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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If you have a question about anything or just want to reach out directly, e-mail us at specialneeds.staff@gethope.net
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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Got a question? E-mail us at kidcity@gethope.net
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:
Monthly Virtue: Responsibility—Showing you can be trusted with what is expected of you
Memory Verse: Suppose you can be trusted with something very little. Then you can also be trusted with something very large. Luke 16:10a (NIrV)
Week 1: January 7
Bible Story: I Want to Know What Love Is (Greatest Commandment) • Matthew 22:36-40
Key Question: What are things you’re responsible for? How can you love God or love others with those things?
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can love God, love others, and love life.
Ask:
- What’s something little you have been trusted with?
- What’s something large you were trusted with as a result of being trusted with something little?
- Why are you more likely to be trusted with big things when you’ve shown you can be responsible with the small things?
Week 2: January 14
Bible Story: Never Enough (Bigger Barns) • Luke 12:13-21
Key Question: How can you use what you have to share God’s love with others?
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can love God, love others, and love life.
Ask: “Would anyone like to share a story with the group that tells a little about what God has done in their lives?”
- It may take your prompting for the kids to think of a story to share.
- For example, this could be a short story about how they made the decision to follow Jesus. But it could also be a story about a time when they could tell that God was helping them. Maybe they moved somewhere new, and God provided them with a friend. Or maybe they asked God to help them do their best during baseball tryouts and they made the team.
- [Make It Personal] (Share your story with the group about how you came to have a relationship with Jesus. This should be brief, authentic, and also considerate of what may or may not be age appropriate. Or share about a time you felt God was with you.)
Week 3: January 21
Bible Story: Ants Marching (Ant and Sluggard) • Proverbs 6:6-8
Key Question: When have you had to work hard?
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can love God, love others, and love life.
Ask:
- When have you had to work hard?
- When can it be challenging to work hard?
- Is there a certain kind of work you enjoy doing?
- How do you react when no one notices your hard work?
- How does our hard work show love to God and others?
Week 4: January 28
Bible Story: Say What You Need to Say (Use Words Wisely) • Ephesians 4:29
Key Question: Why do your words matter?
Basic Truth: I am made for a purpose so the Holy Spirit will help me do big things now.
Ask:
- Why do your words matter?
- Why is it so hard to undo the damage caused by harmful words?
- Who can help us with our words?
- When have you used words that helped someone?
For kids
Sermon Notes discussion guide (for kids who watch the adult service, too!)
