Articles by Sarah Reeves
Sarah Reeves is a homeschooling mother of four living in Georgia, who loves the beach and reading on her porch swing. When she’s not keeping up with her kids (the oldest is 6 years older than the youngest), she’s a freelance author and aspiring novelist. Sarah is also the Sunday School Zone Blog Editor and helps with a variety of other tasks on the site. Below is a list of all of the articles Sarah has written on the site.
Behind the Smiles: What Are Your Kids Really Going Through?
“Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous…” (1 Pet. 3:8, KJV). You spend a lot of time trying to manage your kids in Bible class. Shushing, instructing, correcting. In many sessions they may seem like a mass of silly giggles. But behind the…
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The Magic of Gratitude: Learning To Be Thankful in a Stressful World
“In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thess. 5:18). Do you ever find yourself in a situation you’d like to wish yourself out of? Wouldn’t it be great if there were some magic words you could say that would transform any moment in your life…
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Holiday Overload: Church Edition
You have probably already experienced this, walking into any department store in late Summer or early Fall. You know, you walk into the store around the end of September, your summer tan still fresh on your face and you are ambushed by HallowThanksgiveMas. What is that you may ask? That is our new hybrid holiday…
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Dealing With Siblings In Class
It’s great when families attend church together. That’s one of our goals, right? We want to get families in church, don’t we? But sometimes it does not seem so great when siblings wind up in the same Sunday School class. If your class includes multiple grades, then you might find yourself dealing with this issue.…
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The Dangers of Over Commitment
If you have spent any amount of time in one church, you know just how busy church calendars can get. Even a small church, like my own, can fill up a monthly calendar quickly. Once you let the holidays roll around (adding even more activities to your calendar) you can really start to feel the…
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The Importance of Faithfulness in Teaching
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Gal. 6:9). No doubt about it, dealing with kids week after week can make you weary. The messes, the squabbling, the wiggling. These things can take a toll on you. Do you ever find yourself…
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Overcoming Teaching Fears
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2 Tim. 1:7) Paul wrote those words to a young Timothy, but they certainly apply to those who teach the Bible to children. For many people the idea of teaching a room full of…
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New Every Morning
“This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him” (Lam. 3:21-24). Whenever the human mind…
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When Children’s Bible Teachers Quit
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Gal. 6:9 KJV) These words from Paul the Apostle in his letter to the church at Galatia stand as encouragement any time we become discouraged in an honorable task. If you have been a Bible…
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