For the Christian Year

Turn a piece of paper and a drinking straw into a butterfly that really flies! Or, make a tiny manger for the Advent Season. 52 Crafts: For the Christian Year is full of simple craft ideas organized by seasons of the Church Year. Great for Sunday Sch...

For the Church Year

Are you looking for new, fun crafts to make with children? What about making a silent wind chime, or a rolling toy for toddlers, or a prayer that floats? This book offers fifty-two easy, economical, and environmentally-friendly crafts with step-by-st...

A Practical Guide for Adults

Christine Blair clearly outlines a plan for motivating adults to use the tools and theological principles necessary to interpret biblical texts for themselves. She proposes the "five R's" model for teaching--remembering, revisiting, reflecting, reint...

54 Visual Lessons, Dialogues, and Demonstrations

The author of the popular resource, Creating Children's Sermons, continues his efforts to communicate the message of faith to the youngest members of the church. Believing that adult faith--or lack of faith--is directly linked to childhood experience...

The Books of the Bible and Mediterranean World of the First Century Map

Large-size laminated posters that can be written on with erasable markers. This set is shipped in a mailing tube and includes The Mediterranean World of the First Century Poster and The Books of the Bible Poster.

With Songs & Fingerplays

Recognizing that all Bible story books seem geared to 8- to 12-year-olds, Julie Elliot created this collection especially for younger children. Songs, poems and fingerplays are used to reinforce stories while inspiring their imagination.

With Activities for the Very Young

A lectionary year's worth of Bible stories for children aged three and up that can also be used in intergenerational worship. Many of the stories are interactive and get children involved in the telling. Educators have found that this experiential wa...

A Bible bookshelf poster to help older children, youth, adults, and leaders identify the types of writing and literature in the Bible, and to learn more about some of the books and sections of the Bible.

A Guide for Counselors, Youth, and Young Adults

Career and Calling is an excellent guide to discovering God's calling. Written for students, young adults, and those who work with them, it contains a six-session, small group career counseling program that focuses on God's calling; individual's inte...

Choosing and Using the Best

Children develop in so many ways--physically, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Story is just one of the ways to foster and support a child's faith development. They can find role models in the positive characters in literature, and develop e...

The themes, words, and concepts in children's literature speak to the whole Christian community. Virginia Thomas and Betty Miller have examined children's literature and designed an extensive and annotated list of children's stories, poems, folk tale...

What Makes a Difference for Teens

Widely known theological educator and sociologist Carol Lytch presents this well-researched study of what attracts teenagers to the church and what keeps them there. The cogent research includes interviews of a number of teenagers and their parents f...

51 Visual Lessons

Using everyday items such as balloons, flashlights, and bubble gum, Bucky Dann--a pastor popular with both children and adults--demonstrates in fifty-one simple lessons how children can begin to understand the teachings of Jesus, Bible truths, and ev...

The appealing illustrations on this poster, for children of all ages, depicts the scope of the daily activities of the people of Jesus' time--travel, home-life, occupations, and much more. These large-sized posters are laminated for durability and sh...

Teacher Training in the Church

Sara Covin Juengst believes that Protestant churches have failed to provide the church teacher with basic knowledge about the Bible, theology, and doctrine. Because the quality of religious education is determined by the quality of its teachers, reli...