A Sunday to Celebrate Cadets
Traditionally, Cadet Sunday is the last Sunday in the month of January and Cadet Week is the week leading up to that Sunday.
During Cadet Week your club is encouraged to get families involved through families visiting your club or fundraising events. On Cadet Sunday the boys of the club participate in a worship service.
This worship service is heavily influenced by that season’s theme.
Cadets Theme for 2024-2025:
Lead the Way
Theme Verse
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
I Timothy 4:12 (NIV)
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- Children’s Bulletin (2 MB PDF)
- theme and about Cadets text – version A (16:9)
- theme and about Cadets text – version B (16:9)
Cadet Sunday Litany 2024-2025
Leader: This year’s Cadet theme is “Lead the Way”. The Cadets are learning how God directs and trains them as leaders.
Leader: Cadets must be an example in Christian speech.
Cadets: Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. (Proverbs 4:24)
Congregation: We will encourage you to become good leaders by your example.
Leader: Cadets must be an example in their Christian conduct.
Cadets: So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 7:12)
Congregation: We will pray for you as you follow God’s leading and serve in His kingdom.
Leader: Cadets must be an example, displaying Christian love.
Cadets: And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. (1 John 4:21)
Congregation: We will support you, enfolding you in God’s love.
Leader: Cadets must show their Christian faith, in all areas of life.
Cadets: For we live by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)
Congregation: We will guide you as you follow God’s commands.
Leader: Cadets must show purity in their lives.
Cadets: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. (Matthew 5:8)
Congregation: We will help you experience the joy of living a life of following Jesus.
Leader: Cadets, continue to learn and grow to be more Christlike in all areas of your life.
Cadets: And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Colossians 3:17)
Congregation: Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. (1 Timothy 4:12)
Song Suggestions for Cadet Sunday 2024-2025
Below are some suggestions for songs (and the writer or artist) that fit this year’s theme. The list is broken into three sections, familiar songs that even young children may know, traditional songs/hymns, and contemporary songs. There are many other songs that can help relay the message that we must be leaders in today’s world, and that our example of leadership is Christ. Try to pick your church’s favorite.
Reminder: being listed here does not give permission to print or project music, your church must still have the rights to do so.
Familiars
I Will Make You Fishers of Men – Harry D. Clarke
Trust and Obey – John H. Sammis
In My Life, Lord, Be Glorified – Bob Kilpatrick
We Are the Church – Donald S. Marsh, Richard K. Avery
Traditional Songs/Hymns
Living for Jesus – Thomas O. Chisholm
Take My Life and Let it Be – Havergal
He Leadeth Me – William B. Bradbury
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace – St. Francis
Lead Me, Guide Me – Doris Akers
Servant Song – Richard Gillard
Forth in Your Name, O Lord, I Go – Charles Wesley
Contemporary
All I Have is Christ – Sovereign Grace
Days of Elijah – Robin Mark
Build Your Kingdom Here – Rend Collective
Speak O Lord – Keith & Kristyn Getty
For the Cause – Keith & Kristyn Getty, Stuart Townend
In Christ Alone – Keith Getty, Stuart Townend
We Are Called – David Haas
Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me – Michael Farren, Rich Thompson, Jonny Robinson
Only a Holy God – Michael Farren, Rich Thompson, Dustin Smith, Jonny Robinson
Hymn
Living for Jesus
Living for Jesus a life that is true,
Striving to please Him in all that I do;
Yielding allegiance, glad-hearted and free,
This is the pathway of blessing for me.
O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I give myself to Thee,
For Thou, in Thy atonement, Didst give Thyself for me;
I own no other Master, My heart shall be Thy throne;
My life I give, henceforth to live, O Christ for Thee alone.
