Updates
Update: Slow Posting
I just wanted to upload this short post to let you, my awesome readers, know what’s going on with my schedule and why its affecting my frequency of posting.
The months of June-July have always been the most hectic months for me every year. It seams as if these are the moths when I’m at my busiest.
- Projects with my church media ministry regularly keep me busy.
- I have my weekly lessons to prepare for.
- We are currently organizing our V.B.S. program and will begin decorating four days a week.
- We have two conferences being held by my church in the next few months.
- Not to mention the grind of daily life and all that comes with it.
Hopefully as July come to an end the chaos will settle down enough where I can dedicate a lot more time into planing more and more crafts and activity pages.
I will try to update the blog from time to time when I have some free time, but by August things should be back to normal.
Update: Vacation Bible School Crafts 2015
All the crafts for Lifeway’s Journey Off The Map and Gospel Light’s SonSpark Lab’s can now be found on the blog.
Journey Off The Map Bible Crafts
https://craftingthewordofgod.com/journey-off-the-map-bible-crafts/
SonSpark Labs Bible Crafts
https://craftingthewordofgod.com/sonspark-labs-bible-crafts/
You can also find them on my Pinterest page.
Update: V.B.S. Crafts
This is just a quick update on where I am on the V.B.S. crafts.
I am still working hard to finish uploading all the crafts and coloring pages for the three V.B.S. programs.
I am about finished uploading all of the coloring and activity pages, I will start uploading the crafts in a week and hope to finish uploading all the crafts in no more than a month.
Things might get a little hectic with Easter coming up very shortly, I will need to plan crafts for the holiday, but I will be doubling down on V.B.S.
Update: Coloring Pages And Crafts
This post is just a quick heads up about a few things that will be happening in the first couple of months on my blog.
In the next few weeks I will be posting a few new coloring pages with the permission of Patmos Editorial Company. A few will be from the Old Testament and some will be from the New Testament.
If you have never heard of Patmos Editorial Company they are headquartered in the state of Florida and offer Christian resources and materials in Spanish. Feel free to visit their website. HERE
Now that the holidays have passed I will be kicking it into high gear and will shortly resume posting a new craft every 3 days.
And lastly keep your eyes out for the crafts I will be uploading for the three winners of the V.B.S. 2015 poll. The crafts will be up around March/April.
What A Wonderful Year
As this year comes to an end I look back at 2014 and I don’t focus on the time I have spent creating the crafts on my site.
Instead I fondly remember every word of encouragement, every comment as a blessing, every exhortation from my fellow bloggers and every email from my wonderful readers.
I couldn’t and wouldn’t have wanted to carry on this blog without you.
My hope as the new year approaches is that my blog can continue to serve you and be a blessing to your church and childrens ministry.
I can’t wait to see what 2015 has in store for my little blog.
With extreme gratitude,
Jesus Rolon
I would like to leave you with my top 5 favorite crafts from 2014.
Rahab Hides The Two Spies
Samsons Hair
Feeding The 5,000 Paper Basket
Ark Of The Covenant
Jonah Sun Catcher
Update: Vacation Bible School 2015 Winners
The poll is now closed and the winners are:
SonSpark Labs- Gospel Light
Journey Off The Map- Lifeway
Everest- Group
In the next couple of months I will be working hard on coming up with the crafts for these three V.B.S. programs.
I will post the crafts up in March/April.
Update: Vacation Bible School 2015 Poll
Here is the official Vacation Bible School 2015 poll.
Make sure to vote for your favorite or I won’t plan the crafts for your preferred V.B.S. provider.
The poll will be open for a week and then the three top voted winners will be announced. (I mentioned yesterday that I would have it open until December, but “polldaddy” only allows me to have the poll running for a week at most.)
POLL CLOSED
Update: Vacation Bible School 2015
This is just a quick head up. Tomorrow I will be posting the V.B.S. contest poll that I have been doing for the past two years.
