Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex standing in the foyer of the church staring   up at a large plaque.  It was covered with names with small American flags mounted on either side of it.  The seven year old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up,stood beside the [...]
“What is a wife? asked One, after a thoughtful pause. “I am wife to Daddy.” “And is Daddy your wife?” “No, Daddy is my husband.” “Then who are you ?” Pamela Glenconner from The Sayings of the Children (1918)
Name Acrostics ( suitable for older chidren or family groups) Give pencils and cards to each person as they enter and tell them to print their first name in capitals vertically at the extreme left of their card. The people mix in the crowd trying to find people whose first names begin with the letters [...]
Al Menconi ministries has a number of informative and thought provoking articles on children and the media and also on parenting. I found some helpful material particulary in this article – 10 Steps to Talk to Your Children About Values by Al Menconi
I’m back on deck after a most refreshing holiday in beautiful Tasmania. There was so much to see of coast, lakes and mountains. We also spent a day at Port Arthur convict settlement which was very interesting seeing how the early convicts lived and worked. It was well worth a visit if you’re in this [...]
” If your plan is for a year, plant rice. If your plan is for a decade, plant trees. If your plan is for a lifetime, educate children.” Confucius (551-497 BC)
At the beach a child found a seagull lying dead in the sand by the shore. “Mummy, what happened to him?” the little boy asked. “He died and went to Heaven,” the mother replied. The child thought for a moment and then said, “And God threw him back down?”
Somebody has well said that there are only two kinds of people in the world: those who wake up in the morning and say, “Good morning, Lord”, and those who wake up in the morning and say, “Good Lord, it’s morning.”
A teenage girl had been talking on the phone for about half an hour, and then she hung up. “Wow!” said her father, “That was short. You usually talk for two hours. What happened?” “Wrong number,” replied the girl.
This website has loads of craft ideas for Bible stories. Danielle’s place of Craft and Activities.Â
 Check out this very informative article about the world’s water crisis written by Brian Richter (the director of the Conservancy’s Sustainable Waters Program). “I recently attended an international water conference during which the keynote speaker revealed a shocking statistic: Every eight seconds, a young child dies from lack of water or a waterborne disease. He [...]
Tomorrow I am taking leave for ten days and heading off to visit Tasmania the small island state south of Melbourne, Australia. It’s beautiful place to be refeshed and to have a holiday. It will be the first Easter in about 16 years that my wife and I haven’t been fully involved in Easter worship [...]
A Family Service address with considerable involvement is as follows: Worship leader begins telling a story (let’s say about a lost rabbit) only to be interrupted by two young folk offering a chocolate Easter Egg (as a thank-you or whatever). Worship leader thanks young folk, notices that it is an Easter Egg with sweets (say, [...]
A story to share at Easter He died for another Over two hundred years ago, the French Revolution brought fear and terror to France. Rich and powerful people – even the king and queen -were killed by the revolutionaries. Every day, hundreds of people were arrested, dragged from their homes and flung into horrible prisons. [...]
