it BIBLE Lesson Schedule - Year 3
Here is the recommended 2023 schedule for it BIBLE Curricululm. Of course, you can teach the lessons in any order, at any time you'd like, but this schedule is designed to work within the holiday dates.
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SUPER SUNDAY - January 1st
Bible Boot Camp Training Day (A Stand-Alone Lesson)
A SUPER FUN Bible Boot Camp Super Sunday that will be a blast for your kids whether you use the Bible Boot Camp series or not! Similar to Bible Ninja Warriors, but with an Army theme!
JANUARY and FEBRUARY - Outdoor Adventures Series
Bible Boot Camp
An 8-week Army-themed series that teaches kids how to train and equip themselves for spiritual battle!
January Lessons:
- January 8th - Lesson 1: Enlist - Join God's Army
GOD’S ARMY – Be All God Made You to Be. - January 15th - Lesson 2: The Manual – God’s Word
GOD’S BOOK – Your Field Manual for Life. - January 22nd - Lesson 3: Communication – Prayer
STAY CONNECTED – Prayer is How We Talk to God - January 29th - Lesson 4: Your Squad – Friendship
SQUAD UP – Don’t Go Into Battle Alone.
February Lessons:
- February 5th - Lesson 5: Secret Power – The Holy Spirit
SUPER WEAPON – The Holy Spirit is your Secret Power. - February 12th - Lesson 6: Special Ops – Spiritual Gifts
SPECIAL OPS – God has Equipped Everyone with a Special Skills Set. - February 19th - Lesson 7: Inner Strength – Character
Forgive others quickly, just as Jesus forgave you - February 26th - Lesson 8: Your Mission – Sharing the Gospel
THE MISSION – To Reach the Lost for Jesus.
MARCH - Mystery Adventures Series
Riddle Me This
A 4-Week Riddle-themed series teaching kids about some of the mysterious sayings of Jesus.
March Lessons:
- March 5th - Lesson 1: The First Will be Last?
Humility leads to Greatness in God’s eyes. - March 12th - Lesson 2: Water that is Living?
A life with Jesus is the only life that truly leads to happiness. - March 19th - Lesson 3: Love Your Enemies?
Your enemy is simply someone who needs Jesus. - March 26th - Lesson 4: Lose It to Find It?
When you find Jesus, you have found everything.
APRIL - Easter Series
The Great Rescue 4-Week Series
Kids will discover how Jesus was THE First Responder, coming to earth to Rescue us from our sins! He came, He taught, He died, He rose again, and He returned to heaven, and now it’s our job to help rescue others!
April Lessons:
- April 2 - Lesson 1: Jesus Saves Us (Palm Sunday)
Dispatch: The Cross - April 9 - Lesson 2: Jesus Heals Us (Easter Sunday)
Dispatch: The Tomb - April 16 - Lesson 3: Jesus Equips Us
Dispatch: The Upper Room - April 23 - Lesson 4: Jesus Sends Us
Dispatch: The Sky
SUPER SUNDAY - April 30th
The Great Escape (A Stand-Alone Lesson)
A SUPER FUN Kid's Church Escape Room Experience! Your kids will work together to escape kids church while reviewing the Story of Easter!
MAY, JUNE, JULY - Discipletown Series
DiscipleTown Units #4 | #6 | #3
(Available NOW - Download Below)
How to Make Good Friends
One of the more important skills we can impart to children is the wise ability to choose good friends. Few things will have greater influence on the rest of their life. This unit will help children understand that friendships are not only a gift from God, but something that we are to be intentional about.
May Lessons:
- May 7 - My Best Friend Jesus
- May 14 - Being a Good Friend
- May 21 - Choosing Good Friends
- May 28 - Growing Godly Friends
How to Make Good Choices
Many parents pray long and hard that their children will make good choices. It is essential that we equip children while they are young with decision-making skills that will enable them to weigh and evaluate alternatives. This unit will help your children understand the power they have to choose between right and wrong.
June Lessons:
- June 4 - The Power to Choose
- June 11 - Winning the Inner Battle
- June 18 - After a Wrong Turn
- June 25 - God-Given Guides
How to Grow Spiritual Fruit
The Fruit of the Spirit may be a familiar topic to children, but the concept of how to grow spiritual fruit is one that is often misunderstood by adults, not just by kids. Unlike many curriculums on the fruits of the Spirit for children, this unit is not an overview of the nine fruits. Rather, it is a 4-week series that will walk children through the process of how to nurture the soil of their soul so that the Spirit of God might produce genuine spiritual fruit in them. Starting with the seed of salvation and being watered with the Living Water, children will discover that their spiritual life is like a plant and God is like a loving gardener. They will learn that it is only by being pruned through loving discipline and abiding in Jesus that spiritual fruit will blossom in their lives. This unit will guide them, not into working harder to be good, but to draw closer to God so that he can make them more like Jesus.
