Author: Mary
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Let’s Dance!
After crossing the Red Sea and being delivered from your enemies, what would YOU want to do? A seven year old in my Bible class answered, “I would do this!” and then proceeded to dance around our classroom clearly demonstrating pure joy. Sometimes the illustrations I’ve selected and the scripts from which I read simply…
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Marble Painting a Burning Bush
The children in our mixed-aged Bible class last Sunday created some awesome pictures using marbles and paints. The lesson for the day was about when the Lord spoke to Moses from a Burning Bush We talked about how God was concerned about the suffering of his people and was giving Moses the important job of rescuing…
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Website Update
Next time you open http://www.missionbibleclass.org you’ll notice a few changes to the look and feel. Since I have two great interns working with me right now, we’re using the opportunity to update the look of the site. There are quite a few details to take care of so please let me know right away if…
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I Think I’ll Just Hum…
Sometimes I prepare what I think is a great class and yet my students struggle to think past the surface level of the Bible story. But sometimes, often when I least expect it, the kids run ahead of the teacher and want to go deeper. Instead of just appreciating the facts or even the drama…
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Teaching Children About the Church
How important is it to teach children to love the church? Basically, the church should be as important to all of us as it it to Jesus. In the middle of a conversation about submitting to one another in situations such as marriage the Apostle Paul writes… Christ died for the church to make it belong…