Learning Materials & Other Resources
A Child’s Journey of Spiritual Formation, by Vernie Schorr Love. A Curriculum and Guide for Spiritual Formation with Children For Parents and Children’s Ministries. This curriculum is a spiritual formation experience created specifically for children. The seven modules are written for church environments. Adjustments to the space (room) and the use of guides may be made, as needed, for homeschool, school, or home church environments. Each session includes guided sessions of wondering and exploring Bible stories: Art, Think About God, Journal, and Sand Stations.
Module 3 Advent: from a Child's Journey of Spiritual Formation, Advent is the intentional waiting for Jesus' birth. It takes place the four Sundays leading up to Christmas day. Each Sunday there is a story about real people from the Bible - Elizabeth and Zechariah, Mary and Joseph, Shepherds and the Magi, and Simeon and Anna. Each session offers an opportunity to participate in an Arts station, a Think About God station, a Journal station, or a Sand station. Children are guided to practice solitude, silence, and prayer.
Module 5 Lent: from a Child's Journey of Spiritual Formation, Lent is the season of forty days from Ash Wednesday until Easter. It is a time to remember Jesus’ life and to think about what Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection mean to his followers.
During our season of Lent we may:
⎯ remember the life of Jesus
⎯ reflect and think about what Jesus means to us
⎯ repent, or be regretful, for making choices that do not reflect God’s character
We may choose Lent as a time to grow and deepen our friendship with God through Jesus.
Compass: A Guide for Character and Spiritual Formation in Children, by Vernie Schorr Love, is a fresh, relevant, twenty-first century source of information and materials for integrating character and spiritual formation activities into family, school, sport, and church curriculum.
Spiritual Disciplines for Children, by Vernie Schorr Love. Much has been written for adults about their spiritual formation and about the practice of classic spiritual disciplines. Very little has been written for adults who work with children on how to guide children in practices that form their spirit toward Christlikeness. Spiritual Disciplines for Children offers readers the tools they need personally—and the tools they need practically—to guide children in Christian spiritual formation using twelve spiritual practices.
A Voyage of Spiritual Formation with Children Training, by Vernie Schorr Love. This training includes skills, ideas, and learning experiences designed for parents, grandparents, children’s leaders and advocates to continue their personal spiritual and character formation and increase their effectiveness to model and guide the children they serve to become people who have a personal relationship with God through His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit. And who reflect His character and likeness in their everyday walk around lives.
We will ….
Define Christlike spiritual formation.
Identify the personal views, ideas, and beliefs of God presently held.
Discover your view of God and consider ways to create a view of God that prevents a false narrative of God.
Discover ways to identify children’s present view of God and form true functional images of God (God is always greater; God is always near; God’s image is revealed in Christ.)
Explore ways to practice spiritual disciplines with children.
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This training is available online.
Two CDs, It Takes Love and a Child’s Journey with God’s Love, reinforce the content found in the A Voyage of Spiritual Formation with Children Training.
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The Story of Jesus for Children, is the children's version of the JESUS film. Originally published by Campus Crusade for Christ and scripted by Vernie Schorr Love.
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The Greatest Promise, by Vernie Schorr Love, is a booklet written for children to explain the gospel message of salvation. Contact us for purchase information.