry lessons and lesson plans. They have curriculum for Sunday School, Children’s Church, and Vacation Bible School. Every lesson can be adapted to your needs. You can make a lesson 15 minutes to 2 hours if need be.
Check out their new Fire Fighters VBS theme for 2010.
Their Truthopolis series consists of apologetics issues like absolute truth and science issues like dinosaurs and evolution. They also have curriculums dealing with Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving and one dedicated to studying Pilgrim’s Progress. Each module is five weeks long if done weekly or five days long if adapted for a Back Yard Bible Club.
Each lesson contains a shorter Book Smarts lesson, a longer Street Smarts lesson, a memory game idea, a take home sheet and a family study sheet. You can spend a bit more and get the drama module which can be a live skit or a puppet skit or both. The lessons are further broke down into age appropriate lessons ranging from preschool to pre-teen. You can also use one of six translations (ESV, NKJV, KJV, HCSB, NIV, NLT).
What is more, is they also offer resources to equip both the minister and the parents teach children the things of God. They even have a Kid’s Zone page that is full of fun activities for kids. You can check out their doctrinal statement while searching this wonderful children’s ministry resource website.
Finally, you can try 3 of their Vacation Bible School kits for free!
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I have used Truthquest VBS , It was great. We have a low cost solution to a complete an in one kit. You never need to order anything else. You print what you need for as big a VBS as you need.
Tony, I’d love to hear your thoughts on transitioning a church to a site-rotation Sunday School model. Particularly, what are the advantages/disadvantages of a Bible Story station. We’ve never done this. We send all age groups back to their class for this sort of thing–even at VBS. How can a church do this and ensure that lessons remain age appropriate? I’m really interested in learning if this is something that would help us be more organized at SojournKids.
Jared,
I think its a great model. We do this at VBS with two “master teachers” presenting the Bible lesson. They are both elementary teachers in real life and are very good with age specific modification. I like having the volunteers focused on one thing. So each station can concentrate on one role, while the group leaders rotate with the kids and work on relationships and heart application.