Start with 76 on-the-go cards with short prompts for prayer, conversation, and activity that engage the seven practices of the Way of Love:
Through small moments of scripture, prayer, and play, these cards invite children to love like Jesus.
Celebrate Wonder All Ages! includes One Room Sunday School. it's designed to empower your ministry with children ages 3-12. Whether you have a mixed-age group or separate age divisions, our curriculum offers unforgettable experiences, spiritual practices, and opportunities to build stronger relationships with God and each other. It features interactive stories, exciting activities, reproducible kids' pages, and printable posters.
Help children grow a faith that's as big as their imaginations with Cokesbury Kids Big Faith. Each year of Big Faith is designed around four Big Faith Ideas: Faith in God (fall), Faith in Community (winter), Faith in Jesus (spring), and Faith in Action (summer).
Through timeless Bible stories, hands-on-activities, and child-friendly themes, Big Faith offers faith-formation experiences that are tangible, applicable, and meaningful to children's everyday lives.
Big Faith is availble in two age levels: ages 3-6 and ages 7-12.
Scope & Sequence - Year 1
An Illustrated Invitation: Joining God at Work in the World. This is a 12-week curriculum geared toward K-5th graders. It highlights Hebrew Scripture and New Testament stories, including the five daughters of Zelophehad, Lydia, and Hagar and Ishmael.
A FREE SET of the Illustrated Invitation Coloring Posters is included when the curriculum bundle is ordered, while physical poster supplies last.
POWERXPRESS DIGITAL CURRICULUM
PowerXpress is a rotation model curriculum using seven stations (art, cooking, games, video, music/movement, science, storytelling) using a life to Bible format. For children grades K-6 with activities for both younger and older children. A favorite downloadable curriculum among churches for years!
Michelle Gribble's Story and Stretch:
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PC(USA) Store's Growing in Grace is appropriate for ages 3-5 or 5-10. |
Provides curricula for all ages in a variety of progressive modes and topics. |
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Feasting on the Word is a lectionary based curriculum that allows all ages to study the same text each week. Preparatory materials equip leaders with the biblical background they need to feel confident with any age group.
Sample Sessions are available for:
The Free Guide offers tips for online use.
Three-year curriculum that corresponds with the Revised Common Lectionary
Help kids learn at their level
Sunday school lessons connect kids with Bible stories heard in worship.
Focus on hands-on learning
Engage with the Bible story with lessons packed with activities, interactive games, and creative crafts.
Customize your leader content
Support and prepare your leaders and volunteers with detailed, customizable leader guides, lesson prep videos, and additional supplemental content.
Connect Sunday school to the church year
Extend worship to Sunday school with readings from the week’s Revised Common Lectionary readings.
Each Spark Lectionary lesson follows a four-part sequence:
LEARNING THROUGH A LENS OF WONDER
Celebrate Wonder is a Sunday school curriculum that engages children’s natural sense of curiosity to help them understand God’s love. It creates a safe environment for kids to ask big questions — helping them explore the Bible in ways that feed their imagination and encourage creativity. Through carefully-selected Bible stories, songs, videos, and hands-on activities, Celebrate Wonder gives children the tools to explore their faith while incorporating it into their daily lives.
Includes Celebrate Wonder All Ages - adapted for children and families in 'broadly graded rooms'.
CGS is a common religious experience involving children and adults in which the religious values of childhood, primarily those values of contemplation and enjoyment of God, are predominant. This experience is shared in a place particularly prepared for the religious life of children called the Atrium.
Learn the CGS approach here.
Watch an intro video here.
Follow Me: Biblical Practices for Faithful Living
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The Godly Play® method is:
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Illustrated Ministry offers a number of excellent resources to enhance worship and learning at church, online and at home.
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Aimed at middle grades ages (8-14), this curriculum has scaffolds and activity options for younger children and older youth. All lessons are drawn from the profiles in the Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints book, which tells stories of people of diverse faiths (past and present), who have worked for more love, kindness, and justice, even when that rocked the religious boat.
Part I: “Long Live Good & Holy Trouble” - introduces the concepts of holy troublemaking through the stories of 11 holy troublemakers and unconventional saints.
Part II: “We Are Made of Stories & Stardust” focuses on the importance of the stories we tell (individually and collectively) utilizing the stories told by 11 holy troublemakers and unconventional saints to identify stories with which young people resonate.
Each curriculum has 12 lessons with dig deeper options that can easily extend to two-three additional sessions. Each lesson also has a coloring sheet with a quote that connects to the theme.
There are three versions (licenses) available based on the size of your organization:
Part I: Personal/Family | Part II: Personal/Family |
Part I: Church 1-100 Member | Part II: Church 1-100 Member |
Part I: Church 100+ Members | Part II: Church 100+ Members |
From Augsburg Fortress:
The curriculum includes:
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Peer Ministry works with all denominations. The theology is Christian, and flows from the Good Samaritan Story, with emphases on relational caring, welcoming and affirming skills. PML is a good fit for many denominations and adapts well for various settings. Programs include:
The Association of United Church Educators shares a giant list of at-home faith formation activities and ideas.
Keep up with Disciples Home Missions on their website and fb for every-day at-home faith formation ideas.
The PC(USA) Store has a huge list of resources for on-lining church (worship and study groups) and free downloadable faith formation for all ages.
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ProgressiveChristianity.org's
It teaches:
Choose Year 1 or Year 2 Full Year Version - Book, PDF or DVD
Year 3 (for ages 9-12) lessons offer:
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