For parents, churches, homeschool co-ops, and church schools, Telling God’s Story provides an open-and-go curriculum for elementary religious instruction. Carefully researched, designed for maximum ease and minimum preparation time, these books are meant to help parents and teachers guide their children into a wider faith. The second in a series designed to introduce young students to the Bible, Telling God’s Story, Year Two shows children the Kingdom of Heaven as seen in the parables, miracles, and mission of Jesus. Bundled together to provide an entire year of religious instruction: The Instructor Text and Teaching Guide provides content-filled background information for the teacher, a biblical passage to read aloud, and a scripted explanation of the passage designed especially for children to grasp with ease. The Student Guide and Activity Pages provides historically accurate coloring pages, learning projects, and group activities to fill out an entire week of home, school, or Sunday School study.

Listen to the stories of Jesus’ first followers. Learn about the way of life he gave to us. And see what it looks like to live in the new community he is creating. These weekly lessons guide elementary and middle grade students through the Book of Acts and the New Testament Letters, while also deepening the understanding of parents and teachers. Each lesson provides pithy, content-filled background information for the teacher and a scripted explanation of the biblical passage designed especially for children to grasp with ease. The accompanying Activity Book, feature the work of talented artists, designers, parents, and educators and provides craft projects, coloring pages, Bible memory work, classroom games, and group activities to accompany every lesson. This fourth volume of the Telling God’s Story series completes the student’s introduction to the New Testament. This bundle also includes the graphic novel James: A Letter to the Scattered: For two thousand years, a single ancient letter has inspired deeds of world-changing bravery and has kindled compassion of millions of lives. In James: A Letter to the Scattered, Earnest Graham’s dramatic illustrations follow women and men around the globe and through time. Follow hunted Christians into Roman catacombs, accompany missions of mercy in modern hospital corridors, see courage and kindness amidst the carnage of the Thirty Years’ War, witness the fight for justice in 19th-century Mexico, and march beside protestors in 1960s Alabama. This graphic novel brings the ancient wisdom of the Epistle of James to a new audience.

The third in a series designed to take students from elementary through high school, Telling God’s Story, Year Three shows children the surprising way of life that Jesus brought, as seen in his parables, miracles, and teaching. The Instructor Text and Teaching Guide provides content-filled background information for the teacher, and a scripted explanation of the passage designed especially for children to grasp with ease. The accompanying Activity Book provides historically accurate coloring pages, learning projects, and group activities to fill out an entire week of home, school, or Sunday School study. The graphic novel, The Parables of Jesus, brings Jesus' parables to life for students. A hurricane howls towards a house built on sand. A nighttime intruder creeps onto enemy land. A boy leaves home to seek adventure. Robbers menace a lonely traveler. And the unexpected happens. This new and innovative graphic-novel translation of the parables of Jesus puts a modern twist on an ancient art form: stories that begin with mundane events and end with a glimpse of a deeper reality. Earnest Graham’s illustrations, ranging in style from West African kente and Japanese prints to vivid modern realism, interpret these well-loved stories for the next generation of readers. All three texts are combined in this bundle to provide a full year of religious instruction.

A new religion curriculum from the team that brought you The Story of the World. These lesson plans, designed to accompany the weekly lessons laid out in Telling God’s Story, Year One (available separately), provide coloring pages, craft projects, and group activities to fill out an entire week of home school or private school study; a core set of activities is also provided for the use of Sunday school teachers. Coloring pages accompany each lesson and accurately reflect the historical setting of the original stories, while a full range of crafts and activities help young students understand and remember.

Telling God's Story: Year Four Activity Book is filled with coloring pages, simple but engaging crafts, service projects and activities, and group games, all based on the stories and letters from the New Testament. These lesson plans, designed to accompany the weekly lessons laid out in Telling God's Story: Year Four Instructor Guide, provide enough additional activities to fill out a week of home school or private school study. A core set of activities is also provided for use in Sunday School settings. Coloring pages accompany each lesson, while crafts, games, and activities help young students understand and remember.

A new religion curriculum from the team that brought you The Story of the World. These lesson plans, designed to accompany the weekly lessons laid out in Telling God’s Story, Year One (available separately), provide coloring pages, craft projects, and group activities to fill out an entire week of home school or private school study; a core set of activities is also provided for the use of Sunday school teachers. Coloring pages accompany each lesson and accurately reflect the historical setting of the original stories, while a full range of crafts and activities help young students understand and remember.

Weekly religion lessons for upper elementary students, drawn from the New Testament, are free from political and sectarian agendas. The lessons are scripted to make preparation and instruction straightforward and simple for parents and teachers. The third in a series designed to take young students from elementary through high school, Telling God's Story, Year 3 provides scripted weekly lessons for third graders and the adults who teach them. Each weekly lesson provides content-filled background information for the teacher, a biblical passage from one of the four Gospels to read aloud, and a scripted explanation of the passage designed especially for children to grasp with ease. Together with the accompanying Activity Guide, Telling God’s Story, Year 3 provides a full year of religious instruction.