Welcome to this month’s Special Needs Ministry 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.
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For parents
How to Use This Page:
- Watch the Online Experience video with your child.
- Use the Discussion Guide immediately following the video to unpack the lesson with your kiddos!
- Use the Devotional pages to generate more activities and discussion
Online Experience Video
- 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
Access this week’s video – CLICK HERE*
*The new video for the upcoming week will be loaded by Wednesday of each week.
For parents
Special Needs Ministry Modified Elementary Curriculum:
DISCUSSION
Monthly Virtue: Integrity—Choosing to be truthful in whatever you say and do
Memory Verse: Anyone who lives without blame walks safely. But anyone who takes a crooked path will get caught. Proverbs 10:9 (NIrV)
Week 1: October 1
Bible Story: Just the Way You Are (A Tree and Its Fruit) • Luke 6:43-45 (John 15:1-17)
Key Question: How do you want people to describe you?
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can be confident that God knows who I am.
Spend some time coming together and talking about the Key Question. There aren’t any right or wrong answers, but use this time to help kids have a discussion about what they just learned and encourage them to grow in their faith. Try to keep the conversation spiritually based. Why does what we are talking about matter in light of what God has done for us?
- Key Question: How do you want people to describe you? (Answers will vary: someone who makes wise choices, someone who comforts you when you’re sad or going through a hard time, someone who is dependable, etc.)
- How can you demonstrate integrity with your actions and words? (Answers will vary: don’t say mean things even when others are, keep your promises, clean up trash even if it’s not yours, etc.)
Week 2: October 8
Bible Story: A Matter of Trust (Naaman and Elisha’s Servant) • 2 Kings 5
Key Question: Why is it important for people to trust you?
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can be confident that God knows who I am.
Spend some time coming together and talking about the Key Question. There aren’t any right or wrong answers, but use this time to help kids have a discussion about what they just learned and encourage them to grow in their faith. Try to keep the conversation spiritually based. Why does what we are talking about matter in light of what God has done for us?
- Key Question: Why is it important for people to trust you? (Answers will vary: You want to do the right thing, you want people to know that they can depend on you, the more trust you gain the more responsibility you get, if you keep earning trust then you have deeper friendships, etc.)
Week 3: October 15
Bible Story: Keeping the Faith (Daniel’s Integrity with Food) • Daniel 1
Key Question: When is it hard to do what’s right?
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can trust God to guide me.
Spend some time coming together and talking about the Key Question. There aren’t any right or wrong answers, but use this time to help kids have a discussion about what they just learned and encourage them to grow in their faith. Try to keep the conversation spiritually based. Why does what we are talking about matter in light of what God has done for us?
- Key Question: When is it hard to do what’s right? (Answers will vary: When I’m alone, when I’m with friends, when I don’t think people will see, when I might lose something – like a friendship – if I do the right thing, etc.)
- ASK: “What might we gain if we do the right thing even when it’s hard?”
Week 4: October 22
Bible Story: All About Soul (Think About These Things) • Philippians 4:8
Key Question: What do you spend the most time thinking about?
Basic Truth: I am made for a purpose so the Holy Spirit will help me do big things now.
Spend some time coming together and talking about the Key Question. There aren’t any right or wrong answers, but use this time to help kids have a discussion about what they just learned and encourage them to grow in their faith. Try to keep the conversation spiritually based. Why does what we are talking about matter in light of what God has done for us?
- Key Question: What do you spend the most time thinking about? (Answers will vary)
- ASK: (Look up and read Philippians 4:8) What can you do to change what you’re thinking about to make it more like what Paul is describing? (Answers will vary: Write down your thoughts so you can process through them, talk about them with someone you trust, don’t watch, play, or read things that aren’t good for you, etc.)
Week 5: October 29
Bible Story: We Didn’t Start the Fire (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego) • Daniel 3
Key Question: When has someone helped you see God?
Basic Truth:I need to make the wise choice.
Ask:
- Share a story about someone in your life who has helped you see God by making wise choices.
- When it comes to making the wise choice, what would you say are some of the most important choices kids make? What can you do to make sure you make those choices well so you can help others see God?
- The integrity of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego impacted Nebuchadnezzar and his whole kingdom. How might your life impact those around you this week?
For kids
Sermon Notes discussion guide (for kids who watch the adult service, too!)
