Growing Up: God’s Good Story
Growing Up: God’s Good Story is a six week Sunday school resource which age-appropriately visits topics including being given a brilliant, growing body, being made male or female, understanding God’s good design for relationships and handling our big feelings.
We’ve written Growing Up after the popularity of our introductory resource, “Who am I?”, which taught about the identity our Creator God gives us and how that changes our sense of belonging and the value we have.
Growing Up: God’s Good Story goes further, providing age-appropriate teaching on issues such as bodies, being made male or female, handling our feelings and God’s good design for relationships.
Each of our 6 Sunday school sessions is accompanied by…
- A training video for the kids leader
- A supporting podcast and take-home sheet just for the parents
- A kids podcast for the whole family to enjoy together.
We can all find talking about these topics challenging – we want to start conversations and support parents to continue them. With parents and churches working in partnership, we hope our children will trust God’s good story for Growing Up. Let’s help each other out so our kids can win.
In this download you will also find some slides you can use in your church to show what lesson is being taught that week, including a QR code linking to the Growing Up podcasts.
What is Growing Up?
Overview of Sessions
Growing Up: God’s Good Story looks at identity issues such as bodies, being made male or female, handling our feelings and God’s good design for relationships. These are important topics for us all to get to grips with so we have written a component for 11-14s, using the same session titles and Bible passages, to help the whole church family explore them together. There is also a plan to help with running a parent information session before you start. We can all find these topics challenging – we want to start conversations and support parents to continue them. Let’s help each other so our young people can trust God’s good story for growing up. We would love to hear your feedback about this resource as this is our first adventure into the 11-14s space.
The Training
Resource Showcase
This 42 minute video showcases the suite of resources on offer in the Growing Up series.
Partnering with Parents
Training on starting the conversation with parents on bodies, gender and marriage.
Training Videos
Use these to inspire and equip your team ahead of teaching the Sunday School sessions.
The Podcasts
This Book is Part of the Who Am I? Suite of Resources
Who Am I? Foundation Course
This 7-week resource for churches will help open up positive conversations with families. With study notes, all age talks, activities, visuals, questions and parents handouts you can take on their biggest questions.
Raising Confident Kids in a Confusing World
Full of biblical truth, practical wisdom and discussion questions, this book will inspire and equip parents to help their children find their identity in being made and loved by Jesus. The real-life stories it contains are drawn from every stage of family life, from birth through to the teenage years, making it a valuable resource for any parent. It can be read alone, as a couple or in a group with others from your church.
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