FOR FAMILIES
With another pause in returning to in person worship and Sunday School, I want to provide a resource to give families the tools to interact with twelve different stories about compassion from the Bible.
Each Sunday, you'll find family devotions, coloring sheets, meaningful activities that children, and their families, can do together, and more.
I hope that this resource will encourage families to look for ways they can engage in faith formation together.
Each week will include devotions based on some familiar, and some unfamiliar, stories from the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament.
Each of the stories is shared for you to provide a more child-friendly encounter with scripture, and to give you discussion questions and a prayer to do together as a family. These devotions could take place on the road while on a long car trip, before bed, over dinner or any other time that is convenient for you. Each devotion also has an activity that families and children can work on completing. There are a wide variety of types of activities, and I hope that this is a way that the biblical stories of compassion can come to life for you and your family.
Illustrated Story Cards: Each Bible story will include Illustrated Story Cards. These very simple statements accompanied by illustrations can be used for children to talk about the story with you. Print them out, read the story to your kids, and then ask them to arrange the Illustrated Story Cards in the right order. Your kids might also want to color the Illustrated Story Cards. The simple illustrations and short sentences allow the Illustrated Story Cards to work great for both pre-readers and readers.
Coloring Sheets: Each lesson comes with a coloring sheet that illustrates a part of the biblical story for that lesson.
Check back here for our first Illustrated Compassion Story on Sunday, April 18.
Pastor Cindy
Stories in the Program
Compassion in the Hebrew Scriptures
Abraham and Sarah’s Guests
Shiphrah and Puah’s Courage.
David Shows Kindness
The Feast that Brought Peace
Compassion in the New Testament Jesus’ Compassion
The One Thing
Compassion that Heals
Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
Living a Compassionate Life You Were Immigrants
What is Good?
Lord, When Was It?
The One Who Had Compassion
Illustrated Compassion Coloring Sheets