Barefoot in the Snow: And 51 Other Kids Sermons for Special Times and Topics (Children's Sermons) [Paperback]

Ruth Gilmore (Author)

Book Description

Series: Children's Sermons

A year’s worth of effective, easy-to-use children’s sermons, plus a CD-ROM that lets users add their own touches to each sermon.

Fifty-two kid-tested sermons – one for each Sunday of the year – for holiday, special times, special themes and topics.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

We are especially pleased to offer Ruth Gilmore’s collections of fresh and easy-to-use children’s sermons. The author has tested each of the sermons for appeal and clarity before a real audience of kids. And the CD-ROM included inside the back cover allows users to adapt and personalize the sermons for their unique situation. This book is part of a successful 4-book series by Gilmore: three are lectionary-based, and this collection is calendar-based.

About the Author

Ruth Gilmore is Director of Children’s Ministries at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Sacramento, California; she is also a wife, and the mother of three children. She has tested each of her sermons on an enthusiastic audience of children and adults.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806640839
• ISBN-13: 978-0806640839
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,867,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ruth's website, Kidsermons.com, is a valuable resource providing free original sermons, stories, skits and puppet shows for use by youth ministers and Christian educators.

Ruth Gilmore has been giving children's sermons from the age of eight. In order to pass the time during lengthy sermons, she invented object lessons and stories that would communicate the message, to her own mind, more clearly and creatively. At her pastor's urging, she began to give children's sermons which helped to explain the Bible readings for each Sunday. Later, when she had children of her own, she continued to give weekly children's sermons. Her congregation in California first asked her for print-outs of the messages, then for booklets of a year's worth of sermons, and then finally urged her to get the children's sermons published. Augsburg/Fortress published the first editions, and now the digital Kindle versions are becoming available. The newer digital versions will make it even easier to find specific sermons for a particular subject or Bible verse.

Ruth currently resides in Tokyo, Japan, where she works as the Elementary School librarian at an international school.