Upcoming Events:
Fall Missions Festival
Children's Missions Explosions
Kids Camp
Related Links:
Alabama WMU Day
of Prayer & Kathleen
Mallory Mission Offering
National WMU:
GA Passport
Children in Action
Mission Friends
The curriculum
materials may be purchased through National WMU.
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Bringing the
Good News . . .
through
Preschoolers & Children
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Children in
Action:
A church may choose to have boys and girls together to
learn about missions because there are not enough children to have both GAs
and RAs or the leadership is limited. This is a place for Children in Action
(CiA). Leaders of Children in Action groups use MISSIONS MATCHFILE to
guide them in teaching each week. MISSIONS MATCHFILE is a quarterly
publication of National WMU that contains everything a leader needs to teach
boys and girls about missionaries and their work. There are also additional
resources for leaders, including the
CiA web site.
Children in Action members participate in active learning - games,
tasting foods from other cultures, hearing stories from missionaries and
doing mission projects that relate to the missionaries and their work. CiA
members can go to camp and earn badges to extend their missions learning.
Boys and girls in grades 1-6 also enjoy learning about and praying for MKs
(Missionary Kids) each week. The missions areas for CiA and GAs are
coordinated; the same resource information can be used by both
organizations. For more information or to begin CiA in your church, contact
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Girls in Action:
Girls love coming to GA! It is an
exciting place for girls in grades 1-6 to continue learning about
missionaries and their work. As the girls learn about missions, they also
learn about different cultures, religions, foods and the need of so many
people in the world to know about Jesus. GAs learn to pray for, give to and
participate in missions. Girls enjoy going to summer missions camp, doing
special projects to help others learn about Jesus and earning badges while
they are learning about missions. GAs also learn about MKs (Missionary Kids)
by praying form them each week. The MKs share about the places they live and
the work their families do. Many missionaries tell of their call to missions
during the years they attended GAs. They learn that God loves everyone and
that everyone should have a part in telling others about this special love.
Leaders of GA use AWARE as a guide for teaching each week, and
supplemental resources are available. Younger girls enjoy Discovery
magazine, and older girls enjoy GA World.
For more information or to begin GA in your
church, contact Alabama WMU Consultant
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Mission Friends:.
Preschoolers (birth to pre-first) enjoy learning about missionaries and
their work in a Mission Friends Class. Leaders use START magazine as
a guide for teaching each week. Supplemental resources also are available
for leaders to use. During the year, leaders guide preschoolers to learn
about how people live in many places in the world - some nearby and some far
away. The curriculum is well planned and guides children to understand that
there are many different kinds of people in the world, that God loves all of
them and we should also love them. Missions education is important to us,
and it begins with the youngest children in our church. For more information
or to begin Mission Friends in your church, contact Alabama WMU Consultant
Cynthia White.
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