 Okay, welcome back. Just before we went for a break, we were looking at the five essentials for children's ministry. So we looked at what are, you know, the five essentials and how we can invest in children for creating a heart that loves God or a godly heart in them. The first thing we looked at is that the children's ministry must be gospel driven. The second one is that children's ministry must minister to, you know, must be Bible saturated. Then the third one is the children's ministry must be, sorry. Okay, the first one is children's ministry must be God centered. Second one is the children's ministry must be Bible saturated. Thirdly, children's ministry must be gospel driven. And the fourth one is that children's ministry must minister to the whole family or the entire family. And the fifth one where we stopped was that children's ministry is all about serving kids. So if you want children's ministers to be committed, it's important that's the leader that the children's church pastor or the children's Sunday school superintendent or the leader, you know, must communicate the vision and the mission to the children's church ministers. You know, I don't call children's church ministers as children's church volunteers because when we use the word volunteer, they think, okay, I'm just volunteering to do something, but it's a more important role. They're actually there to teach God's word. So I call them ministers. It gives, you know, a greater title or designation that brings about in clarity what is their responsibility. You know, so it's important for us to communicate the vision and mission also important for us as leaders, the children's church pastors, you know, or leaders to plan the entire year, you know, to plan what are the topics, the curriculum topics that we are going to teach, what are the activities, and ensure that, you know, we communicate this to the children's church ministers and telling them, hey, all of these activities are not just to entertain children or to make children's church fun. Yes, we want to make it fun and exciting for them, but also these, you know, activities should cater around the curriculum that we're teaching, the topics that we're teaching, it should cater to fulfill or point out or, you know, to reach our goal of our vision and our mission. Okay, so it's important for us to communicate all this and even only choose teachers or children's church ministers, it's important to choose committed people, train them and during the training, you know, teach them all of these things, what is a biblical basis and the mandate for a children's ministry, we would be looking at developmental needs of children at different age groups, so you can share it with them. It's important to teach them the learning styles of children, how to prepare a lesson plan, so all of these things can go down in the training, also communicate during the training what is a vision and the mission, you know, and also what you have planned for the entire year. So, you know, the children's church ministers know, hey, this is, you know, this is something serious we're getting into, this is not something that I can just come in and, you know, do a game or an activity, I just tell a story or teach a memory verse and, you know, that's done for my week when I'm scheduled, but this is most serious stuff that, you know, I'm involving in and they will understand the seriousness or the the depth of the commitment based on how you portray it as a leader, all the things that you've planned, the structure thing and, you know, guidance, the guidelines you're giving them, you know, then they'll know, hey, there's something more concrete and I'm signing up, I need to, I really need to be committed to all of this and all of this is very, very important and also, of course, during the training we can teach them how to prepare the lessons, how to use creative methods to teach. Also, when we say that children's ministry is about serving kids, it's important that, you know, we have a good worship team, you know, important to have a good worship team, organize activities and programs that would help them build them up in the word of God and the faith and it should not just be all about fun, where you're just showing them some movie or, you know, having some games or, you know, just talking to them and getting them to just meet their friends and go away, but teaching them deeper truths from God's word. Also, I shared about mentoring children, so it's also getting into their lives, you know, not just teaching them from the Bible, teaching them from the truth, but they would know that, hey, this teacher is interested in my own life, you know, that is what, you know, why people love Jesus was, not just he was there to teach them about the kingdom of God, but he was interested in their lives. He took time to heal them, time to minister to them, time to speak to them, show them their worth, show them love, show them compassion, show them forgiveness, that was important. So it's important as teachers that we can just come and teach them and say, okay, this is my lesson, this is the curriculum, this is what I have to finish, I just finished that and go, but, you know, stopping by to say, hey, you know, I didn't see you last week or you're looking sad or now you're looking very excited today, what's the matter and, you know, just celebrating with them and enjoying with them, you know, being with them in their difficulties, if they're down looking upset, what happened, maybe their parents called them when they were driving up to church or something happened in the morning, you