Now I know why the resurrection story is essential to the Christian faith.  Without it, our faith is false.  That’s why it is so important to me to teach my children all about the Easter story.  I’ve made some simple cards that I use to teach young children about the resurrection story.  These cards break the story up into six small parts that make it easy to remember.

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Games to Play with Resurrection Story Cards

These games are so simple, but young children thrive on simplicity.  Add a few Easter treats or other rewards and they’ll be begging to play over and over.  

You could play these games in lieu of an Easter Egg hunt.  Before playing, make sure you read the resurrection story from a Bible and tell the children to listen carefully so they can play a game afterward.  

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All Mixed Up

If you want to play this game with lots of children, print off a set of cards for each or enough for pairs.  To play, simply mix all the cards up and have the children put the story in order from left to right.  If you’re playing with a big group, whoever can sort them first, wins!  

You could mix this game up by blindfolding one child or yourself!  You would mix the cards up and put them in front of the blindfolded person.  The person with the blindfold is the only one who can touch the cards.  Their partner would tell them what is on the card and help them put the cards in order by giving them verbal directions.

Hide and Seek

Another easy one; just hid the cards and have the children find them and put them in order.  If you are playing in a big group, simply print the cards off on different colored paper.  Give each child or team a color to find.  First team to put their cards in order, wins!

Can You Read My Mind?

Go over each of the cards with the children and talk about each event.  Then write down in a secret place which card you are thinking about.  The children have to read your mind by asking yes or no questions about which resurrection card they think you wrote down.

Whatever activity you play with them, may the hope of Risen Lord be with you!

Happy Easter!

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TruPlay is a New Christian Video Games app and We Love It!

As Christian parents, we all want our children to grow up with a strong faith foundation. We want them to learn about God’s loveGod’s love and the Bible in a way that is engaging and fun. But in today’s world, it can be challenging to find safe and meaningful video game options for our kids.

Christian Video Games for Kids

Enter TruPlay, a new Christian video games company for kids. Their new app, Lightside games, is filled with Christian allegories that teach valuable life lessons and biblical principles.

Our favorite game is the Battle for Eldavar. It has a positive storyline where child-like animal characters work to defeat an evil queen who vows to destroy God’s word and with it, everything good in the character’s world. There are evil monsters called Smudz that are trying to attack the Castle where secrets would give the queen the power that she needs to make evil rule. Game play is simple and has you placing the animal characters who have different powers. Certain monsters are killed more easily by certain animal characters so it does take some strategy, but it is a fairly easy game once you get the hang of it.

Another game that I always have enjoyed is the jewel game. In the TruPlay app, they call it stained glass. Match the same colored pieces of glass up and advance through the levels. Each level will reveal a piece of a stained glass picture that displays one of the Bible storiesBible stories and verses. It’s a simple and familiar video game, but weaves the Bible throughout. It’s wonderful to have these positive screentime options for my kids!

There are lots of other games that your kids might be familiar with on the app, but they contain Biblical principals sprinkled throughout and have fun relateable characters. If you use screentime as a reward, this is a great option. I much rather my children play this safe and Christ-centered app than any other video games out there!

Toxic Media

TruPlay offers a solution to the problem of toxic media. With TruPlay, you can be assured that your children are spending their screen time in a safe and wholesome environment. Their Lightside app is designed to be age-appropriate and free from any content that could be harmful to young minds like public chats, blood and gore, or negative storylines that fill their heads with thoughts that are inappropriate for our impressionable children.

TruPlay is a game-changer for Christian families. It offers a way for kids to have fun and learn about God at the same time. You can feel good about your children spending some time on TruPlay, knowing that they are growing in their faith.

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In scripture we see family identity rise to victory many times. Today, the idea of the family structure and respect of the lineage is becoming a lost art.

Power of Family

The powers at be today have continued to destroy the power of family to ensure their success and cripple yours. If the family identity can be changed, then society’s mind can be diverted to other loyalties. The loyalty needed to create followers of a new world order. “Anything that is powerful for good, can be powerful for bad.” The world is run by very powerful families with a very clear agenda. We must combat the bad with good Godly families. 

