Learning to Love


Living a Life of Love: Our Relationships and Our Choices

This children’s study unit is designed to be used in conjunction with the teen study unit “What’s Love Got to Do With It? Everything!”. This unit is intended to accomplish the following: 1. To provide participants with a foundation and vocabulary from which…

Session 7: My Church and My Life - The Lifeboat

By the end of this session participants should be able to . . . 1. identify the Church as the community where they can learn how to be truly themselves as God created them 2. discuss how the Church is the community where all people can learn to grow in…

Session 6: My Church, My Lifeboat

Objectives: By the end of this session participants should be able to . . . 1. define the Church as the people of God who are called to love Him and others 2. explain how both living and deceased people belong to the Church 3. compare the Church to a…

Session 5: Loving people that don’t like me

Objectives: By the end of this session participants should be able to . . . 1. define the Christian term neighbor as all people God created, even the people that we don’t like 2. discuss why Jesus tells us to love our enemies 3. identify…

Session 4: Being a Real Friend

Objectives: By the end of this session participants should be able to . . . 1. list descriptions of true friendship 2. compare true friends to people who just pretend to be our friends 3. recall biblical sayings related to friendship 4. …

Session 3: God Gave Me My Family

Objectives: By the end of this session participants should be able to . . . 1. Explain that God gave us our family to learn how to love Him and other people 2. Explain that our parents, like God, show their love for us by correcting and disciplining us…

Session 2: The person that God made me to be

Objectives: By the end of this session students should be able to . . . 1. explain how each person is inheritly good, special, and loved by God 2. compose a poem that describes some of the positive and negative aspects of their personality 3. give…

Session 1: Our God is a Loving God

Objectives: By the end of this session participants should be able to . . . 1. Define God as the One who loves all people and who teaches us to love Him and each other. 2. List particular ways God shows His love for us in our daily lives. 3. …