know, just ministering to them can help them know that, hey, I'm coming to children's church, just not for this teacher who's just loading me with all of the Bible, but who's generally interested in my life, cares for me, loves me, you know, and that is what really connects us to people, right? We connect to people, people who speak into our lives, people who care for us, people who, you know, look out to help us, you know, so show our love, care and affection, those are the kind of people we easily connect and build long-term relationships and we share our life with them and we can journey with them. So mentoring is very, very important, also praying for their needs, children can have different behavioral issues, they're struggling, praying for them. I remember, you know, children doing things that are really upsetting, really wrong in school and the parents come and tell me and they say, hey, speak to them, let's speak to them, they don't want to, you know, give out the details and I tell them, hey, you know, if you share with me, I'm just here to help you, I'm not just, I'm not going to tell anything if you don't want me to tell it to your parents or anyone else, I'm not going to do that, I'll just keep it a secret and children have opened up and till to this day, I've kept it a secret and till to this day, those children come back, they've grown up into young adults now, one of them got even married, I told you in December, you know, just to connect with me, to know that here, there's somebody I trust, somebody who kept my secret, somebody who didn't give it out to my parents, but really helped me. So, you know, they will share their behavioral problems, the challenges that they're going through, later on in life, they would also come back, they'll share with you, tell you what's going on in their lives and ask you to pray. Also think of various activities which they can build them up, you know, I remember all the activities that I used to have an I was in children's church as a pastor, everything was centered around, you know, what they can learn from the word of God, but in fun ways. For example, you know, once we had a breakfast potluck and so the breakfast potluck was, the theme was fruit of the spirit. So I told them, get a breakfast that had some fruit in them, you know, and when you're sharing the breakfast with others, you know, you can tell them what is the breakfast you bought, what is the fruit you have put in that, and you know, how you can connect that fruit to the fruit of the spirit. Okay, so I, for example, you know, if a child gets an apple pie, I love apple pie, so I chose apple pie, you know, if a child gets apple pie, the child can say, you know, I chose an apple pie and I chose apple because apple represents goodness. Apple is just so good to eat. It's good for health. In the same way, God is perfectly good, and he wants us to be good. And when we choose to do good things, you know, the child can tell the rest of the class, it's a way that we're telling God we love him. And, you know, goodness, we cannot be good all the time, but we can ask God to help us. And he will help us to obey him and to be good. And that is how the fruit of goodness grows in our life. You know, so simple way, a fun activity, but we're connecting it to something in the Bible. Now, when we had our, when we have our Christmas programs, you know, we have the first Sunday in December, we take them for outreach, where they go and minister to others. So the, we're teaching them that Christmas is not about what gifts you can get, but how you can go and reach out and pray and minister to others. So we have various things planned out for them in advance. We also have, you know, we get the list of the children in the orphanage that we are going to minister to. And we ask the orphanage for the needs of the children, you know, for each of the children's needs, the challenges that they're facing. And then we connect that child, one child in the orphanage to two or three children in our children's church and tell them, Hey, when you go to this orphanage, you're going to pray for this girl, just say you're going to pray for Sarita. Okay. And Sarita has these prayer needs and problems. So why don't you pray for Sarita? So we do this one month in advance. So they're praying for Sarita. And when they go to the orphanage, they know they're not just going to sing some carols, and they're not just going to give some goodies and, you know, the, the, the ration or the, the groceries that they're sorry, the groceries that they bought for the children at the orphanage, but they're also going to minister. So then when we get in the ministry time, they find out who Sarita is and three children go and pray for Sarita. And I say, you know, when you're praying, ask in advance the Holy Spirit to give you promises that you can speak over Sarita's life. And so children go and minister, and they're so excited. And to help the children, we already, you know, give them a prayer, which they can pray. So every day in the, the over the last one month, they're actually praying that prayer for Sarita. And when they go there, they have the sheet, they pray, but they also, you know, have memorized parts of the prayer, so they can just pray. So it's a beautiful way of just, you know, helping them to reach out. The second week in, in December, we have a Christmas party, but even that, you know, I want children to know that Christmas party is not just fun, but also a way we, they can reach out to others. So I know one Christmas party, I remember asking them to bring their maids children, you