Hyfi Preschool-Kids Weekly Training
A weekly audio training podcast hosted by Lifeway's Hyfi Preschool and Kids team to help you lead relational sessions in your Kids Ministry.
I Am Designed for a Purpose: Let's Love Like Jesus
Our Bible story this week will teach preschoolers and kids that we can love like Jesus. In Matthew 5:43-48, Jesus taught that people who love and follow Him are to love differently. They are to love when it costs them something, even when they are not shown love and kindness in return. Jesus taught that they should even love their enemies. Jesus is our example of how to love. Kids and preschoolers will learn that loving like Jesus looks like loving all people—including and especially our enemies. It is not always easy, but God helps us love differently.
...I Am Designed for a Purpose: Let's Trust Like Jesus
Follow the Leader to discover what is Next Up: Teaching preschoolers and kids that we can trust like Jesus. In our Bible story from Matthew 6:25-34, Jesus told His listeners not to worry but to remember how God provides for His creation. God loves and cares for us more than the birds in the sky or flowers in the fields. God loves us so much that He sent Jesus for us. We can remember how God has provided for us in the past and choose to trust Him in the present and with our future. Kids and preschoolers will...
I Am Designed for a Purpose: Let's Serve Like Jesus
Our Bible story this week is from Matthew 5:38-42; 6:1-4,19-24. Jesus taught what it means to honor God by serving others. In this Bible passage, Jesus explained that we are called to choose kindness over anger and to care about people, even when we do not think they deserve it. We get to teach preschoolers and kids that God made us to serve because we love God, not because we want the praise of others. Jesus is the greatest example of what it means to serve because He came to serve us. Let’s get preschoolers and kids ex...
I Am Designed for a Purpose: Let's Live Like Jesus
This week we are teaching preschoolers and kids that they are designed for a purpose and part of that purpose and plan is to live like Jesus. In Matthew 7:24-29, Jesus explained that when we listen to Him and do what He says, we are like the builder who built his house on the rock—the strong foundation. Winds and storms will come, but the house stands strong because it is built on the right foundation. Jesus calls us to live like Him, and that starts with having the right foundation—a relationship with Him. We get to teach pres...
I Am Broken: I Need God's Hope
While we and our world are broken because of sin, we can have hope and trust that something good will happen. Preschoolers and kids will learn this week that they need God’s hope. As we teach 1 Kings 17:8-16, kids will see how God provided for the prophet Elijah. In our Bible story, there was a famine and Elijah needed food. He trusted God to take care of him. Incredibly, God worked through a widow to provide food for Elijah in a miraculous way. We will teach preschoolers and kids that they can have hope, even in our broken wo...
I Am Broken: I Need God's Help/I Need God's Compassion
This week we will teach preschoolers and kids that they need God’s compassion. Our Bible story is found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Jesus taught a crowd who was eager to learn, but also very hungry! Jesus had compassion on the crowd, meaning He saw their need and acted to care and help. Jesus knew the people not only needed His teaching but also actual food, so He miraculously multiplied five loaves of bread and two fish. The whole crowd ate and were satisfied! Kids will learn that we need God’s compassion, too, and He gives it t...
I Am Broken: I Need God to Forgive Me/I Need God's Forgiveness
An important fact we get to teach this week is that we all need God’s forgiveness. In John 4:1-42, Jesus met a Samaritan woman at a well in the middle of the day. Jews and Samaritans did not get along. The fact that this Samaritan woman was at the well in middle of the day meant she had also been rejected by her community. But Jesus did not reject her. Instead, He offered her “living water.” This living water was a new relationship with God and forgiveness for the wrong things she had done in her life. We all ne...
I Am Broken: I Need God Every Day
We get to teach preschoolers and kids that they need God every day. This week’s Bible story is an overview from Exodus 13–40. God cared for His people, the Israelites, including leading them through the desert with a cloud by day and a fire by night. Even though they were not perfect and made wrong choices, God showed He was always with them. God promised to be with them and provide what they needed when they needed it. We get to teach preschoolers and kids that we need God and His presence in our lives, just like the Israelites need...
Bonus Episode: I Am Made New
As we prepare to launch our second 3-year Hyfi Cycle, we will include two new Simple Truths! Enjoy this bonus podcast to learn more about the new truth, "I Am Made New."
In a world of brokenness, all of humanity is looking for a way to put things back together. Sometimes we look for it in status or esteem. Sometimes we look for it in the approval of others. Sometimes we look for it in people or in circumstances. Kids, students, and adults all know the cycle: chasing a sense of satisfaction, only to be let down...
Bonus Episode: I Am Valued
As we prepare to launch our second 3-year Hyfi Cycle, we will include two new Simple Truths! Enjoy this bonus podcast to learn more about the truth, "I Am Valued."
