Best Friends

My favorite thing about the curriculum at DP little kids is that we don't teach the kids to "be good" but that they are loved by a loving God.  Last month (September) we learned that Jesus is their best best friend. 

 It was so gratifying to watch their little actions toward each other grow warmer and more merciful as we read them stories each week about Jonathan and David, Ruth and Naomi we told them true friendship is in response to God's amazing friendship with us. One little girl was making food in a pretend house and two wild animals were stealing that food.  By the end of the play time she was offering the food to them and they were saying, "Thank you".

  Our memory verse for September was "There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother" Proverbs 18:24. (That's them in the first picture singing the memory verse song which you can find here)  I  wrote a little song too that we worshiped to called "Jesus is my Best Friend", hope to add that to the worship song list here soon . We told the kids that that that friend is Jesus.  Jesus died for them and made them exactly like they are because he loves them more than anyone.