Category: Teaching Ideas
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Oh, Baby!
After a long delay between lessons the “My Friend Jesus” series for Babies and Toddlers is now complete. Hopefully, it will help parents and teachers share the story of Jesus with little ones. In this series infants and toddlers are introduced to Jesus and relate to him through various common experiences of childhood (celebration, helping,…
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Mustard Seeds and Matryoshka Dolls
Teaching Jesus’ parables to three and four year olds is challenging. Pre-schoolers struggle understanding abstract concepts. The figurative nature of the parables will largely pass them by because they usually think in more literal terms. This morning the class I was teaching tackled the Parable of the Mustard Seed. Jesus told a story about a…
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Touring Mission Bible Class
Here’s a quick video tour of the features of the Mission Bible Class website. Please feel free to pass the link on to someone who teaches or wants to teach children about God. .
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Booster, Booster!
I’ve just spent the last couple of days uploading some new “old” songs onto www.missionbibleclass.org. I was reminded again of how songs add a lot of joy to Bible Classes and any gathering of children. People often tell me about their favourite songs that they sang as a child in Sunday School or with their…
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What Every Child Wants to Hear
A couple of weeks ago I taught a group of 5-8 year olds about the Baptism of Jesus. In the days leading up to the lesson I contemplated Matthew 3:13-17 and asked myself how the event might be viewed from a child’s perspective. What is it about this part of God’s Word that “makes sense”…