Jolene L Roehlkepartain, Teaching Kids to Care and Share: 300+ Mission and Service Ideas for Children. Abingdon Press, 2000.
Referenced in: Missional Lifestyle, Discipleship, Spirituality – Children’s Spiritual Formation through Missional Engagement
From the Publisher
This volume provides over 300 inventive, hands-on activities that involve children in service to one another, their churches and local communities, and the world. Within these pages, children’s workers and leaders will find short and long-term active service/learning opportunities that encourage the youngest members of their congregation to follow Jesus’ example of living their faith by caring for others.
The book features: lively, age-appropriate projects and activities for 3- to 5-year-olds, 6- to 9-year-olds, and 10- to 12-year-olds; guidance for working with children of different ages and abilities; ready-to-use reproducible pages and a Scripture and topic index; and contact information for numerous national and international service organizations and programs that work with and relate to children.
About the Author
Jolene Roehlkepartain is a writer and parent educator. She has written 30 books, including Parenting Preschoolers with a Purpose, Raising Healthy Children Day by Day, 101 Great Games for Kids, Teaching Kids to Care and Share, Fidget Busters and The Best of Building Assets Together. She has also coauthored 10 books, including What Young Children Need to Succeed and Starting Out Right: Developmental Assets for Children. Her books have been translated into a number of languages, including Chinese and Korean, and are sold internationally.
When she’s not writing, Jolene Roehlkepartain occasionally presents workshops on Development Assets to parents, childcare providers, educators, health-care professionals, faith communities, librarians, people in the workplace and community leaders.
She has previously been featured in publications including The Washington Post, Time, Psychology Today, Glamour, Woman’s Day, and The Dallas Morning News. Jolene Roehlkepartain also has appeared on TV and radio programs.
She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two children.
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