Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

On Sunday we're going to get to use the story stones for the first time!  Amongst our collection, we've got some general 'people' stones, 'children stones' and a heart stone and I've been testing them out to tell the story with... Jesus talks to the people The disciples try to stop the children coming to Jesus Jesus welcomes the children because he loves and values them! I'm really interested to see if the children will want to use the stones to retell the story by themselves!

This week with our 3-5s we'll be looking at the story of Jesus welcoming the children (Luke 18:15-17).  We'll be using the version from 'The Lion Storyteller Bible' (in fact we'll be using this book lots this term!) Click  here  for more details of the book! As well as telling the story, we'll be making a welcome banner, singing 'Jesus' love is very wonderful',  sharing food with our friends and putting together a jigsaw of a picture from the story.  The main message we want to get across is that Jesus loves each one of the children and thinks they are important. I found some craft sticks in the shape of people in my drawer (click here  if you want to buy some like them!) and we're going to use them for a prayer idea. Let each child decorate their stick to look like them and then write 'Jesus loves' and their name on the back. Collect all the sticks in.  When you come to pray, put the sticks in a big heart shape made out of pa...