Kids4Truth Clubs

Be Intentional with Outreach to Kids

Be Intentional with Outreach to Kids How does your church reach out to your community? Is your outreach haphazard or intentional? Do you host large community events, prefer smaller get-togethers, feature holiday celebrations, or do something else or nothing at all? In 2022, my church decided…
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Combating Wintertime Blahs

Combating Wintertime Blahs Do the kids in your children’s club have the wintertime blahs? If they do, how can you motivate them while combating their blahs? The answer is to offer exciting, fun events during slump times to motivate children to attend and…
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Be a Secret Barnabas

Be a Secret Barnabas The Christian missionary and servant we know as Barnabas was really named Joseph (Acts 4:36). Barnabas, his nickname, means “son of encouragement,” which reveals a lot about him. Today, enlisting a “Barnabas team” is one way you can dispel a…
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Kids4Truth Clubs Customized Training

Kids4Truth Clubs Customized Training HASTINGS, Mich.—June 26–27, Hastings Baptist Church hosted a Children’s Ministry Training Weekend and invited Kids4Truth Clubs Program Specialist Marrena Ralph to speak. Working with Matt Moser, the church’s pastor, and Pam, the church’s Kids4Truth Clubs director, Marrena customized the sessions…
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Year-End Ceremony: Do the Unexpected!

Year-End Ceremony: Do the Unexpected! As your Kids4Truth Clubs wrap up for 2021–22, make a big deal of your year-end award ceremony. The Traditional Year-End Ceremony Hold your ceremony on a Sunday evening, Wednesday night, or your regular clubs night. And consider inviting your…
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Shake Up Your Kids’ Club Nights

Shake Up Your Kids’ Club Nights Springtime activities will soon beckon children away from your church’s weekday club. Now may be the time to change your routine. You can shake up your kids’ club nights by using a little creativity. Tonya Calton of Lee’s Summit (Missouri)…
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4 Activities To Fight the Wintertime Blahs

4 Activities To Fight the Wintertime Blahs Most parts of the country are facing their coldest and wettest time of the year. With this cold, damp weather, parents and kids just don’t want to go out. At the same time, the school year is half to two-thirds…
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Additional Resources You Could Use in Kids4Truth Clubs

Additional Resources You Could Use in Kids4Truth Clubs Kids4Truth Clubs covers 12 doctrinal themes, which are supported by theme resources available on the EquipU site. These resources aid in teaching the 12 doctrinal themes, but some teachers enjoy digging even deeper as they prepare to teach lessons;…
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4 Ways to Enhance Your Midweek Club Calendar

4 Ways to Enhance Your Midweek Club Calendar When I look at Kids4Truth Clubs, I see a fun, exciting program like Vacation Bible School; but this program meets once a week and runs a good part of the calendar year. Since it does run 9–12 months, variety…
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4 Ways to Have Happy Volunteers

4 Ways to Have Happy Volunteers Well-trained volunteers are happy workers, because they know what needs to be done and how to do it. After volunteers’ initial training, ongoing instruction provides additional information for working with children. With this in mind, Kids4Truth Clubs offers a variety…
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Local Club Honors City Police Department

Local Club Honors City Police Department CASS CITY, Mich.—In April, the Cass City Police Department posted a thank-you to First Baptist Church for a gift from the Kids4Truth Clubs children: “In these unsettling times, gestures like this make us even more grateful to work for such…
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Plan a Kids4Truth Clubs Award Ceremony

Plan a Kids4Truth Clubs Award Ceremony Reward students who applied themselves to their memory work during the club year—hold a year-end award ceremony in front of the entire church. During this ceremony, each student who has met your criteria earns a year-end pin and certificate. Each…
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Prepare Children to Carry on the Faith

Prepare Children to Carry on the Faith Christian children are the next generation of pastors, teachers, deacons, and church leaders. While they are young, we should begin preparing them to carry on the faith. Children everywhere are looking to adults as they develop their life philosophies and…
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Kids4Truth Clubs Choir Meets Virtually

