Helping families meet God together
Looking for something to do which links in with what's happening now? Here are some simple, creative activities you might like to try.
The opportunity for this type of prayer is very seasonal and geographically limited, but maybe more special for it. When having some fun in the snow, why not add in some prayer? Get everyone to to write, draw or make a snow model of something they’d like to say sorry to God for doing, something… [Continue Reading]
When Jesus had his last Passover meal with his friends, He asked them to remember him whenever they drank the wine and ate the bread. Make a plan of something your family could use to remember Jesus and what He means to you. Depending on your church tradition, you might like to use a version… [Continue Reading]
The challenge is to try reading the whole of the Easter story before Easter. You could read it from a children’s Bible such as The Big Bible Storybook or from one gospel in a family-friendly Bible version such as the Contemporary English Version. Click here for links to the whole story from Matthew, Mark, Luke,… [Continue Reading]
The Easter story occurs in a wide variety of different places. Have fun seeing if you can re-tell parts of the Easter story you know in similar places to those the events took place in. For example: Re-tell the story of Jesus eating Passover with his friends (Matthew 26:17-30) over a meal. Re-tell the story… [Continue Reading]
I know we’ve not had many frosty mornings, but maybe that’s why they’ve been so striking. Here’s a simple idea to use the frost to inspire prayers: When you see something looking beautiful because it’s covered in frost, praise God for it: “Father God, that’s just SO beautiful.” If you’re out somewhere as a family… [Continue Reading]
When you see a beautiful frost covered spider’s web which makes you think ‘Wow!’, say that wow prayer (also called praise) to God. You could go on a walk on a frosty day (on the way to school?) and see how many wow prayers you can say. You might like to take photos of… [Continue Reading]
One of the things I love about late Autumn and Winter are satsumas. I eat loads of them so I thought it would be a good idea to have a way to pray while I indulge. So here’s a prayer idea using satsumas It’s dead simple: Pray for a different person as you eat each segment…. [Continue Reading]
If you have some candles, you can create your own home Advent ritual, lighting one candle in the first week of Advent, two in the second and so on up til Christmas. If you can get your hands (carefully!) on some holly, you could make a simple wreath around your candles too. Light your candles… [Continue Reading]
I looked everywhere for one of these, and found some good value ones in TK Max. Make your own ‘fillers’, especially if you want something which helps children explore the Christmas story over the 24 or 25 days. Here’s some ideas of what you could fill your pockets with (and don’t forget a sweet might… [Continue Reading]
You may like having a wreath and doing a prayer which you add to each week of Advent. If so, here’s an idea of a family-friendly prayer you could use at home. However, you might like something a bit simpler and more reflective. Or you might want to mix up the two. Anyway, here’s a… [Continue Reading]
Instead of giving something up this year for Lent, I thought I'd take up a challenge: a Lent Creative Prayer Challenge! I've enjoyed various creative forms of prayer for a while, but I'm going to … [tell me more...]
The opportunity for this type of prayer is very seasonal and geographically limited, but maybe more special for it. When having some fun in the snow, why not add in some prayer? Get everyone to to … [tell me more...]
Four pinata donkeys were bashed to pieces at the Hand in Hand conference last weekend, as an excited crowd of children's workers prayed creatively for children in Chennai, India. If you took part … [tell me more...]
Looking for creative prayer ideas? Here's a pack of playing cards with 52 different ideas for ways that families can pray together at home. Get yours here The cards are designed so that you … [tell me more...]
Ever tried Pinata prayer? Rachel (from Orison) and I are running a workshop on Creative Prayer at the Hand in Hand Children and Family Ministry conference in Eastbourne. In fact, the full title is … [tell me more...]
I know we've not had many frosty mornings, but maybe that's why they've been so striking. Here's a simple idea to use the frost to inspire prayers: When you see something looking beautiful because … [tell me more...]
My husband and I have started singing. And my daughter thinks its hilariously entertaining! It's one of the things we've added to our Shabbat service since she has started joining us at meal … [tell me more...]