Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

We couldn't let this week pass without making a link to the Olympics, so we had a lesson on endurance today!! We started by building towers with blocks and seeing who could get the tallest tower before it fell!  If it fell down you just had to start all over again and keep going!  As we were running a summer Sunday session for a group of 3-11s this was especially good as every single child could participate at their own level. Next we looked at the memory verse from Hebrews 12.v1 and put it together with duplo blocks. When we'd put the verse together and looked at its context in the Bible, we needed to unpack it a bit more! We got some battery operated fairy lights (batteries previously removed) and asked the children to switch them on.  When they couldn't we put in the batteries and established that, to keep lit up, they needed batteries to power them.  We also looked at a wind up torch and saw that it wouldn't keep going unless we kep...

As part of our lesson looking at endurance (a link to athletes at the Olympics starting next week!), we used some Duplo to put together the memory verse we were looking at... We gave the children labelled blocks, each showing a word from the verse and asked them to try and work out what it said.  Two rather enterprising children worked out before anything else that the verse was Hebrews 12:1 so requested a Bible.  The rest of the group tried to make sense of the words while they looked it up.  Everyone else then had to listen carefully and put everything in the right order.