Soul Care with kids can be more than babysitting.

Please read to the end. 
Even if your group doesn't have any children.

I recently posted about Soul Care and children for the whole church
http://blog.emmanuelbaptist.com/soul-care-for-families/

I wanted to provide you as leaders some more details.
In our group, Krista and I are working on this but are planning to have some others lead 

 We have two different Soul Care groups that meet at our house.
1st and 3rd Thursday 6:30 - 7:50
2nd and 4th Thursday 6:30 -7:50
We have a 10 minute time with the entire family.
This is what we did last week.

The Sunday before, the children studied the Wise Men.  
You can find out what the kids are studying by going to http://ekidzministry.blogspot.com

Here was the set up:
Before the families arrived I placed 8 yellow post it notes around the room.  
Four of them are visible in the picture below.
I had the kids, in their seats find the stars but not say anything.
After a minute or two of looking, I had them point out what the stars were.

I told them that the wise men were following one star that led them to the ONE SAVIOR, who they worshiped. 

Here is a video of most of the time.
During this meeting time we had 24 people.



 

Total time:  less than 10 minutes

After this time together, the kids go play together.  
For supervision someone from the 1st & 3rd group comes to help during the 2nd & 4th group. 
And the following week the opposite happens.  
We have the additional help of my mother-in-law who helps out when needed.

BENEFITS:  
Parents, kids and other people learning and being reminded of God's truth as a group.
Families see an example of family worship.
Kids grow to love more than a kids program.  They are learning Bible truths together. They are learning to play together.  They are learning to serve together.
More on the benefits next week.