PromiseLand Kids: It's not all about YOU...Pride.

What is PromiseLand Children's Ministry all about?

We have a hands-on kids church with a message that is woven into the action. Kids learn while they are having fun. Starting our service we sing praises to Jesus through a mixture of fun, action, upbeat songs and slow worship so the kids have an opportunity to learn to truly worship God through song.
Parts of our service are split into two age groups, Preschool & Elementary which are targeted to reach kids at their level.
Our goal is to teach children to have a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior, and to share the love of Jesus. In our kids church we do have fun, but we take our fun seriously. Our games, props, object lessons, hands-on activities and all we do is centered around making a positive, spiritual impact on Kids. Before the kids leave our service we pray together.
Our mission is to bring children into the Kingdom of God, opening our doors and our hearts to every child.

Monday, February 9, 2009

It's not all about YOU...Pride.

Today the we started by learning all the different languages the kids know, surprisingly they all knew more than I thought. They may not be able to speak other languages fluently but did know several words in Spanish, Sign Language, German, Russian, and others.

They met a man named Gus who was a fix it man, he was very handy and helped out many people. However, he always left a business card and even a bill for his work. He wanted to make sure every one knew who he was. They met a girl named Molly. Molly also like to help others but she lived off of getting credit for what she did and became very upset if she did not receive credit for her good deeds. They learned the verse - "Your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matt. 6:6 Which was very fitting for what we had learned the first part of class.

A child was chosen to build a tower out of big blocks while the rest of the class answered this question....What do you think our Bible story would be for today, that has to do with different languages, a tower, and thinking a lot of yourselves. GREAT JOB, kids!! They figured it out with no help from me. We had a fun twist to our story. They helped me tell it the original way with help from Genesis 11. They then helped me act out a skit, where a girl named Stephanie wrote a play and wanted some of her friends to help her with it so that they could put it on for the neighborhood. And then the whole neighborhood would see how great she was. Only during the play we found that Stephanie thought she could do everything better herself. Stephanie was left with no one to help her, and so her play ended up ruined. We compared the bible story to the skit and talked about how we don't always need to make everything about us, we don't always need all the attention, and credit for every good thing we do. In fact we ended today with each child receiving at least one card that says 'Servant of Jesus' They had a mission for the week - to do a good deed for someone else and not let them know that they did it, but to leave their card instead.