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Teaching Children Authentic Worship Julie Weslake

Teaching Children Authentic Worship Julie Weslake. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God. WORSHIP is everything we do in response to God’s wonderful gift. It is: Our beliefs, values, and behaviour Our praise, prayer and Bible study Our decisions about life-style choices:

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Teaching Children Authentic Worship Julie Weslake

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  1. Teaching Children Authentic Worship Julie Weslake

  2. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • WORSHIP is everything we do in response to God’s wonderful gift. • It is: • Our beliefs, values, and behaviour • Our praise, prayer and Bible study • Our decisions about life-style choices: • friends, school, church, home, hobbies, • sports, entertainment, and more

  3. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God “Give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life. And use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God.” Romans 6:13

  4. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God The children were shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they (priests) were indignant. “Do you hear what the children are saying?” they asked Him (Jesus) “Yes” Jesus said, “have you never read, “From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise?” Matthew 21:14-16

  5. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Children worship using all the learning styles. • Visual - see it • Auditory - hear it • Tactile - touch it • Kinaesthetic - do it

  6. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God Children have certain abilities and attitudes which lie at the heart of worship. They are aware of their environment and the community around them. They are capable of intense identification and imaginative hearing. They are infectiously enthusiastic. They can be sacrificially generous and honest in their responses. They respond physically and emotionally to what they see and hear. ... Children bring to worship a directness and simplicity of faith. They are spontaneous. They are receptive and have hope. They know how to show thankfulness and joy; [Ng & Thomas 1981: 16, 23].

  7. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God Children have certain abilities and attitudes which lie at the heart of worship. They are aware of their environment and the community around them. They are capable of intense identification and imaginative hearing. They are infectiously enthusiastic. They can be sacrificially generous and honest in their responses. They respond physically and emotionally to what they see and hear. ... Children bring to worship a directness and simplicity of faith. They are spontaneous. They are receptive and have hope. They know how to show thankfulness and joy; [Ng & Thomas 1981: 16, 23].

  8. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God They learn to worship by worshipping - experiencing and participating. Nurture the sense of wonder and awe. “I wonder what God looks like?” “I wonder why God made that bird like that?” “Wow, look what God has done.”

  9. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Praise and Worship • Music • Prayer • Giving • Meditative • Personal • All –age worship

  10. MUSIC I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • “Sing to the Lord a new song . . . “ Psalm 149:1 • Use music to lift children up to God. • Have background music playing as children arrive. • Have it as a backdrop to activities. • Use music to teach memory verses.

  11. MUSIC I Love Jesus Reaches up to God “There are few means more effective for fixing His (Christ’s) words in the memory than repeating them in song . . It is one of the most effective means of impressing the heart with spiritual truth.” Education, pp.167,168

  12. MUSIC I Love Jesus Reaches up to God “As He (Jesus) grew older He was tempted, but the songs His mother had taught him to sing came into His mind, and He would lift His voice in praise . . . His praise seemed to banish the evil angels, and like incense, fill the place with fragrance.” Evangelism, pp. 498,499

  13. MUSIC I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Choose songs to support Gracelink themes of Grace, Worship, Community and Service. • Children are multisensory learners. • Allow them to move their arms, jump or clap. • Increase understanding by having pictures to see and objects to hold that relate to the song. • Encourage older children to write their own songs and write tunes for scripture.

  14. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God “I love the Lord because He hears and answers my prayers. Because He bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I have breath!” Psalm 116:1,2. NTL

  15. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Teach them about God’s place in their lives and the purpose of prayer. • God hear us when we pray. • God wants to be our friend. • God wants us to talk to Him every day about everything we’re thinking about and need. • Prayer is great and really important. • God wants us to pray for others.

  16. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Stages • Beginner • Prayer is associated with love and closeness. Start using one word prayers or repeating prayers. Later sentence prayers. Learn to fold their hands and later their eyes. • Kindergarten • Have faith God will answer prayer. Pray about everything. Self-centred prayers. Often confused about how their prayers reach God. • Teaching the Faith. Donna Habenicht & Larry Burton

  17. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • This little finger says “I love you” • This little finger says “I’m sorry” • This little finger says “I’ll share with you” • This little finger says “Thankyou” • This little finger says “Please help” • In Jesus name Amen.

