Sunday School Lesson Plans to download
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Help and encouragement for Christian Youth Leaders
Kids (especially teens) are some of God's greatest creations. Why do people always roll their eyes and think I'm nuts when I say that? Kids are dying for grownups to treat them with respect, take them seriously, and care about them. If you do that for them they will do that for you.
Of course, it also helps if you genuinely like kids. They can tell. "Kids will be what they think you think they are." The kids were an important part in helping me cope with the loss of my own daughter. I did not hide that from them and they were pleased to be helpful in that way. To learn more about that read my article, "Buckets of Love".
In addition, my Sunday School class was held during the church service, right after the worship time, so they got out of having to sit through sermons that were way over their heads. Word got out about this. Kids invited their disbelieving friends to see for themselves. They told their parents they wanted to come again. The parents told me they were delighted that their kids actually wanted to come to church. These families became regular attendees.
We continued the class year-round instead of breaking for the summer. We experienced a huge jump in attendance over the summer, and enjoyed an extraordinary spirit-filled time.
Anyway, if you other youth leaders are wandering around the internet you must be looking for something: encouragement, group ideas, lesson ideas. Feel free to poke around my stuff, download what you might be able to use.
I got a lot of ideas from other websites myself but I never found a curriculum or a lesson that was just what I wanted so I always wrote my own. The kids seemed to like them. After awhile they would prefer to skip my lame games, just sit down and get into the lesson. Sweet.
My wife and I also teach parenting classes (click here for info on that) because sometimes the best way to help kids is to help their parents.
