Children's Ministry Resources
Simply Loved - Group Publishing
Resource type: Curriculum
This COVID-19 adaptable curriculum aims to make "Sundays less complicated," providing tutorial videos and guides for adapting lessons to your unique situation, flexible lesson options that easily adjust to any format including stay-at-home, small gatherings of 10 or fewer, or normal church services, simplified supply lists that make gathering (and even delivering) lesson supplies easy, and digital options that make editing and sending lessons a snap.
When I Pray for You - Matthew Turner
Resource type: Book
When I Pray for You celebrates the dreams, hopes, and longings parents pray over their children, and shares with children how much care and concern a loved one feels for them.
Resources for Ministry with Children - The Episcopal Diocese of Washington
Resource type: Website
Through this web page the Diocese of Washington offers resources for choosing a church school curriculum and for equipping congregational leaders and parents to nurture the lives of the children in their care. This list includes curricula, children's Bible recommendations, resources for parents, and more.
Resource type: Book
These simple poems in Breathe and Be help children learn mindfulness as they connect to the beauty of the natural world.
God's Dream - Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams
Resource type: Book
Focused on a wish that everyone will see they are brothers and sisters, no matter their way of speaking to God or the shade of their skin. Encourages children to be compassionate, kind, and to forgive others, and includes colorful illustrations. Geared towards children aged 2-8.
Resource type: Book, Guide
Revised and expanded, The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Volume 6 offers new concepts and terminology, completely new illustrations, and a new structure that stems from more than fifteen years of using Godly Play with children across the world.