In this video, Britton breaks down many aspects of family through the ages. He shares God’s love for family and how he powerfully uses it to overcome the darkness and infuse love within our homes.

Family is the very foundation of our existence. From the beginning of humanitybeginning of humanity, we were created not to be individuals, but to be in communion with each other. God has set up this family in order to participate in the miracle of life! What is more important, more powerful than that? 

What was your favorite part of this video? Did anything really stand out to you? Do you think family is powerful?

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Have you ever wondered if it’s really all that important to read the Bible with your family?

Could it really be a part of God’s plan to study the Bible with your whole family?

Is it even possible to read the Bible with all your kids at the same time?

As homeschool parents, we do have the opportunity to spend our Bible time with all of our children at once. Not only does it make the process easier–it looks pretty biblical, as well.

Why Read and Study the Bible with Your Whole Family?

I always like to look to God’s original design when considering how we should function in our lives.

Just like God established the church, he established families—and he directs families to worship together.

In the Old Testament, as we see in Ezra, Nehemiah, and Joel, families are called to stand together for the public reading of God’s Word—even the smallest people.

While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly. – Ezra 10:1, ESV

In Ezra, children were included in the assembly of the Lord.

And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month. And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. – Nehemiah 8:1-3

The book of Nehemiah also describes children in the assembly, listening to the Book of the Law of Moses. Nehemiah 12:43 refers to children rejoicing with the people.

…gather the people.
Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
gather the children,
even nursing infants.
Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber. – Joel 2:16, ESV

In Joel, the assembly even includes nursing infants.

Not only are we to worship our Lord together in the larger body of Christ. We are also called to worship God as a family. Deuteronomy chapters 6 and 11 have, perhaps, some of the best known, direct commands to do so.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. – Deuteronomy 6:4-9

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Read the Bible with Family

• That God’s Word is important
• That we can learn about the Bible together, and from each other
• That our family has committed “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15b)

There is great value, too, in being able to guide our kids through the Bible. We want to be able to help point them—over and over again—to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

• It is so vital that our kids learn who God is—that he is sovereign and holy.
• They need to know that we are sinful and that our sin separates us from a holy and just God.
• We want to communicate over and over again that God loves us so much that he had a great plan for our salvation since before the beginning of the world, and Jesus—God the Son and the Son of God—became fully God and fully man so he could live a sinless life and take the punishment for our sins.
• We need only to believe on him and confess in with our mouths, turning from our sin—repenting—and we will be saved.
• We also want our kids to understand Jesus’ commands to his followers.

Not only can we study the Bible as a family, it is really important that we do. Our kids need our guidance and support understanding the most important book in the universe.

Danika Cooley’s book Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible is your crash course on teaching the Bible to your kids. Danika is an award-winning children’s author and Bible curriculum developer, and her popular Bible Road Trip is used by tens of thousands of families.

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My kids were so excited to play these games. They are all about the strategy games! Some of their favorite games are Settlers of Catan, Risk and 7 Wonders. Sometimes Bible games are so focused on learning the facts, that they miss out on the fun!

New Bible Games for Kids

Here are three awesome new games to help you learn more about the Bible while having fun at the same time!

1.Disciple Detective: a game of mystery and knowledge.

This is a deductive card game. By piecing the clues together, you must find out which disciple you have before your opponents can figure out their’s. When you discover who your disciple is you score points. Whoever has the most points wins!

The kids really enjoyed this game because it was east to learn and reminded them of Clue. It was a fast game. We were able to finish in about 20 minutes. Each time you play you remember more about the disciples of Jesus!

2. Kings of Israel: an epic team game.

By working together you must remove all the sin from neighboring towns and cities, by praying to god and building alters. Remove all the sin blocks before time runs out!

This game has a lot of the names of major places in Israel and of the Kings and Empires that are talked about in the Bible. We haven’t played many cooperative games so this was so much fun because of how different game play was. It had a few features that felt like other games too. For example, to build an alter you had to trade in resource cards that you could get during the time of a good King’s rule. That made it easier to learn how to play for us.

