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 12th, 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: In this lesson, we will reinforce the concept that God is steadfast. Michael was picked by his swimming coach to be in a big race, but Michael isn’t sure if he’s a good enough swimmer to do it. Children will read the story of Gideon and see how Gideon was also unsure if he was ready to “Hero-Up.” Gideon’s story reminds us that God is with His people, if God asks us to “Hero-Up” He will be there to help us! 

Circle Time Questions: 

• Have you ever felt like you were not the right person for a helper job?

I Wonder Questions:

• Why did Gideon think God made a mistake in picking him to face the Midianites?

   

  • (Gideon though he was too weak and too small to fight the Midianites.)

     

• How did God show Gideon His great power?

   

  • (God showed His power with the wool and the food on the stick.)

     

• Was God with Gideon when he faced the Midianites?

   

  • (YES! God is with His people.) 

Activities:

• 8:15 & 10:45: Mini Barbell Craft

   

• 9:30: Blanket Craft

Date: July 12th

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: Looking Down

Lesson Overview: This wordless book starts with a zoomed-out view of outer space and gradually gets closer and closer to the earth, eventually focusing on the smallest insects digging in the ground. Children will put together a puzzle that has Colossians 1:16-17 on it. They will receive their own puzzle to decorate and take home.  

Lesson Scripture: Colossians 1:16b-17 

Lesson Objective: Learn that God is in control of all things big and small. 

Lesson Application: I can remember that God is in charge of everything, including my life. 

Date: July 12th

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: On Earth as It Is In Heaven

Lesson Overview: This week we’ll focus on the phrase: “On earth as it is in heaven.” They will read and discuss The Awesome Super Fantastic Forever Party by Joni Eareckson Tada and what things will be like when Jesus returns according to Revelation 21. They will discuss that this part of the prayer reminds us that when Jesus returns everything will be made right once and for all. It also reminds us that Jesus invites us to be a part of this restoration work even now. We get to be part of how God is making the earth we live in more and more like heaven.  

Lesson Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13, Revelation 21  

Lesson Objective: Children will understand that we should long for the day Jesus comes back and restores everything that is broken.  

Lesson Application: I can ask for help to make the world we like in more like what life will be like when Jesus returns. 

Date: July 12th

Unit: Questions Jesus Asked

Elementary Essential: God is Good: He does what is best.

Lesson Title: Why Do You Worry? 

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 look at what Jesus says about worry in the middle of his Sermon on the Mount. They will also make pipe cleaner emotion bracelets with different colored beads for worry, joy, sadness, and anger.  

Lesson Objective: Students will recognize that we have a heavenly Father who cares about us and all our needs.  

Application: I can trust that God loves to look after me and His plans are always good.