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For Children and Early Childhood

All of these materials will help your church provide age-appropriate quality Bible study experiences in Vacation Bible School this summer! These materials are provided FREE to your church as a ministry of Texas Baptists.

These Children and Early Childhood VBS materials are:

• Rich in Bible content and life application for pupils and teachers;
• Educationally sound;
• Developmentally and culturally appropriate, focusing on the needs of the child; and
• User-friendly–practical, helpful and immediately useful to teachers, including new teachers and all teachers with limited time and resources.

Children and Early Childhood VBS Curriculum includes the following:

• Teacher’s guides for each age group;
• Downloadable resource items;
• Plan sheets for each age group;
• Joint worship PowerPoint presentation and script; and
• Other useful resources available for download.

This VBS curriculum is made possible by your gifts to the Mary Hill Davis Offering.

Worship Express

Worship for children entering 2nd through 7th grades

Music for Worship Adventure (worship for children) Music is a powerful medium to use with children. This year, downloadable music and lyrics videos for all the songs in African Safari Adventure: Exploring the Wonders of God’s Creation (2015) are available through God’s Kids Worship. Each song suggested for Worship Adventure may be inserted in the PowerPoint® presentation by creating a slide that contains the video file.

Each downloadable music and lyrics video bundle includes a stereo video, a split-track video, and lyrics PDF file of each song. Additionally, each song is available as a free, full-length rehearsal video, playable on any internet-connected device, with no login or registration required.

A free 5:00 countdown clock with fun animation is included for free, and is only accessible from this website for VBS users.

Select either Windows Media or QuickTime files for the songs to match your playback system. Files are suitable for use in all major presentation software programs. Free compatibility files are available on every page. Check file compatibility before you buy if you are unsure about your system’s requirements.

There are no refunds for software downloads. God’s Kids Worship can’t provide follow-up support without being at your location to assess your hardware and software, so no follow-up tech support is offered. You should check your system and perhaps consult with church media people if you are unclear about how to use computer media files.

Consider using a children's praise team to lead each day. The children would learn the songs prior to VBS by using the free streaming rehearsal video links for each song. Each day, they would stand at the front with the children's minister, minister of music, or other leader to lead in worship. Sign language for key words or appropriate movement could be added to help the children remember the words to the songs.

Click here for video samples. Please note, these videos are only for demonstration and should not be used for public use. Click the links below to purchase each song.

Jambo! (Theme song)
I’ll Praise You
10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)
Down In My Heart
How Great Is Our God
For The Beauty Of The Earth
O Come, Let Us Adore Him
Beautiful One

*Secret* Free Countdown Clock “British Gorilla Reminders”

Worship Adventure

Worship Adventure Script Worship Adventure PowerPoint® Presentation Day 1 // Day 2 // Day 3 // Day 4 // Day 5 // Talking to Children about Salvation

New Bible Story Illustrations

Bible Story Illustrations for children (entering 2nd through 7th grades) are available to purchase. These illustrations were created for African Safari Adventure: Exploring the Wonders of God’s Creation curriculum. The illustrations are available to purchase on a DVD for $30 by emailing children@texasbaptists.org.

Special Mission Videos

There are two videos that enhance the mission stories in sessions three and four. The Just for Fun video shows the Zambian children making animals out of mud. The children will enjoy seeing how the children play in Zambia. In session four, a video was made by a short-term missionary to show the needs of the school children in Zambia. The video, Kabonga School – Zambia may be used during the mission activity to show the children where the school supplies they will collect will be going.

Children (completed 1st through 6th grades)

African Safari Adventure: Exploring the Wonders of God's Creation

Please note, complete set will download automatically as a zip file.

Younger Children

Bible Teacher (Entering 2nd and 3rd Grades)
Resource Items – Complete Set

Middle Children

Bible Teacher (Entering 4th and 5th Grades
Resource Items – Complete Set

Older Children

Bible Teacher (Entering 6th and 7th Grades)
Resource Items – Complete Set

Children Certificates

VBS African Safari Certificate
Generic Certificate

Early Childhood (Birth through Completed Kindergarten)

Please note, complete set will download automatically as a zip file.

Babies

Bible Teacher (Birth to 12 Months)
Resource Items – Complete Set

Younger Years

Bible Teacher (Ones to Twos)
Resource Items – Complete Set

Middle Years

Bible Teacher (Threes and Fours)
Resource Items – Complete Set

Older Years

Bible Teacher (Entering K and 1st Grade)
Resource Items – Complete Set

Early Childhood Certificates

VBS African Safari Certificate
Generic Certificate