The next generation is constantly being bombarded with lies and half-truths about what human value truly means. They hear and even internalize messages such as, “I am valued because I hold to the right values,” or “I am valued as long as I contribute or someone else sees me as valuable,” or even, “I am valued because of my brand.” In a world where kids and students often questi...
I Am Uniquely Designed: I Am Special to God/I Matter to God
Our Bible story this week is from Ephesians 1. In this letter to Christians in Ephesus, Paul prayed that the people who follow Jesus would have strong faith and know that they are special to God! God promised to give them the Holy Spirit to help them follow Him and point others to Him. This is true for us as well! This week we get to teach preschoolers and kids that God loves us so much, and He sent Jesus so we could have a relationship with Him. God did this not because of anything we did to earn it...
I Am Uniquely Designed: Where I Live Is Special to God/Where I Live Matters to God
We get to teach preschoolers and kids that where they live is special and matters to God. In Jeremiah 29:1-14, God told His people that they should live their lives well, even while they were in captivity in Babylon. God’s people were not happy about living in Babylon. But God taught them that when the place around them thrived, they would thrive. They could seek Him and follow Him in Babylon. Whether we like or not, we can know, love, and follow God in that place. God designed us to love and follow Him wherever we li...
I Am Uniquely Designed: My Life Is Special to God/My Life Matters to God
Preschoolers and kids will learn this week that their lives are special and matter to God. In Judges 13–16, we will teach about a man named Samson, whose life mattered to God even though he made wrong choices. God uniquely designed Samson, and He has uniquely designed each and every preschooler and kid in our ministry too. Our lives matter to God because we matter to God. He loves us, and He designed us for a purpose—to love Him and help others know and love Him too. No matter what we have done, we can know that God’s love a...
I Am Uniquely Designed: My Name Is Special to God/My Name Matters to God
This week we will teach preschoolers and kids that their names are special and matter to God. God called a boy named Samuel by name and gave him an important message. Through our Bible story from 1 Samuel 3, preschoolers and kids will see that God uniquely designed Samuel, and Samuel’s name mattered to God. We will teach preschoolers and kids that they are also uniquely designed by God, and their names matter to God too! Â
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I Am Here to Share Jesus: God Leads Me to Have Faith (Hooray Day/Game Changer)
This week we have a special Hooray Day for preschool and Game Changer for kids. These are special sessions when we emphasize how salvation through Jesus is something to celebrate and it changes the game in our lives. We will teach preschoolers and kids that God leads us to have faith through Jesus, which is a Game Changer! Hebrews 11 talked about faith, which is trusting and believing God. This passage is filled with stories about men and women who, when faced with difficulties and challenges, clung to faith in God. God led them to have faith, and both preschoolers...
I Am Here to Share Jesus: Sharing Jesus Is Exciting
Get ready for an exciting session because we are going to teach preschoolers and kids this week that sharing Jesus is exciting! We are here to share Jesus with others, and that is part of God’s amazing plan for our lives. This week, kids will learn from Acts 2 how exciting it was that God sent the Holy Spirit. A great wind filled the place where Jesus’ disciples were gathered, and they were filled with boldness and began speaking about Jesus, even in different languages. And what is even more exciting—thousands of people believed and trusted in Jes...
I Am Here to Share Jesus: Sharing Jesus Is Worth It
This week, we are going Nonstop teaching preschoolers and kids that sharing Jesus is worth it Here and Now! Jesus told several parables, which were stories that Jesus taught to help people understand the kingdom of God. In Matthew 13:1-23, Jesus told a parable about a farmer who sowed seed on different types of soil. The seed did not grow in every soil type, but they did grow and multiply in good soil. In a similar way, when we share Jesus, we do not know if people will listen and believe. But sharing Jesus is worth...
I Am Here to Share Jesus: Sharing Jesus Is God's Plan
We are teaching preschoolers and kids this week that sharing Jesus is God’s plan. After Jesus died and rose again, He appeared to His disciples. In one of these instances, Jesus met two of His disciples as they were walking to Emmaus. The men did not recognize who Jesus was and shared their heartbreak over His death. Jesus walked them through Scripture, showing that it was always God’s plan to send a Savior to reconcile people to Him. Jesus helped them understand that God’s plan is for us to share Jesus with the world so all...
I Am Here to Share Jesus: Sharing Jesus Is Important
We are starting the month by teaching preschoolers and kids that sharing Jesus is important. This week, our Bible story comes from Acts 13–21. After the disciple Paul started following Jesus, he traveled around and shared Jesus with different people in different places. While it was not always easy, Paul saw many people come to faith in Jesus. Paul knew—and we can help preschoolers and kids know—that sharing Jesus is important because He is the One who made the way for us to have a relationship with God.Â
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God Helps Me Obey: God Helps Me with My Actions (Preschool Episode)
In our final week of All the Way! God Helps Me Obey, we are looking in Exodus to learn about how God helps us with our actions. Exodus 3–12 shows Moses, the leader of God’s people, and Pharaoh, the leader of Egypt, on opposite sides of what they wanted for God’s people, the Israelites. Pharaoh disobeyed God by refusing to let the Israelites go, but Moses obeyed God as he continued trying to free God’s people. God showed that obeying Him is always best. Preschoolers will learn that God helps us obey Him with the things we do, and...