know, and share the gospel with their maids children and get a gift for their maids children or the maids in their school, they can invite their children or the watchmen in their community or in their apartment building complex. One Christmas year, I remember we did, you know, right from Adam, right up to Jesus's crucifixion and his resurrection, we did a play and we invited children. So we had about 100 children, 100 plus children come from outside our children's church and, you know, we did this salvation gospel through this whole play that the children did. It was wonderful. Another Christmas, I remember, you know, asking children in each class to use their own creativity and come up with skits. And I told them to go to genealogy in Matthew chapter one and to choose one character in that, in the genealogy of Jesus and to enact any one narrative or part of the story or part of the life of that person. But they, they shouldn't speak out or tell what the person they are enacting and the rest of the children's church have to guess the character that they are enacting. So they choose a person in the genealogy, they enact a scene in the person's life and then share a little bit about that person, but not giving out details of the name. And then the rest of the children have to, you know, identify the person, you know, whom they have chosen in the genealogy. So creative things like this, which we can think about and do. And another activity I remember is something called the Kingdom Builders Club. I think this is just pure, everything is just purely led by the Holy Spirit. But Kingdom Builders Club, I just thought of having, bringing about these clubs where children had to sign up either for these clubs, which is singing, arts and crafts, healing and deliverance, evangelism, dance and choreography, memorizing and oratory. So we had this six clubs and children had to choose these clubs based on their talents. And in these clubs, we actually did not just teach them how to sing better, sing in tune, sing with the right notes, but healing and deliverance. We taught them from the healing and deliverance APC publication, the same publication, the course that you had learned, evangelism, how to evangelize dance and choreography. We just don't teach them about dance and choreography steps, but how to release a supernatural through all of this. Now, how to release a supernatural when they dance, they're doing choreography. And when they're when they're singing, when arts and crafts, you know, when they're painting. So we just don't teach them how to paint. We had people in our, from our congregation, other church who are good in these areas. But when I briefed them, I said, hey, those don't teach them the skills, but teach them how they can release the supernatural through these things. And so it was, you know, I've seen in some churches on their stage, when they're having worship, they have these artists just paint and draw and then the Holy Spirit is guiding them. And then the Holy Spirit releases a word of knowledge of wisdom and they say, Hey, this painting is for such and such a person. And when the person who, you know, identifies with that painting, their life, they come and take it, then they speak, they speak over them and they release God's word. And the whole life and destiny of that person is changed just because of one painting. It's just so powerful. And I knew there was something more to this Kingdom Builders Club. And, you know, I, I, I brought it about, of course, the last one was memorizing an oratory where we're teaching them how to memorize scripture and how to preach scripture, you know, how to preach. So I knew there was more to this, but I did not know what more was there rather than just teaching them the skills. And I remember that year I went to visit my sisters who live in the US and one of my sister drove me up to this church in Reading, California, which I really love the pastor. They are like, you know, just moving then actually supernatural. And that, that week when I'd gone, there was this lady who was talking about how they can use all of art and craft and dance and choreography and singing and song, how they can release a supernatural. And I was just so amazed because I thought he got us bought me at the right appointed time to show me how much, you know, there's so much more to just this Kingdom Builders Club that he had asked me to start, but how to release a supernatural. And then this person who was teaching, she has written a book on how to release a supernatural through all of these art forms, you know, and she says, who's come from the furthest part of the world. So everyone was shouting different parts of the world we had, we had different people come from different parts of the world to this church. And somebody behind me who, you know, I introduced myself before the church started, they said, India, India. And this lady said, who is from India. So I stood up and she said, please come up in front. And then I went up in front. And then she gave me a book that she's written. When I looked at it, it was how to, it was about, you know, creativity, how to be more creative. And I was like, God, first of all, I'm not a creative person. And, you know, I've, I don't have any creative skills. If I'd received a book from the senior pastor, something about theology, which I really love, which will help me. But when I went back to my seat and I sat, and I was firstly disappointed in the senior pastor was not speaking, it was this lady, and I have nothing to do with art and craft and creativity. But the things that she