Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

It seems such a long time since I lasted posted but the reality of ministry leading up to Christmas is a bit crazy! I was lucky enough to be given a copy of Illustrated Children's Ministry' s 'An Illustrated Advent for Families' and some of our families have been working their way through it in the last few weeks. Although, so close to Christmas,  it seems the wrong time to be reviewing an Advent product, I wanted to make sure that we had given it a good go! There is so much to recommend about this product and, though it may be too late this year to start using it, I am entirely sure that next year's version will be just as amazing! For a single family to purchase a digital copy of the pack costs $10 or about £7.50 and there are options for churches to buy a licence to send it to multiple families for a really reduced price, which is a great bargain.  What is helpful is that a downloadable sample is available so you can get a taste and see if this would be...

I was very excited, this week, to be given a review copy of the new resource from Illustrated Children's Ministry - An Illustrated Earth for Families  and I have to say that we wasted no time in trying it out! An Illustrated Earth For Families is a downloadable resource that includes 12 separate sessions for the whole family to use together.  Each session includes a Bible story, questions, storytelling cards, a prayer and two colouring sheets- a simple one for younger children and a more complex version for older children and adults. The sessions are split into 3 sections (Water stories, Plant and Food Stories and Animal stories) and each section finishes with four practical ideas for the family to do together. Some families from church had a go at one of the sessions and it's fair to say that they had a great time! Here's a review from Emma and her two boys.. C (aged 5) was very excited when he saw the colouring and when I said 5000 he knew the story from School....

A few months back we had a look at Illustrated Children's Ministry, a new ministry using illustrations as creative way of exploring the Bible with children at church and at home. ICM has continued to grow its resources and the newest product on offer is 'An Illustrated Lent.'   If you're looking for a high quality product that will engage children in creative and reflective ways over this season, then this might be a solution!  Even better- this is a downloadable resource so you won't have to wait for it to arrive in the post... There are two possibilities depending on your situation and I've taken a look at both below.  The exciting thing is that Adam at ICM has offered Flame readers an exclusive 20% discount code for this week only- valid until Sunday 14th Feb.  Read to the end of this post to find the code! The Church edition contains ideas and colour illustrations to engage children with each of the 7 weeks of Lent, using the stories of Jesus i...