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SPOOKY Lessons of the Bible: Single Lesson
Spooky Single Lesson Spooky Lessons of the Bible: Death Has No Sting is a SINGLE LESSON selected from our popular Halloween teaching unit 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 season in a way you've never seen before, all while allowing your children to enjoy the season in a wholesome and fun manner.

» Find More Products in our Halloween Resource Guide!   

Also read a Note from the Author: Why Write a Spooky Bible Lesson?


Shift Your Bible Memory Into Overdrive! 
Impress Kids
Impress Kids is an awesome web-based service to help your kids memorize the Bible!

Using video, visual effects, audio, games and activities, Impress Kids keeps scripture in front of children all week long.   
   
This is a web-based service that uses video, visual effects, audio, games and activities to help your kids memorize the Bible. It's a pretty awesome way to keep scripture in front of children all week long.
     
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Bright Ideas for Children's Ministry
Bright Ideas

In Bright Ideas for Children's Ministry Volume 1, 24 Kidmin Experts share their best ideas for object lessons, crafts, games, worship, missions, teaching, technology, leadership, and more!

 

This 99 page book is packed FULL of creative ideas from active leaders in children's ministry. Whether you are looking for an awesome object lesson, a great idea for bringing your volunteer team together, or an engaging way to get your kids excited about missions and worship, this book is filled with bright ideas like these and much more!

Object Lesson: Sweet Words, Sour Words
Craft: The Bathroom Mirror Bible
Game: Giant Jenga Game
Leadership: Murder Mystery Night
Missions: Missions Airplane Experience
Teaching Activity: Really Bad Pictures of the Bible
Technology:Identity Texting
Worship: God's Character Dossier

»  Bright Ideas for Children's Ministry is now available in the Kidology Store!
» Save $3 off the purchase price when you use coupon code SAVE3NOW at checkout!

500 Friends for $20 Donation 
Happy Birthday Kidology

20 years ago this December, the Internet gave birth to a site dedicated to EQUIPPING and ENCOURAGING Those Who Minister to Children: Kidology.org was born! 

  

It's been an incredible 20 years, and while the Internet has exploded with new helps for those who minister to children, Kidology.org has remained the leader in content and services for those who minister to kids.

  

To celebrate, we are praying for 500 DONORS over the next 3 months who will give a $20 donation to celebrate 20 years and help us with some website enhancements for the next 20 years.

  

» Find out how you can become one of the 500! 

Hark! It's a Christmas Play!  
Hark from the Herald is a Christmas play that can be performed with live actors or puppet performers. Written by Karl Bastian, this download includes all the elements needed to produce this play, including...
  • Director & Actors Scripts
  • Staging Notes
  • Scene Overviews
  • Music Recommendations
  • Rehearsal Schedule
  • Sample Graphics
  • MP3 audio track for puppet performance
  • Reference videos from previous productions 
Hark is a reporter from the Herald and is assigned to do a story on the "true meaning of Christmas." Not knowing where to start, he goes to the house of Dr. Wipplestowski, a crazy inventor who sends him back in time to the first Christmas.

Available as immediate download! 

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Are You Sabotaging Your Ministry Volunteers?  
Sabotage
We know it's not intentional. You would never purposely sabotage your volunteers. But what if it's happening anyway? Read these quick tips from Mimi Bullock in her article, "Are You Sabotaging Your Ministry Volunteers?" They may help you become more aware of ways you jeopardize the volunteers in your ministry.

"I am about to be very transparent here--learning how to manage people kindly and thoughtfully didn't come easily for me. I have been blessed to work with some wonderful people, but working with me--a creative, sometimes unorganized children's pastor--hasn't always been easy. We'd show up to teach and realize I didn't delegate a craft properly, or forgot to mention we needed a snack this week...

Twenty years later, I am happy to say that things are better, but I am of course a work in progress."

  

The Well Equipped Volunteer Children's Ministry Handbook 
Well Equipped Volunteer
The Well Equipped Volunteer Children's Ministry Handbook is a 400+ page manual for Children's Ministry leaders and volunteers to help them start and grow a thriving Children's Ministry.

Every week, countless volunteers show up at churches to tirelessly work in Children's Ministry. They work in Sunday School, children's church, midweek club programs, VBS, and any number of other programs and activities offered.

 

Many of these faithful volunteers are under-trained and under-equipped but they serve anyway because they know that they are building up the church of tomorrow.

 

In The Well Equipped Volunteer Children's Ministry Handbook, volunteers and kidmin leaders will find a comprehensive reference manual that they'll use almost every single day to help them start and grow their Children's Ministry.

 

FREE Heritage Builders October Bulletin Inserts   
Heritage Builders
We've got the October "Generation to Generation" bulletin insert ready for you, thanks to the folks at Heritage Builders.

These monthly inserts provide short articles about raising children of faith... and are available for FREE download to all Kidology Premium Members!

Topics for October include...
    *    Talk About It!
    *    Make It Real: It's Your "Teens" Turn to Be On Stage
    *    Kidology Corner: Family Devotions for Mealtime

Download October's Bulletin Insert Today!

Don't Get the Gimmie Gimmie's!    
Gimmie Gimmie
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, it provides an interactive object lesson while requiring just a few leaders to run.