I Am Set Apart: God Cares About My Actions (Kids Episode)
This week we will teach kids that God cares about our actions. In Philippians 2:1-18, Paul reminded Christians that Jesus lived with humility, meaning an attitude of submission, or surrender, to God and gentleness toward other people. When we trust and follow Jesus, we can follow His example and live with humble actions as well. Kids will learn that when we live with humility—helping other people and making them feel important—we point others to God and live like Jesus.Â
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I Am Set Apart: God Helps Me/Cares About My Words
In our Bible story this week from James 3, James teaches us that God cares about our words. Preschoolers and kids will learn that words have power. James wrote that our tongues have the power to praise or curse God and to build others up or tear them down. Preschoolers and kids can know that God works through our words to show His love and share truth with others. When we struggle to control our words, we can ask God to help us.Â
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God Helps Me Obey: God Helps Me with My Thoughts (Preschool Episode)
Obedience to God starts in our thoughts, so this week we will teach preschoolers that God helps us with our thoughts. Our Bible story about wise King Solomon comes from 1 Kings 3:1-15, 2 Chronicles 1:1-13, and Proverbs 4. When Solomon had the opportunity to ask God for anything, he asked for wisdom. Throughout his life, Solomon showed the value of knowing and following God’s wisdom. Preschoolers can know that God also helps us trust and follow His wisdom.Â
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I Am Set Apart: God Cares About My Thoughts (Kids Episode)
In this week’s Bible story from 1 Peter 1:13-25, the disciple Peter wrote that God cares about our thoughts. Our thoughts influence our actions. We get to teach kids that when we set our minds on the things of God, He helps us live for Him. Even if our actions and words seem “good,” we can know that God sees, knows, and cares about the thoughts and attitudes in our heads and hearts.Â
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I Am Set Apart: God Sent Jesus for Me/God Cares About Me
This week we are celebrating Easter by teaching preschoolers and kids that God cares about them. Our Bible story comes from all four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Jesus died on a cross to take the punishment we deserved for sin. But He rose again on the third day, showing that He is more powerful than both sin and death. Everything God did though Jesus shows that He sees us, loves us, cares about us, and wants to help us have a relationship with Him. We will help preschoolers and kids learn that when we understand how much Go...
I Am Meant to Know God: God Leads Me to Hope
It is time for a Hooray Day and a Game Changer session this week! In the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem. Today we call this Palm Sunday. People in Jerusalem celebrated Jesus’ arrival by waving palm branches and laying clothing on the ground. They were celebrating that the Savior they were hoping for—the One God promised to send to rescue them—was finally here. God led them to hope, and He leads us to hope too. Through Jesus, God invites us to a forever relationship with Him. We can look forwar...
I Am Meant to Know God: God Is Wise
This week’s Bible story comes from Daniel 2:1-30 and teaches that God is wise. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had a dream and challenged others to both tell him the dream and interpret it. Daniel and his friends were exiles from Judah living in Babylon. They loved and followed the one true God and knew that only He was wise enough to do what the king asked. Daniel and his friends, looking to God for wisdom, and God worked through them to know and interpret the king’s dream. Preschoolers and kids will learn that, in all...
I Am Meant to Know God: God Is Just and Kind
Preschoolers and kids will learn this week that God is both just and kind through the story of Noah from Genesis 6–9:17. God told Noah He would send a flood to cover the whole earth and punish sin, because God is just and always does what is right. But God promised to rescue Noah, Noah’s family, and many animals who would be safe on an ark, because God is kind. Preschoolers and Kids will learn that God is just to punish our sin, but He is also kind to send Jesus to rescue us from sin.Â
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I Am Meant to Know God: God Never Changes
We will be covering several Bible stories this week as we teach preschoolers and kids that God never changes. Preschoolers and kids will learn about Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. These stories are woven together to show that God is faithful to keep His promises, and He never changes. We are excited to teach both preschoolers and kids that we can trust God and know everything about Him is true and that, no matter what is happening, He never changes.Â
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I Am Meant to Know God: God Is Holy
This week, we are teaching Isaiah 6 and helping preschoolers and kids learn that God is holy. When the prophet Isaiah came face to face with God, Isaiah recognized that God is holy, meaning He is special, unique, different from anything else in creation, and set apart. While Isaiah knew he was not holy because of his sinfulness, God invited Isaiah to trust and follow Him. Preschoolers and kids can know that God is holy, which makes Him really special. This same holy God says they are special too!Â
I Am Loved: God’s Love is Faithful
Our Bible story this week comes from Deuteronomy 29–32. When God’s people, the Israelites, were preparing to go into the land God promised them, their leader Moses reminded them of their history with God. Over the years, God showed love to His people, promising to continue to show them His love and care. Even when God’s people made wrong choices, God promised to love them showing that His love is faithful. Preschoolers and kids can know God’s love is faithful. His love never changes and is available for them because of Jesus.Â
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I Am Loved: God’s Love is Patient
This week, we will teach preschoolers and kids that God’s love is patient. In 2 Peter 3:1-18, Peter encouraged Christians who were growing impatient as they waited for Jesus to return, like He promised. Peter reminded them that God’s love is patient. Every day that we wait for Jesus to return is another day that God gives people to know, love, and follow Him. Preschoolers and kids can have hope when life is challenging and they wonder why Jesus has not returned. We can know God’s patient love makes the way for more people...
