Free Children's Sunday School Lessons, Teacher Training, Creative Teaching Techniques, Bible software, and more.

Rotation.org's Sunday School Lesson & Resource Forums

We are an online community of Sunday School teachers, Christian educators, and pastors creating, collecting, and sharing free and premium Sunday School lesson plans, creative ideas, and discussion. We are also the official website of the Workshop Rotation Model (The "WoRM"), a creative way to organize and teach Sunday School. Visit our Bible story lesson forums. View our creative Writing Team Lesson Sets. Explore our 24 downloadable Bible story software programs. Get a free Registered Membership or become a Supporting Member for full access to all site resources. Learn more about our volunteer-led, ecumenical, non-profit, ad-free resource ministry!

Reply to "TEACHING ABOUT WORSHIP"

Love to Teach

Parenting in the Pew

While we have done a variety of things including a family Sunday afternoon workshop that focused on worship (Acts 2:42 specifically), baked bread for communion, done a scavenger hunt with comparisons between the temple objects and their significance and modern objects in the sanctuary ... to me the key is educating parents so they can train their kids.

A great book is "Parenting in the Pew" by Robbie Castleman.

Some of my favorite concepts of this book:

Worship is "caught" not "taught".
The idea that parents need to know that "for this season" it's their parental responsibility to model worship and train their kids to worship. Parents may need to get over the fact that they might not "get anything out of the sermon" this week because they're training their child to worship. In the long run, consider the benefits.

And for the kids who don't come to worship with their parents ... why not pair them up with some seasoned Christians who love to worship?

1/27/0810:04 PM

<ul id="{%=id%}ButtonGroup" class="button-group h-popup-buttons even-button-group even-1">
    <li id="{%=id%}Okay_buttonContainer"><a id="{%=id%}Okay" href="javascript:void(0);" class="button success no-margin-bottom h-alert-modal-ok-button" role="button">OK</a><script type="text/javascript">
        (function() {
            function {%=id%}Okay_click(event, data) {
            {%=id%}Popup.hide();
        }
        
                $('#{%=id%}Okay').on('click', {%=id%}Okay_click);
        })();
    </script></li></ul><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="close-reveal-modal" aria-label="Close Modal">&#215;</a><div class="last-modal-focus focus-utility-element" tabindex="0"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
        (function() {
            {%=id%}Popup = new SS.Popup.ModalPopup('{%=id%}');
        })();
    </script>

Skip to main content

Parenting in the Pew

Membership Required

Remove From Your Block List

Manage Follow Preferences

Block

Supporting Membership Required

Supporting Member

Please wait...