said, you know, my head just stood up. And then I looked at the book, it was how to release a supernatural through all of this, what we had, I had initiated in a children's church. And I came back, you know, I read that book, when I was there in my holiday, came back, the Lord was laying so many things. I prepared a PowerPoint, I just presented to our children, our children just took it. I mean, I could just see it going into them, they received it. And then that the end of the year, you know, God told me get the children to lead the service. So they led the service from, you know, from leading worship to making the declaration, even preaching. We had some two of our older children preach. And, you know, we had children doing dance and choreography. And two of them painted and released the word of God, what God was telling them to paint and how they released it that people, the adults came into the painting. And then we had all our children who were went through this whole APC publication on healing and deliverance. They stood up in front and they asked adults to come and they prayed for them. It was just so powerful. I can't, I can't tell you how powerful. I was just way too shocked saying, Hey, these are my kids in children's church. I mean, it was just so powerful. It was just so amazing. So, you know, the Holy Spirit and God has such wonderful creative ideas for our children. If we are just passionate about, you know, doing it for them, waiting on the Holy Spirit, I'm not a creative person at all. But I serve a creative God. He just gives me, I have a download of creative ideas from him. Every time I do anything is just a download. I know it's just God. And so, you know, can take children's ministries to such a level that God wants us and do such great things, but children really learn and benefit it. And children just loved the Kingdom Builders Club. Okay, so children's ministry is all about serving children and, and just God will give you those amazing ideas. Okay, the next topic we move on to is the developmental needs of children. We look at the development needs of children, various age groups. Before we do that, does anyone have any questions? Anyone wants to share anything? All of you with me in class? Okay. Yes, okay. Okay, thank you so much. Yes, we are here. Thank you, success. Yeah. Okay. Any questions, anything you'd like to share, anything you'd like to say? I'm also here, ma'am. Thank you, Lubega. Um, what I want to say, um, the role of parents in the life of the children, because I discovered that these days, many parents are not paying for attention for the children. In such case, what do the teachers do? Okay, and what do you do? What are some of the ideas? What do you, what do you think others, what do you think we can do before I share? Um, uh, what I, I actually asked a question because we noticed that some parents are not, they are, they are taking it to the other way around, you know, showing the parents, the children the way of the law, but you see some parents, we take their children more to the eat trees, to party than planting the word of God in them. And, uh, even buy them some plot that will not, that will not show a sample. For example, I, I, uh, I went to go and buy, I went for shopping and a parent buying, uh, a trouser that opened, uh, opened and he knew that I did some trousers for the two years old child. And I was, I was touched. I told, I just spoke with the lady, I, the woman said, I think, uh, this child is too small to wear in this kind of thing, because by the time he grows up and you see the past picture, how she dress like, uh, we normally use the language like a taut. This will register in his brain and the continual dyslexia. So what do we do in search, because parents must give you a consent before you can be able to just call their kids, even in the church. You see some people, some parents will call in the church, no, don't, don't do my children this, this, my children this, this I want to bring. What do we do in that regard? Yes. I understand, uh, uh, your concern and also your question, and it's also a challenge for us in our children's church. So yes, we'll, we'll hear Abubakar. Yes. Ma, in addition to what Pastor Sosa just said, we have some parents that they used to send their daughter to concubine to go and collect something from their concubine and their Christian, and they have some parents, they have, they are still going to go and buy a quarrel for them. And we have to send them something that is, you know, opposite of those things in the church. I mean, in addition to what Pastor Sosa just said, what are we going to do in such situations, Ma? So I just had those two points on what they have said already. Yes. I understand the concern. Anyone wants to share what we can do, what can be done? I think what we can do best in the given scenarios is we can't change the parents, we can't tell them, you know, uh, uh, there are times when we can, you know, prayerfully minister to them, speak to them, uh, you know, ask the Holy Spirit to also speak and help them. But what we have in our hands or what God has given to us is these children. So what we best can do is teach them from God's word, tell them what is right and wrong. You know, that's what the word of God says, train up a child in the way that he should, uh, go, you know, and, uh, uh, like we also read in, you know, second Timothy chapter three verse 15, you know, that it is, uh, that the word of God is wise for salvation, you know, because when, when Timothy is acquainted with the sacred writing says, Paul is saying, this has made you wise