bacon sarnie
Making a prayer box
Bible pass the parcel
Starting, in the way all Saturday mornings should (with bacon sandwiches!), the GodVenture event at St John’s Harborne was great fun.
About thirty families joined in, this time trying out different ways to explore the Bible in three zones. In the first families made and photos of pictures of the Bible story with pasta or their bodies, then printed stickers from the digital polaroid cameras and used them to make their own mini Bible story book. In another zone, families used home-made instruments, play dough and Bible beetle to explore the same story, while in the third zone families tried to make boats to survive their home-made storm in a trug and played games like Bible story pass the parcel.
After exploring the story, families then experimented with some of the thirty plus prayer activities. These included some big-poster prayers, prayer boxes, prayer in a ball pool, prayer with Twister, pasta, music, snakes (toy ones!) and finger frights. Not surprisingly, the favourite was prayer with sweets.
Families finished by writing a postcard to themselves to remind them what activities they’d enjoyed most and might try again at home.
When asked which activities worked best for her family, one mother replied, “It wasn’t one thing which did it, but after exploring the Bible in lots of different ways, our prayers had a different quality about them, and my children expressed themselves to God in ways they hadn’t before.”
Awesome!
If you were there and have any comments, do leave them below.
We had such a brilliant day at St John’s doing GodVenture. There were loads of families doing loads of activities together. It was great fun and completely inspiring. It is especially good if you are organizing the day as the team from GodVenture turn up and run the whole session. All I needed to do was sort out the bacon sandwiches and sit back and watch. It’s a winner all round!
Mair Owen. Director of Children’s and Families Ministry