The Story Keepers - Episode 3

 Hello Story Keepers and welcome to Christchurch Kids! We hope you've had a great week. Today's episode of The Story Keepers is called "Catacomb Rescue". The catacombs are underground passageways in Rome and you can still see them today. They would have been a great place to escape from the Roman soldiers.

Here's Episode 3...

It's great that we can be Story Keepers too. By watching the video and learning the stories from the Bible we can share them with others and pass them on. Today, maybe it's enough to watch this video. If you would like to find out a bit more, keep reading...

There is a page for you to have a look at all about Episode 3 in the back of your Story Keepers Activity booklets. 

In today's episode we heard three stories from the Bible. They were stories that Jesus told called "parables". They were stories that had a special meaning.

The Good Samaritan

The Parable of the Sower

The Unforgiving Servant

Jesus told us to love and help each other and our enemies. That can be really hard sometimes. For The Story Keepers it included showing love to Nero and and those Roman soldiers who were out to get them (not all Roman soldiers were their enemies). The children in the episode choose to show love to a Roman soldier by saving him in the tunnel. How do you think the Roman soldier felt about Christians after the children helped him? 

Our BIG question today is... 

How can we show love to people that we find it difficult to get along with?

Prayer

In the story of the Good Samaritan today we heard about showing people love who are different to us. 

We have our last Sunday today looking at the work of Open Doors. Here's a video about how the charity got started and it all started with Brother Andrew who wanted to help other people.

Open Doors have made some fantastic colouring pages. Maybe you would like to print one and colour it in. You could put it up in your house to remind you to pray for Christians around the world. 

You can download them here.

Our song today reminds that God's love is BIG! It's big enough for everyone!...

Thanks for joining us today . We'll be back here next Sunday with F@CT Online but we will also have F@CT in church too. 

F@CT will look a little different in the church at the moment but we will still be having lots of fun and learning about God. 

Here are some of the ways that it will be a different:

• Anyone over the age of 10 will be wearing a face covering unless they are medically exempt.

• We will be sanitising our hands.

• We won't be having our usual pastries and drinks.

• We will be sitting in "Sheep Pens" with our families!( These will be tables and chairs but we are calling them Sheep Pens and you will have a sheep to make friends with). We will stay in our Sheep Pens to keep a distance from other families.

• We won't be able to sing but we will have lots of fun joining in with actions.

• Each Sheep Pen will have it's own set of resources as we will still be making things to help us learn about our story. 

• Everyone will need to book ahead so we know who is coming. You can book your Sheep Pen for F@CT on October 4th here.