Teacher Helps

 

Teachers have the greatest job in the world -- Shaping lives for Christ!  We've put together some fantastic resources for Vacation Bible School teachers and directors.  To give your kids the best they deserve, equip your leaders with strong information that will help them to be more prepared, creative, and energetic about sharing the gospel with your kids! 

 

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743545: Teacher Training Smart Pages: An Easy-to-Use Reference for Building Up Teaching Skills at All Experience w/CD Teacher Training Smart Pages: An Easy-to-Use Reference for Building Up Teaching Skills at All Experience w/CD
By Gospel Light

Give your Sunday school teachers (early childhood through elementary years) the gift of confidence! Use this step-by-step essential guidebook to train veteran and novice instructors in preparation, safety, class discussions, storytelling, special needs, dealing with trauma, and more. Includes forms, devotions, monthly planning calendar, articles, tips, certificates, and a CD-ROM with the complete manual. 317 reproducible pages, softcover from Gospel Light.
 
4272X: The Really Big Book of Bible Games with CD-ROM The Really Big Book of Bible Games with CD-ROM
By Gospel Light

For kids who love to play games---and do you know any who don't?---this collection of more than 250 fun-filled activities is indispensable for energizing their interest in God's Word. Featuring Chopstick Relay, Burst Your Bubble, Pumpkin Praise, Switcheroo, and many more, it also includes a CD-ROM. Ages 6 to 12. 304 pages, 8.5" x 11" softcover from Regal.
 
733094: Big Book of Volunteer Appreciation Ideas Big Book of Volunteer Appreciation Ideas
By Joyce Tepper / Gospel Light

This reproducible book is packed with 100 great thank-you ideas for teachers, volunteers and helpers in any children's ministry program! Children's ministry leaders can depend on this invaluable resource to help them show their gratitude to teachers and other volunteers. Easy-to-find, fun household items, such as cans of soda, golf foil-wrapped chocolate coins, bite-sized snacks, stickers and highlighters, are used to help meet the challenge of keeping your volunteers on your team of teachers.
 
26737: Children's Ministry Volunteers That Stick Children's Ministry Volunteers That Stick
By Jim Wideman / Group Publishing

Create volunteers that stick for one, two, five, ten years. In this book you will learn how to create a volunteer-friendly culture: fun, fair, forgiving and faithful and give your volunteers a career not just a job. Discover the four things that you must passionately believe before your volunteers will become leaders in your ministry, learn to write job descriptions and volunteer handbooks, and find insights on interviewing and placement that ensure your volunteers are in the right job. This book also features reproducible forms that can be easily implemented into your ministry. A great resource for recruiting and keeping a phenomenal volunteer staff.

Jim Wideman is the children's pastor and director of Christian education at Church On the Move in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He leads Kids On the Move, which hosts more then 75 classes for kids per week and is fueled by a team of more than 900 volunteers.

 
08521X: Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions /Developing a Biblical Worldview on DVD Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions /Developing a Biblical Worldview on DVD
By George Barna / Gospel Light

Developing a Biblical Worldview: Barna addresses the need for churches to help congregations develop a biblical worldview and how to strategically accomplish this goal. Presented in three viewing sessions:

Session 1: Defines what a biblical worldview is. (25 minutes)

Session 2: Reveals how to teach a biblical worldview. (30 minutes)

Session 3: Provides lessons from effective churches. (15 minutes)

Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions: Wake-up statistics from Barna Research reveal what effective churches are doing to reach the largest hidden mission field in America - our children! Presented in two viewing sessions:

Session 1: Addresses why children's ministry is vital to church health. (35 minutes)

Session 2: Provides lessons from effective churches. (30 minutes)

 
08411: Jesus Wants All of Me, Promo Edition Jesus Wants All of Me, Promo Edition
By Phil A. Smouse / Barbour Publishing

Generations of adults have cherished Oswald Chambers's My Utmost for His Highest. Now his timeless insights are available in a child-friendly format. Featuring a daily meditation, colorful cartoon illustrations, and a NKJV Scripture passage, this charming devotional takes kernels from Chambers' original and re-tells them for little hearts and minds. Jesus Wants All of Me also includes a presentation page and topical index, and makes the perfect gift for families with children ages 3 to 7.
 
CD1626X: 100 Bible Verses Every Kid Can Sing 'n' Learn, 3-CD Set 100 Bible Verses Every Kid Can Sing 'n' Learn, 3-CD Set
By Wonder Kids / Wonder Workshop

Even if your little ones can't read yet, they can still memorize Scripture! Here's a fun-filled way for kids ages 2 to 7 to sing and memorize the Bible. With the help of Skittles the Mouse and Boo Bear, kids will enjoy 100 Bible verses set to music by Stephen Elkins and sung by The Wonder Kids. Each of the three CDs in this set focus on a specific age group. Disc one is filled with Beginner Verses for ages 2 to 3, and has songs like "The Fruit of the Spirit" (Galatians 5:22), "He First Loved Us" (1 John 4:9), and "Wait on the Lord" (Isaiah 40:31). Disc two has I Am Growing Verses for ages 4 to 5, including the songs "Building Other Up" (Ephesians 4:29), "I Know the Plans I Have for You" (Jeremiah 29:11), and "Imitators of God" (Ephesians 5:1). On the third disc, there are Young Discipleship songs, like "Jesus Loves the Little Children" (1 John 4:7), "I Will Call Upon the Lord" (2 Samuel 22:4), and "He's Got the Whole World" (Daniel 6:27).

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