Over the years, the Restore Project has developed some materials for children's spiritual growth. Over time, we started receiving feedback from readers sharing how they've used these projects in their homes, churches, and schools, so today I'd like to share these ideas with you, hoping they might assist you in your ministry with children.

One of the projects my husband and I developed was a short video about children's personal devotion and several people have already shared with me that they've used it at home with their children and during the church's Children's Worship time to encourage kids to start their quiet time with God. Our friend Suely, in addition to showing it during Children's Worship, gave each child in Kindergarten and Primary classes a CD of meditations and a spiritual development chart. I don't know exactly what Suely's chart looked like, but this past weekend at my district's quarterly meeting (which, by the way, was excellent!) I saw a very easy-to-make model. It was a sheet with the child's name and below it a grid with items like: personal devotion, worship, lesson study, and prayer (vertically) and the days of the week (horizontally) so that the child could mark an 'X' for each day of the week. At the quarterly meeting, the sheet came with a basket containing items such as: a children's Bible, a coloring book, CDs of Bible stories or songs, etc. Kátia's idea, who organized the quarterly meeting, is to prepare this basket and let each child in the Sabbath School class keep it for a week to develop their personal devotion time, marking their activities on the paper. I really liked the idea!

Another fantastic idea came from my cousin Kristianne, who is a teacher at an Adventist school in the USA. After watching the video on children's personal devotion she decided to encourage her students to develop their personal devotion time. She then created a project called TAG Tent (Time Alone with God), which is a little tent for personal time with God. She set up a small tent in the classroom and also placed a basket with various items, similar to what I mentioned above, plus a CD player with headphones. She says the children were so excited about the idea of going into the tent that they were even delaying their assignments. Initially, she thought it would hinder their academic performance, but then she decided to let each student spend 8 to 10 minutes in the tent, even if they lost a little school time, because they would be gaining much more by developing communion with God.

The project My Friend, the Spirit My Friend, the Holy Spirit was responsible for starting a small group at Suely's church. After presenting the material to the parents, everyone recognized the importance of children's spiritual revival and decided to meet, thus starting a small parents' group. This material also encouraged the launch of the website Little Light. Karine and Marcos, who have already been dedicated to providing revival and reform materials, learned about the material and also became concerned with children's spirituality, deciding to prepare a website especially for children, but also with materials for parents and teachers. If you haven't seen it yet, visit and encourage children to read the blog.

Another friend, Karina, used the material My Friend, the Holy Spirit during Children's Worship at church for eight Saturdays. Each Saturday she presented a theme and even created a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate each topic. If you decide to use it in your church, you can download the PowerPoint here.

I am very grateful to God to know that so many children are being led to Jesus through these materials. If you have other ideas, please share them with me to help others as well. Praise God!Another material we produced more recently that can also be very useful in helping children develop their personal devotion time is the CD “Good Morning, Jesus”.

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