Sunday Morning Lessons

Date: July, 2026

Early Childhood Essential: God is with his people.

Memory Verse:  “Be strong and courageous… God is with you wherever you go.” -Joshua 1:9

Bible Story Focus: Walls of Jericho | Joshua 6 

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, children will hear about the walls of Jericho falling down. God had asked His people to “Hero-Up” in a very strange way, but when they followed God and trusted Him, God showed up in a BIG way. God is with His people, even when we don’t understand how He is working.

Date: July 5th & 12th, 2026

Early Childhood Essential: God is with his people.

Memory Verse: “Be strong and courageous… God is with you wherever you go.” -Joshua 1:9

Bible Story Focus:  The Burning Bush | Exodus 3  

Lesson Overview: In this lesson, children will hear about the walls of Jericho falling down. God had asked His people to “Hero-Up” in a very strange way, but when they followed God and trusted Him, God showed up in a BIG way. God is with His people, even when we don’t understand how He is working.

Circle Time Questions: (Preschool Purple Only)

• July 5^th: Have you ever seen a really tall building? What did it look like?

   

• July 12^th: Have you even been asked to do something that sounded silly to you?

Activities:

•  July 5^th: Jericho Blow Horn Craft

• July 12^th: Marching Around Tower

Date: July 5th, 2026

Early Childhood Essential: God is with his people.

Memory Verse:  “Be strong and courageous… for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” -Joshua 1:9 

Monthly Topic: Hero Up

Bible Story Focus:  The Walls of Jericho | Joshua 6 

Lesson Overview: This lesson will explore how important encouraging others of truth is. The Tiny Turtles T-Ball team is about to play their hardest rival and they’re afraid they just aren’t good enough. The team needs a leader that will remind them what’s true! Children will look at the story of Deborah in the Bible and see how she reminds God’s people of the BIG truth that God is with His people.

Circle Time Questions:

•  What makes someone a good leader? (Children might need examples of a leader- teachers, parents, coaches, a line leader or classroom helper.)

I Wonder Questions:

• Why did God’s people need help?

  • he Canaanites had taken over their land.

•  What important truth was Barak forgetting?
  • Barak forgot that God is with His people.)
•  Did God help His people?
  • YES! God helped His people defeat the Canaanites just like He promised. 

Activities:

• 8:15 & 10:45: “Trust in God” Room Hunt

   

• 9:30: Trust Obstacle Course

Date: July 5th, 2026

Unit: Echoes of Eden

Elementary Essential: God is sovereign: In the beginning, he created everything. He holds all things together by the power of his word. Nothing is too hard for him.  

Unit Overview: Not only are books a way to connect and build community, but they can also teach us, help us understand emotion, and give us perspectives that may be different than our own. Echoes of Eden is a curriculum written by Crossing Kids that uses popular children’s picture books and helps pull in concepts of the Gospel, or “Echoes of Eden”.

In this unit, children will examine the way the Gospel helps us to make sense of all of life, including art in the words and illustrations of great books. Together, we will search for places where the beauty of the Gospel intersects and points to the greatest story of all and discover how to engage with our culture in winsome ways. Each week, kids will read a book and hunt for Gospel truths within while focusing on one key verse connected to the literature. They’ll do an activity (ex. craft, game, science experiment) to help them have a tangible reminder of what they just learned.

Lesson Title: Actual Size

Lesson Overview: Each illustration in Actual Size depicts part of an animal’s actual dimensions. Collage work and bright colors capture the beauty and mystery of creation. Captions provide information about the exact size and weight of each animal that’s listed. Children will reflect on the majesty of God’s creation by creating collage art. 

Lesson Scripture: Genesis 1:1 

Lesson Objective: Identify ways God is creative.  

Lesson Application: When I look at creation, I can celebrate God because he made everything.

Date: July 5th, 2026

Unit:  The Lord’s Prayer: Teach Us to Pray 

Elementary Essential: God is Relational: He invites us to talk to him through prayer. 

Unit Overview: Jesus’s friends and followers asked Jesus how to pray. He gave them the Lord’s Prayer as a model. Jesus gave this prayer for his followers then, but also for his followers today. Throughout the summer, children will learn that prayer is talking with and listening to God. They will explore what prayer is, how to pray, and work to memorize The Lord’s Prayer. Each week will unpack a phrase of this famous prayer in hopes that children will understand why Jesus uses this as a model prayer to teach us how to pray to God.  

Lesson Title: You Will Be Done

Lesson Overview: This week we’ll focus on the phrase: “Your will be done.” Children will read and discuss the story of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane and the fact that he models what it looks like to pray honestly about hard things while ultimately asking for God’s will to be done.  

Lesson Scripture:  Matthew 6:9-13, Matthew 26:36-46  

Lesson Objective:  Children will understand God is good, He gives what is best, and He does what is best even when there is pain in our lives.  

Lesson Application: I can be honest with God about the things that make me sad, scared, and overwhelmed.

Date: July 5th, 2026

Unit: Questions Jesus Asked

Elementary Essential: God is our rescuer: The Bible is one big story of God rescuing people from sin. 

Lesson Title: Do you want to get well?  

Unit Overview: In this 13-week unit, 4th and 5th graders will spend their time looking at some of the questions Jesus asked real people in the New Testament. Each week, students will explore a question and the context surrounding it. They will discover that Jesus did not ask questions to learn the answer but rather to help us learn more about Him.

 

Students will explore the life and ministry of Jesus, and most importantly, they will learn about the Jesus who sees us, hears us, and loves us. Students will discover that far more than our outward actions, Jesus cares about the desires of our hearts and invites us into a relationship with him.

 

Each lesson will be rooted in building a greater understanding of how the entire Bible points to Jesus’s work on the cross. All of Jesus’s encounters with people were built around pointing them toward the good news of his death and resurrection and how that brought us into a reconciled relationship with our Heavenly Father.  

Lesson Scripture: John 5:1-15  

Lesson Overview: Students will learn about the man sitting by the pool on the Sabbath. He wanted his body to be healed, but Jesus had a greater plan to heal his heart from sin. Students will also play the dot game. Even though they can’t see their own dot, they can see the dots on their friends and help them find the corner of the room that matches their color. 

Lesson Objective: Students will recognize that we all have a sickness called sin that Jesus came to heal. 

Application: I can walk confidently with Jesus because the sin that was keeping me behind has been removed. I can be excited to follow him, obey him and do good work for him.