A very helpful booklet (64 pages) by Rick Lenski on tips and tricks on how to do a Gospel Magic ministry among children. 

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Booklet: Bible teaching with (easy to do) magic tricks.pdf

A small booklet (12 pages) by Rick Lenski on tips and tricks on how to do a Gospel Magic ministry among preschool children. 

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Booklet: Preschool Magic Minstry.pdf

A cool science experiment with hydrogel beads about how we as Christians can be on fire for God by being filled by the Holy Spirit. 

In Ephesians 5:18 Paul writes: “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit.” 

In this object lesson we’re going to use hydrogel beads and a hot frying pan to demonstrate to children that we as Christians can be on fire for God by asking Him to fill us with His Spirit.

Themes:

The coming of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, being filled with the Spirit, the power of the Spirit

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You can download a complete worksheet which will help you to do the object lesson and teach on being filled with the Holy Spirit within your Sunday school lesson or kids ministry.

Download the PDF:     'Being filled with the Holy Spirit - an object lesson'

A story from the New Testament about Philippi

It’s the Sabbath, the rest day for the Jewish people.

There is a group of people standing by the river in Philippi. They are all women. They have come together to pray. They believe in the Lord God and love him a lot. One of the women is called Lydia. She is a very rich woman. She sells beautiful red and purple material that you can use to make wonderful clothes.

A bit later a few men come walking up to the women and sit on the ground next to them. The women are surprised. They don’t know who they are. What are they doing here?

One of the men says ‘I am Paul”. We thought that you were praying. We also love the Lord God and also his son Jesus. He is the saviour, the Messiah.”

The women are even more surprised. Do these men know who the saviour is? The Messiah?

Then Paul starts to talk....

An easy to tell Bible story

We at Creative Kidswork want to make storytelling as easy as possible for you. That’s why we provide you with tons of easy to tell Bible stories. You can read this story aloud or tell it in your own way. 

This Bible story from Acts 16:14-15 was written by Ellen Zuijdwegt for a Dutch Sunday school method, but you can use it at home, within a church service, Sunday school setting or anywhere you like

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You can download the story here:  'Lydia is thankful for God's church'

God has brought Eutychus back to life again!

On Sunday the people go to the church. It’s not a normal church, but it’s quite a high building. On the third floor, at the top, there’s a large room, and everyone gathers there, because that’s where Paul is going to talk.

There are lots of people there. Everyone wants to hear Paul speaking. Eutychus is there too. He’s a boy and he wants to listen to Paul too.

It’s very busy and the whole room is full. There’s no space for Eutychus to sit, so he goes to the window and sits on the window sill.

Paul talks about Jesus. He talks for a long long time – there’s so much to tell and he is going away again tomorrow. So he talks, right on into the night. 

An easy to tell Bible story

We at Creative Kidswork want to make storytelling as easy as possible for you. That’s why we provide you with tons of easy to tell Bible stories. You can read this story aloud or tell it in your own way. 

This Bible story from Acts 20: 7-12 was written by Ellen Zuijdwegt for a Dutch Sunday school method, but you can use it at home, within a church service, Sunday school setting or anywhere you like

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You can download the story here:    'Eutychus falls from a window sill in church'

A great story to tell about the power of Easter

"Barabbas was listening hard.  The crowd went quiet and he could hear a man's voice speaking.  The next thing he heard was a great shout "BARABBAS, BARABBAS, WE WANT BARABBAS!"  (Get the children to shout it out, really loudly).  "Wonderful!"  thought Barabbas. "It must be my mates, come to get me out of prison!"  He began to feel much more cheerful.  But then the crowd went quiet again, and again the man spoke.  He couldn't hear Pilate's words, but Pilate was asking "What do you want me to do with Jesus?"

Themes:

The gospel, Jesus dying for our sins, Jesus dying in our place, to live for Christ

An easy to tell Bible story

We at Creative Kidswork want to make storytelling as easy as possible for you. That’s why we provide you with tons of easy to tell Bible stories. You can read this story aloud or tell it in your own way. 

