This week’s Abraham workshop was crafts. Using the Bible Times Crafts for Kids instructions we made tunics, belts (girdles), and headbands, and decorated them with symbols that reminded us of God’s promises to Abraham. Some kids drew stars and sand, some drew Egypt and the Exodus, there were a few drawings of Canaan, and everyone [...]
This past week’s Abraham workshop was Cooking with Sarah. Genesis 18 was our text, where the three visitors came “at the heat of the day” and Abraham and Sarah cooked a meal for them. We used The Good Book Cookbook as our guide to re-create these recipes. On Sunday we made bread out of whole [...]
Welcome to Abraham’s Tent! This is my classroom, fashioned after a Bedouin tent. Sharon took my idea of a tent in the room and made it come alive using mere bed sheets and paper palm trees. The children love reclining on the carpets just like the Bedouin! Too often we read the Bible from our [...]
We’re back for another school year with 2nd & 3rd grade Bible class. Yay! This year we’re doing an Old Testament review of sorts to show the children that the Bible isn’t just a collection of random stories; rather, it is one story about God’s love for us through Jesus. This quarter we’re focusing on [...]
Today was our last class of the quarter and so we wrapped up Paul’s Travels & Teachings Part 1. I hope to do Part 2 when school starts up again. Since I last posted we did a games workshop and played games that helped us remember our memory verse (1 Corinthians 9:22b). Then we did [...]
The lessons for the last two Sundays focused on how we can travel to tell others about Jesus just like Paul did. First the kids “packed their suitcase” with 5 things they would take with them on a mission trip and then listed 5 things they would say to people about Jesus. Then we made [...]
We had another great year at the Tulsa Workshop! If you’ve never been (or heard of it) it is a 3-day church of Christ reunion, so to speak. The convention has exhibits, sessions, activities, evening worship services with great speakers, and lots of a capella singing. People come from all 50 states and several countries. [...]