One of the biggest challenges of Children's Ministry (or any ministry, really) is finding how to incorporate God's truth with current day to day affairs in a way that the kids really understand. The goal is to get the kids to the point where they can do that themselves--find God's Word in their every day life and live into it.
This weekend was Halloween. The kids came in on Sunday sugar-hyped, wishing they were home to eat their candy and reliving their nights as Hannah Montana, a hamburger, a SWAT team member, etc, etc. The difficulty is how to take that hype for Halloween and turn it into a hype for Jesus and a desire to learn.
We played this video and asked the kids how they saw the people worshiping in the video. People worship in all different ways--some raise their hands, some sway, some sing, some pray--but God wants one thing from all worshipers. He wants us to worship him in truth (John 4:24). Worshiping in truth means that we take off our masks (hey, halloween!) and come before God as our real selves, and we don't hide anything. Then we played a song for the kids and let them worship their God in truth!
Some quotes from the kids:
"I really love that I don't have to go to school on Sunday. I can just be with God and love him all day long and think about him all day long."
"When you worship God and you can just give Him your heart, it just makes you feel better on the inside and everything you worry about just goes away."
Hopefully I'll get some audio up of what the kids said, and some pictures of them worshiping. The lesson was really powerful, moreso for the teachers than the kids, I think!
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