This Bible story was (re-)written by Korky and Anni Davey (OAC ministries) for a school assembly, but you can use it at home, within a church service, Sunday school setting or anywhere you like 

Download the story:      The-story-of-the-prisoner-Barabbas.pdf

Tell the story of Philip and the Ethiopian in a school assembly, a children’s program or in a preach

"They could see some green trees in the distance.   They were approaching an oasis.  What's an oasis?  A place in the desert where there is water.   It was lovely – a pool of water all fresh and cool.   “What's to stop me being baptised here and now?” asked the Ethiopian.  “Nothing at all,” replied Philip, “If you are sure you believe in Jesus, in his Father God, and in his Holy Spirit, and want to be a true follower of Jesus from now on, all your days....”  “Yes, I do!” said the Ethiopian.  So they stopped the wagon again, and he and Philip climbed out, and went into the water.  It depends how deep it was – Philip might have dunked him under the water completely, or he might have cupped his hands in the water and poured some over him.  It's a picture of being washed clean, not just on the outside, but on the inside, too." 

A beautiful Bible story written by Korky and Anni Davey (OAC ministries) with an easy to do painting. You can however also tell the story without a painting.

Themes:

Baptism, Being born again, Philip and the Ethiopian

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Download the story:   'Philip and the Ethiopian'

Introduction:
So many things seem to happen between the arrest of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. How can you help the children to make sense of all that happens?

Korky and Anni Davey (OAC ministries) have written a short script that you can use to 'walk' through all the events of Good Friday with the children.

Download the story:      Interactive-story---Good-Friday.pdf

A tricky question about Bible study...

How do you tell a Bible story to a group of children or teenagers for whom the Bible story is so well known that they can probably tell it better than you? 

That is a tricky question! At the same time the answer is very, very simple: ‘You don’t tell the Bible story.’

What!? You don’t tell the story?

No, you let them tell it to each other in such a way that it is fun, everyone participates, and the only thing you have to do is to ask good questions and share your own story.

Below we look at the ‘Bible study cards’ method.

The ‘Bible study cards’ method

It is so easy to keep telling Bible stories to children and teenagers, but there comes a point at which it is more important to help them learn from the Bible themselves. Telling stories is good. Teaching children and teenagers (and adults) to read and learn from the Bible themselves is better.

To help us do this we have developed ten questions that you can ask yourself when you read a story in the Bible.

These ten questions are specifically focused on the four gospels.

When we used these cards we were doing weekly Bible studies with a group of teenagers from troubled backgrounds. Some of them would and did end up in prison. We wanted them to know a few questions for if they ever found themselves with a Gideon Bible in a prison cell. So we took half a year to go through the gospel of Mark. Each week we gave them all a piece of paper with a short passage from Mark. Then they would pick one of the ten Bible study cards (without looking at it first) and that would be their question about the passage that we were going to look at.

The ten questions on the ten cards are:

1. Read the Bible passage out loud.
2. Tell the Bible story in your own words
3. Which part or words from the story don’t I understand?
4. What does the main character do in this story?
5. What does Jesus or God do in the story?
6. What can we learn from the main character in the story?
7. What can we learn from Jesus or from God in the story?
8. What surprises me in the story?
9. What does this story mean for us today?
10. What did I learn from this story that will make a change in my life?

Because they couldn’t see which card they picked, they had a different card every week. Although they started to grumble about the method after a few months, we persevered. Hopefully they learned to study the Bible for themselves by using ten very easy questions.

How does it work?

You show the children / teenagers ten Bible study cards. If you have more than ten children / teenagers in your group you need to make a few more question cards. Each child / teenagers takes a card without looking. This means that each child / teenager in the group has a minimum of one card. The cards are numbered and as the leader you ask: “Who has card number one?” Once the child / teenager has read the passage out loud you move to card number two. 

As a leader it is your task to ask ‘dumb’ questions when kids give pat answers. Don’t be too nice. Don’t accept an easy answer. The key to this is to ask a few good questions following every answer given. Make them work hard at it! But do it with a smile and a joke! 

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You can download the ten cards here:  'Bible Story cards'

Can you paint the story of the Bible in one go? Yes, you can! 

Korky and Anni Davey (OAC ministries) have made a skecthboard painting of the whole Bible in 15 steps. It is very easy to do and it will allow you to share the complete story of the Bible in one go. 

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You can download the idea here:    "The Big Picture - a Bible Overview"

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