Resources to Help You Lead Preschoolers

Do you need some tips and ideas for leading missions discipleship for preschoolers? If so, you’ve come to the right place! The resources, tips, and planning guides on this page will help you start and lead preschool missions discipleship in your church.

Teaching Preschoolers

The years of birth through kindergarten are exciting as preschoolers begin learning about the world around them. Through missions discipleship, preschoolers come to know about God’s love for all people.

Understanding ways preschoolers learn, their learning styles, and how to manage their behavior can help a leader be more intentional about helping preschoolers experience every aspect of missions discipleship. Learn more on these topics through the following resources:

• Ways Preschoolers Learn
• Learning Styles of Preschoolers
• Behavior Management of Preschoolers
• Addressing Preschoolers with Special Needs

Missions Discipleship for Preschoolers

Mission Friends is the WMU missions discipleship group for preschoolers from birth through kindergarten. Mission Friends is offered for girls and boys together as a coed group in the church. The goal of Mission Friends is to develop these missional characteristics in preschoolers:

• Learn about missions
• Pray for missions
• Support missions
• Do missions and tell about Jesus

Learn more about starting and leading Mission Friends through the following resources.

Starting Mission Friends

• What Is Mission Friends?
• How to Start Mission Friends
• Mission Friends Curriculum
• Try a One-Week Sample of Mission Friends
• WMU Curriculum Standards

Leading Mission Friends

• Mission Friends Leader Responsibilities
• Mission Friends Leadership Structure and Child/Leader Ratio
• When and Where Mission Friends Meet
• Checklist for Planning a Mission Friends Session
• What Happens in a Mission Friends Session?
• Preschool Christian Concept Areas
• Mission Friends Helping Others Activities
• Teaching Blended Age Groups in Mission Friends