Elementary
At Discovery Bay every week, kids first through fifth grade enjoy energetic worship, cool activities and meaningful friendships with peers and small group leaders. Each month we study a new virtue that helps us learn how we can better live the way Christ wants us to live. In addition to our monthly virtue, kids are encouraged to memorize a memory verse each month.
By the time a child heads off to middle school, we want them to know:
I need to make the wise choice.
I can trust God no matter what.
I should treat others the way I want to be treated.
Parent Resources
Parents here are two great resources to talk about faith with your children at home. You can download each week’s Fridge Card and God Time Card to help lead your kids.
- Fridge Door: Point out the kid’s question and the parent’s question and the fact that it gives parents something specific to ask their kids and talk about today.
- GodTime: Encourage parents to help their children have some “God time” this week. There are four different devotions on the GodTime card. Each devotion is designed to be done on a different day. Bedtime can be a good time for devotions. Ease any guilt parents may feel (tell them doing one devotion a week is better than none!) or fears that they can’t lead their child to spend time with God (following GodTime cards is easy!): (1) Find and read the Bible verse(s) in a Bible. Use the table of contents to locate hard-to-find verses in the Bible. (2) Read the devotion paragraph. (3) Read and do the activity. (4) Pray a simple, short prayer, using the last sentence on the card as a guide. Note that this prayer suggestion always begins with T, A, L, K: thank God for something; ask God about something; look or listen for God to do something; and know that God will do something.