Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

This is a fun idea to help children to think about praying for others to know Jesus and about how our behaviour as disciples can rub off on others. 1. Get a blank greetings card (or a piece of card folded over!) and draw a cross on the front.  Cut out the cross shape, making sure the fold remains in tact.   2. Open the cross up.  Colour one side of the card very thickly with crayons. Make it very colourful! Talk about the cross and the resurrection of Jesus, thinking about the forgiveness and the new life that he brings.  This is what the colour represents.  Talk about how when we have good news we want to share it with others so that they can be a part of it too.  Who do we know who we'd like to share in the forgiveness and new life that Jesus brings?  How could we behave so that some of what we know rubs off on them? 3. Fold over the card again so that the coloured section is inside.  Write on top of the cross the names of people you wo...

Here we are with another flexagon, but this one is much easier to make! I've been really interested to see 'wordless books' as a way of telling the gospel, especially to children. Click here  for some examples. The books rely on colours to symbolise different aspects of the story of salvation:  Black- our sin Red - Jesus' blood and death on the cross White- the purity and clean start his death gives us Green - the growth of our relationship with Jesus as we get to know more about him and he helps us to grow as disciples Gold - heaven- because of what Jesus did on the cross we are able to come closer to God and share in His Kingdom. I thought it would be interesting to make a flexagon to tell the story, basically because they intrigue me and I love playing with them! Here's how to make your own...  Print and cut out the flexagon pattern.  Click  here  for the print out.  Fold carefully along the middle and cut out the pink sections. ...