The Resilience Lab
How to Do Hard Things With God
A ready-to-run science and faith experience for churches, children's ministries and youth leaders.
$79 AUD · Delivered by 15 September 2026
An Ignite Digital Discipleship Ministry resource
A ready-to-run science and faith experience for churches, children's ministries and youth leaders.
$79 AUD · Delivered by 15 September 2026
An Ignite Digital Discipleship Ministry resource
If you lead children or young people at church, you've probably seen this: when something is boring, frustrating, difficult or uncomfortable, there is almost always something else just a tap away.
Technology isn't the enemy. But when children can escape discomfort so easily, they need intentional opportunities to practise something real life requires: staying with hard things.
Resilience isn't something children simply learn by being told to persevere. They develop it through practice. Children need opportunities to experience frustration, uncertainty, failure and challenge — and discover what they can do next.
The Resilience Lab is a hands-on science and faith experience where children explore how different materials respond to pressure — and then discover what those experiments can teach us about how we respond when life gets hard.
And then the question becomes: What happens when WE come under pressure?
Children don't just hear about resilience. They get to experiment, notice, discuss, practise and connect what they discover to real life and faith.
Test different balls and discover how they respond when they hit the ground.
Explore materials that bend, stretch, break and reshape.
Ask what these experiments can teach us about real-life resilience.
Meet seven colourful Resilience Monsters representing thoughts and feelings that can get in our way.
Learn simple, memorable formulas for what to do when things get hard.
Explore what Scripture says about courage, worry, failure, emotions, hope and asking for help.
Sometimes the thing making it hard to keep going isn't what's happening around us. It's what's happening inside us.
Children meet seven colourful Resilience Monsters representing some of the thoughts and feelings that can get in the way when life gets hard.
Each monster has a simple, memorable formula that helps children recognise what's getting in the way and choose what to do next.
Resilience isn't about never falling.
We've done the planning and preparation so you can focus on helping the children and young people in your ministry discover what it means to do hard things with God.
Step-by-step instructions for running The Resilience Lab.
Ready-to-use slides to guide the experience.
Hands-on activities with simple, accessible materials.
Investigation and reflection activities for kids.
Meet the monsters and learn their memorable formulas.
Bible passages and questions that connect resilience to faith.
Help families continue the conversation beyond the session.
A simple takeaway to help children remember the heart of the experience.
Give the children and young people in your church an opportunity to practise resilience, explore Scripture and discover what it means to do hard things with God.
Kids can't swipe their way out of everything. They will experience frustration. They will fail. They will worry. They will feel afraid. They will need help. The Resilience Lab gives them a chance to practise what to do when life gets hard.