The Sunday School Zone Blog
The Sunday School Zone Blog contains insights on children’s spiritual formation as well as tips, ideas, and suggestions to help Christian parents and leaders as they work with kids of all abilities (and even adults with special needs) at home, church, and school. If you would like to contribute to the blog, please visit our Writer Inquiries page and then send us an explanatory email at [email protected] describing the kind of writing you’d like to do. We welcome those who have something of substance to say to Christian parents and teachers of children. You already know that Sunday School Zone offers tons of free, printable Bible activities for kids. If you think you’d like to contribute, please read more…
Loving and Serving “THAT” Kid
We all have “THAT” kid in our Sunday school or Bible class. You know, the one who giggles at everything. The one who hides under the table when you are trying to teach, or is just not quite like everyone else. Or the one who exhibits every type of attention-seeking behavior imaginable. These attributes can…
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Evaluating Security in Your Children’s Ministries
A primary concern in any children’s ministry is ensuring the children in our care are safe. Whether you are a Children’s Pastor or a parent, evaluating your church’s security procedures needs to be a consideration. Here are five things every church can do to ensure your church is a safe place to learn about God. Background…
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Instilling a Love for the Bible in Kids at Home
My eldest child was beginning middle school and she came to her father with a confession. “Dad, I have to tell you something. At night, I haven’t been going to sleep after you tuck me in. I know you expect me time to go straight to sleep, but sometimes I’m just not tired. I have…
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Persevering in Ministry to Children: A Lesson from Daniel
So you’re serving in children’s ministry. Welcome to a real life lions’ den! You thought you were special, didn’t you? “What a gift it is to be chosen for service,” was your mantra when you first got started. Little did you know that things would become discouraging along the way, but you stayed faithful. The words of…
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Video Reenactments of Bible Stories in the Classroom
One of the issues I have while teaching is that most of the kids have a cell phone or a tablet with them at all times or at least as often as they can get away with. In my church, this is true in classes as young as 3rd grade. My struggle is attempting to…
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Making The Bible Fun for Preteens
As my church prepares for schools to reopen, my first thought as a preteen leader is, “What’s going to happen to my 6th graders that move up to youth ministry? Will they continue to come to church and stay engaged and active? Or, will they drop out, never to be seen again?” As a preteen…
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Grabbing Attention In An Age of Distraction
In our media-saturated world, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to hold the attention of our kids long enough to impart knowledge to them, whether at church or school. Video games, sound bites, flash-ads, and 30-second commercials have worked together to shorten the expected attention span of children and adults, too! This isn’t news to those who…
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Special Needs Ministry – Who Me?
I began my journey, of initiating a special needs ministry, 23 years ago when my son was born with Down syndrome. As active members of a church and because he was a tiny infant, most of our church members were supportive and rallied around our family. But although he had certain special needs at that…
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Easter Season Activities and Resources
Resurrection Sunday is the greatest day of celebration for Christians. It’s the day we recognize the final triumph of Christ over death and evil. The resurrection is so significant that Christians around the world typically worship weekly on Sundays just to celebrate and observe the resurrection. It’s appropriate that we would also set aside one…
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