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family devos

This week I was re-filling my flour jar, and I found a bag of wholemeal flour at the back of my cupboard. It’s bag which I drove across town to get from a friend last March when flour was really hard to get hold of! Was it just me that got flour crazy? Anyway, because … Read more

Review: The Lion Storyteller Book of Family Values

Title: The Lion Storyteller Book of Family Values By: Bob Hartman and Krisztina Kallai Nagy Price: £8.00 Published by: Lion Children’s Perfect for: families looking for a low-key devotional to do with their children aged 3-8 years Best bit: Bob Hartman’s storytelling is, as always, excellent, while the addition of ideas for acting or play … Read more

Review: Prayers around the world

Title: Prayers around the world By: Deborah Lock and Helen Cann Price: £7.99 Published by: Lion Children’s Perfect for: children age 3-10, and adults who love beautiful words and pictures Best bit: lovely small, hardcover book with stunning artwork of scenes from different countries paired with simple, expressive, daily-life prayers Worst bit: At first, I … Read more

Review: The Lion Bible for children

Title: The Lion Bible for children By: Murray Watts and Helen Cann Price: £9.69 Published by: Lion Children’s Perfect for: children age 4-11 Best bit: over 200 re-told Bible stories, told in order including ones from prophetic books and psalms, with pictures on each page! Worst bit: Although this is really hard, as a bedtime … Read more

Review: You are very special

Title: You are very special By: Su Box and Susie Poole Price: £5.93 from Eden Published by: Lion Hudson Perfect for: birthday or baptism/dedication gift for unders 5s, especially those not regular at church  Best bit: joyful artwork, hardback book and the mirror at the back which you can actually see yourself in! Worst bit: … Read more

Pasta prayers for each other

Use different shaped pasta to pray! Take it in turns to talk about something which makes you afraid. They may be simple things like spiders or more personal things like getting lost or losing someone. Use the pasta to make a little picture of the thing which makes you afraid. When you have made the … Read more

Bible bingo

game explore Bible devotional for families

I’m always excited to work out a new fun way to explore the Bible and this is a good one! Simply choose 9+ words from a passage you want to explore – this game works well if you have six verses in your passage. Add your words to a Bingo board – simply chart in … Read more

Car prayers

car prayer intercession please prayers

Pray for friends each time you see a car the same make / model /colour as theirs. Encourage them by letting them know when you were praying for them. You could also do this when you see people’s names on a lorry or road sign. It’s just a simple way to make praying for people … Read more

Discipling the disciplers

partnering with parents, discipling the discplers

I’ve been reading gardening books in an attempt to keep more of my plants alive this year, and something which they all start with is soil care. I am not interested in soil care! I want to grow plants. Usually I flip forward to the interesting bit – seeds and seedlings and how to deal … Read more

Say it, smash it!

easy and fun way to learn a Bible verse

This is a really fun way to learn a Bible verse! Just write the words in the verse on eggs clean, empty egg shells, one word per shell. (We wash ours with soapy water then leave to dry.) Then put them out on a table in a random order and challenge everyone to see if they … Read more

Seed prayers

Do you love watching seeds grow? Why not link this with praying for something to grow? A fun and satisfying seedling to watch is a sunflower. Take a toilet tube and press in the sides of one end to make a little compostable pot. Fill it with compost or soil then place one seed on … Read more