Faithful Families Resources June 12 2011

Weekly Inspiration

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. Mother Teresa

Family Closeness

Game:

Face Pass

Sit so you can all see each other. Make a strange or funny face and turn to a member of your family. The person you turned to carefully copies your face, then slowly changes his or her expression to make a new face which s/he passes on to someone else.

Sharing:

• Have you ever been given a job you didn’t want to do? Why didn’t you want to do it? Did you do it?
• Have you ever been afraid of something you were asked to do? What was it? Did you do it?
• Share the best and worst thing that happened to you this week.

Story

With your family read Mathew 28.16-20

Questions for Discussion:

• What did the disciples do when they saw Jesus on the mountain?
• Did all of them have faith?
• What did Jesus tell the disciples to go and do?
• Why do you think Jesus told them he would be with them till the end of the age?

Prayer and Celebration

Thank you God for giving us food.

One way of praying is through song. You may be familiar with the song that goes:

Thank you God for giving us food.

Thank you God for giving us food.

Thank you God for giving us food

Right where we are.

(If you type the first line in to youtube you can hear people singing it)

Sing around your table and let members of your family substitute the word food for anything they would like to say thank you for.

Bonus Family Activity

Opera, Drama

With your family make up an opera or a drama revolving around your family and the things that happen in it. What are some of the daily events that occur? What are some of the funny or interesting habits of your family members.

Well, we hope you found these resources useful. Have a fantastic week as you grow in loving and sharing with your family. May the joy and love and peace of Christ fill your home. Stephen Harrison (This material is based on and draws from earlier Faithful Families emails by Stephen Harrison & Richard Browning: An Unless Ideas Production.) Unless otherwise noted all material on this blog is copyright Stephen Harrison and Richard Browning