for, uh, salvation. And also, you know, we, uh, uh, we saw that it's a power of God for salvation. Romans chapter one was 16. So what best we can do is just teach them the word of God, just show them from scripture. You, you know, the challenges the children are facing, you can see how their parents are bringing them, guiding them. So what you can do is encounter them with the truth in God's word. You can teach them from God's word. Uh, you can tell them, you can live out that, uh, that lifestyle in children's church, help them, also speak to them, you know, um, uh, about the way they dress, the way they behave. We do that in our own children's church, but, uh, it can be a challenge because the child can be thinking, you know, hey, my parents are not telling me anything. My parents saw me dressed like this. They brought me and left me in children's church. I don't know why the children's church teacher or the, uh, the pastor has a problem. So then that can be a little difficult, but what we can do is how can we honor God with our bodies? How can we honor God the way we speak, the way we dress, the way we act, the way we think? So what you are doing basically is just presenting the truth and the truth will set them free. Okay. Children are not too naive not to know what is right and wrong. You know, when you teach them what is right and wrong, they will do what is right. Uh, they would listen to their teachers, um, like, you know, I have a couple of my cousins who are teachers and, you know, uh, they will, they will go and one of my cousins is a teacher for grade one. And she says that when I tell the children, you know, don't dress up in these kind of dresses because, you know, these kind of dresses are very heavy for you. You won't be able to stay in these dresses the whole day and going to the restroom will be difficult. You might fall, you know, put nice, uh, frocks, pretty frocks that are easy for you too. So they will just go tell that parent exactly that. And they will tell their parent teachers told me to wear this. I will wear this. I will not wear that. And she says all the children will come in the way I told them to dress. But she says it's challenging with the parents and they tell them they don't, I try to understand. And she said, and I tell them, you know, children, that is why God says, you know, children, um, we need to be like little children because they trust whatever you tell them. And they listen to their teacher. The teacher tells them do this and exactly do that. We can have a few children who would, you know, defy your orders, but then then they eventually come about and come around and listening. So it's important that when we see this and the parents are not trying to understand, uh, and you are trying to communicate to them, the parents are not the best thing that we can do is teach children, they will listen, they will understand, uh, and they will eventually follow and we just pray for them. All we do, we can just uphold them before God. And I've, I have seen that in our children's church children. I prayed for a couple of them, you know, now they have grown up, attended two of their, uh, two of them got married in December. Both of them went through a lot of challenges, a lot of difficulties when they were in children's church in teen years. I remember their parents telling me how we cried out to God, you know, and how God has restored their, uh, life. So it's God who works in their lives, a holy spirit. And we need to just be faithful and sincere. And it is him who works in their, uh, lives. The other thing, how we can really help, uh, parents like, uh, success with saying what can we do is all the things that I mentioned, you know, get the, the parents, uh, you know, into the, uh, WhatsApp group, tell them what was thought, tell them what's the memory verse, what the children have to apply during the week and get them to apply it. It also helps the parents to learn, you know, we think that parents might not learn, parents might not son, but just them reading the holy spirit can work in their lives. They can also apply those lessons while teaching their children the memory verse, while reiterating the truth in the story, it can minister to them, it can work in their lives. But most importantly, children's ministry, we need to really pray. I think prayer is any, any ministry that we are involved in, we need to just pray because it's, it's, it's God who just gives the breakthrough. It's God who just works, uh, in their lives, in their families. So it's difficult. Even, uh, with children, their own parents are seeing them to go and get alcohol then and all of that, uh, is challenging. We had a child in our own children's church, you know, for the Christmas party, their non-christian friends in their class said, hey, you all drink wine during a church service, right? And so he thought the communion wine and so, you know, um, why don't you get alcohol? So he actually went and got alcohol. So when the parents, there was Scott, the parents are called and he said, why did you do this? He said, we drink wine in, uh, in church, you know, for the communion. Uh, and the, the parent was shocked and, you know, immediately called me and I had to meet him on, uh, Sunday and I, I ministered to the child and helped the child see, uh, what was wrong in what he did and he understood. And now that child is, you know, serving in church so wonderfully and so powerfully, just, just such a wonderful, uh, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, work he does in ministering, just being available in various areas to minister