Highland Park United Methodist Church

Children's Ministry Keystones

0-2's

To know that God is love and that he loves them.
To establish church friends and know that church is a safe place.
To be able to identify a Bible.
To recognize a picture of HPUMC as a church.

2-3's

1 John 4:8 "He who does not love does not know God, for God is love."
To learn "Jesus Loves Me".
To establish church friends and know that church is a safe place.
To be able to identify a Bible.
To recognize a picture of HPUMC as a church.

3-4's
All 2-3 keystones plus:

John 20:31 "...but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name."
To know that Jesus is God's son.
To know that the Bible is God's word.
To know that the name of our church is Highland Park United Methodist Church

4-5's
All 3-4 Keystones plus:

Psalm 118:24 "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
To begin learning The Lord's Prayer
Gloria Patri (Glory be to the Father…)
To know that God is our Heavenly Father.

Kindergarten
All 4-5 Keystones plus:

The Great Commandment: "And he said to him, ' You shall love the Lord God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" Matthew 22:37-39
The Lord's Prayer
Doxology (Praise God from whom all blessings flow…)
To know that God sent Jesus to save us.

First Grade
All Kindergarten Keystones plus:

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
1 John 4:10-11 "In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love on another."
To know the 10 Commandments
To know the Four Gospels-Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
To participate in a unit on Worship

Second Grade
All First Grade Keystones plus:

Galatians 5:22-26 "But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another."
Begin learning basic Bible skills
To begin learning Books of the Bible
To participate in a unit on Stewardship

Third Grade
All Second Grade Keystones plus:

Psalm 23 "The Lord is My Shepherd, I shall not want; he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, the comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
Ephesians 6:13-17 "Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; besides all these, taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."
To receive 3rd Grade Bible
To participate in a comprehensive Bible skills unit
To know Books and Major Divisions of Old Testament and New Testament
To learn Apostle’s Creed

Fourth Grade
All Third Grade Keystones plus:

I Corinthians 13 "The Gift of Love"-"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but to not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophecy only in part; but when the compelte comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now, faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
To learn the Beatitudes-from Matthew 5:3-12-"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs are the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for the shall possess the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
To learn 12 Disciples-Judas, James (son of Zebedee), Matthias, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Andrew, Bartholomew, James (son of Alpheus), Simon the Zealot, Peter and John
To know two Sacraments: Communion and Baptism
To participate in a unit on Discipleship

Fifth Grade

Review of all keystones
To participate in unit on service/outreach
To participate in 5th Grade Mission Project