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Support, Training And Resources
An e-bulletin from the Diocese of Peterborough's
Children's Missioner, Rona Orme
Email: rona.orme@peterborough-diocese.org.uk
Website: www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk/children
In this issue:
The Year of the Bible 2011
Illustrated version of the nativity
Ventures holidays
Another version of the Hallelujah Chorus to lift your spirit!
Serious insights into spirituality
STAR Thought
The Year of the Bible 2011 Top
If you are looking for material to help you share the Year of the Bible with children, look at the Barnabas website:
What is the Bible? www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk/5572
What’s in the Bible? www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk/5573
What’s so special about the Bible? www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk/5574
What’s the story of the Bible? http://www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk/5575
and go the Barnabas home page to download ‘The Bible in 10 minutes’.
Other easy ideas:
* Encourage children or families to read a story from a Storyteller Bible every week
* Ask an adult to come to tell the children’s group their favourite Bible story – and explain why they like it
* Learn a Bible memory verse every week
* Plan a Bible quiz for later in the year – but make sure that the answers are included in teaching sessions before then
Illustrated version of the nativity Top
Look at www.christmasunwrapped.org.uk and see if you can use it at a Christmas event, add it to a website or your Facebook page (as I have).
Ventures holidays Top
Encouraging older children (8+) to go on a Christian holiday is an effective way of helping them to develop their faith. Look at www.ventures.org.uk to view some 90 holidays that are available for 8-18s. How can your church encourage older children and
young people to take part?
Another version of the Hallelujah Chorus Top
which made me laugh out loud: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFCeJTEzNU
Serious insights into spirituality Top
If you have half-hour over the holiday and want to read something that will both inform your understanding and inspire you in your work with children, look at Saturation Spirituality . I am sure that you, and those you work with, will be blessed.
STAR Thought Top
We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among
the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.
Archbishop Oscar Romero