What We Teach
To help you understand how we run our kids church better, here are the general components your children at Kids Church Alive go through weekly.
Opening the Service/Welcome:
Our service opens with prayer to invite God’s presence and blessing. Here, we also acknowledge new guests and make them feel welcomed!
Game and Lesson Review:
We have made the review time more exciting by combining it with games. Have fun at church and review the previous week’s lesson at the same time! Your kids will be motivated to pay attention so that they can remember what they’ve learnt from week to week.
Praise & Worship:
One of the primary purposes in coming together with the kids is to encourage their participation in praise & worship. With the aid of the latest contemporary kids music video, we help them understand and teach them ways the Bible says we can worship God (lifting of hands, clapping, singing, shouting, kneeling, bowing, dancing etc.) We do not force them to get involved, but strive to lead them into heartfelt worship by example and purposeful instruction.
Announcements/Testimonies:
Special announcements such as birthdays are made. We encourage them to share on personal testimonies about what they experienced applying the previous lesson at home.
Lesson Introduction:
Lesson introduction is an ‘attention-getter’ that captures the kids’ interest to show them the need for the lesson.
Scripture Memory:
Every lesson includes a scripture memory verse and by various creative approaches, we teach the kids how to Practice, Understand and Live the Word of God.
Bible Lesson:
The approach to the Bible lesson segment varies each week. By combining DVD clips, skits, plays, interviews etc, we make it fun and enjoyable for the kids as they learn the main bible lesson of the week.
Object Lessons:
The purpose of an object lesson is to support and illustrate the Bible Lesson. By using familiar household objects, we take abstract spiritual truths and make them concrete and visual so that the kids can relate and apply the principal truths to their lives.
Today’s Life Story:
This segment provides the practical application of the bible lesson. With the aid of colorful slides, we draw the children into a story and tell them how it relates to their world.
Small Group Ministry:
Here, we break the children up into 2 groups (Club Moses: 3-6yrs old, Club Josiahs: 7-11yrs old) for further age-appropriate activities. (craft, sharing and prayer etc…)
Club Moses (ages 3-6)
Club Josiah (ages 7-10)
About Moses:
- means “drawn or saved from the water”
During the birth of the Moses, the Egyptian Pharoah commanded every male born to a Hebrew to be massacred at birth. Moses’s mother hid him in the house for 3 months, but when he became too big to be concealed, she placed him in a basket of papyrus into the river Nile. The sister Miriam lingered to watch her brother’s fate. The Egyptian princess was at the sacred river bathing when the basket floated by. Moved to compassion by the baby’s cries, she decided to claim the baby and rear him as her own.
The sister Miriam was at hand to recommend a Hebrew nurse, the child’s own mother. As such, even though he was adopted by the princess and was considered an Egyptian, he was grounded in the knowledge of his Hebrew roots. Later in the story of Moses, God used him to perform mightly works, freeing his people (Hebrews) from the enslavement of the Eqyptians. He also ascended to Mount Sinai for 40days to wait on the Lord God and whom was then given the Laws (PENTATEUCH) and the Ten Commandments.
God has a unique purpose for every child even when he/she is in the mother’s womb. We want to to help your child understand that even at the tender age, God is looking after him/her. Like Moses who went through many trials in the course of his life, your child will go through various trials unique to him/herself too. However, like Moses who was grounded in God’s Word since young, we want to ground your child in God’s Word so that he/she will learn to live out her destiny to the fullest.
About Josiah:
- means (whom Jehovah heals)
Josiah was eight years old when he became king of Judah, and ruled in Jerusalem for 31 years. Josiah did what was pleasing to the Lord; he followed the example of his ancestor King David, strictly obeying all the laws of God. Throughout his reign, he destroyed every high places, groves, images and all outward signs and relics of idolatry. The temple was restored under a special commission; and in the course of the repairs, Hilkiah the priest found that book of the law of the Lord which quickened so remarkably the ardent zeal of the king. He was aided by Jeremiah the prophet in spreading through his kingdom the knowledge and worship of Jehovah God. The bible clearly says in 2 Kings 23:25 “There had never been a king like him before, who served the Lord with all his heart, mind and strength, obeying all the Laws of Moses; nor has there been a king like him since.”
We want to guide your children to be like Josiah, whom upon reigning at a very tender age of 8 years old, set about doing everything right in God’s sight. We want your children to emulate his lifestyle of consistent worship of the Lord and to bring the gospel far and wide to everyone they know.
