Helping families meet God together
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]
This template features in A Christmas Family GodVenture where it comes with stickers to bring the characters alive but you can print it from here. It’s very simple to make. You cut the figures out along the lines in the order shown, then you draw, paint or stick details for faces and clothes on each… [Continue Reading]
With Christmas on the horizon, usually I put on my nativity search goggles and go in search of my favourite nativity sets. This year, I’m making one using Benecol bottles (any yogurty type bottles will do!) and stickers from A Christmas Family GodVenture. Yes, among the book’s 400+ stickers are lots of faces, buttons and… [Continue Reading]
As the nights get darker, and we get closer to eating our evening meal in the dark, it’s the perfect time to try out a candle prayer. You could use – a large, chunky, church candle which will last a long time – a long, thin candle in a candle stick which will raise the… [Continue Reading]
Have fun with some pumpkins in October by celebrating the light of Jesus. Instead of carving scary faces, create a positive image such as a cross or the letters of the word ‘Jesus’. Look up some Bible verses about light such as the ones below. Chat about what they might have meant to the people… [Continue Reading]
If you’re planning some time away with the family, you could plan a new and special ‘God time thing’ for when you’re away. You could: • get a new worship album to listen on the way there • get a new Bible to use together – maybe have a trip to your local Christian bookshop… [Continue Reading]
As we have longer evenings, try exploring longer sections of the Bible together. Pick a ‘juicy’ story and split it into episodes, then read it together over a week or more. This doesn’t have to be every night, but maybe over the summer holidays, read the whole of the story of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph,… [Continue Reading]
Lots of us are more likely to go to different places at this time of year, so why not use places you go to as inspiration for your Bible exploration? Choose a place you plan to visit soon and explore a Bible story related to it. It doesn’t have to be a different country, just… [Continue Reading]
Quite a sober title for a post, but such an important issue, as most adults will come into contact with children affected by sickness and death to some degree at some point. Last year, I was … [tell me more...]
I don't know about you, but I love all the new colours which arrive in Spring. I love tulips, partly because you can get such bold colours, and there's such a contrast between their green leaves and … [tell me more...]
I live on a farm and love using the seasons to inspire my prayer. In the last few weeks, all the different types of daffodils have been coming up. I love their blooms, but somehow this year I've … [tell me more...]
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...]