Encourage the Discouraged

This past Sunday in Kids Church (1st-6th grades), we continued our series called "Imagine". We are learning about Joshua's imaginative leadership and discovering the Promise, Protection, Pathway, Picture and Power that God  provides His people.

This is a video series, brought to us by Kidmo. We try to use video lessons a few times throughout the year to keep things fresh and to give us time to plan creative elements for our live stuff.

This week, the kids learned that God wants us to encourage the discouraged. We learned that it is important to know that God makes pathways for us, and that we need to share that knowledge with our discouraged friends.

In our small groups, we discussed the following questions:

• Why do you think grownups get discouraged?  We talked about things that discourage adults, and that kids can use their imaginations to encourage them.
• Being discouraged is a sign that we've forgotten something.  What is it?  We looked at Psalm 32:8 and talked about what it means to say, "God will make a pathway".
• How can you use your imagination to help you trust God in difficult situations?  The kids were reminded that "It will be okay when God leads the way."  As a group, the kids developed plans for encouraging their discouraged friends.