January F@CT

 

Hello and welcome to F@CT Online! We hope you all had a joyful, peaceful Christmas celebrating the birth of Jesus.

Today we are going to be looking at two people who never appear in a Nativity play but were there just after Jesus was born. They are called Anna and Simeon.

Let's watch this to hear who they were.

Anna and Simeon were both amazing, faithful people. They believed that God would keep his promises to them. They both got to meet Jesus, just as God had told them they would. 

Can you imagine how excited they must have been? People had been waiting hundreds of years for Jesus to arrive and they actually got to see him. 

It's the beginning of a new year and last year was very unexpected. We had lots of strange, difficult moments. As we look towards this new year ahead of us, we can be absolutely sure of one thing, just like the story above told us. 

It's this...

God keeps his promises.

What do God's promises look like for us? God has promised us lots of things in the Bible.

Here are nine of God's promises for us.

You can download it here

Activity

You can download, colour and cut out the sheet above. Maybe you would like to stick God's promises up somewhere in your house. You could stick them near a mirror or maybe on a notice board.

Maybe you could decorate a promise jar like this...

This year you may hear new promises that God is making for you. You could add them to the jar.

Prayer

Two of the promises above are about prayer. They say that when we pray God listens to us and is close to us.

Choose one of the promises on the sheet and spend a quiet moment thinking about it. Maybe you could draw your own picture about what that promise means to you. 

Thank you God that you are with us as we travel together into the New Year.

Help us to remember your promises for us.

Amen

We've got a song we can sing together called "All through History". We know God is faithful and keeps His promises as there are lots of stories in the Bible when He has shown that. 

This song looks at some of those stories. 

Let's praise God that he is faithful and trustworthy with singing and maybe some dancing too...

Thank you for joining us for F@CT online. We hope you've had fun today finding out more about God.

Next week we are going to be starting to look at the amazing story of Moses. He went on lots of adventures with God. We're going to have lots of fun finding out all about him.