Holiday Club- Helping hands prayers

After hearing the story of Bartimaus, we discussed the fact that Jesus wanted to help us and that, like Bartimaus did, we could reach out and ask him.


We asked the children to think of an area in their lives where they felt they needed some help.  They then drew around their hand to symbolise reaching out and, if they wanted to, wrote or drew inside what they wanted Jesus to help them with.  It was actually quite powerful and the children could have spent much longer on it!   Here are some examples: