In the Bible God tells us that rest is good. Not just rest where we lie down and sleep (although that IS talked about in the Bible), but God’s idea of rest. There’s so much for us to learn about God and rest!
Updated for 2025 (with an amazing new front cover and even more pictures to colour in!), our Kids ‘Summer of Rest’ Daily Journal will guide children through different bits of the Bible over six weeks, and help them:
- discover God’s original design for rest
- find out what stops them resting
- accept God’s invitation to rest
- learn what Jesus thought about rest
- embrace more sleep (!) and
- think about how they might rest more in their ‘real’, non-holiday life.
Every week of the plan has five daily double page spreads with a short Bible passage to write out every day (that match the adult journal!), as well as space for their thanksgivings and thoughts (whether written drawn or doodled!) The final page each week is designed for them to use to reflect on what they've learned that week, before the next week's theme starts.
Our hope is that by using this journal, kids will learn to hear what God is saying to them through His Word. We love it when children realise they can have their own relationship with Jesus and our prayer is that these journals help them on that journey.
Kids: Summer of Rest Journal
Launch week
- A5 journal with a white, illustrated card cover and white spiral binding
- 80 pages
- inside pages are printed in black ink on 100gsm paper
- fun illustrations throughout
- 6 weeks' duration with the following weekly themes:
- Week 1: 'Rest is God's idea'
- Week 2: 'Rest instead of worry'
- Week 3: 'God says 'Come and Rest''
- Week 4: 'Jesus and rest'
- Week 5: 'Hooray for sleep!'
- Week 6: 'Rest when life is busy'