As you begin Wonder Ink, here are some resources to help! We’re here to support you as you help children come to know, love, and follow Jesus as they discover their place in His big story. Plus, you’ll be able to support parents at home and prepare your volunteers for ministry.
And with relationships at the center, Wonder Ink helps you share the good news of Jesus with your ministry. Keep the gospel central, and share it in love!
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Getting Started: Articles to Help you Begin Wonder Ink
Training Your Volunteers for Wonder Ink: What They Need to Know
Train your volunteers for Wonder Ink. Help them feel enthusiastic and confident in what they will be leading as they teach kids!
Tips for Using One Wonder Ink Lesson for Multiple Services
We asked our Wonder Ink users how they use the Wonder Ink lessons in two different services a week, and here are their ideas.
Known, Loved, and Led: Helping Children Know Who They Were Created to Be
It’s our job to help kids to know what is always true—what God says is true.
Transitioning KidMin Curriculum? Here’s How to Transition Well
Once you’ve done the hard work of evaluating, comparing, researching, and choosing a new curriculum…it’s time for the fun part—implementing!
New to Wonder Ink? Here’s What I Did
Hear from one ministry leader on why they were led to Wonder Ink and how they use it each week.
Help children come to know, love, and follow Jesus as they discover their place in His big story.
Wonder Ink Core Values
Kids can know who they were made to be.
- I am known by God.
- I am loved by Jesus.
- I am led by the Holy Spirit.
- I am a child of God. And my life can tell of God’s wonder.
I am known.
God, the Creator of all, knows our kids. He has always known them. He has had them in mind from the very beginning. He made each one of them in His own image, and each is His masterpiece.
Our children are known by the Creator and that means they belong. Each one of them gets to be part of His family.
When kids understand that God knows them—all of them—it reassures them that they have nothing to hide. There’s nothing to run from when you are known. It’s a simple statement that brings God near to our hearts. He knows us.
Psalm 139:13-14 NASB says:
“For You created my innermost parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to You, because
I am awesomely and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.”
I am loved.
Jesus’ perfect life, death, resurrection, and promised return are God’s love story. Jesus came to fulfill God’s promises to His children.
Through Jesus, we each can have salvation—yes, including our kids. His love for our children has no beginning and no end, and they get to love Him back. Jesus is God’s love in person. Jesus is the way to God’s love.
Our children are loved by Jesus, and they get to share His love too.
When kids comprehend that they are fully known and fully loved, they see just how much God really loves them. That even though He knows the messy parts of them—He loves them the same.
It gives our children the opportunity to choose God’s love and God’s way.
John 13:34, 35 NASB says:
“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.”
Jesus’ perfect life, death, resurrection, and promised return are God’s love story.
I am led.
God gives His followers the gift of His Holy Spirit when each chooses to live for Jesus. The Holy Spirit invites us to live in God’s Kingdom—now and not yet. When our kids let the Holy Spirit lead, He strengthens them, and they grow in belief.
When they accept Jesus as Savior, they receive the Holy Spirit as a gift.
As our children learn that God’s way is the best way, their faith grows too. The Holy Spirit helps each one of us be more like Jesus—the people we were made to be.
Because our kids are led by the Holy Spirit, they can follow Him.
Romans 8:14, 15a NASB says:
“For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters.”
I am a child of God.
God’s amazing story changes our stories.
Because God knows each of us, Jesus loves us, and the Holy Spirit leads us, we each get to be a wonder-filled reflection of God to the world. Our children get to know who they truly are and who they were made to be. God delights in them!
The Bible tells our children that they are fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together by a loving God who knows all about them and loves every bit of them.
Our children are wonders. They get to be part of God’s story, and their lives tell of God’s wonder.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
The Wonder Ink Philosophy
God’s Big Story
God’s big story of redemption is celebrated in each lesson. Every piece of Scripture is tied to the whole—nothing stands alone.
The Hope of the Gospel
The hope of the gospel frames every story. God extends to us a redemptive invitation of salvation through grace in Jesus, ‘inked’ on the very core of our beings.
The hope of the gospel frames every story.
The People of Scripture
The people of Scripture are not characters or superheroes—they are real people. People who make mistakes. People who have big dreams. People who are curious. People who believe with their whole hearts. People like you and me.
Biblical Language
Biblical language is introduced and explained in the context of Scripture, adding nothing to it and taking nothing away.
Our Identity
Our identity is rooted in the same way our faith is: in being confident of what we hope for in Jesus. We become who we were created to be through claiming our inheritance as an image-bearing child of God when we trust in Jesus. The more we look like Jesus, the more we grow in godly character, shaped by the Holy Spirit.
More Training
Want more training for Wonder Ink? Check out our Wonder Academy videos or schedule a walkthrough with one of our awesome ministry consultants!
How to Set Up Parents, Volunteers, and Staff on Wonder Ink
In this video, you’ll learn how to add and manage parents and church volunteers on Wonder Ink.
Live: Setting Up and Using Technology in the Classroom
Watch this video for tips and easy ways to set up technology in your classroom while using Wonder Ink curriculum.
Wonder Ink’s 3-year, 52-week children’s ministry curriculum offers kids space to fully find their place in God’s Big Story. Children discover they are Known by God, Loved by Jesus, and Led by the Holy Spirit.
