Shine: Living in God's Light

07/03/2025

🍂📚 Fall Shine Curriculum is here! 📚🍂

It’s time to get ready for the new season of faith formation. You can now order your Fall curriculum on our website!

We’ve got everything you need:
✅ Student booklets
✅ Teacher guides
✅ Junior youth devotionals
✅ Follow the Story cards

👉 Order today at: https://shinecurriculum.com/product-category/quarterly/fall/

Let’s make this fall full of meaningful learning and spiritual growth!

07/02/2025

Brethren teachers, we would love to add your name to our display! In our eyes, you are rockstars!

07/02/2025

Brethren friends, visit us at the Shine exhibit this week at Annual Conference! Play a game, look at our curriculum samples, test your knowledge of The Peace Table, and try to find Flicker, the Shine firefly, hiding in our exhibit. If you are a teacher, stop by today for a gift from the Shine Team!

06/27/2025

Here are ways to nurture faith at home based on this week's Bible story, A New King.

📖 Read pages 110–111 in The Peace Table: A Storybook Bible or Isaiah 11:1–9. What does it mean to be wise? Name someone you know who is wise and tell why you think they are wise.

🙏 Pray for leaders in the world. Pray that they will make wise decisions that will lead to peace.

🎨 Create: In Isaiah’s message of hope, all kinds of animals lived together peacefully. Draw a picture of wild animals and tame animals living happily together.

06/26/2025

🌿 Summer is the perfect time to explore God’s creation with the children in your life!

Encourage people of all ages in your congregation to get outside, notice the beauty of the natural world, and cultivate a spirit of wonder and gratitude. Here are a few simple, meaningful ways to get started:

📖 Read or memorize verses from Psalm 104 together.
🌾 Create a summer nature table with leaves, flowers, shells, or other small treasures. Add a magnifying glass and spend time observing each item up close.
🙏 Begin each day with this simple prayer: “Help me, O God, to live peaceably with all creation. Amen.”
👂 Practice listening as a spiritual discipline. Sit quietly outdoors (or indoors!) and name the sounds you hear. Give thanks to God for what surrounds you.

Let’s make space this season to slow down, notice, and give thanks for the gift of creation.

06/24/2025

📣 Meet the Team: Shana Peachey Boshart
Project Facilitator for Shine Everywhere 🌟

We asked Shana: "What’s one thing you wish parents knew about nurturing faith at home?"

“You can do this! There will always be grace to cover your imperfect attempts—and even your big blunders! The spiritual journey is a lifelong process of growing and learning, so learn-as-you-go parenting fits right in with that. We can trust God to turn our imperfect attempts into good fruit in the long run.”

We're so grateful for Shana’s wisdom, encouragement, and faithful leadership as she continues to lead Shine Everywhere!

06/23/2025

💛 Everyday service matters.

Your example—how you care, help, and love in your daily routine—is shaping your child’s faith more than you might realize. Research shows that simply living out your faith by serving others at home has a bigger impact on teens’ spiritual growth than even the best Christian education programs.

That’s why “Serve” is one of the core practices of SHINE Everywhere. Parenting is full of small acts of service—meals, laundry, listening, helping—and each one can point your children toward a life of faith, love, and compassion.

Look for ways to be a helper together. Name acts of kindness. Cheer each other on. Grow closer to God as you serve.

✨ We’re cheering you on too!

06/22/2025

🌟 Want to help kids grow in faith in real-life, everyday ways? Become a SHINE Everywhere Partner!

In the past year:
✨ 9 congregations partnered with us
✨ 17 pastors and leaders received coaching from Shana
✨ 1,503 Follow the Peace Path card decks were given to families

Now it’s your turn! Apply by August 11 to be part of this growing network.
Learn more and apply here 👉 https://shineeverywhere.com/join/partners/

06/21/2025

📚 Summer Reading Picks Part II for Children’s Ministry Leaders ☀️

Wondering what to read this summer? These top picks from Shine staff will help you grow, reflect, and lead with greater impact.

- All Ages Becoming edited by Valerie Grissom
- Bridging Theory and Practice in Children's Spirituality edited by Mimi Larson and Robert J. Keeley
- Forming Resilient Children by Holly Catterton Allen
- Raising Disciples by Natalie Frisk

📖 No matter where you're at in ministry, there's something here to inspire you. Let the reading (and growing) begin!

What are your favorite kids ministry reads? Drop your titles below.

06/20/2025

Here's a new blog post from Shine! -

Summer provides the perfect opportunity to explore God’s creation with children! Encourage people of all ages in your congregation to spend time outdoors together. Share ideas and activities that will help them notice the beauty and abundance of the created world and cultivate a spirit of wonder a...

06/20/2025

Here are ways to nurture faith at home based on this week's Bible story, The Road to Ethiopia.

Read pages 300–301 in The Peace Table: A Storybook Bible or Acts 8:5–6, 26–40. Talk about what baptism means and explain how baptism is done in your tradition.

Pray: Light a candle or turn on a battery-operated candle. Take turns naming where you have seen God’s light in the world and respond by saying, “Thank you, God, for bringing your light into the world.”

Create: Write a Bible verse on a piece of paper. Roll it up to make a scroll then unroll it and read the verse aloud.

06/20/2025

🌱 Big faith starts small!
Wee Wonder is a curriculum designed especially for two-year-olds, helping little ones begin to experience God’s love through songs, play, and simple stories.

Whether at home or in the church nursery, these gentle, hands-on sessions are perfect for nurturing faith in toddlers.

Want to see what it’s all about?
Take a look at a free sample lesson here:
👉https://shinecurriculum.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WeeWonder_sample_m1s1.pdf