Kids4Truth Clubs Choir Meets Virtually Josh and Michelle Plonk minister at Bethel Baptist Church, in Schaumburg, Ill., where he is the children’s pastor and she leads a Kids4Truth Clubs choir. During the coronavirus outbreak (and resulting stay-at-home orders), Michelle has been making videos to go…
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How to Reward Students Remotely

How to Reward Students Remotely ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Churches are holding Kids4Truth Clubs online! Their leaders are experimenting with technology, program schedules, memorization, and the like, including how to reward students remotely. More than simply keeping track of students’ achievements while they’re home, consider these…
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Churches Bring Kids4Truth Clubs Home

Churches Bring Kids4Truth Clubs Home ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—While Kids4Truth Clubs is helping leaders interact with students long-distance during the coronavirus outbreak, some churches have been ahead of the curve. Here is how two churches have maintained personal contact with their students and kept on with…
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Free At-Home Discipleship for Families Sheltering at Home

Free At-Home Discipleship for Families Sheltering at Home ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—With several states and local school districts opting to close public and private schools for the coming weeks during the COVID-19 virus, RBP’s Kids4Truth Clubs is providing free resources to help families while they’re at home. “As Christians,…
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Free Online Kids4Truth Clubs Training Available This Month

Free Online Kids4Truth Clubs Training Available This Month ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—In many areas of the country, school starts this month. And that means Kids4Truth Clubs in local churches are starting too. To help churches train workers, RBP’s Kids4Truth Clubs specialist, Marrena Ralph, hosted an online training session…
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Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn: Pray!

Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn: Pray! 10th in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph You, your knowledge, your abilities, your workers—all are imperfect. God can bless your clubs even when the people and program have weaknesses. But there is…
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Make Workers a Valuable Part of Your Teaching Team

Make Workers a Valuable Part of Your Teaching Team 9th in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph & Jonita Barram The memory techniques you use to help children learn are key, but there is a “secret weapon” in your room that can sink…
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Use Effective Memory Techniques

Use Effective Memory Techniques 8th in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph As you get to know the kids in your club, you get to know their unique needs, which may include help with their memory work.…
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Be Sensitive to Needs

Be Sensitive to Needs 7th in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph Effective use of review games reinforces students’ learning. Marrena suggests tailoring games to employ the students’ various learning styles. But what about their other needs? Read…
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Use Games Effectively

Use Games Effectively 6th in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph You are using a reward system, and that’s great. Kids enjoy being rewarded for doing well, especially in review games, especially when there’s competition! Kids4Truth…
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Use a Reward System

Use a Reward System 5th in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph You’ve shown your students that you value God and His Word, now it’s time to show them that you value their time and effort. Someone…
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Show the Children What You Value

Show the Children What You Value 4th in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph You have evaluated the components of a safe, inviting environment. Now it truly is time to engage with your students. In our society, people show…
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Make Your Program Special

Make Your Program Special 3rd in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph You’ve prayed. You’ve investigated your heart and made changes. Now it’s time to teach! But wait. Before any kids arrive, make your program special. What…
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Be Excited and Zealous

Be Excited and Zealous 2nd in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph You’ve prayed for your students and for yourself as their teacher. You’ve prayed to learn as you read the articles in this series. Now it’s time…
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Pray First: How to Engage Students and Motivate Them to Learn

Pray First: How to Engage Students and Motivate Them to Learn 1st in a Series on Engaging Children and Motivating Them to Learn Marrena Ralph He sat in the seat I wished wasn’t there—you know, that seat where the portable wall pulls out into the room and kids try to “disappear.”…
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Kids Need and Want to Know Who God Is

Kids Need and Want to Know Who God Is By Marrena Ralph A generation or so ago, parents wanted their children to attend church even if they didn’t attend themselves. Those children have grown up but are no longer attending church. Why? Where are they, and why did they…
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