every Sunday in church. And I see that I'm just so truly thankful to God and the Holy Spirit for working in his life. Uh, so prayer is important being faithful, committed, teaching, speaking about things. Uh, we also have teen sessions where we address all of these things to teenagers, speak to them, talk about things, how they have to dress the world dresses like this. Why shouldn't we dress the world does this parting drinking? Why shouldn't we do it? Talk about those things. It's important, uh, to discuss. It's important to, you know, talk about even about sexuality, about sex and on all of those things, it's very important, you know, to talk to teenage children about all of these things so that they're educated, they don't go and once they know the truth, they don't go looking for truth in the wrong places. But when they are, uh, encountered with the lies of the enemy, when they face situations, they can counter it with the truth. Did that help? Yes, that will help. That is okay. Thank you. Thank you, success. Okay, so we'll move on to our next topic. Uh, the next topic is, uh, uh, the developmental needs for children. We're going to study about the developmental needs of children in different, uh, age groups. Okay. Um, so, you know, uh, for in each one of us and even in children, God has built a pattern for development. So understanding what is, uh, typical of each age and stage of development in, in children's lives or the children that we are ministering to in children's church or Sunday school will help us better understand their needs, their felt needs and be able to communicate that felt needs, uh, in the way that we teach and minister, uh, to them. It will also help us prepare our lessons and the activities that we want to, you know, get them involved in or the games that we want to get them involved in. We can do it accordingly once we understand the developmental needs of children. And even when we narrate narratives for them, we can bring about, uh, you know, truths on how it will help them, uh, you know, uh, help their, uh, needs, their felt needs and also start the lesson with their felt needs. Because, you know, children can connect to your lesson or what you're going to teach them if you relate to them with their felt need. But if you say, Hey, today, everybody, I'm going to talk to you about obedience. Children say, Oh no, we've heard that so many times throughout the whole week to parents are telling us obey, teachers are telling us to obey. Oh, we're going to learn about faith. Oh no. When you come to church, it's only about faith. You know, so these are some of the topics that, you know, you are going to communicate to them. But, you know, start with their felt needs. So once they know, you know, Hey, yeah, this is what I'm going through. This is what I'm experiencing. So let me listen to the teacher how I can overcome it, how my need can be met. Okay. So before we look at the developmental needs of children in each age group, let's look at the developmental needs that are common to children in all age group. Okay. The first thing is that, um, you know, this is common to children, all age groups. There's a need for physical activity, you know, children need to exercise and develop their growing bodies through physical activities that develop both their large and small muscles and motor skills. Okay. So the large motor skills concern the development of their larger muscles, you know, their hands, their feet, their thighs. So, you know, like, they need to run, they need to jump, they need to throw things, hopping, balancing on one foot. And the small motor skills are responsible for, you know, their hands, their fingers, you know, grasping things, holding things, whether it's a pen, pencil, cutting, craft work, you know, stitching or even, you know, clay modeling, whatever. So we need to ensure that in our children's church and Sunday school, you're not just teaching children a narrative and some truths, but also involve some games, time connecting the game to your lesson, some attention getter, some object lessons, some activity, a skit that they can enact of what they have listened to, or, you know, case scenarios of enacting how they can apply what they have learned. It can even be drawing, puzzles, coloring, craft activity, which children would love to do, you know. I thought, you know, craft and craft work and cutting and all those things older children might not enjoy, especially children eight, nine, and 10th grade. But I was surprised when we had our kids conference or our BBS vacation Bible school, but children, I mean teens, not children, teens in eight, nine, and 10th, they love the craft work. They look forward for the craft work. So children at all ages, even teens, pre-teens, love, so activities, so give them some games, activities, attention getters, craft work that will connect to your lesson, what will connect to their felt need. The second one is the need for competence and achievement. Okay. This is something that is common for children in all ages, especially children who are young adolescents, teens, pre-teens, feeling very self-conscious about how they're looking, they're growing, they're unsure of their talents and abilities. And we need to give them or create opportunities for them to explore a wide variety of experiences and interest to use their talents. Okay. Give them opportunities where they can demonstrate themselves, they can know their talents, they can realize, hey, I'm good at this, I'm good at that. And what are the things they can do really well. So at APC, because I'm from APC, I'm just talking