EASTER 4 Year A: Ideas to SHARE THIS WEEKS RCL READINGS WITH EVEN THE YOUNGEST FAMILY MEMBERS USING THINGS YOU HAVE AT HOME.

Enjoy this time of isolation to spend more time with your family in faith exploration together. Remember you are their first teacher. You are enough.

You can use these readings for daily devotions with your children, even the very littliest or on Sunday if your home congregation do not supply an Intergenerational Service or a dedicated children’s program.

These readings are the prescribed Revised Common Lectionary for Sunday the 3/5/2020.

START WITH: THE LORDS PRAYER IN ACTIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOugEQpcc_k OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjm93ylL2w

FIRST READING: Acts 2: 14a, 42-47

READ: The Beginner’s Bible, The First Church.480-483

COLOURING-IN: For $21 AUS You can purchase colouring in pages to use from the 1 March to the 31 May, (spring 2020) downloadable https://store.illustratedministry.com/collections/worship-resources/products/bible-story-coloring-pages-spring-2020?variant=31284510392418

How are you doing church? It can’t be in a special building at the moment, but neither was the church for the early Christians. Reread the reading. Do you do all of these things at home? 

PRAY

THANK YOU LORD,

THAT I CAN WORSHIP YOU

ANYWHERE

AMEN

 

PSALM 23

READ/WATCH: SNUGGLE TIME PRAYERS BY Glenys Nellist  Best for the very little ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-bTt-Yq4II

OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fM4_8VU-8 FROM THE JESUS STORYBOOK Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones  pp. 130-135 All ages

 

OR Cecil and Psalm 23 by Andrew McDonough exert here https://biblesociety.org.nz/our-bible-projects/bible-month/childrens-resources/ can be purchased here and you can buy an activity pack with enough ideas to keep the whole family engaged.

COLOURING: IN: https://biblesociety.org.nz/our-bible-projects/bible-month/childrens-resources/

How does this Psalm make you feel? Describe that feeling, or draw it, or point out what it feels like from a set of emotional cards https://innovativeresources.org/resources/card-sets/bears-cards/ or the Bears App https://innovativeresources.org/resources/digital-applications/bears-app/

DRAW:  a place where you feel safe?

 

SECOND READING: 1 Peter 2:19-25

READ/WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8Iv-fHcZE Kindness makes us strong by Sophie Beer as suggested by http://storypath.upsem.edu/lectionary-links-rcl-may-3-2020/

PRETEND: Pretend you are a sheep? How do they move? move like a lamb? Who will you follow? Play follow the leader.

PRAY

Thank you for being the Shepherd in our lives.

so we are better people

Amen

 

GOSPEL READING: John 10:1-10

WATCH; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feU-rMDor1w  SO LOVING THESE CLIPS BY MARGARET PRITCHARD HOUSTON

This video may be too advanced for the very young but it is suitable for any older children, and I have often found that where there are older children the younger ones will also engage.

PLAY: Build your own sheep pen and make your own sheep, What can you use that you have around the house, fluffy cushions folded to make sheep? What can you use to make the sheep pen? Perhaps you can make this out of blocks or lego?

Where is the gate? Who is the shepherd? Are you, or do you have a toy or someone older who could be the shepherd in your sheep pen.

PRETEND: Pretend you are a sheep? How do they move? move like a lamb? Who will you follow? Play follow the leader.

Blessings

Wendy L.

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