3. The wisdom of Solomon: a critical thinking, strategy game.

In this game, you trade and gather resources to become more powerful than your opponents in an epic race to contain power and please God by sacrificing and praying!

This was by far the kids’ favorite game. Since they are a little older, (ages 8, 10 and 13) they like more complex games. This had a lot of their favorite features like using resources to build the temple, taking over territories, and the more competitive nature of the game. I loved the game because it has Bible verses, mainly from Psalms and Proverbs, on the game cards!

You’ll also learn a lot about life during the time of Solomon and some of the main occupations people had. This game would definitely be a hit with your older players!

4. The disciples floor puzzle: 

a gigantic 4ft puzzle with hundred of thick high quality puzzle pieces, that holds a complete picture of all the apostles!

The younger children had fun helping put this puzzle together. It really is very heavy duty, with bigger pieces that is great for smaller hands. I think it would be a good activity for a small Sunday School class too!

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The History

If you’ve read any portion of Leviticus, then you may remember reading about something called appointed times. These are known as specific times that the Hebrew people were commanded to observe for a particular reason.

Each one mentioned had a meaning then and foreshadowed things to come. Anyone who celebrates these in the present day usually understands that although we cannot do it perfectly, we do it because:

1. It was commanded to be observed throughout our generations.
2. It is practice for what is to come.
3. It glorifies the Father.

Before you get confused on what this means for the believer in Messiah today, let me address a common misconception. When it comes to observing the biblical feasts (fall or spring), it should be noted that they aren’t “Jewish feasts.” Instead, the proper context is to consider them the Lord’s feast given to His people, both those apart of natural Israel, and those grafted in.

With that in mind, let’s look at each of the fall feasts as well as practical ways to observe them with your family this fall – and beyond!

Yom Teruah

Scripture says in Leviticus 23:24-25 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh new moon, on the first day of the new moon, you have a rest, a remembrance of Teruah, a set-apart gathering. You do no servile work, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to YHVH.” I won’t get into why we don’t do sacrifices today, but I will say that we still observe this day by not working and gathering with others (if able).

Teruah literally means soundings, by instrument or human voice so you can imagine how fun (and loud) this Holy Day can be.

Below are some great resources to help teach about and observe this feast day:

• Use coloring and activity pages by Bible Pathway Adventures (our favorite)
• Help your kiddos make their own shofars with this easy DIY craft
• Here is a Yom Teruah BINGO game by The Kefar
• MTOI has some great resources called Parsha Pearls that are perfect for this feast

Yom Kippur

Scripture says in Leviticus 23:27 “On the tenth day of this seventh new moon is Yom HaKippurim. It shall be a set-apart gathering for you. And you shall afflict your beings, and shall bring an offering made by fire to YHVH.” This passage also goes on to describe how to set this day apart: no work. There are also various ways people have attempted to describe “afflict your beings” but we choose to use this day to fast from food and reflect on teshuva (repentance).

Yom HaKippurim means Day of Atonement or Day of the Coverings so spending this day in total reflection and observation of how one can follow YHVH’s instructions is a day well spent.

Below are some practical resources to help teach about and observe this feast day:

• Use these free Atonement activity pages by Bible Pathway Adventures (did we already say they’re our fave)
• This is a neat song that my kiddos love that relates the story of Jonah to Yom Kippur
• Enjoy this lapbook by Anna Matrix

Festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)

In Leviticus 23:34-44 we read about the Festival of Sukkot being observed on the fifteenth day of the seventh new moon and celebrated for seven days. This passage also sheds more light on the how-to: first day is a set-apart gathering with no work, last day is a set-apart gathering with no work, and dwell in booths (tents) for the seven days.

Some people have the amazing privilege to be off work the entire week and camp out with like-minded believers. Our first year of observing this we camped out at a lake and had an amazing time with our little family (just 5 of us at the time).

