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8 Tips for Effective Bible Storytelling

Told David and Goliath last week. Read it straight from Bible. Kids stared at ceiling. One fell asleep on floor. Next week told same story. Used voices. Did actions. Made sound effects. Kids were leaning forward entire time. Same story. Just told it different. Changed everything. Use Different Voices for

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Teaching Kids About Different Cultures in the Bible

Making Worship Meaningful for Children

Bible Crafts That Don't Suck

7 Object Lessons That Don't Suck

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8 Tips for Effective Bible Storytelling

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Teaching Kids About Different Cultures in the Bible

Kids think everyone in Bible wore bathrobes and had beards. Also think they all lived in same place at same time doing same things. Tried teaching about Biblical cultures last month. Total disaster mostly. The Egypt Problem Told kids Moses grew up in Egypt not Israel. Blank stares. What'

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Making Worship Meaningful for Children

My kids won't sing. Like literally won't open their mouths during worship songs. Standing there with a ukulele I bought for eight dollars at a garage sale. Eighteen kids staring at me like I asked them to perform surgery. One kid's picking dried glue

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Bible Crafts That Don't Suck

My kids hate devotion time. There, I said it. Emma rolls her eyes when I pull out the Bible and Jacob starts asking if he can go to the bathroom every thirty seconds. Last week Emma asked if we could just watch Veggie Tales instead because "at least the

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7 Object Lessons That Don't Suck

My 8-year-old told me I talk too much. Ouch, but fair enough. I do tend to go on and on when I'm trying to teach her something important. By sentence three, the eye rolls start. So I started stealing ideas from people who actually know how to keep

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Balancing Volunteer Needs with Ministry Goals

Sarah comes up to me after service looking stressed and goes "I can't do VBS this year. I know you're counting on me but my mom's having surgery and I just can't commit to anything else right now." My first

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5 Bible Story Dramas Kids Will Love

Emma raises her hand middle of my Daniel lion's den story and goes "Can we BE the lions instead of just sitting here?" I'm about to say no like always because dramas are chaos and take forever and someone ends up crying. But then

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Ideas for Outdoor Ministry Events: Or How I Learned to Stop Fighting Nature and Start Working With It

Sitting here with mud still caked under my fingernails from yesterday's outdoor disaster. Well, not disaster exactly. Kids had fun. But I'm questioning some life choices. Three months ago our outdoor worship night was this magical thing everyone's still talking about. Yesterday's

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I Don't Know What I'm Doing With These Kids

Preteens are impossible. Like actually impossible. Last week one asked me why Moses didn't just use GPS to find his way out of the desert and I had no answer. They think everything adults do is stupid and they're probably right half the time. Talking Doesn&

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