about our children's church, we create opportunities for children to use their talents and opportunities for them to explore their talents. For example, when we have a general session, we have some children who are part of our worship team who love to sing, of course we get them to go through our dishing and we have our worship pastor helping, teaching them, some of them who play instruments do so, they lead worship, they pray. Our declaration, we have different children come and declare God's lead in the declaration. We have children who pray for the offering, pray for some of them who are helping us in projecting the power points for worship. Some children, because we don't meet in our own facility, we have to do a pack up and set up. So some children help us at pack up, they even help us in praying for others. And of course we had the Kingdom Builders Club, which I explained. So it was an opportunity where they identified their talents and they grew in their talents and how to release the supernatural through those clubs which they were in. We also, like I said, we have a Bible quiz, we have skits, we have something called a Bible match between the Bible boys and the Gospel girls. So we have our kids conference, during our kids conference, we have talent competition, singing, painting competition, various competitions where they're able to discover themselves, they're able to portray their or showcase their talents. So organize all of these, but based on the Bible, so that they're going back to what of God, they're learning, it's helping them and also helps them to identify their skills and achieve in their respective skills and talents and the gifts that God has given to them. The need for self-definition. Children who are developing require a lot of opportunities to discover who they are, what they are becoming, as well as how they relate to the world around them. So it's important for us to talk about their identity in Christ. So we teach them one course that we have or one of the topics for our children's search curriculum is who we are in Christ. So we have it written down for grades 2 to 4, 5 to 7, 8 to 10, different levels, lessons, seven lessons on that. We also have something called adolescent sessions or teen sessions where we're talking about self-image, self-value, what are the challenges that teens and preteens face that hinder their self-image, their self-value. So it's important for us to build that identity in Christ and also through these courses and teen sessions just build their identity. So they're strongly grounded and rooted in their identity. They have their value in Christ and that will take them a long way and help them. The fourth one is the need for creative expression. You know, as children's minds and bodies are rapidly growing and changing the fast pace, they are more involved in the world around them slowly, you know, just beyond home and family. So we need to create creative expressions that are essential to their specific development. Now these opportunities help children to develop an understanding or an acceptance of themselves even as they are speaking, singing, writing, dancing, you know, doing dramas, kids or visual arts just to express their feelings, their interests, their thoughts, their talents and their abilities. So I mentioned quite a lot of the things that we do, like in Christmas time, you know, we get children in their respective classes. We don't help them out as teachers. We just let them do it and the wonderful creative ideas they come up with is so good. The little time that they have, you know, at the kids conference where we get them to showcase their talents to different opportunities we give them, the Kingdom Builders Club, participating in adult church with their leadership or their just minister, you know, or I remember one time we had the fruit of the spirit through art. So I told them, you know, whatever area you're skilled in or talented in, whether it's cooking, whether it's baking, whether it's singing, playing an instrument, painting or mimicry or whatever, you know, you present the fruit of the spirit through that. So we had children come and sing songs based on love or the goodness of God or playing an instrument, you know, a song that portrays one of the fruit of the spirit or, you know, a painting or, you know, a bead that they made, a hand, a wristband, something, you know, through that how they can, you know, minister the fruit of the spirit or showcase the fruit of the spirit through art. So just various creative things that we can think where they can express their creativity. Okay. And the next one is a need for positive social interaction. Okay. You know, although the family is of primary importance to children, they all are in the need of increasing opportunities to experience positive relationships with the world around them, whether it or the family outside the family, whether it's their peers, it's their seniors in children's church or in school or their teachers. And these positive relationships that they build, you know, can provide them comfort, support, security, even as they express or experience new ideas, new views, values and feelings. So in children's church or in Sunday school, you know, we need to help children build relationship with others in their class, build healthy friendship with their peers, also, you know, build a good relationship with their teachers. So mentoring sessions really help, you know, where teachers when they're really mentor, you know, they can speak into a child's life, they can, when a child is going through some