I Am Loved: God’s Love Never Ends
We get to teach preschoolers and kids this week that God’s love never ends. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul encouraged Christians to remember that, because of Jesus, they can know God’s love lasts forever. Because of Jesus, God has made the way to enjoy His love and a relationship with Him for eternity. Preschoolers and kids can know that, when they follow Jesus, they get to trust and enjoy God’s love forever!Â
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I Am Loved: God’s Love is Kind
This week, we will teach preschoolers and kids the story of Peter and Cornelius from Acts 10. God gave a disciple named Peter and incredible vision, revealing to Peter that God’s love is available for all people, regardless of background or nationality. Peter shared this vision with a man named Cornelius, who was not Jewish but followed God. They celebrated together that God’s love is kind and available for everyone. Preschoolers and kids can know God’s kind love is available for them, their friends, their family, and everyone everywhere!Â
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I Am Secure: God Is Always with Me
We will teach preschoolers and kids this week that God is always with us. Ephesians 6:10-20 is often called, “The Armor of God.” Paul wrote to remind Christians that God surrounds them like a suit of armor, enabling them to stand strong and follow Him. He encouraged them to remember that they can turn to God in prayer and know that He is with them, no matter what they face. Preschoolers and kids will learn they can turn to God in prayer and trust that He is with them, leading and guiding them to follow Him.Â
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I Am Secure: God Can Always Be Trusted
Our Bible story from 1 Samuel 17 will help preschoolers and kids learn that God can always be trusted. God's people, the Israelites, were at war with their enemies, the Philistines. When the Philistines bought out a giant named Goliath, God's people felt unsure and afraid. A young shepherd boy named David (who would later become the king of Israel) trusted that God could give His people victory. With a sling a few stones, God worked through David to defeat Goliath. David knew he could trust and count on God, and God did not disappoint! In a world where p...
I Am Secure: God Is Always Powerful
We are teaching preschoolers and kids this week that God is always powerful. Our Bible story from Acts 9:36-43 is about a woman named Dorcas who loved Jesus and was known for helping others. When she died, God showed His power by working through Peter to raise Dorcas back to life! Preschoolers and kids will learn that the same God with the power to raise the dead is the same God who makes the way for us to have a relationship with Him through Jesus. God’s power has no limit, and we can turn to and re...
I Am Secure: God Is Always Good
This week, we are teaching preschoolers and kids that God is always good. In our Bible story this week from Luke 17:11-19, Jesus healed 10 men with leprosy (a skin disease). When only 1 of the 10 men returned to thank Jesus, He told the man that his faith made him well. Preschoolers and kids will learn that Jesus healed the men not because they deserved it but because God is good. The man who returned to thank Jesus experienced the best part of His goodness—a relationship with Him. Preschoolers and kids can know that God gives us His pe...
I Am Never Alone: God Gives Me Hope
We are saying good-bye to 2025 and hello to 2026 as we teach preschoolers and kids that God gives us hope. In Luke 2:1-40, Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to be dedicated at the temple, which was the custom at the time. In the temple, an older man named Simeon and an older woman named Anna had been waiting and hoping to see God’s Promised Savior. When they saw Jesus, they knew God kept His promise! We will teach that hope is when we look forward to something we know will happen. We can have hope that God will love us...
I Am Never Alone: God Gives Me Love/God Gives Me Salvation
This week we will share about the birth of Jesus and the true meaning of Christmas from Luke 2:1-20. Preschoolers will learn that God gives us love and kids will learn that God gives us salvation. God fulfilled His promise to send a Savior to the world through His Son, Jesus. Angels announced His birth to shepherds in a field, who went into the city of Bethlehem to find Baby Jesus laying in a manger (a feeding bin for animals). Preschoolers and kids will learn that God sent Jesus to save us from sin and make the way for...
