Preparing Children's Bible Stories :: 6 of 31 Days of Blogging :: Know

Day 6 :: Know 

When we get ready to teach the kids the bible lesson, we write out our whole story.  But when we are in with the kids, I have found I never have a chance to look at what I wrote.  The first two weeks I had a little girl in my arms who would cry if I tried to put her down.  In the weeks after that, I was usually passing out fish crackers.  I never even thought to try to reach for my story because I had never used it.   

We teach the kids essentially the same lesson we have been studying all we long in our grown up homework.  We have gone over the homework in the children’s and group leaders training meeting.  We have read over a sample story that give us suggestions on what to teach for a three-year-old level and then we adapt and re-write that story for our age group.  

 So by the time we tell it to the kids, we know it.  We know it forwards and backwards.   By teaching it, it seeps into us simply by repetition.  It feel like a whole new level of knowing, so different from how I think when I am just doing the normal homework designed for adults.