Below are some resources to help teach about and observe this feast day:

• Don’t forget your activity pages by Bible Pathway Adventures
• Bim Bam has a pretty cool video
• From the edible Sukkah to the real deal and decorations, there are lots of activities for kids here

Don’t Forget the Food

One thing that is well-known with Feast Day celebrations is the FEAST! Cooking big meals is common and expected. The few times we have had the privilege of observing feast days with others, none of them lacked in food.

Check out this YouTube playlist of clean eating recipes for feast days and beyond!

Now that you’ve gotten a run down of three celebrations to consider this fall, we’d like to hear from you! What are some celebrations you and your family do during the fall season? Share in the comments below!

Author, Speaker, and Curriculum Resource Creator Michelle Huddleston is first and foremost a child of the Most High, wife to an incredibly patient husband, and homeschooling mama to four blessings (and another on the way). She is passionate about educating, encouraging, and empowering other homeschooling families to homeschool their way. Michelle would love to connect with you on her Blog, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube!

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So how do you build character in your children? Does it take a special curriculum? Is it something you need to pour hours into?

Guess what? It’s easier than you think! We’ve gathered moms from across the globe to bring you some great advice – for moms from moms! With our new Mom’s Library series!

Our theme for this month is Character Development!

Simple Ways to Build Character in Kids!

Thanks to these amazing moms and dads, you can build character in kids by incorporating it into your daily life. Character building is ever continuing and is something that’s important to teach as our children grow. Here are some great ideas to instill important values (posts will go live as they are published each week):

One Simple Game to Increase Your Child’s Self Control 

3 Ways a Nightly Clean Up Routine Builds Character

What College Admissions Scandals Can Teach us About Building Character

5 Chore Chart Ideas to Help Build Character

Building Your Child’s Character Through Prayer

Building Character During a Difficult Time

3 Easy Ways to Teach Time Management to Kids

Manners as Character Training in a World Gone Tech

3 Easy Ways to Teach Kids to Have More Patience

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When it comes to following Jesus, there’s probably no more well-known truth than this:

Nothing is more important than engaging with the Bible and prayer.

For followers of Jesus, raising kids IS discipleship. Therefore, if we’re going to create a culture of discipleship in our home, Bible engagement must be a high priority in our parenting.

Teach Your Children to Engage With Scripture

In the Old Testament, God instructed His people about this, saying this about His commands: “Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up” (Deuteronomy 6:7).

Essentially, what God says is, talk about His word with your kids all the time – at home in planned environments, out and about as you go through your day, at bedtime and when you get up in the morning.

In planned times and unplanned times, pass on God’s word to your kids.

This is what the apostle Paul has in mind when he tells parents to “bring up their children in the admonition and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).

When Paul chooses one line to guide Christian parents in their parenting task, this is it: make sure you’re nurturing your kids in the instructions of the Lord.

So I think it’s fair to say that nothing is more important than helping our kids engage with the Bible.

It’ll look different at different stages, so here are tips for each age group!

3 Tips to Help Your Kids Engage

Small Children

One of the biggest realizations I had when our kids were small was how much more capable they are than we think.

My daughter Ashley was 2 and half. She was regularly coming home from Sunday school with a short 3-5 word memory verse. Then one day I’m sitting on the couch and she started marching around the family room casually reciting all of Psalm 1! The whole psalm!

How did that happen?!

Well my 5 year old had been memorizing Psalm 1 for school, so he and I had been chanting it out loud together … and apparently my 2 year old had been listening in and absorbing it! (By the way, Psalm 1 is great text about the blessing of a life grounded in the Bible. You can listen to my thoughts on Psalm 1 here.)

Small children are like sponges. So here’s my tip for helping them engage the Bible:

Facts and Fun

Use this time to help them learn all sorts of Bible facts and info but do so in fun, interactive ways. Chanting. Singing. Games.

Find a good children’s Bible and read it everyday before bed. As they become more familiar with the stories, pause while reading and have the kids finish the sentence or fill in the word.

To memorize, sing or chant the passage.

