Ready to use resources: November ’22

 

Each month we provide you with some great ready to use (RTU) resources. Some of these are linked to the Bible passages used in Together, while our Music and Movie columns use current songs and films as ways into talking about faith.

You can access each month’s session plans and resources here.

This month…

  

Together

Our Together resource is, as always, jam-packed full of ideas and activities to help the children and young people in your groups discover more about God, grow in faith and deepen their friendship with Jesus.

 

Our Together resource is, as always, jam-packed full of ideas and activities to help the children and young people in your groups discover more about God, grow in faith and deepen their friendship with Jesus.

Together is a curriculum resource for churches to use in their Sunday groups, midweek clubs or adapt for other contexts. It follows a Bible plan – each month you get four sessions on a theme or Bible book.

In September we started the new academic year right at the beginning of the Bible, exploring the beginnings of God’s beautiful world and how he made a promise with Abraham. For November, we return to the Old Testament to continue this big story of God and his people. We meet Moses and hear how God called him, see God’s rescue plan in action, and then discover how the people fell at the final hurdle, refusing to enter the land God had given them:

 

1. Moses (Exodus 3:1-4:23)

God calls Moses to rescue his people. Moses doesn’t seem convinced he’s the right man for the job, but God shows him he has everything he needs.

 

2. Passover (Exodus 11-12, as well as reference to Exodus 5-10)

God saves his people from the terrible final plague in Egypt and readies them to leave the country of their enslavement.

 

3. Ten Commandments (Exodus 19-20)

God gives his people, through Moses, ten rules to live by, a way to live in harmony and relationship with the almighty God.

 

4. Promised land (Numbers 13; Joshua 3)

God’s people come to the end of their journey through the desert, reaching the land God has promised them. But they refuse to go in! It’s not until after many more years wandering that they finally take hold of their new home.

 

There are three different age groups: First Steps Together (for younger children), Growing Together (for older children) and Journeying Together (for young people). You can follow an individual age group or mix and match to suit the children or young people you’re working with.

 

Together focused

RTU All-age service

Explores the story of God calling Moses to lead his people from slavery (Exodus 3-4).

 

RTU Parable

Takes the story of the spies in the promised land and places it in the dilemma of Year-10s sharing ground with some massive sixth-formers in the parable ‘Tonya and the towering Year-12s’.

 

RTU Journal 

Gives space for older children and younger teens to explore God giving Moses all the tools he needs to lead the people out of slavery in Egypt (Moses 3-4).

 

RTU Craft 

Provides a craft idea to go alongside each of this month’s Together sessions. Use them in your groups, in intergenerational worship or use them in a craft club.
Get the craft here.

 

Story for home 

Written especially for us by expert storyteller Bob Hartman, also follows the Together passages. This month, Bob tells the story of Moses encountering God in the burning bush (Exodus 3-4).

 

General resources

RTU Games 

Team up in November by playing some of our racing games.

  

RTU Mentoring 

Our mentoring expert, Joel Toombs, explores how to infuriate and frustrate young people. Or rather how not to infuriate and frustrate young people.

  

RTU Music 

We’re winding up the gramophone and putting the needle to the record of the number-one track ‘Unholy’ by Sam Smith.

 

RTU Movie 

We venture into the world of ‘movie-adjacent TV’ this month. That is TV series that are produced with the same values as movies. It’s the turn of ethics of The Good Place to be put under the microscope.

 

And if you have anything you’d like us to cover, or any feedback on the resources, then drop us a line!