Welcome.You have found a collection of ideas to help you contemplate the RCL readings. While designed to be used during a Sunday service at church or by zoom, these readings can also be used during the week to help you remember and build on what you experienced on Sundays. My objective is for faith to be a lived experience and for children to learn how to worship and explore the Bible and pray by participating in Worship with you. The goal here is not for them to learn names or facts though they may want to do that for themselves, but rather to find ways of connecting with the text and sharing that with others. The ideal is to form a life long love of Christ, for the Word of God and to participate in Worship.
If able to worship in the Church buildings pack a special backpack, as well as filling, it with your Covid Safe equipment, add the books or materials required to help your young ones relate to today’s readings.
For adults and older students, you might like to use a journal with which to record anything that grabs your attention during the service. This could be a special, bound book or use your ipad or iphone. You could write a precis of the message (traditional words or pictures), draw, keep a record of emotions and hymns that you did or did not like. You could use a template like this free download. Remember, this is for you, you do not have to show anyone what is in it unless you want to, and you feel safe to do so.
CONGREGATIONAL USE: Though parents are the best at sharing their faith with their children. If you are a small congregation where children are a very small, or rare part of your congregational life, please feel free to make these suggestions available to your congregation. I am very happy for you to copy and paste ideas from here into your own Order of Service or for you to supply a link to this page. An acknoledgement though is always appreciated.
THE LORD’S PRAYER:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
INTRODUCTORY SONG Hey Ha Ha from the Full of the Spirit Album by
Heather Price Music
OR To celebrate the Season of Creation SING/LISTENto Nature to Nurture by Heather Price from the Full of the Spirit Album No.8
FIRST READING: JEREMIAH 32:1-3a and 6-15
READ: Florette by Anne Walker
I’ve chosen this book, because like Jeremiah’s idea that it is alright to set down roots here, this is what happens in Florette, they have left their garden behind and they make the space their own, as Judah was too in today’s reading
DO: plant a tree, shrub, or veggies and see over time how God’s things grow, Or for a quicker idea, cut the top off a carrot, place it on wet cotton wool and watch it grow over the coming weeks.
OR 
Make a plant that grows. Take an A4 Sheet, draw a tree trunk up the paper, draw branches and leaves at the top of the page then fold the middle third like a fan.
PRAY:
You can take your drawn tree and add the names of those you want to pray for as leaves on the top of the tree.
PSALM: 91:1-6 and 12-16
Read: Snuggletime Psalms by Glenys Nellist Psalm 91
OR Psalm 91: The Trust Psalm
Trust! Trust in God!
God is our shelter,
we are safe in his shadow.
God is our refuge,
we are protected in his power.
God is like a mother bird and we are like chicks,
tucked warm under her wing.
God is our shield and our armor
nothing can strike us down.
God is with us all the way
our guard and our guide.
You may trip on a stone
but angels will catch you.
So don’t be afraid of snakes and spiders,
don’t be afraid of evil attack.
In God’s love we are safe, no matter what.
In God’s strength we are saved!
by the Rev. Purdie
SING: The Lord says if someone Loves me on boom-chicka-boom by Colin Buchanan
SECOND READING: 1 Timothy 6:6-19
READ: The Spiffiest Giant n Town by Julia Donaldson
A Storypath Suggestion
SING Givers like God by Soveriegn Grace Music
DO: Think of something you can do or give that would be valuable to someone else.
GOSPEL READING: Luke 16:19-31
READ:Betty Bunny wants Everything by Michael B. Kaplan
A Storypath Suggestion
SING: welcome-in by sovereign grace music
PRAY
Dear God,
Thank you for all of your blessings
Thank you for the words of the Bible
Help us remember to put you first in our lives
Even when things are distracting
Thank you for your love
We love you, God!Â
Thank you for Jesus
In His name, Amen!
from Ministry to Children
SENDING SONG Tell the World by Hillsong Kids Learn the actions here
Blessings
Wendy L.
Please check local guidlines before using items that are not mine especially if you are using this page for congregational use. If you find this page useful an acknowledgment is always appreciated. Thank you.
I am writing this on Wurundjeri land and wish to pay respect to all Elders, past, present and emerging.
The Cross in My Backyard 