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.
Five Things to Consider on Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is an important holiday for many churches, and understandably so. We all typically want to honor our mothers. This is both appropriate and biblical. It’s important, however, to remember that for many, Mother’s Day can be, and often is, a painful day. Whether it’s a painful memory or a sense of sorrow over…
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Managing Time When Teaching Kids the Bible
Time constraints are a huge challenge for those teaching the Bible to kids. You have these kids maybe once or twice a week, and often you don’t get the same group two weeks in a row. It may feel as though teaching the Bible to these little ones is a losing battle in the face…
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Helping Kids with Bible Navigation
If you want children engaged in the Bible, they need to be able to find Scripture verses easily. This Bible skill is what we call Bible navigation. Bible navigation simply means a child is able to locate Bible references by easily “navigating” his or her way through the books, chapters, and verses of the Bible. Here are…
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Fun Ways to Teach How the Bible is Organized
As with most memory work, there is an element of repetitive rote learning when it comes to learning how the Bible is organized (the divisions of the Bible books). However, just as there are fun ways to teach kids the books of the Bible, there are fun ways to teach how the Bible is organized…
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What do we want kids to do while they’re at church? Obviously, we want them to follow the messages, to listen to the messages, and to learn the messages. Seems pretty simple. But listening is easier when you are following along in your Bible, and learning is easier when you are listening. And all of it is…
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Fun Ways to Memorize the Books of the Bible
Teaching the books of the Bible to children can feel like a daunting task. After all, there are 66 of them! Most Christian parents and teachers, however, understand the value of memorizing the books of the Bible. It’s a skill that will be appreciated more as a person ages, no matter how long they live.…
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Teaching Basic Bible Skills
So, you want your kids to know the Bible, but you also want your kids to KNOW the BIBLE, as in know the features of the actual book. Teaching Bible skills is a bit different than teaching Bible truths, but both are important in the lives of children. What, then, is the difference between Bible…
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Hey! It’s Not Your Birthday!
Ah, the blessed holidays, when a child’s attention span is no bigger than a sugar plum fairy, and Bible teaching classrooms are flooded with lots of cool new gadgets and toys being sneaked in by their happy recipients. This time of year can be challenging at best for the conscientious teacher. The week before and after…
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Christmas Conversations
You have the decorations. You have the gifts and the wrapping paper. You have all the ingredients for all the Christmas goodies and you have the best intentions to make sure you share the REAL meaning of Christmas with your kids this year. What you don’t have is time! Despite the fact that retailers throw up the Christmas…
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