What happens when you have a crew of kiddos and families wanting to take the Gospel Class, but you are aren’t meeting with kids on campus yet? Well you get creative and take the interactive class online.

First of all I share all three parts of the outline for this class here, here, and here. I also had the privilege of writing the resource for a longer class like this for your church setting. You can find out more about that here. It comes with leader guides that we make sure to put in the hands of our families to help continue to conversations. You can find those here.

The main objectives I have for this class that kids attend with adults are:
– See truth in God’s Word.
– Experience truth in a hands-on way.
– Discuss truth as families.

This gets really tricky when the class gets moved to video. After registration, I made sure parents had a list of supplies then I recorded two videos for them to experiences as families. Each child also got a packet with a Gospel God’s Plan for Me workbook, this storybook, and I gave parents a guide to leading their kids to Christ.

Here is a peak at the first video. You will have to use the password: Gospelclass to be able to see the video. I would love to hear what you are doing to reach families with the Gospel during this unique season.

in this unique time, we had to make the difficult decision to implement a virtual vbs. one of the staples of dawson kids kidlife is the beach ball song. each day in worship rally hundreds of beach balls (large and small) are dropped from the balcony for kids to keep in the air. it may seem silly but as we planned our virtual vbs, i wanted to use the beach ball as a bridge from on-campus vbs to their homes. so, we dreamed up beach ball devotions.

each child got a beach ball in their pick-up packet and others were encouraged to grab one before the month started. our digital vbs content was five days and each day contained the following categories: worship, learn, serve, create, pray, and respond. the beach ball devotions were part of the worship category each day.

i am attaching the beach ball devotion videos below.