Meet the Gentle Jesus: First Communion Catechist Guide is a comprehensive teaching guide with lesson plans to help you prepare children for First Holy Communion. It includes a lesson plan scope and sequence. The wraparound design enables you to see what the children see. Child-friendly activities and examples help you teach more complex concepts.
The material integrates with A Child's First Communion...And So Much More DVD featuring Fr. Joe Kempf so you know when to play each section of the video to children or to parents.
The Catechist Guide front matter helps you plan your program, organize meetings with parents, and prepare for the celebration of the sacrament. The back matter includes a complete glossary of all new concepts and terms taught in the lessons, blackline art for handouts, and weekly sample emails to send to parents.
Meet the Gentle Jesus: First Communion is a complete curriculum and includes:
- First Communion for Children, which inspires youngsters to take a lifelong journey of knowing and loving Jesus, and to become missionary disciples
- Catechist Guide (this book)
- Family Guide, which explains the sacrament, and provides weekly activities for the family to share their faith
- A Child's First Communion...And So Much More
- Meet the Gentle Jesus: The Mass for Children, a take-with booklet on the Mass
The charming, colorful illustrations by renowned artist Jeff Albrecht engage children and help make the doctrine understandable to them.
Meet the Gentle Jesus: First Communion has been reviewed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
