Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Children’s Talks
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A couple of recent posts connecting to theme of children in church. The Christian Century: Memory verses – Teaching children the Bible by Nancy Ammerman (April 03, 2007) AKMA’s Random Thoughts: I Second The Notion (April 09, 2007)
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In the blog reshuffle I noticed that the Children’s Talks category hadn’t had anything new posted in it for a while. So here’s one I did the other week. When teaching hermeneutics I’ve always been struck by how much the method that’s often described in text books is like the children’s TV programme Blue’s Clues.…
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My turn today to do the part of the church service that is specifically for the kids. So we did the Parable of the Lost My Little Pony. Unfortunately during the ensuing hunt around the house last night Sparkleberry Swirl and Minty were unable to be found (they really were lost) so Seaspray (see picture)…
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Today at church we had our normal children’s slot down the front which started off talking about trees, roots and fertilizer. And the person doing the talk made the standard sorts of links about feeding the plant and having good roots. He was doing this with a Rewarewa seedling he had and the kids were…
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We’ve been working through the book of Revelation for our sermons at church for the past couple of months at got to Rev 21 today. I was on the roster to give the “children’s talk” today – the bit in the service where someone has the children come up to the front of the church…