We played “The Bible Story Game” with our kids. We’d all sit in a circle on the floor. One of us would have a small ball. We would toss the ball to each other and whoever caught the ball had to tell a Bible story.

Occasionally when they told a story I’d ask why they liked that story.

Sometimes, we’d read a Psalm about praising God with songs. Then we’d all grab little instruments (a rattle, a tamborine, etc.) and march around the room singing praise songs to Jesus.

We had fun learning the Bible.

8-12 Years Old

At this stage it’s time to begin building a framework for character development and decision making. That means, it’s time to help them see how the Bible connects with their life.

So here’s a couple tips for Bible engagement at this stage:

1. Aim for Understanding

Not just understanding what it says but what it means and why it matters.

When reading the Bible as a family, ask questions about the passage you are reading like:
-what are some ways you can put others first in your life? [maybe prompt them with different areas life – friends, family, etc]
-who has hurt you and how can you be actively kind to them?

2. Connect the Bible to Life

Be alert to teachable moments where you can help connect the Bible to life: A squabble with friend or when they helped someone out and you discuss the joy of serving others like Jesus.

When our kids were in this stage, my wife and I began going out occasionally and leaving them home alone for a couple hours. My son is two years older than his sister, so I wanted him to begin to think about what it means to be the man in relationship to a woman.

So one day we were getting ready to leave and I said, “Jeffrey, you’re the man tonight while mom and I are gone. What does that mean?”

He answered immediately – “I’m in charge!”

“Ok, sure,” I replied with a smile. “And what does it mean to be ‘in charge’ as a man?”…

Silence.

I had him look up Ephesians 5:25, where he promptly learned that it meant laying down his life like Jesus, so he needed to put Ashely’s wishes and well being ahead of his own.

At this stage, you want to connect the Bible to life as a framework for character development and decision making.

Teen Years

The teen years provide new opportunities and new challenges. Often schedules get a little crazier and the kids are busier (especially once they have a driver’s license and a job!). It’s harder to have the same routines as you did when they were younger.

We found it harder to read the Bible consistently as a family.

Is it okay for a pastor to admit that we read the Bible infrequently together during the teen years?

What we did have, however, were frequent conversations at the dinner table or late at night (why did it have to be just as I was getting ready for bed?!) about God, life, the Bible, people, and the struggles of growing up.

Some of those questions were prompted by me. Some were sparked by something that happened at school or with friends. And often those questions came with all the emotions of teen angst.

So my first tip for the teen years is this:

1. Brave the hard questions

Wade into the mess. Engage with them. Expect pushback. Think out loud with them. Don’t force agreement – the goal isn’t for them to agree with you; it’s for them to submit to and trust God.

So even when they reach what feels like a poor conclusion, you may need to let it go and remind them (gently and graciously) that God is the final authority “so just be sure your listening to His word as you think this through.”

But whatever you do, don’t shut down the lines of communication.

2. Coach the habit of reading and praying on their own. 

Don’t badger them. Don’t guilt them. Encourage them. Affirm them when they have been doing this well. Every now and then ask them what they’re reading and what stands out to them.

If they admit they are struggling, ask if you can do anything to help support them.

One of the things I’ve discovered is that a lot of young people know they should read the Bible and pray but they don’t know how. That may be your teen. If that’s the case here’s a short video course (three 5-8 minute videos) that gives a model for how to read and pray consistently.

If they are open to it, offer to do a reading plan together where you’re reading the same passages on your own and texting or sharing with each other what stood out to you from your reading. I’m doing this right now with a friend who’s a brand new follower of Jesus and using a reading plan I created that works great for this. You can find that plan here.

A Most Important Bonus Tip

Ultimately, the most important factor in helping your kids engage with the Bible is you … if you are engaging with it, soaking in it, praying it into your own soul, (And don’t be afraid to let your kids “catch” you reading and praying), then the Bible is central in your home because it’s central in your life.

If you’re struggling to read consistently or want some fresh ideas, you too may want check out my video course or reading plan.

