Faith is choosing to move forward.

Children's MinistryAges 4-11

A story-first children's ministry unit built on faith as perseverance. Five sessions, a leader script that assumes volunteers, and a take-home page a parent will actually read.

Sunday SchoolAges 4-11

Sunday school that does not end with a worksheet. The story sets up the question, the group does the work, and every child leaves with one step to take before next Sunday.

Youth GroupAges 11-18

Older students can smell a lesson coming. This one starts as a story about a kid who is the different one in the room, and gets to faith by way of a decision rather than a feeling.

Vacation Bible SchoolAges 4-11

A five-day VBS arc on faith and difference. One story, one build each day, and a Friday where every child can say what they did instead of what they were told.

Midweek Kids ClubAges 4-11

A midweek club night that holds children who are not there by choice. Story, game, small group, and a step — the same shape every week so volunteers can run it.

Kids Small GroupsAges 6-12

Small-group material for leaders who have eight children, forty minutes, and no theology degree. Questions that go somewhere, and a leader note for when nobody talks.

Children's ChurchAges 4-10

Children's church for the hour the adults are in the service. Built to work with a rotating volunteer team and a room that changes size every week.

Preschool MinistryAges 3-5

Preschool ministry where the whole lesson is one sentence a three-year-old can repeat, and the story does the rest of the work.

Kids WorshipAges 4-11

Worship time that is not a performance. The story gives children something to sing about that happened to somebody their size.

Teaching Kids to PrayAges 4-11

Children pray in real sentences when they are given a real thing to pray about. This unit uses the hard moment in the story as the starting point.

Scripture MemoryAges 5-12

Memory work that sticks because it is attached to a story the child already cares about, and to a moment they can point to.

Youth RetreatAges 11-18

A weekend retreat built around one question: what do you do when you are the only one like you in the room. Sessions, free time, and a Sunday that does not evaporate by Wednesday.

Church CampAges 6-14

A week of camp with a spine. Faith as the thing you do when it is hard, taught through a story and a set of challenges nobody finishes on the first attempt.

Mission Trip PrepAges 10-18

Preparation that gets past the fundraising letter. Students look at difference before they travel toward it, and come home able to say what they learned.

Character EducationAges 4-12

Character education with a named value per volume. Book six is faith — not certainty, not confidence, but the choice to keep going while it is still hard.

Faith-Based After-SchoolAges 5-12

After-school hours with something in them. Homework help, a story, and a value the children can name by the end of the term.

Christian PreschoolAges 3-5

Preschool material where faith and early learning are the same twenty minutes. Story, one idea, one action, repeated until it is theirs.

School ChapelAges 5-14

Chapel that a whole school can sit through. One story, one value, one thing to do — short enough to hold the youngest and honest enough to hold the oldest.

Church LibraryAges 3-12

A children's shelf worth walking to. The full six-volume series, each book carrying one named value, with shelf cards that tell a parent which one to take home.

Foster and AdoptionAges 4-14

Material for children who have moved, waited, and been the new one more than once. Difference as a gift is not an abstraction to a child in care.

Grief and LossAges 5-14

A gentle unit for children carrying a loss. It does not explain the loss and it does not rush them. It gives them a story where the hard part is not skipped over.

Military FamiliesAges 4-14

For children who move every two years and start over every time. Being the new one, again, and finding the thing that makes them useful in the new room.

Special Needs MinistryAges 4-18

A ministry built so a child who cannot sit still, cannot speak, or cannot cope with the room is still in the room. Difference isn't weakness — that is the book, and it is the policy.

Inclusive MinistryAges 4-12

Inclusion that is planned rather than improvised. One story every child can enter, and participation that is allowed to look different from child to child.

Autism-Friendly ChurchAges 4-18

What actually makes a church workable for an autistic child: predictability, a way out, a named adult, and nobody treating a different response as a discipline problem.

Sensory-Friendly ServiceAges 4-18

A service planned for sensory load: lighting, volume, length, seating and an exit that costs nothing to use. Families stop choosing between worship and their child.

Buddy ProgramAges 4-18

One trained volunteer, one child, the same pairing every week. The single change that most often turns a family's last attempt into a family that stays.

