Elementary

Serve Elementary students and families at your church with ideas and tips from these articles. Find insights into the unique qualities of Elementary students and their faith.

  • Reframing Our Thoughts: July 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Reframing Our Thoughts: July 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    How often do you think about your thoughts? Hmm, let me think about that. Thoughts matter a great deal to God. The Bible says, “the word of God is living and active, . . . discerning the...

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  • Planning for Baptismal Birthdays: June 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Planning for Baptismal Birthdays: June 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    The day I was baptized was a cold day in December. It was five days before Christmas and nearly 17.75 years after my earthly entrance. My pastor helped me to keep the Fourth Commandment...

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  • Grace in Our Home: May 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Grace in Our Home: May 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Ten years ago, my mom and I were tying pieces of silky purple ribbon to the top of dozens of lovely wedding bulletins. It was a few weeks before my wedding, and she and I had had so much...

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  • Joy in Tough Times: April 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Joy in Tough Times: April 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    It’s a tough season for my family. It’s not the toughest it could be. We’re all (mostly) healthy. We’re not looking to move or leave our jobs anytime soon. We’ve settled into a rhythm of...

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  • Worry: March 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Worry: March 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “Everything will be okay.” “Don’t worry. Be happy.” “Hakuna matata.” These feel-good yet frothy phrases center around an issue that is near and dear to my sinful heart: worry.

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  • What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    What Do You Value? February 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “I don’t want to pray right now,” my two-and-a-half-year-old says. I know that these words don’t actually mean she doesn’t want the comfort of prayer, but she doesn’t want to go to bed....

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  • Connected in Christ: January 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Connected in Christ: January 2025 Everyday Faith Calendar

    My three-year-old and one-year-old had just thrown F5-level meltdowns for the first fifteen minutes of church (some of it in the pew, some of it in the nursery, some outside … you get the...

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  • Showing Hospitality: December 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Showing Hospitality: December 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We long for deep community. We strive for healthy and helpful relationships with family members, church people, and neighbors. But if we’re honest with ourselves, especially as parents,...

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  • Why We Serve Others: November 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Why We Serve Others: November 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We are now entering the one time of year in our world that is focused on being generous, giving back, and serving our neighbors. Bell ringers at stores, social media posts of friends...

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  • Written on Their Hearts: October 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Written on Their Hearts: October 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Psalm 119:15–16 states, “I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.” When I read this verse, I cannot...

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  • Comparison: September 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Comparison: September 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your...

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  • Your Kids See Christ in Your Marriage: August 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Your Kids See Christ in Your Marriage: August 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    My wedding anniversary is coming up. Every year midsummer, I think about the vows we made and how we continue to live out those vows. And if I’m being honest, sometimes I think about how...

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  • Distracted: July 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Distracted: July 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    We’ve all felt the struggle. When you’re sitting in an awkward waiting room, when your kid asks you the same question over and over, when you’re tired at the end of a long day—we struggle...

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  • Calling Out to the Father: June 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Calling Out to the Father: June 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “Daddy! Daaaaaaaaaaaa-deeee! Daaaaaaaa-daaaaa! Dada! DADA!” My two-year-old cries out in the middle of the night. We can hear her over our audio monitor getting more frantic. She is...

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  • Struggles and Support: May 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Struggles and Support: May 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    May isn’t just the month of Mother’s Day; it is also Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month. Before I became a mother, I thought that the conversation surrounding maternal mental health...

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  • Ordinary Callings: April 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Ordinary Callings: April 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    In college, I attended a Bible study hosted at a pastor’s home. One week, he said our homework was to make a list of our biggest questions about faith, and we’d discuss them and seek...

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  • Parenting Guilt, God’s Grace: March 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Parenting Guilt, God’s Grace: March 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    It was a month or so after our second child was born, and my almost two-year-old decided he wanted to join the rest of the family and stop sleeping too. Fighting bedtime, skipping his...

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  • Patterns: February 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Patterns: February 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    I’ve never been a person who really relied on or noticed patterns in my life. I never struggled with feeling too scheduled or the opposite feeling of overwhelmed with no structure. That...

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  • Change: January 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    Change: January 2024 Everyday Faith Calendar

    “In 2024, I plan to . . .” Fill in the blank. Maybe you’re hoping to exercise more, eat healthier, start a new job, go on a big family trip, spend more time with your spouse, spend less...

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  • Jesus Bears Our Burdens: Everyday Faith Calendar December 2023

    Jesus Bears Our Burdens: Everyday Faith Calendar December 2023

    I never had any interest in watching the 1946 James Stewart Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, until college. Many adults and teens in my life had droned on about how boring they...

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