Welcome to this week’s KidCity Online Experience! Check out all the resources you’ll need to have a great KidCity experience right where you are! The teaching video, conversation guides, worship songs, and activities for the week are all right here.
- Online Experience Video for you and your student to watch together
- Discussion Questions for you & your student
- Pre-Teen Guide for your student to go a little deeper on his/her own
- Salvation Conversation Guide for one of the most important conversations you’ll ever have
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Online Experience Video
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For parents
Special Needs Ministry Modified Elementary Curriculum:
DISCUSSION
Monthly Virtue:Faith—Trusting in what you can’t see because of what you can see.
Memory Verse: God’s grace has saved you because of your faith in Christ. Your salvation doesn’t come from anything you do. It is God’s gift. Ephesians 2:8 (NIrV)
Week 1: July 2- no services
Week 2: July 9
Bible Story: Salvation Is Here (Salvation Is God’s Gift) • Ephesians 2:8-9
Key Question: How do you feel when you get a gift?
Bottom Line: Jesus is a gift for everyone.
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can be a part of God’s family forever.
Ask the following questions and lead the group to discuss:
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- Have you ever been offered a gift that you turned down?
- How do you feel when you get a gift?
- Is it difficult to accept that there’s nothing we can do to earn the gift of Jesus? Why or why not?
- What is grace, and what does it have to do with faith in Jesus?
Week 3: July 16
Bible Story: The Perfect Storm (Paul Shipwrecked) • Acts 27:1–28:10
Key Question: What helps you remember that God is with you?
Bottom Line: When bad things happen, God is with you.
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can trust God to guide me.
Ask the following questions and lead the group to discuss:
- Is there anyone in your life who you admire for their faith in God? If so, how do they keep their faith strong?
- What helps you remember God is with you?
- How do you typically respond when difficult things happen to you?
- When you have faith in God, do bad things happen less? Why or why not?
- How can our group here at church be a reminder that God is with you?
Week 4: July 23
Bible Story: The Other Side (Heaven) • Revelation 21:3-5a
Key Question: What do you think Heaven will be like?
Bottom Line: God will make everything right in the end.
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can belong in God’s family forever.
Ask the following questions and lead the group to discuss:
- What do you think heaven will be like?
- How does it make you feel that God has a place prepared for us to spend forever together?
- Do you believe heaven is a real thing? Why or why not?
- How can believing in heaven make our faith stronger?
Week 4: July 30
Bible Story: We Belong Together (The Church) • Hebrews 10:23-25
Key Question: Who has encouraged you?
Bottom Line: Our faith is stronger together
Basic Truth: I can trust God no matter what.
- Look up the following verses and read aloud together:
- Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
- Proverbs 27:17
- 1 Peter 4:10
- Ask:
- Through these verses, what does God want us to know about being in community and friendship with each other? (God wants us to encourage each other; we’re not meant to grow our faith without other people helping us; God gives us other believers to help grow our faith)
For students
Pre-teen Devotional
- Week 1: July 2- no services
- Week 2: July 9
- Week 3: July 16
- Week 4: July 23
- Week 5: July 31
The Pre-Teen Learner Guide is designed to provide Bible Study throughout the week for your 4th or 5th grader.
Sermon Notes discussion guide (for students who watch the adult service, too!)
