As one of our craft activities at Messy Church we built a house out of cardboard boxes. It turned out brilliantly and even had a door. The younger children especially liked hiding inside it! In the celebration section we used the house for a prayer response. After telling the story and having a short talk about forgiveness, we talked about God forgiving us for the wrong things we have done if we come to him and say sorry, because He loves us so much. We asked everyone to think of something they'd done that they'd like to say sorry for and then we played some music and people came forward to put a heart shaped post it note on the house as a symbol that God loved them, forgave them and welcomed them into his house. Luckily the house stayed standing throughout!!
If you are looking for an active, kinaesthetic, way of praying in a small group or even with the whole congregation, then this might be for you! You will need: A collection of buttons of different shapes, sizes and colours- at least one button for each person praying. Give everyone a button. Feel the hardness of the button and think about people who are going through hard times. Ask God to help them. Buttons are used to fasten clothes together. Ask God to bring together people who have fallen out and moved apart from each other. Pray that He will bring peace. Look at your button and see how many holes it has. Think of that number of things you would like to say thank you to God for and say Thank you prayers. Look at the colour of the button and say thank you to God for something that is that colour Find someone who has the same colour button as you. You might want to make a small group of people with the...
Wonderful idea! We are trying this for our Messy Church worship tomorrow.
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