Thank you for investing your time, your preparation, and your love in the discipleship of the next generation. Your ministry matters. As you faithfully open God's Word each week, you have the privilege of helping children see His greatness, trust His promises, and set their hope in Him.

Alongside the training and support your church provides, here are resources that we hope will encourage and equip you.

Grow as a teacher

Find encouragement and training for new and advanced teachers

For new teachers

  • Teach from a Heart of Love

    Be encouraged by one teacher's story of faithfully passing the testimony of the Lord to the next generation.

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  • Teaching Preschool Curriculum

    A foundational training course designed to help preschool teachers teach with confidence and purpose.

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  • Teaching Elementary Curriculum

    Biblical vision and practical training to help you faithfully teach elementary-age children.

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For advanced teachers

  • Involving Students in the Learning Process

    Are your students active participants in the learning process or passive listeners? This seminar presents tools to make them active participants and explains why this is such an important factor in Bible teaching.

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  • Teaching Difficult Doctrines in Children's Ministry

    This seminar helps teachers and ministry leaders understand the importance of teaching the “difficult doctrines” to children and suggests some practical ways of teaching these doctrines. Doctrines discussed include: sovereignty, sin, law and grace, fear of God, suffering, election, and hell.

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  • Beyond Classroom Management

    Attentive, well-behaved children sound like a teacher’s dream. But could this goal fall short of achieving something more important— training in righteousness? Let’s consider effective correction that connects heart attitudes with behavior. Our goal is not simply well-behaved children but children who joyfully submit to God.

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Link classroom and home discipleship

Find resources to share with the families of your students and to use in your own home.

Use Growing in Faith Together (GIFT) pages

Each curriculum includes Growing in Faith Together: Parent and Child Resource Pages (GIFT pages). These pages assist parents in taking the biblical truths learned in the classroom and guiding their children to personal application.

GIFT pages provide parents with the following:

  • Lesson title, main ideas, selected memory verse, and a list of Scripture presented in the lesson.
  • A brief summary of the lesson.
  • As You Walk By the Way: questions to further spiritual discussion and heart application.
  • Action Step: suggestions for acting on biblical truth.

Make these pages easily available to parents, help them see the importance of these pages and assist them in using them as needed.

SEE SAMPLE GIFT PAGE

Get parents started in family discipleship

Give families a starting point for discipling their children.

SEE STARTING PAGE

Introduce families to devotionals related to classroom curriculum

The Making HIM Known books are adapted from Truth78 curricula.

These illustrated family devotionals provide a way for the entire family to learn about our great God and His Word.

AGE RANGE: 6 to 12 years

See how Making HIM Known books relate to Truth78 curricula

SEE SERIES

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