June 23 I can have joy when I see what God has made. King David loved God, and he liked to write songs to God. One time he wrote a song because everywhere he looked he saw things God made that gave him joy. We can look around and see what God has made too. And we can...

June 9 I can have joy because God helps me. God wants His people, the Israelites, to take time to thank Him for all He had done. They grew lots of food, but it was God who helped them by providing the sun and rain to help the food grow. So the Israelites got everyone...

June 2 I can have joy because God loves me. Jesus tells the story of the lost sheep to help us understand just how much God loves us. A shepherd leaves 99 sheep to search for one lost sheep, and when he finds it, he rejoices! God’s love for us is big. We want our...

May 26 I can live for God. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego have a choice to make. Are they going to live for the king and do what the king says OR are they going to live for God and do what God says? Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego choose to live for God. They know...

May 19 I can talk about God to others. Jeremiah is a prophet, and he tells God’s people important things like “God loves you with a forever kind of love” and “God has plans for you.” And we want preschoolers to know that they can talk about God to others too. They can...

May 12 I can pray to God. Hannah talks to God when she is sad because she knows she can talk to God anytime, anywhere, and about anything. And after Hannah cries out to God and talks to Him about why she is so sad, she isn’t sad anymore. We want preschoolers to know...

May 5 I can hear from God. When King Josiah’s workers find scrolls with God’s words on them, he quickly reads the scrolls to hear from God. We want preschoolers to know they can hear from God too. Every time they listen to or read a Bible story, they can hear from God...

April 28 I shine when I do what Jesus says. The Bible teaches us that when we do what Jesus says—like when we don’t argue or complain—we will shine like stars! There will be people around us who complain or argue, but we can choose to do what Jesus says with a happy...

April 21 Jesus says to love like Him. Jesus tells his friends to love people the way he loves them. So the early church did what Jesus says and loved like Jesus! If someone needed a coat, a person would share their coat. If someone needed a place to stay, a person...

April 14 Jesus says to tell others about Him. Jesus gives his friends an important job to do—to go and tell everyone everywhere that Jesus is alive and he wants to be their friend forever—and we can do that job too! When we go and tell everyone everywhere that Jesus...

April 7 Jesus says to let my light shine. Jesus says that we are the light of the world. We can shine our light to show the world that Jesus loves them and wants to be their friend forever. We all have the choice to either hide or shine our light, and we want...

March 31 Jesus is alive! Jesus dies, is put in a tomb, and comes back just like he said he would, so we could be his friend forever. Yes, Jesus is alive and Jesus wants to be my friend forever. And Jesus wants to be your friend forever…every child’s friend...

March 24 We can celebrate Jesus. As Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey, the people are so excited that they lay palm branches and coats on the road to make a special path for Jesus while they cheer and shout, “Hosanna! Hosanna! Yay, Jesus!” The people waved their palm...

March 17 Jesus is a good friend. Jesus does something unexpected to show His friends, the disciples, what it looks like to be a good friend. He didn’t show them how to defend someone in battle or how to convince a person to stop doing wrong. Instead, Jesus got a bowl...

March 10 Jesus wants everyone to follow him. Jesus begins forming what would become his team of 12 disciples. Jesus didn’t go to the religious leaders or the powerful political leaders to pick his team. No, instead Jesus went to a fishing boat where he asked Peter,...

March 3 Jesus wants to be friends with everyone, everywhere. The woman at the well had made wrong choices and those choices left her walking to a well, all alone, in the middle of the day. Top that with the fact that she was from a town where the people were not...

February 25 Jesus loves me. Jesus tells his friends, the disciples, to let the children come to him. Parents were bringing their children to Jesus so he could bless them. The disciples, thinking they were doing what was best, told the parents to go away. I mean, Jesus...

February 18 Jesus loves us even when we do something wrong. Zacchaeus climbs a tree to see Jesus. We can only imagine the look on Zacchaeus’ face when he saw Jesus walking towards him as he sat perched in a tree. Maybe Zacchaeus thought Jesus was going to tell him...

February 11 Jesus is a friend to everyone. Jesus is a kind and loving friend to a woman who had done something wrong. We call her the unloved woman because she experienced anything but love from the religious leaders. Instead of love, she received judgment, hate,...

February 4 Jesus loves everyone. Jesus touches a man who asks for help and heals him of all his boo-boos. an with leprosy. He was not someone everyone loved…or even liked, really. In fact, people stayed away from him because they didn’t want to get what he had. A...

January 28 Jesus teaches us that God loves us no matter what. Jesus tells a story about a son who returns home to a loving father. Jesus told this story because he wants to teach us something VERY important. He wants us to know that God loves us no matter...

January 21 Jesus teaches us we can share.  DOWNLOAD WEEKLY RESOURCES Recent Lessons

January 14 Jesus teaches that God cares for us. Jesus talks about birds and flowers to teach us that God knows what we need and he cares for us. God loves us more than flowers and birds. And if God takes care of flowers and birds, that means that God will take care of...

January 7 People came to hear Jesus because He teaches important things. When Jesus sees a large crowd of people, he teaches them important things, because he loves them. We want to begin the month with preschoolers knowing that Jesus teaches me important things, so...