July Lessons:
- July 2 - The Seed of Salvation
- July 9 - Growing Up Godly
- July 16 - Abiding in Jesus
- July 23 - The Fruit God Produces
AUGUST and SEPTEMBER - Big Screen Adventures Series
Mission Moses 9-Week Series
Kids explore the epic adventures of Moses and the way God used an ordinary man to accomplish an extra-ordinary mission that changed the world!
Lessons Overview:
- July 30 - Lesson 1: A New Hope: Moses is Born
God will protect us when we are following His plan. - August 6 - Lesson 2: A Prince Strikes Back
Our mistakes can't foil God's plan. - August 13 - Lesson 3: Return of the Hebrew
God will equip us to fulfill His plan for our lives. - August 20 - Lesson 4: The Phantom Hebrew
God's plan is still at work even during hard times. - August 27 - Lesson 5: Attack of the Plagues
God's plan is supported by His power. - September 3 - Lesson 6: Revenge of the Pharaoh
Nothing can come against God's plan. - September 10 - Lesson 7: The Rock Awakens
God will provide so His plan can move forward. - September 17 - Lesson 8: The Lost Leader
Trust God's plan even when it seems delayed. - September 24 - Lesson 9: The Rise of a Nation
God's plan is about more than just your life.
SUPER SUNDAY - October 1st
Bible Ninja Warriors (A Stand-Alone Lesson)
The point of this Super Sunday is to get kids excited about learning to use their Bibles and becoming more familiar with them. Based off the very popular American Ninja Warrior TV show, Bible Ninja Warriors encourages kids to get AWESOME at using their Bibles!
Works great as a fun intro to the Ninja-themed Easter series, Undefeated! But regardless of what series you're teaching, you can still use BIBLE NINJA WARRIORS! Just change up the verses and you're good to go!
OCTOBER - Halloween Series
Spooky Lessons of the Bible
Spooky Lessons of the Bible is a 4-lesson series by Karl Bastian that will guide your children to a biblical understanding of life, showing how Jesus defeated death. While our culture obsesses with spookiness, this series will 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. Equip your kids with the knowledge to face their fears. Halloween provides our culture with a way of making light of death, and yet that nagging question remains: "What will happen to me after I die?" Provide kids the answer that Jesus conquered Death. We can teach them that we know a Savior who faced death, destroyed it, and can raise us up too!
Lessons Overview:
- October 8 - Lesson 1: A Dead Girl Rises
(The Raising of Jairusʼ Daughter) - October 15 - Lesson 2: A Dead Man Walks Out of a Tomb!
(The Raising of Lazarus) - October 22 - Lesson 3: A Dead Man at a Funeral, Wakes Up!
(The Centurionʼs Faith and The Raising of the Widowʼs Son) - October 29 - Lesson 4: Dead Man Raises Himself, Claims He Can Raise Others
(The Resurrection of Jesus)
NOVEMBER and DECEMBER - Spiritual Gifts Series
Mighty Kids 8-Week Series
(Coming Mid-October 2023)
Kids will discover their Spiritual Gifts while getting to know the Mighty Kids of the Bible!
Lessons Overview:
- November 5 - Lesson 1: TITAN TIM – Leadership
You don’t have to grow up to be a hero for God! - November 12 - Lesson 2: SONIC SAM – Serving
Listen! God wants to talk to you. - November 19 - Lesson 3: THE CONSULTANT - Helping
God wants to use you to save others! - November 26 - Lesson 4: DARING DAN – Faith
Set yourself apart and God will do amazing things through you!! - December 3 - Lesson 5: BULLSEYE – Exhortation
You are mighty when you have God on your side. - December 10 - Lesson 6: KING KID– Wisdom
Even a child can bring great change. - December 17 - Lesson 7: LUNCHINATOR – Giving
Use what you have and Jesus can make miracles happen! - December 31 (or 24)* - Lesson 8: TEMPLE BOY – Knowledge
Like Jesus, strive to grow in wisdom, strength and favor with God and man!
* We recommend using a Super Sunday for Christmas Eve service and wrapping up Mighty Kids on 12/31. This way visitors do not attend during the last lesson of the series.
SUPER SUNDAY - December 24th (or 31st)
2 options:
ULTIMATE BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR JESUS (A Stand-Alone Lesson)
This Party Planning Pack includes a collection of Christmas Celebration ideas to use during a Birthday Party for JESUS!
THE GREAT ESCAPE (A Stand-Alone Lesson)
A SUPER FUN Kid's Church Escape Room Experience! Your kids will work together to escape kids church while reviewing the Story of Salvation!
