Gospel Zone

Is your church outwardly focused? Are you reaching out to the people in your community?

Here is an object lesson to demonstrate the importance of believing in Jesus and confessing Him as Lord.

Leading kids to Christ is by far the most important responsibility we are entrusted with, here are ten guidelines to help you reach the kids.

The time to lead a child to Christ is now. 

What are the best ways to share your faith with children?

The greatest contribution you can make to your child’s well being is instilling a fervent love for Jesus Christ. But how does this happen? What steps must a parent take in order to lead their child to Christ? How can you ensure that what happens at church is a supplement and not a replacement for spiritual guidance at home?

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Review of Salvation decision following a child's surrender to Christ.

In this episode, Sean Sweet talks about 2 different things that can give anxiety when it comes to preteen ministry. First he talks about how to have percent meetings, and then he talks about Technology and how we can help parents understand what their kids are dealing with.

Glen Woods is well known as thoughtful practitioner of children's ministry. Here he offers his doctoral dissertation on family ministry especially as it relates to small church ministry. For those willing to dive into the topic seriously, they will find this engaging, challenging and thought provoking.  

Did you know Paul used a legal argument to prove Jesus rose from the dead?

How can we share the gospel effectively with children with disabilities?

4 steps to simply sharing the Gospel with the kids in your mnisttry

Create more effective strategies for reaching the lost, by gaining an understanding of the types of lost kids.

How do I teach “Go To Church” when the church doors are closed?

How do we best preserve God's story through the generations?

God is not Santa Claus. His grace is unlike Santa's gifts. It's way better.

Do “Second Generation Christians” really understand the Gospel message?

What methods do we use to teach our kids to be missionaries?

Teach your kids to 'go PRO' in their spiritual growth.

Children are open to hearing the Gospel. Are you speaking it?

Who is Responsible to Disciple my Kids - the church or me?

How can you help your children encounter God personally?

What's the big deal about being loyal to others?

Despite all our best efforts, the kids in your ministry sometimes still stray from the faith. How can we as leaders help keep kids on the right path?

Is church still church if it's online?

A children’s evangelist gives us five steps that might just change the way you think about the follow-up of child converts. Drawing upon over 30 years of full-time evangelism experience with children, Rev. Barney Kinard challenges us to rethink what we are really doing with follow-up. These insights are not only thought provoking, but they can provide a framework to develop your own follow-up program.

Jesus offers this instruction to His disciples as though they really needed this clear word to remove any doubt about His attitude about children. The word “suffer” means literally to “Let.” It would be better read, “Let the little children come.” It carries the idea of being commanded to welcome the children to come to Jesus!  

An Easter presentation that uses the letters of EASTER to tell the real meaning of the holiday.

This card is meant to be used as a tool to help explain the plan of salvation in a simple way to a child. It references our "Second Birthday" in Christ, making it a good tool if you do "Birthday Night" at AWANA. There are cards per page, front and back.

We can be ambassadors for Jesus Christ and shine our lights for Him as we witness to others of His salvation on our lives. We can pray and share the Good News.

A visual object lesson - the audience misses the obvious. Do we miss out on the most important thing in life?

This is a creative way for people in the church to form relationships with those in their community around Easter time.

You need to reach out to others, and when they are ready, they will bite!

This lesson presents the Salvation message with a craft project that will bring home the point. With simple adaptations, it could be used with a wide variety of age groups.

It's important to know what behaviors are Godly and what behaviors are a result of a sinful nature.

This is a short overview of how to lead a child to faith in Christ. It is the outline used by the Kidologist in his workshop by the same name. Includes the classic 'star fish story.'

This game show skit will get your kids involved, and put them on the floor laughing. You can perform it as a puppet skit or as a live skit using your drama team. Or you could take it to the streets and get a community involved. You will need the following: Jesus and costume, three contestants and the voice of the Holy Spirit. Enjoy!

We may never be the person to start a church. BUT we may be the person who claims Jesus as our savior which will cause a sequence of events which will lead to great things for the glory of the Kingdom!

This event is a creative twist for kids where children are guided into different literature stations to explore and celebrate creative literature kids-style.

Christmas Through The Years is a skit about the emptiness of chasing our own dreams. Molly Richards becomes the Queen of Rock and Roll, only to find that inside she's the Queen of Emptiness. After running from God for years, when she reaches rock bottom she final gets saved.  

Great summer community outreach idea!

This highly interactive skit uses familiar characters from Dora the Explorer to teach about forgiveness and the plan of salvation.  

This is a rap song that goes along with the Evangecube or can stand alone.

"Extra Extra Read All About It" is a musical that takes place in a high energy Advice Column (The I Witness News Team) office.  

God Loves You, No Matter What is a sermon which I preached to boys and girls in a Youth Detention Center. It's evangelical and deals with Jesus washing Judas' feet during the last supper.  

I offer prizes to all of the kids who bring guests and to their guests using a giant foam nose. Both the guest and the child who brings the guest get to pick from prizes that I've inserted in the giant foam nose.

Use this Price is Right game show format to invite friends and neighbors to COME ON DOWN for a morning filled games, prizes, and to see if the PRICE is indeed Right. 1 Corinthians 6:20a

This is a scripted "game show" which interviews three very different people - a devote Jew, a blind man and a dynamic Christian. At the end of the game show, the kids find out that all three are the same man - Saul/Paul of Tarsus. The skit concludes by telling the story of Saul's conversion and presenting the gospel.