Respite NightAges 4-18

Three hours where the children are genuinely cared for and the parents are genuinely off duty. For many families it is the only such three hours in a month.

Deaf MinistryAges 4-18

Story material that works when the words are signed or captioned, and a session plan that does not fall apart when the audio is not the channel.

Accessible MinistryAges 4-18

Access as a whole path, not a ramp at one door: arrival, seating, sightlines, bathrooms, participation, and being asked rather than accommodated.

Inclusion TrainingAges 4-18

One evening that changes a volunteer team. What to do, what to stop doing, what to say to a parent, and how to tell a hard hour from a failed one.

Kids' Reading PlanAges 6-12

A reading rhythm a family can actually keep. Short, daily, and paired with a story chapter so a child who cannot read yet is still in it.

Homeschool BibleAges 4-12

A homeschool faith unit that fits a real morning. Reading, discussion, and a weekly step, with a multi-age plan for families teaching four children at once.

Family DevotionsAges 4-12

Family devotions for households that have tried and stopped. Ten minutes, one chapter, one question, and permission to miss a night without starting over.

Bedtime DevotionalAges 3-9

The last ten minutes of the day, used well. A chapter, a question, and a child who goes to sleep thinking about someone who kept going.

Confirmation ClassAges 11-15

Confirmation preparation that runs alongside your tradition's own material. The story supplies the human question; your church supplies the answers it teaches.

First Communion PrepAges 6-10

First communion preparation for the child who is nervous about doing it wrong. The story handles the fear; the parish handles the sacrament.

Kids' Baptism ClassAges 6-14

A short class for children who have asked about baptism. Faith framed as a decision to move forward, with your church's own teaching in the centre.

Baptist ChurchesAges 4-14

Baptist Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Methodist ChurchesAges 4-14

Methodist Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Catholic ParishesAges 4-14

Catholic Parishes looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Lutheran ChurchesAges 4-14

Lutheran Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Presbyterian ChurchesAges 4-14

Presbyterian Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Non-DenominationalAges 4-14

Non-Denominational Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Assemblies of GodAges 4-14

Assemblies of God Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Churches of ChristAges 4-14

Churches of Christ looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Episcopal ChurchesAges 4-14

Episcopal Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Orthodox ChurchesAges 4-14

Orthodox Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Nazarene ChurchesAges 4-14

Church of the Nazarene looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Pentecostal ChurchesAges 4-14

Pentecostal Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Reformed ChurchesAges 4-14

Reformed Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Anglican ChurchesAges 4-14

Anglican Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Adventist ChurchesAges 4-14

Seventh-day Adventist Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Mennonite ChurchesAges 4-14

Mennonite Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Calvary ChapelAges 4-14

Calvary Chapel Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Alliance ChurchesAges 4-14

Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Foursquare ChurchesAges 4-14

Foursquare Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Evangelical FreeAges 4-14

Evangelical Free Churches looking for children's material that carries a value without carrying a doctrinal position. Ellis Abel is a character series — faith as the choice to keep going — so the story does the human work and your church does its own teaching.

Curriculum LicensingAges 4-14

License the six-volume character series and its session material for your own programs. You keep your name, your leaders and your teaching; the books supply the spine.

Church PartnershipAges 4-14

A standing partnership for churches running more than one program — kids, youth, midweek and camp — off one set of values instead of four unrelated curricula.

Christian School AdoptionAges 4-14

Adopt the series across a Christian school: one value per volume, chapel and classroom aligned, and a character vocabulary the whole building shares.

Homeschool Co-opAges 4-14

A co-op unit that works with mixed ages in one room, taught by a parent volunteer who was handed it the night before.

Camp and Retreat CenterAges 6-18

For centres that already have the site, the staff and the summer, and need the week itself to be worth repeating.

Christian BookstoreAges 3-12

Wholesale for bookstores and church gift shops. Six volumes, one named value each, and shelf cards that answer the question a grandparent is actually asking.

Parachurch OrganizationAges 6-18

For organisations working across many churches at once, who need material that does not carry a denominational position into rooms that differ.

Denominational PublishingAges 4-14

Co-publishing and imprint conversations for denominations that want the series inside their own catalogue and their own teaching frame.

Start a Kids MinistryAges 4-12

For a church plant or a congregation restarting children's work with four children and two volunteers. The smallest version that still holds together.