Sunday Morning Lessons

Elementary Essential: 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 Summary: In this story, children learn that though there are many different things that other children around the world experience on a daily basis, there are still many things that we have in common. Through poetic text and rich illustrations, these similarities are celebrated in a way that reminds us that all people are made in the image of a creative God. Children will make a soccer ball from bags, like many children around the world play with every day.

Elementary Essential: 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.

Listen to the Lord’s Prayer playlist as you drive around town: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6KuVB9MvASNML50KNHMWsX?si=ghxkmKjyTnGddhOWB2u06Q

Lesson Summary: This week we’ll focus on the phrase: “And forgive our sins.” Children will read and discuss the book The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross. They’ll learn that sin separates us from our holy God, but that through Jesus’s death and resurrection, our sin can be forgiven and our relationship with God can be restored.

Elementary Essential: 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 Summary: Students will look at what Jesus asked his disciples when he went up on the Mount of Olives to pray. Jesus asked, “Why are you sleeping?” and told them to get up and pray so they would not fall into temptation. Students will also play a game called “Sleeping Lions” where the last kid (lion) to wake up wins the game.