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IssuesReady-To-Use Craft Ideas: Food-themed Crafts
Food plays a big part in the biblical narratives – from symbolic meals like the Passover and the Last Supper, to the parties Jesus went to at peoples’ houses, such as those of Zacchaeus and Mary and Martha. That’s not to mention miraculous provision of food such as quail and manna for the Israelites in the desert, and Jesus’ multiplication of a few fish and loaves of bread so that 5,000 were satisfied.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Craft Ideas: David & Goliath Crafts
Jenny Gilbertson shares three crafts to help you teach the story of David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17)
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IssuesReady-To-Use Craft Ideas : Fishy Tales
Fish make an appearance many times in the Bible. Here are three ideas to help you introduce some of those stories to your group.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Craft Ideas: Easter
Here are three Easter-themed crafts for Easter Sunday. They are the kinds of activities which your group might also do around Christmas time and so they could be used to explain that Easter is just as important as Christmas. You could also explore why Christmas is seen as a bigger deal – is it because we don’t like thinking about the things we do wrong? There’s no need to take the children on a guilt trip, but you may well get some very insightful comments from them.
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IssuesReady-to-use Craft Ideas: Lost and Found
Jesus told three very well-known stories about things – and people – that were lost and then found: the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son. You’ll find them all in Luke 15. These crafts will help you teach your group about how important every single one of them is to Jesus.
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Ready-to-use schools work: The developing spirituality course
Youthscape is an ecumenical Christian project founded over two decades ago by a group of 45 churches. One of our key objectives is to develop innovative and proven ways to explore spiritual development from both a Christian and inter-faith basis, in educational settings. Our
work is directly with young people in the 13 secondary schools in Luton, but our resources and methods are shared across the UK through a network of 8,000 practitioners. -
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Ready-to-use Rhythms: Contentment
We live in a world that teaches a lifestyle of striving. Whether it’s the latest fashion trend, those trainers that were ‘so tempting’ or the newest piece of technology - we want more. However, this is not the way that Jesus tells us to live, and this lifestyle is damaging our environment, and negatively affecting communities living in poverty. Try to build a life of contentment through the following Rhythms.
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Ready-to-use Rhythms - Contentment
Contentment can be a difficult concept and pursuit in a world that idolises stuff, and has an insatiable appetite. But being content isn’t to do
with having; it’s about knowing that we’re enough without all the extras, and being satisfied with what we have. It’s about taking control away from the things that make us forget that we are enough as we are; we don’t need to allow our possessions to define us. A rhythm of contentment reminds us that we’re not ruled by what we own, and means we can give our best to God, living simply, following him wholeheartedly without distraction. -
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Ready-to-use Schools work: Confidence
This is an activity designed for Year 8 students (aged 12/13) and older, aiming to explain what real confidence is like and to encourage students
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Comfort, Stretch and Panic
Ask your mentee to suggest the first word that comes into their head to do with what it means to have character, starting with each letter in the word ‘character’ (eg courage, heart, accountability etc).
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IssuesReady-to-use Discussion: Santa Claus
Even without the sneaking-into-your- house-late-at-night thing, Santa Claus is pretty creepy, right?
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Clarity
This year I moved into a new role mentoring artists for a Christian record label. One of the key issues I find musicians struggle with is the muddiness of ‘not knowing.’ Not knowing what to do, how to do it, or why it matters. It restricts their creativity, undermines their goals and paralyses their to-do list! My advice is mostly common sense, but without an outside focus they don’t know where to begin or what to get on with first. The potential is there, but confusion robs them of achieving it.
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BlogReady-to-use Reflective Journal: Prayer circles of emotional health
There are certain building blocks which help us to stay emotionally healthy; the activity below is a way to engage with God around those building blocks.
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BlogReady-To-Use Discussion: The Persecuted Church
According to Open Doors, 100 million Christians around the world face persecution.
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Ready-To-Use Craft Ideas: Christmas Crafts
It’s that time of year again when we will inevitably find ourselves trying to cram lots more activities into lives that are already very full. The children we work with will be doing loads of Christmas stuff at school and may well be ‘Christmassed out’, especially when it comes to craft. Is there a way we can help youngsters (and ourselves) to focus a bit differently on Christmas – perhaps more on what the Christmas gift of Jesus asks of them this Christmas? Here are three activities, none of which require much preparation.
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Ready-to-use Schools Work: The Christmas Truces
An assembly for use in a secondary school based on the December 1914 Christmas truces, to teach that being a Christian is more important than belonging to a nation.
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