Children's Ministry | Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina

Collaborative VBS: Compassion Camp

This is a Vacation Bible School using Illustrated Ministry's Compassion Camp: Be Loved, Be Kind, Be You. Video, music, and prayer components were created, developed and produced by ten congreg…

Illustrated Ministry: Pentecost Coloring Page 2024

Get Ready for Pentecost is a free (2024) downloadable coloring sheet from Illustrated Ministry. You can access it now to help your congregation prepare for Pentecost by having them colored ahead of time and then displayed on the day of Pentec...

Lesson Plans that Work: Year B Pentecost

This Intergenerational or all ages lesson plan for Pentecost from The Episcopal Church's Lesson Plans that Work is drawn from the Acts 2:1-21 reading. It is well balanced in that offers biblical history and references, movement and action, alon...

Growing God

From the bestselling author of Drawing God, Karen Kiefer, Growing God shares more of her character, Emma's, story. This time after returning home from her Nana's farm, where Emma learns how her Nana "grows God", she is inspired to do the ...

Beyond Item Collections: 15 Outreach Ideas To Engage Children (& Everyone Else Too!)

As congregations seek to engage children (and their families) in the important work of serving others, this post by Laurie Juarez on Building Faith does an excellent job of naming why item collection drives are challenging for families. Though ...

Children’s Sabbath Celebration

The National Observance of the Children's Sabbath is always celebrated on the third weekend in October. This year it will be celebrated October 20-22. Celebrating its 50th year, this multi-faith weekend engages places of worship all across the ...

Alphabet of Gratitude

Spend the 26 days leading up to and through Thanksgiving 2022 expanding your gratitude vocabulary! Each day on the Lifelong Christian Formation Facebook page and the DioECYouth Instagram feed an a new word, reflection, and scripture passage will...

Sing, Wrestle, Spin: Prayers for Active Kids

This book by well known author Jennifer Grant invites us to pray with kids who often need movement and creativity. Sing, Wrestle, Spin: Prayers for Active Kids is helpful for church leaders, but also an excellent resource to gift to families ...

Intergenerational Pentecost Prayer Stations

In this post on Building Faith, Theresa Cho shares some creative and interactive ideas for Intergenerational Prayer Stations for Pentecost. This would be fun way to mix and mingle and share in the power of the Holy Spirit. Therea's post include...

Summer Bible Story Coloring Pages

From Illustrated Ministry these Bible Story Coloring Pages: Summer 2022 are dated from June 12 through August 28, 2022. They are based on the Revised Common Lectionary Year C readings. Tiered pricing structure the package includes the digita...

Thy Kingdom Come

From May 26th through June 7th, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby invites all Christians "pray between Ascension and Pentecost for more people to come to know the love and peace of Jesus Christ." Part of this effort will be joining with parti...

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