Kid's Lesson Calendar - Volume 1

Kid's Lesson Calendar: Volume 1

A 52-week roadmap through topics like being Christ-centered, faith, women in the Bible, how to read the Bible, and more.

DNA

This four-week children’s teaching series addresses our DNA in Christ. Our Christ-centered DNA describes the center of who we are as a group. Everything we do, from the way we live our lives to the way we act in church all come from our DNA. With God’s help, we can help others know Christ’s love through the church!

New: Growing Fresh Faith

This four-week Children’s series addresses a big problem many people have with Christians: Why are there mean people in church? By looking at the books of 1 Corinthians and Acts, this series will help the kids in your group to learn to obey God rather than living selfishly. Rather than letting our faith grow stale, we can be made new in Jesus!

Guest Speaker

Use this bundle to welcome and announce a guest speaker sharing in your children’s service. Included in the bundle is an announcement slide, bulletin graphic, Facebook cover photo, postcard graphic, along with several other multi-purpose layouts.

Behind The Scene

A lot of Bible stories focus on guys. In this special series, we stop to remember Jesus cares about girls too! And he cares about people who aren’t necessarily popular or looked at as important. This six-week series tells the stories of six women in Jesus’s family tree and life who struggled a lot or were not looked at as important by others. While their culture may not have cared about these ladies, their inclusion in Jesus’s genealogy and life give us a guide for using our influence and power to build up those on the sidelines. And that goes for all of us—boys and girls!

The Lost Parables of Jesus

This one-week series for Easter shows how Jesus’s death and resurrection served as the “firstfruits” of hope and life for our world. One day, God’s plan of new life will come true forever; while we wait for that exciting day, we get to bring God’s life and goodness to the world in big and small ways.

The Movies

This four-week children’s series is ideal for the summer blockbuster season. With so many big-budget movies hitting theaters this time of year, the children in your group can’t help but discuss each week’s latest theatrical release. Why? Because films move our imagination and capture our attention like good art does. The films in this guide were chosen to reflect the series topic and passages. This series contains a singular theme: What is God like? We all like to think we’re the writer and director of our own lives, but we all live under the authority of another Power. God is in control of the universe, yet his love and goodness compel him to provide us salvation through Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.

Guest Speaker

Sharing Faith

This five-week series explains how we should talk to people who don’t believe in Jesus. It encourages kids to stand firm in their convictions while also engaging both with people outside the church and people inside the church who need repentance. When trying to persuade others, we should be motivated by Christ’s love, expect hostility, act with gentleness and respect, and model our approach after biblical examples. We can also learn to share the gospel in creative and engaging ways.

Guest Speaker

How To Read the Bible

This seven-week series focuses on how God reveals his will and desires for people through each specific section of the Bible. Each genre—including the Pentateuch, Historical Books, Wisdom Literature, the Prophets, the Gospels, the Epistles, and Apocalyptic Literature—provides a unique and special way God has communicated throughout history and helps us understand the Bible as a whole. This series is a great way to help kids understand that every part of the Bible has a special role in revealing who God is and his purposes.

Letdown

This four-week series deals with the disappointments many children face in a broken world full of broken people. Using different passages from the book of Psalms, this series deals with expectations, disappointment, waiting on God, and forgiveness. The anthem throughout each week is that our hope is fixed on God and his faithfulness.

Guest Speaker

Overcoming Fear

This four-week sermon series guide teaches children about how God can help us overcome our fear. When we live in fear, we are often scared of helping others. Fear makes the church an inward-focused house rather than an outward-focused sanctuary. We can become dim, dark, and closed off, the opposite of what the church should be. The following guide discusses the purpose of the church, overcoming fear of the unknown, and overcoming fear of pain in order to be effective followers of Christ in the world.

After God's Heart

This three-week series explores what it means to appreciate God’s goodness. Rather than living for ourselves, seeking after God’s heart helps protect us from living a life of selfishness and pride while empowering us to see the beauty in what God brings to us. When we offer thankfulness to God for his work in our lives, it allows us to better find contentment in his love and grace.

Guest Speaker

Christmas Carols

Kids love to sing! This four-week series provides an opportunity to think about the rich words of hope, lament, joy, and devotion in holiday songs. Christmas is a time to sing what we believe. Each week features a passage of Scripture, as well as a well-known Christmas carol that illustrates the true message of the season.

The New Me

Designed as an evangelistic series at the close of the year, this sermon explores the new life we have in Christ, in contrast to the old life we possessed in sin.