The poll helps me know what V.B.S program or curriculum I should be designing the crafts for.
Since I’m short on time I only plan the crafts for the top three voted V.B.S. programs.
The poll will go up tomorrow and it will stay open until December when the three winners will be announced. Then in April I will post the crafts themselves.
If you want to make sure that I include your favorite V.B.S. provider, leave their information in the comments section and make sure to come back and vote for your favorite between the months of November and December.
Update: Scripture Explorers Club
Last week I quickly mentioned that my church is currently working on creating and implementing our own childrens ministry program and that I would later explain it in more detail in a later post.
This post will be a quick rundown through the program. It will not cover every little detail, but it will give you a good idea of what the program will be like.
In the coming weeks we hope to create a website where all the material will be uploaded and available to be downloaded for free by any church that wishes to try out the Scripture Explorers program.
The program is called Scripture Explorers.
Club motto: “Worshipping God By Knowing Him And Making Him Known”
Club Verse: “and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:15
Club focus: Teaching children the foundational truths of Gods Word so that they can have a concrete understanding of God Himself and be equipped to share Him with others.
The club will be divided into different age groups.
The first group are the Lambs.
Age: 3 to 4 years old.
Group verse: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” John 10:27
Mascot name: Wool.
The second group are the Bees.
Age: Kindergarten to Second grade.
Group verse: “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” Psalm 119:103
Mascot name: Pollen
The third group are the Ants.
Age: Third grade to Sixth grade.
Group verse: “I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11
Mascot name: Harvest.
The last group are the Eagles.
Age: Middle school to High school.
Group verse: “And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:15
Mascot name: Feathers.
Workbooks
Children in each group will first have to complete an entrance booklet before they earn their main book. (Sample)
The entrance booklet serves two purposes:
- It will give kids a sample of what they will be learning in the main book.
- They will learn to get into the practice of memorizing Bible verses.
After they finish the entrance booklet they will earn and work on the main book. (Sample)
The book is divided into different sections with a variety of lessons in each.
Each lesson is divided into 4 sections:
- Biblical Truth- The main teaching of the lesson.
- QandA- The application of the teaching.
- Definitions- An explanation of specific word(s) that help kids understand the Bible verse.
- Memorize- The Bible verse that the kids need to memorize.
Every year the book will cover a specific doctrine.
Book One is The Bible. Kids will learn the answer to questions like: What is the Bible? How did we get the Bible? Why is the Bible important? How can we trust that the Bible is true?
The next books will cover doctrines like: God, Creation, The Fall Of Man, Christ, Justification, Sanctification.
Every group will use the same book, although adapted for their age.
The Bible Lesson
The teaching will be based on the lessons from the book. This way the handbook helps to reinforce the lesson and the lesson helps to reinforce the handbook.
So this was a very quick rundown/outline of the program itself.
When the website goes up we will also include other resources like: clip art, achievement pages, ideas for uniforms, ideas for book-bags, certificates, coloring pages, door hangers and flyers, postcards, forms (registration, weekly point sheets, sign in) and of course the logos.
Ill let you guys know as soon as the website is up and running. So keep your eyes out for that.
Update: Things Getting Back To Normal
As I posted before and some of you know, things got a little hectic in my life and this affected the amount of times that I could update my blog.
This quick post is to let you know that things have finally gotten back to normal.
- I had a great time at V.B.S. The kids played games and had fun, but most importantly by the end of the week they had all been presented and understood the gospel.
Our new kids program is in the final stages of production. It’s going to be called Scripture Explorers Club. In the future I’ll do a dedicated post explaining it in more detail for those of you that might be interested. It will be similar to another children’s program called A.W.A.N.A.
This coming week I will begin to resume updating my blog at my usual schedule.
I will be focusing heavily on Thanksgiving crafts since it is only two months away and after that comes the Christmas crafts season.
Thanks for your patience in this slow blog posting time 🙂
Crafting The Word Of God 
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