Children's Ministry Guide to Storytelling


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An easy to read book that looks at the heritage of storytelling and the benefits of using story as a teaching tool. It is divided into secitons that give practival ideas and tips for storytelling with under fives, five to nines and nine to young teens.




The Creative Storytelling Guide for Children's Ministry


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Whether you’re new to storytelling or you’ve been telling stories for years, this book will help you tell God’s story more creatively and effectively than you ever imagined you could! Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.




Tales for Telling


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The Jesus Storybook Bible


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The Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center of the Story is a baby, the child upon whom everything will depend. Every story whispers his name. From Noah to Moses to the great King David---every story points to him. He is like the missing piece in a puzzle---the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together. From the Old Testament through the New Testament, as the Story unfolds, children will pick up the clues and piece together the puzzle. A Bible like no other, The Jesus Storybook Bible invites children to join in the greatest of all adventures, to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God's great story of salvation---and at the center of their Story too.




Creating Stories That Connect


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This innovative book helps pastors and teachers enhance their teaching with original, audience appropriate stories--the way Jesus did! Bruce Seymour explains how such stories work, when to use them, and how to create them.




30 New Testament Interactive Stories for Young Children


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This book is a collection of favorite Bible stories, each written with a creative and meaningful storytelling technique especially suited to help teachers involve young children in the Bible story. Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.




Reconnecting God's Story to Ministry


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To help readers recapture the most natural, universal and effective means of evangelism-discipleship that exists—storytelling.




How to Tell Stories to Children


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What you hold in your hands is not a collection of stories. It is a simple, yet revolutionary method to create your own.




Building Children's Ministry


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A step-by-step guide to building a strong children's ministry that is a vital part of the church. People know they are called to children's ministry when they get goose bumps and butterflies from something a kid says or an idea that they know will communicate the gospel to children. Building Children's Ministry provides the practical information to transform those feelings and that calling into a successful children's ministry that is integrated into the life of the congregation. The book is divided into topical chapters, including: Getting the support of the pastor and the congregation Statements of purpose Budgets and fundraising Recruiting and keeping volunteers Safety and security Discipline and appropriate policies Choosing and evaluating curriculum Publicity Building Children's Ministry is a practical guide through the challenging (but exciting) steps between recognizing the need for children's ministry and creating a program that ministers to children and their families.




Bible Story QuickSkits for 2 Kids


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Each skit retells a Bible story in a fun and creative way using only two students. The four types of QuickSkits included here are: Tandem storytelling, Storymime, Interview, and Sports Announcer.