4 results for tag: childrens ministries


Mailbox Lessons

By Barb Shearer and Liane Lindauer What a privilege it is to grade Mailbox Club Bible lessons. If you’re not familiar with the program, allow me to explain. It is correspondence lessons that students do through the mail (‘snail mail’). They read a lesson then answer questions about it. They mail in the answer sheet, it is graded and recorded. Then they are mailed more lessons. Each course has an average of twelve lessons. Upon completion, the student gets a certificate. At our camp they also get a coupon that is good for $60 off their summer camp price! I actually did these lessons as a child, now I am blessed to grade them. We usually ...

Desires of the Heart

By CBM National intern, Matt Presley - So back in October I began talking to God about what my next step in life was. I was two months away from finishing a ten month internship program at the Blake House, a faith based men's regeneration program. It was now time to start looking for a job, which I was praying would include God's purpose. A month later and a long story short, He said "I've got the perfect thing! How about another internship program with a children's ministry!?" Scripture says when you seek God, He'll give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). Just know it often doesn't look the way you would have it. Here I am, 36 years ...

The B-I-B-L-E

Who is God? What does He do? Where did He come from? Why does He love us? Will I ever see Him? Questions like these can be found in book that God wrote, the Bible. If we want to know and understand God we have to read His book and get to know the author of this amazing gift. D.L. Moody observed, “The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge but to change our lives.” God’s Holy Word is, indeed, a life-changing, one of a-kind treasure! Do you know that when we memorized God’s Word, we not only learn about Him but God will help us to do the right thing when we are faced with a wrong choice? He will help us to remember a verse from the ...

All You Need is Love

This can to us from Mark Redka at Children’s Bible Ministries SWPA. Here is some of the life stories that they hear from the Released Time kids. ”My dad’s in jail. He went to pick up a package for my aunt, and didn’t know there were shotguns in them. They found cocaine too” New 3rd grader. I pray to Jesus every night because my parents fight all the time. I think they are getting a divorce.” 2nd grader.   “That talkative boy’s mom died. I don’t think his dad pays him much attention.”   A tenth grade girl recently told me that she is pregnant. She has been in foster care for 11 ...