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Spooky Bible Bingo New Spooky Bible Bingo is a fall-themed bingo game featuring icons of the season, including Scripture references to help kids remember that Jesus provides victory over death.

Don't miss out on the optional Spooky Bible Hunt variant, integrating a classic activity commonly known as a "Sword Drill" into your bingo gameplay, giving increased importance to Bible references for winning the game. This option encourages kids to bring their Bibles to class!

Spooky Bible Bingo comes complete with 35 different cards to accommodate various class sizes, showcasing different Animals, Places, Objects, Phrases, and Verses associated with fall.

Just $6.99 with Premium Membership!
 

» Spooky Bible Bingo

Single Halloween Lesson from Karl Bastian 
Spooky Lessons of the Bible Single Lesson Spooky Lessons: Death Has No Sting is a SINGLE LESSON selected by Karl Bastian!

This self-contained, stand-alone lesson helps guide your children to a biblical understanding of life, showing how Jesus defeated death.

The theme of this lesson is based on 1 Corinthians 15:55, 57: "'Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?' But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

The focus is on the Resurrection of Jesus and its centrality to the Christian Faith.

By teaching this lesson, you'll be able to redeem the holiday in a way you've never seen before, all while allowing your children to enjoy the season in a wholesome and fun manner.

It's just $9.99 for Kidology Members!

» Spooky Single Lesson: Death Has No Sting
Use Verse Hero to help kids memorize! 
Impress Kids

Verse Hero is a stylist, upbeat game designed for players to interact with Bible verses as never before.  It's part of Impress Kids, a web-based resource that uses video, visual effects, audio, games and activities to help your kids memorize the Bible.  

 

Easily configure Verse Hero to fit your ministry programs and purposes.

  • Create unlimited games, each with your specific verse selections.
  • Configure Verse Hero with your choice of over 15 popular Bible versions! Or, use copy and paste.
  • Personalize with encouraging comments, announcements, incentives, awards or other messages.
  • Children access all the games and activities in your customized MyPlace, linked to your web-site (optional).
  • Get real-time reports displaying member activity and progress. Boosts participation and accountability. 

Try out Impress Kids for FREE using their 14-day trial.   

 

» Visit ImpressKids.com to get the details!

FREE eBook: The Kidology Way
The Kidology Way Inside The Kidology Way, you'll learn the Four Pillars of Children's Ministry that will ensure a ministry where kids become fully devoted disciples of Jesus.

Trends come and go, but a ministry that is built upon this foundation will turn out solid kids who can stand strong through the storms of life.

This 50-page eBook is available FREE for Kidology Premium Members. As its core are time-tested principles of children's ministry rooted in Scripture, which match up with the weekly realities of children's ministry as experienced by those in the trenches week in and week out.
 

» FREE download for Premium Members

» Also available in Kidology Store 

Barna on Tech in Ministry 
Barna According to recent Barna Group research, "the most common way Millennials are blending their faith and technology is through digital reading of Scripture."

What does this trend mean for your children's ministry?

Barna offered these facts about technology: 
  • 70% of practicing Christian Millennials read Scripture on a screen, such as YouVersion
  • Millennials are heavy users of online videos pertaining to faith

While the Millennial age group is 18-29, typically these trends influence younger grades as well.  Discuss these findings in the Kidology Forums!   

 
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Play the Gimmie! Gimmie! Thanksgiving Game!
Gimmie! Gimmie! Thanksgiving Game

Gimmie! Gimmie! Thanksgiving is a fast-paced, holiday trading game that illustrates thankfulness vs. selfishness.  

 

Ideal for just a few kids as well as large groups, the object is to collect a complete set of Thanksgiving cards, while avoiding the greedy Gimmie! Gimmie!

Hectic fun unfolds as players shout "Two! Two!" and other combinations of cards to trade, all while working to build a matched set in the time allotted.  

Adapted by Karl Bastian as a solution for understaffed volunteer situations around the holidays, this Gimmie! Gimmie! game provides an interactive object lesson while requiring just a few leaders to run.

 

» Just $5.99 in the Kidology Store!

» Karl talks "Gimmies" on Kidologist.com

Living Thanksgiving 5-Lesson Series 
Living Thanksgiving Living Thanksgiving is a 5-lesson Thanksgiving series from TruthQuest, exploring history of the holiday, as well as the spiritual significance, both then and now!

This series features 4 age-specific versions (Preschool, 1st Grade, 2-3rd Grade, 4 Grade+) as well as printable materials in 6 Bible translations (NIV, KJV, NKJV, ESV, NLT, & HCSB).

Each gratitude-based lesson contains:
  • Bible Story
  • Bible Lesson
  • Take-Home Worksheet
  • Family Study
  • Game Ideas

Need just 1 lesson? Thanksgiving Every Day is also available!


» Living Thanksgiving 5-Lesson Series 

» Thanksgiving Every Day Single Lesson  

 
$1 Music Video Downloads from Go Fish 
$1 Music Video Collection During the month of October, Kidology Premium Members can download this Music Video Collection from our friends at Go Fish... for just $1!

This month's collection includes 6 music videos that are part of the Go Fish Worship Resource Kit... ideal for church, home, or other ministry settings!. Plus, as part of a special October deal from Go Fish, you can add their Kids Music album to your Premium Member download for just $8 extra!

Valued at $31, this collection pays for itself if you have a Kidology Premium Membership. Download for a $1 and see that membership does have its privileges!

Don't delay... because once October is over, so is this great member benefit. Thanks again for being a Kidology Premium Member!  (Not a Premium Member? Join today!)   

 

» Get Go Fish Music Videos for just $1