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: Joy – Choosing to celebrate what God is doing.
Memory Verse: “A cheerful heart makes you healthy. But a broken spirit dries you up.” Proverbs 17:22, NiRV
Week 1: June 2
Bible Story: Over and Over (Feast of Booths) • Deuteronomy 16:13-17
Key Question: How can you remember to be joyful?
Basic Truth: I can trust God no matter what.
Ask:
- What does joy mean to you?
- When have you felt like the lost sheep?
- When have you had the opportunity to celebrate what God is doing in someone around you?
Week 2: June 9
Bible Story: Over and Over (Feast of Booths) • Deuteronomy 16:13-17
Key Question: How can you remember to be joyful?
Basic Truth: I need to make the wise choice.
Ask:
- When is it difficult to choose joy?
- How can you remember to choose joy?
- What kind of habits would you like to start or stop?
Week 3: June 16
Bible Story: Build Your Kingdom Here (Ezra and the Rebuilding of the Temple) • Ezra 3:10-13
Key Question: What is something that took longer than you wanted it to?
Basic Truth: I can trust God no matter what.
Ask:
- What is something that took longer than you wanted it to?
- Are there steps in life that seem harder than others?
- What about if you do something and it’s not what you hoped, and you feel disappointed? How could you celebrate even then?
Week 4: June 23
Bible Story: Reason to Believe (God Will Give Us Joy) • Habakkuk 3:17-18
Key Question: What can you celebrate today?
Basic Truth: I am loved by God no matter what so I can love God, love others, and love life.
Ask:
- What sight or sound brings you joy no matter how many times you experience it?
- When is it hard to find joy?
- What do you do when you feel like nothing brings you joy? Where can you go to talk about it?
Week 5: June 30
Bible Story: Reason to Believe (God Will Give Us Joy) • Habakkuk 3:17-18
Key Question:What can you celebrate today?
Basic Truth: I can trust God no matter what.
Ask:
- What is a reason to celebrate in your life right now?
- What is the most recent party or celebration you’ve been to?
- What is one way you’ve seen God at work in your life? How can remembering that help you choose joy?
For kids
Sermon Notes discussion guide (for students who watch the adult service, too!)
