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Digital Resources for Kids

We add new resources to the Children and Youth pages. This page contains archived digital resources.

Children

Christmas Spirit

Leaves & Pumpkins

Summer Fun

Fishing

Growing in God

Birds in Spring

All About Love

Kindness

The Truth of Christmas

Gratitude

Fall Fun

Back to School

July

School’s Out

Spring

Easter & Gardening

St. Patrick’s Day & Lent

Love

Winter Kindness

  • Activities: Winter

  • Video: “Color Your World with Kindness”

  • Lesson: Kindness in Action. Kids need school supplies all year long, not just at the start. In July and August there’s a big push to collect school supplies for kids who can’t afford them. But the need is ever-present as supplies run out, new kids arrive mid-year, and supplies are lost or damaged. You can help. Contact local schools to discover needs. Collect needed items, and organize and decorate supply packages for each school, teacher, or child in need. Encourage kids to include kind and encouraging messages about Jesus’ love, then go with them to personally deliver the packages.

The First Christmas

Thankfulness

Autumn

Grandparents Day

Jesus Heals (Luke 5:17)

Summer

Father’s Day

God’s Creation, Spring

Understanding Easter

Valentine’s Day

The True Meaning of Christmas

Thanksgiving

The Lord’s Prayer

Called to Community

  • Devotion: What does it mean to be a community of faith? Jesus taught us that the greatest thing we can do with our lives is to love God and love each other. Christianity is centered on intentionally loving relationships. This month, we will look at the example Jesus gave us and the guidance we find in scripture so that we can live and love as the community of faith that we are created to be.

  • Parent Resource: How to Instill Faith in Children

  • Craft: Jesus Calms the Storm

  • Prayer: Prayer Chart

  • Video: Jesus Calms the Storm (based on Mark 4:35)

The Plans God Has for You

Jesus Heals, 4th of July

Queen Esther, Summer

Youth

Christmas Spirit

Leaves & Pumpkins

Summer Fun

Fishing

  • In-Person Activity: Get hooked with the South Elgin Parks and Recreation Department at the 2024 Tuna Kahuna Fishing Derby on June 15, 2024 at 9:00–11:00 a.m. for children 15 and under. You do not need to be a resident to participate.

  • Devotional: Lessons from a Teenage Fisherman

  • Video: Kindness Matters

Growing in God

Birds in Spring

All About Love

Kindness

The Truth of Christmas

Gratitude

Fall Fun

Back to School

July

School’s Out

  • Activity: 100 Summer Activities for Teens

  • Lesson: Surviving Summer Vacation

  • Video: Not Broken (2022 full-length movie; 1 hour, 11 minutes)
    Young Winter Knight is profoundly dyslexic and equally artistic. Despair sets in as she finds herself defined not by her talents but by her disabilities. As her dyslexia begins to impact virtually every area of her life, she becomes convinced that she’s hopelessly broken. Until that is, she discovers the purpose behind her pain.

Spring

Easter & Gardening

St. Patrick’s Day & Lent

Love

Winter Kindness

  • Activities: Winter

  • Video: “A Pep Talk from Kid President to You”

  • Lesson: Kindness in Action. Kids need school supplies all year long, not just at the start. In July and August there’s a big push to collect school supplies for kids who can’t afford them. But the need is ever-present as supplies run out, new kids arrive mid-year, and supplies are lost or damaged. You can help. Contact local schools to discover needs. Collect needed items, and organize and decorate supply packages for each school, teacher, or child in need. Encourage kids to include kind and encouraging messages about Jesus’ love, then go with them to personally deliver the packages.

The First Christmas

Thankfulness

Autumn

Grandparents Day

Jesus Heals (Luke 5:17)

  • Word Search: Jesus Heals

  • Word Jumble: Jesus Heals

  • Video: “Abandoned” A young girl’s loss of vision challenges her faith in her father.

  • Video: “Letters to God” Meet an extraordinary eight-year-old boy armed with strong faith and courage as he faces his daily battle against cancer.     

Summer

Father’s Day

God’s Creation, Spring

Understanding Easter

Valentine’s Day

The True Meaning of Christmas

Thanksgiving

The Lord’s Prayer

Called to Community

  • Devotion: What does it mean to be a community of faith? Jesus taught us that the greatest thing we can do with our lives is to love God and love each other. Christianity is centered on intentionally loving relationships. This month, we will look at the example Jesus gave us and the guidance we find in scripture so that we can live and love as the community of faith that we are created to be.

  • Activity: Create Your Own Sacred Space

  • Video Podcast: Science + God “Control Freaks”

The Plans God Has for You

Jesus Heals, 4th of July

Queen Esther, Summer