Be faithful in small things because it
is in them that your strength lies. 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:
These
questions are to stimulate a sense of openness, sharing and discovery about
your family. The key is to listen!!
- 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 Acts 2.1-21: Pentecost
With
your family read Mathew 28.16-20
(for a way of explaining/talking about this
reading with children look at:
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
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.
Service
Random
Acts of Kindness
Children learn
from the example of their parents. They will imitate what they see you do. As a
parent how do you demonstrate service and kindness in your daily life.
The other day I
came across the random acts of kindness foundation. On one of their pages they
have 350 kindness ideas.
They include:
- donate a book
- offer a handyman a drink
- bake a meal for someone
- write a positive note to someone
All of these are
small things, but small thing make a difference.
Family
Time
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.
(This material is based on and draws from earlier Faithful Families emails by Stephen Harrison and 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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