The Shepherd (Luke 2) | Games

 

The hero in this story is the Shepard. This lesson is written as one of three Christmas lessons for those of us who don’t necessarily have 4 or 5 weeks of Christmas story teaching time, often because other Christmas events and special services take our time.
 

The Sheep Game – this is a computer game that can be played vis an internet connection or, by using the downloads page, saved onto a computer or desktop. The basic game takes only seconds to play and could be played in turn by a group of children. A video projector and a wireless mouse would work well if the resources are available or could be borrowed. click here for the sheep game website
 

That looks like a… – the idea of this game is to identify a picture while only being able to see a small amount. Take a large envelope and cut a small hole in the side (a hole punch will do this neatly, don’t worry about having holes on both sides). slip a picture into the envelope and give it to the children. the children will probably try and more the picture about to see as much as possible. Have the last picture be one of an Angel.
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The Shepherd (Luke 2) | Character Images

 

Here are the images you need for the hero’s attributes linked to The Shepherd (Luke 2).

Each hero’s page set contains a high quality graphic of the character, a take home bible card and a colouring page.

The images are displayed small here, click on the image you wish to have, then save the image that loads.
(Please note : these images have no watermark but are not copyright free, they are only intended for classroom use.)

 

English

 

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Building your team

 
There are 2 common mistakes I’ve seen repeatedly made in my own ministry as well as that of others.
 

Getting the direction wrong.

Underestimating training.

 
These two areas make a huge difference to every team so lets examine them in the light of what we are doing. Read on and reflect how you may be able to start to implement this in your ministry. …continue reading about Building your team

Elizabeth & Mary (Luke 1) | Craft

 

The christmas story has so many various crafts associated with it, and so this craft offering is more specific to just this one part of the story. After a good browse round the internet I found almost no craft project about pregnancy itself, so this craft tries to highlight the idea of pregnancy as a precious time.

 
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Elizabeth & Mary (Luke 1) | Worksheet

 
Joseph greyElizabeth-Mary-WorksheetThe worksheet for Elizabeth and Mary is deliberately designed to be paired with the worksheet for Joseph, so one focuses of fatherhood and the other on motherhood. For that reason I’ve shown the image from the sister worksheet (in grey), if you want that worksheet you need this link

This worksheet about Elizabeth and Mary touches on the ideas of waiting, advent, quiet, messages, and Angels. The sheet is suitable to do in small groups, but if needed could be done alone.

The sheet consists of three areas, an exploration of the emotions we connect with waiting, and the emotions Mary may have connected after the words the angel had said to here. A section on communication between Elizabeth and her husband, finding and practising ways of communication that don’t involve speech. Lastly there is a puzzle that reminds us of the amazing way Mary heard the news.

The PDF can be downloaded by clicking on the coloured image.

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