Posted in Christmas, Resources, Websites | October 31st, 2007
I have just discovered this cool photo tool for those people who have photos posted at Flickr.com. The template allows you to print out a five sided photo cube. I thought you could adapt this idea to print a “Christmas Cube”. You could turn it over and put a small gift (candy etc..) inside the [...]
Posted in Humour | October 26th, 2007
WARNING! These jokes are unbelievably corny. > Where is baseball mentioned in the Bible? (Genesis 1.1) “In the beginning…” (“The big inning, get it?” ) > Where is tennis mentioned in the Bible? (Esther 5.2) “When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court…” > Who were the shortest guys in Bible? Bidad the Shuite [...]
Posted in Mission, Personal | October 23rd, 2007
I returned from my mission trip with CCSM on the weekend. The international team visited an orphange in central China and spent around two weeks caring for children from babies to teenagers. It was a very humbling experience and even though it was a short time I’m sure the team through the Holy Spirit did [...]
Posted in Personal | October 6th, 2007
I took this photo recently (with permission) in a park of a young boy and his dad hanging out together and climbing the low branch of a tree. It was lovely to see the trust in the little boy as he was helped to balance by his dad. If you’d like to see more of [...]
Posted in Children, Games, Holiday Programs | October 4th, 2007
Warm Up- *Ask each child to bring an old pair of socks along for games OR bring a sock with an interesting object inside for show and tell. OR bring a sock full of small items. * Using cut our paper feet or chalk drawn feet, make foot trails leading in and around the hall [...]
Posted in Children, Leadership, Training | October 1st, 2007
Considerations in choosing the appropriate material to teach a children’s small group. 1. Scriptually based. 2. Appropriate to teach particular doctrine or spiritual truth. 3. Good story content. 4. Link with the other lessons to form a compact series. 5. Has action and content which appeal to the age group of children. 6. Gives the [...]