  18. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Primary • Now realise that not all children pray. That pray not answered may be because they have been naughty. Start to pray for specific things and others. • Junior • Prayer is a private conversation with God. Heard by God and comes from feelings and needs. • Earliteen • Prayer changes the prayer. Prayer is valuable. Specific requests. • Teaching the Faith. Donna Habenicht & Larry Burton

  19. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Praying aloud • KISS – keep it simple and sincere • ACTS – adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication • M& M prayers – red (Jesus), blue (sick) green (food). • Prayer bags/prayer cubes • Build a personal faith story by keeping a prayer journal – a prayer corner

  20. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Creative Ideas • Adapt party games – balloon prayers, treasure hunt prayers, pass the parcel • Make display items with prayers written on them • Prayer paper chains, pictures, prayer spinners • Object lesson prayers – stones in the sea • Prayer e-mails • Fingertip Prayers

  21. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God Responsive Prayers Happy smells – Proverbs 27.9 “For fragrant rose petals and fresh mown lawns” We want to say thankyou Lord! For …… …… ……. ……. ……. We want to sat thankyou Lord For …… …… ……. ……. ……. We want to sat thankyou Lord For …… …… ……. ……. ……. We want to sat thankyou Lord

  22. PRAYER I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Numbers 6:24-26 • The Lord bless you and keep you • The Lord make His face shine upon you • And be gracious to you • The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. • Pray for children • Help children to prayer for each other

  23. GIVING I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Give children opportunities to give to Jesus. • Present the needs of the missions and encourage generosity. • Be creative with displays and offering containers. • All I have I give You, • though my gifts are small. • Money, time and talents, • Jesus, have them all!

  24. GIVING I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Teach the value of tithing. • TITHE is returned to God in recognition that He owns and supplies everything • (Psalm 24:1; Leviticus 27:30). • Tithe is 10% of our increase and is returned through His storehouse (the church) to support ministry locally, nationally and internationally . • (Malachi 3:8-12; 1 Corinthians 9:13, 14).

  25. MEDITATIVE I Love Jesus Reaches up to God “For spiritual formation . . . Children need to slow down and have time for reflection.” They need role models to show them how to do this.” Ivy Beckworth. Formational Children’s Ministry They need quiet places and quiet times in the Sabbath School where they can pray and reflect.

  26. MEDITATIVE I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • In debriefing activities sometimes send children off to quiet corners where they can think through reflective questions. Children can bought back together to share. • Sometimes require them to pray alone. • Set an atmosphere for quiet and reflection by dimming the lighting and having candles. • Get children to quietly think about scripture passage. • Distribute flowers and ask for quiet reflection on God’s wonderful creation

  27. PERSONAL I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • Give young children a few minutes of quiet time looking at Bible picture books, while Mum or Dad read their Bible. • Kindergarten children can have their own special “God Time” in a quiet place. Have a “Toolkit for them of supplies. • Take children out into nature to listen to birds, see animals and smell the flowers. • Older children. Add age –appropriate CD’s and books to the Toolkit. Add prayer journals. • Teaching the Faith. Donna Habenicht & Larry Burton

  28. ALL-AGE I Love Jesus Reaches up to God Joel 2:16,28-29 “Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. … ‘And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.”

  29. ALL-AGE I Love Jesus Reaches up to God “Children are spiritually formed when they observe their parents and the other members of the faith community practicing the worship of God.” Ivy Beckworth. Formational Children’s Ministry

  30. “Children believe that Church is mostly for adults unless they are included in a meaningful way. Children believe that they have no say in what happens in the church unless they are given some ownership. Children believe that they have nothing significant to contribute unless their input is valued and respected. Children believe that they are always the receivers in church unless adults are open to receiving ministry from them. Children believe that they must wait until they are older to discover their gifts and callings unless their gifts and callings are recognised and encouraged.” Kirk, DaphneHeirs Together England Kevin Mayhew 2003

  31. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • We praise God for His loving actions • We worship God by what we do • We are thankful for the birth of Jesus • Worship makes us joyful every day • We worship the creator • We thank God for being with us • Beginner/ Kindergarten GraceLink themes

  32. WORSHIP I Love Jesus Reaches up to God • We tell God we love Him when we worship Him • We worship God when we obey him • We praise God for the gift of Jesus • Worship makes us joyful every day • We worship the creator • We worship God every day • We learn why we worship God • Worshipping is sharing our love for Jesus • Primary GraceLink Curriculum messages

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