Curriculum for your Children's Ministry

This curriculum will take 52 weeks to explore those three topics: The Lord's Prayer, the 10 Commandments and the 23rd Psalm. Plus from time to time there are bonus lessons designed to help reinforce parts of the church year, like Communion, Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter.

This schedule was originally designed to fit a September-August program; however, your sample will also include a program calendar that begins with Advent as well as one that starts in January.

Here's a brief overview of the topics the kids will be studying and what it looks like if you were to begin at Thanksgiving:

*Bonus: The Church Year I +
- Thanksgiving - Advent - Christmas - New Year/Wise Men

*Unit 1: Our Father in Who Art Heaven
- 3 weeks to explore what it means that God is our Father

*Unit 2: Hallowed by thy Name
- 3 weeks of helping kids understand that God's name is Holy

*Unit 3: Thy Kingdom Come
- 3 weeks that will help children see what God's Kingdom looks like on earth and in heaven.

Unit 4: Thy Will be done
- 3 weeks - what does it mean to do God's will (include Jesus' baptism)

+Bonus: The Church Year II
- Includes Palm Sunday and Easter

Unit 5: On Earth as it is in Heaven
- 3 Weeks - how can we do God's will on Earth, just like in heaven

Unit 6: Give us this day our Daily Bread
- 3 Weeks - God is our provider

+BONUS: Pentecost

Unit 7: Forgive us our debts as we Forgive Our Debtors
- 3 Weeks exploring forgiveness

Unit 8: Lead us not into temptation
- 3 weeks - how can we avoid temptation

Unit 9: Deliver Us from Evil
- 3 weeks - tying together temptation, evil and forgiveness.

Unit 10: For Thine is Kingdom, Power & Glory Forever
- 3 Weeks praising God

+BONUS: The 2 Greatest Commandments

+Bonus: Back to School Party

+Unit 11b: 23 Psalm
- 3 weeks in the 23rd Psalm

*+Bonus: Communion (appropriate for World Communion Sunday)

+Unit 11a: The 10 Commandments
- 7 weeks in the 10 commandments

+ These lessons can be made available as separate lessons - E-mail me to find out how you can get a free download of any three week lesson or get the first three weeks free of a longer lesson set.

* These lessons are done and ready to ship - the next set are in progress and should be done soon.

These are churches that are currently using this curriculum.

Sycamore Tree Church, Steubenville, OH

Christ UMC, Cambridge, OH

Center UMC, Cambridge, OH

The Refuge, Hilton Head Island, SC

If your church is using this material and I missed you, please e-mail me and I'll get you added. Plus, if your church is listed, let me know if you'd like your church website linked here.

I know how much I hate giving out my info until I'm sure the folks who are asking aren't spammers. But so you know that I'm not, you'll see that my e-mail address is ALL OVER the place in the article AND on the internet. I'm expecting that if I start Spamming people, they'll start returning the favor, so it just won't happen.

To get a sample of this curriculum, just click here and fill out the 4 line form (your name and e-mail address are the only "required fields and you can use a ficticious name if you like). Then you'll get an e-mail with instructions on the download.

You can purchase the e-version one quarter at a time at $25/Quarter (less than $2 per lesson). As of November 15, the first quarter (including Christmas) is ready and the second quarter will be complete very soon. To order, click the "ORDER HERE" link in the orange box below. It will take you to PayPal so that your are sure your payment is secure.

Additionally, the first 12 people who ask for a free sample will be eligible to get the curriculum for free! The only thing I'll ask from those who get the free deal will be to give me your feedback every quarter. What you liked, what you didn't, what you changed or wish I would change. (Note: The final sample request qualifying for free curriculum came on September 28 - But there are still an unlimited number of free samples available. Just click here to get yours!)

Paper copies are not available at this time. If you are interested in a print version, please E-MAIL ME if there's enough demand, I'll see what I can do to keep my costs down and make it available.

And if you ever have questions, comments, problems or for some reason you pay for your copy and cyber space doesn't deliver your download, feel free to E-MAIL ME. I usually respond within 24 hours. If you don't hear from me quickly, please feel free to send a second e-mail. I'm on the computer WAY TOO MUCH! So unless I'm on vacation or having a busy weekend, you'll get a response pretty fast.

I'll be looking forward to hearing from you!