Weekly
Inspiration
The family circle is the supreme conductor of
Christianity.
~ Henry Drummond
Family
Closeness
Game:
Table
Olympics – Part 1
The Olympics finished in London earlier this year
but I always have my best ideas…or at least ideas, three months after the
event. So over the next few weeks I bring the Olympics to your table with some
simple Table Olympics Games. If you have any ideas I would love to see them.
Bean
Racing
Give each family member a straw, a cup and ten dried
chick peas. The aim of the game is be the fastest to transport your chick peas
around the table and into your cup. This is done by picking up the chick pea on
the end of the straw using suction, carrying it around the table still attached
to the straw and not using hands to hold the chick pea and dropping it into the
cup in front of your place. Each person does this with their ten chickpeas
while another family member times them. Whoever is the fastest gets the gold.
If a chickpea is dropped mid journey it must be sucked onto the straw before continuing.
Sharing
Questions for stimulating discussion in your family.
This week ask your family members:
- What movie or book character would you like to be like?
- When they answer ask them – what is it about that person that they want to be like?
Don’t let your family get away with an easy or silly
answer, dig deep to find the truth.
Story
With
your family read Mark 12.28-34
(for
a way of explaining/talking about this reading with children look at http://www.sermons4kids.com/rules_to_live_by.htm
Questions
for Discussion:
- What do you think it looks like to love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength?
- What kinds of things might this mean doing?
- Why do you think Jesus said this is the most important commandment?
- How do you love your neighbour as yourself?
Prayer
and Celebration
Fishing
for Prayer' Net
This is
something your family can use to pray for one other or for people you know. Get
or make a fishing net and stick one end on the wall. Make and cut out little
paper fish for your family to write things down they want prayer for. Stick
them onto the net so other family members can read them and pray. One way to
use this would be to take a fish away when you are going to pray for the thing
on it. Alternatively the fish could be left up for a week and then cleared on a
particular day when your family prays for all those things.
Family
Time
15
Minute Fun Burst
Make a commitment to spend at least 15 minutes a day
doing an activity your children choose. Too often the busyness of life means we
end up not doing anything special with our children. Make the commitment to your children and put
them in charge of deciding what to do. Make it a priority in your day.
(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
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