challenges, difficulties, which you've heard from their parents, the child is expressed, you can, you know, minister to them, you know, you have a whole year where you are interacting with them. And then I have the teachers at the end of the year write a note for each child, because the child is going to the next class and the same teacher will not continue teaching the child the next class. So write down the areas, the challenges, the difficulties that the child is facing, the areas that they have helped them, what they have done so far, what needs to be done in the future. And that report is passed on to the next teacher and the next teacher takes it on just helps and mentors the children. So, you know, this way we can build a positive social interaction and help the child as well. Okay. The next thing is the need for structure and clear limits, you know, children, even as they're growing, especially teens and pre teens, some of them earlier than that nowadays, you know, sorry, some of them earlier than that, you know, they're looking for independence, they're looking for freedom, but they also need security of structure and clear limits to help them to develop their skills, you know, also guidelines on how they can be responsible, how they can use their imagination, their creativity in the, you know, framework that you set for them, you know, and how they can be trustworthy and dependable. Okay. So we need to lay structures and clear limits. So for example, learning their memory versus some responsibility that we can give them reading the scripture portions. I told you, you know, the worksheets that we give them, they have scripture portions, which they have to read. So we make them responsible, say, Hey, I want you to do this. And if they're not able to do it, you know, the next class, why? How can I help, you know, and ask them what did they study, what did they learn? And, you know, what are the truths that they applied? And, you know, also application of the lesson, how did they act upon it during the week? So they come back the next Sunday, they share it with you. So when you have these guidelines, when you have these clear limits and structures that you place, then children will develop skills of being responsible, how they can use their imagination, creativity in applying what they have learned, making the truth applyable in their lives, and also how the teacher looks at them to be trustworthy and dependable, and how they can prove themselves to be trustworthy and dependable. Okay. The next one is the last one is a strong attachment with positive adults, you know, all children need the skills to establish a strong attachment to at least one positive adult outside the family. And who else can it be then their teacher, you know, so that they can bounce back when they go through difficulties. They have the strong attachment with the teacher, where they're learning positive things. And, you know, you can be that positive caring adult in their lives, you can be the one who represents Jesus to them. And they would always, you know, if they fall in love with you, you know, they would always match or compare you to what the others, the other adults are doing in their life and say, hey, my children's church teacher does not drink, does not smoke, doesn't dress like this, doesn't speak like this, doesn't use these words. And, you know, I think what he's doing, he or she is doing right, and I love them, I'm just going to follow them. So, you become like a role model, you become like, what do you say, they're fan, you know, they might have sports fan, you know, movie stars who they, you know, when children copy, imitate movie stars and sports fan, they do that, they dress exactly like them, they, you know, the hairdo is exactly like them, they speak exactly like them, you know, and they live exactly like them, walk or talk like them. So, you can become that role model in their life, where they're just looking at you and they're just learning from your life. And you can be that strong attachment, that positive adult who is, you know, caring for them, who is making that strong impact, and they're just imbibing you, they're just following you. And like Paul says, you know, imitate me like I imitate Christ, you know, and like some of his, his mentors have done, like Timothy and others, just imitate Paul, you know, children can imitate you. So again, coming back to what Success and Abu Bakr had, you know, shared their burden about children and what we can do, you can be that strong, positive adult. Okay, I thought we can even look at the developmental needs of children three to four and five to six, but we don't have time for that now. Any questions anyone else has, we, the next class, we will look at the developmental needs of children in specific age groups, we'll start from children in ages three to four. Any questions anyone else, anyone has, anything you'd like to share, say. No question, I'm okay. Thank you, Ma. Thank you, Success. Okay, thank you everyone for joining the class today. I hope it was helpful. I'll see you next Tuesday. Have a blessed week. This Friday, we won't meet for our, for TTP class, for First Timothy class. Okay, have a wonderful week ahead. God bless you all. Thank you. Please, I wouldn't meet on Thursday. Sorry. We have another lecture on Thursday, right? We have a lecture on Friday. Friday, we have First Timothy, but Friday, since we're having our Christian leaders conference, we don't have classes tomorrow day after Friday. Yes. Yes, okay. Sorry. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, Ma. Thank you, thank you, Rosalind.