The key is setting a time, place and plan so that more often than not you engage with the Bible and connect with God. Then you can experience the blessed and flourishing life that Psalm 1 describes.

John Whittaker has been serving in ministry for 30 years.  He loves to help people see how God’s word speaks to their life and his greatest thrill in life is to see people come alive to the joy of walking with God honestly, humbly, and transformationally. John served as a professor at Boise Bible College for 19 years, as well as pastoring at a couple of different churches in the Boise area and teaching and preaching in various places around the world. His partner in ministry is Louise, his closest friend and wife for 30 years. They have two married children and are expecting their first grand daughter in November and their second grandchild in February! To learn more about John and the online Bible teaching resources he’s currently creating visit johnwhittaker.net.

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When I went to Bible college, Bible reading, prayer and memorizing scripture was mandatory. That made it easy to want to study and put God’s word to memory. It is also easy to make my children study scripture as part of their homeschool curriculum. We have them memorize certain verses we feel are the most important. Verses that will encourage and strengthen their faith. But, as for my own studies, I find myself very undisciplined.

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That’s why I have found that Bible verse coloring pages really help! While I color the image that captures the meaning of the verse, I say it over and over to myself. I will also use it as a time to pray with and about the verse and what it means.

Bible Verse Coloring Pages

These coloring pages are free and will help you remember 6 verses that capture the whole Bible. Hand drawn by a Christian mom, she captures the essence of the verse beautifully in her images.

Older children will really enjoy this as part of their scripture memorization or Bible study. You could even read the chapters that the verses are from while they color.

These pages include the following verses that represent 6 events of the Bible.

1. Creation – Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
2. The Fall of Man (Adam & Eve) – Philippians 2:11a “every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord”
3. Judgement (Noah and the Flood) – Genesis 9:13a “I have set my bow in the cloud”
4. The Promise (Abraham) – Luke 12:31 “Seek the kingdom of God above all else, and He will give you everything you need.”
5. God’s People (Moses) – The Ten Commandments
6. Jesus – Matthew 28:6a “He isn’t here! He is risen, just as he said”

The 6 events are the most important to teach your children and what all the other events in the Bible can be categorized under. It is what we use to summarize the Bible and help our children understand the past present and future!

Download your Bible coloring pages here.

If you like these pages, you might also like this new Bible Verse coloring book! What a fun family devotional activity!

Share your finished coloring pages on Instagram and tag @trueaimedu #Biblecoloring. Can’t wait to see them!

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They all had wonderful ideas about what they could do at school, work, and extra things out in the community. Then it was my turn to say something I could do. I was really racking my brain on this one because my schedule is already so full. It takes extra effort to get out the door and plan to help someone.

Then my mind came to a story I heard about people at a drive-thru paying for the car behind them. I shared that idea with my girls, but then later I thought about how I could glorify Christ at the same time? So, I decided to make these drive-thru verse cards to give the cashier to give the person behind me at the drive thru.

How to Use Drive-Thru Verse Cards

So the next time I went to get a coffee, I gave the cashier a card and $5 to give to the person behind me. Hopefully, that planted a seed, or gave encouragement. Maybe it even convicted them. Either way, I hope it helps to further God’s kingdom.

I brought the cards to my small group next week and asked how the girls did with their challenge to impact. Some of them said that they opened the door for someone at school. Another said that they helped pack backpacks with food at the local food bank for kids who needed them on the weekends. One girl said that she texted a Bible verse to a friend who was atheist.

Some of them didn’t do anything, so I gave them the cards to slip in a locker, or give to a teacher, to pray with, or memorize.

I think that getting out and personally serving people is best, but sometimes you can’t and it’s ok. There are seasons in our lives when just doing what we are doing with the right attitude is serving God. But if you’d like to do something more, try handing these drive thru verse cards out as a simple act of kindness each week, or each month to give you perspective. It doesn’t have to be at the drive thru. This keeps your mind on serving God, no matter how hard it is to get out of the house.

Click here to download the drive-thru verse cards.

You might also like these posts and resources on teaching your children to think of others more than themselves.

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