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Self Denial Appeal Kids Leaders' Guide

This leaders' guide compliments the Self Denial kids workbook and guides you through our six week program with cues for set up and time frames.

Our aim is to engage the children in a fun and interactive program to give them an understanding of what a generous God we have, some of the amazing programs run by The Salvation Army and how we can help support these programs through the Self Denial Appeal.

This program is suitable for children between 5-11 years of age. It is designed to support children’s workers by providing easy-to-do, fun resources to encourage children to follow Jesus’ example of living generously.

The material is presented through the Self Denial workbook, featuring the Kidzone characters, and short videos which will present weekly lessons and activities. To familiarise your class with the characters, give them copies of Kidzone magazine or visit the Kidzone website at https://www.kidzonemag.com.au. The characters are on the home page; click on the characters’ faces for their profiles.

HOW IT WORKS

Each week the workbook provides a comic featuring a Kidzone character to explain the Self Denial Appeal and The Salvation Army programs in Indonesia, Tonga and the Philippines. This complements the material presented in the videos.

This year’s theme for the Self Denial Appeal is ‘Love in Action’ and focuses on Indonesia, the Philippines and Tonga. Throughout the six weeks of the program, the children will get to know about these nations through crafts, recipes, and activities provided in the workbook. They will also watch short videos from the Self Denial ‘newsroom’ profiling the work of The Salvation Army in these countries and be encouraged to raise money to support these projects. Each child will be given a Self Denial money box to make, which they can then use to collect the money they have raised.     

At the end of the six-week program, the children will be invited to bring in their money box to give the money they have raised to support the people helped by SDA programs around the world.

Click here to view the complete Self Denial Appeal resource collection.