WELCOME:
This Sunday some of the Uniting Church in Australia will be conducting The Day of Mourning service. If this is the case for you or you would like your family to expereince this form of worship you will find the service on the UCA facebook page at 9.30am AEDT, or you can use the service notes noting that a child friendly interaction is included in these written notes
If you are requiring the standard Lectionary please continue on to the resources listed below.
You have found a page that uses easily found ideas to help you share the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) readings with children. Instead of sifting through many websites, facebook , pinterest, instagram, and blog posts; this is a one stop shop where I have done the sifting for you to find theologically and developmentally appropriate material for your congregation or family.
These ideas can be used in a church setting as you parent in the pews or in your own home while connecting to a broadcast service or for your daily family devotions.
We are now in the Season of AFTER EPIPHANY. The Liturgical colour is Green.
If worshipping at home you might like to prepare a space to worship which can be permanent or set aside and bought out when you are having private or family devotions.
You might like to start by finding a tablecloth in the liturgical colour, find a candle ( I prefer battery operated ones around children) and add any other touches that remind you of the present season, for example a dove, a cross, etc.
You might like to start with the Lords prayer if at home, or either of these suggestions can be used when the Lord’s Prayer is said within a set service.
either IN ACTIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOugEQpcc_k OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjm93ylL2w
Or if you are looking for a more contemplative version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuUo-igXDU&fbclid=IwAR2FasYCU-9mP1PaLQDjweXyhyUnJutt4J28KycjzeUEttWSesipX2jmJxE
If you like colouring in, by registering with Illustrated Ministries you can recieve a free colouring in page for one of today’s readings? https://www.illustratedministry.com/free-resources/?ck_subscriber_id=136888700
FIRST READING: Jonah 3:1-5,10
Today’s reading concentrates on one part of the story of Jonah (and not the part that most kids, in my experience gravitate towards). Try to keep their concentration on today’s reading. If they tell you the rest of the story, praise them then ask them If they know why Jonah went through all of that? Then tell them this part of the story and emphasis that ( ie no big fish bits today)
READ: Whirl Story Bible, read from the ???? on p.128 to the end of p.128
OR Spark Story Bible last paragraph of p.183
ACT OUT: this part of the story. You can use people or your toys or you could make puppets to tell the story.
Make a megaphone: Take a piece of A4 paper and roll it so that it is bigger at one end then the other.
PSALM 62:5-12
For God alone I wait, (fold you arms)
I wait in silence, (put a finger to your mouth as if to say shhh, remeber not to touch your mouth)
for God alone is my rock, (make fists with your hands)
my rock of salvation. (put both fists together)
When you feel that the world is against you
and you can’t tell the lies from the truth –
Put your trust in the Lord,
for he is your strong safety.
Pour out your heart to the Lord,
for he is your true hope.
For God alone I wait, (fold you arms)
I wait in silence, (put a finger to your mouth as if to say shhh, remeber not to touch your mouth)
for God alone is my rock, (make fists with your hands)
my rock of salvation. (put both fists together)
If you’re rich, or if you’re poor –
it matters not a bit to God.
Don’t try to take what isn’t yours –
your value is not in what you own.
All love flows from the heart of God,
All power belongs to God.
For God alone I wait, (fold you arms)
I wait in silence, (put a finger to your mouth as if to say shhh, remeber not to touch your mouth)
for God alone is my rock, (make fists with your hands)
my rock of salvation. (put both fists together)
Thank you again to https://www.conversations.net.nz/psalm-62-wait-in-silence.html actions in italics by me.
How does this Psalm make you feel?
Describe those feelings, Show how these feelings look like in your body 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/
SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 7: 29-31
READ: Dr Suess Oh the places you will go WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmOCyP4VyP4
This is a suggestion by http://storypath.upsem.edu/lectionary-links-rcl-january-21-2018/ read why they recommend this book for this passage.
DO: Photo by Ryutaro Tsukata from Pexels
Plant a carrot top on a piece of cotton wool, or plant some seeds. Look each day and record not just what is happenng but how you feel about waiting for something to happen.
PRAY
You said you are coming again God,
We are waiting
And while we wait
help us to make
Your world today
Amen
GOSPEL READING:Mark 1:14-20
READ: The Beginner’s Bible pp.308-310
DO: Watch for the time your child stops doing something and shifts their attention or Deliberately stop your child while they are playing. What makes them change their attention. Jesus disciple stoped what they were doing to follow Jesus.
PRAY:
Help me God
To find you
in the things I am doing
Amen
Blessings
Wendy L.
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