Hi everyone and welcome back to Christchurch Kids. We hope you've had a good week.
Today we are looking at when Moses spoke to God and God gave him the 10 commandments. You might have heard of the 10 commandments already. Let's hear about them in today's video.
We've heard in today's story that God gave Moses the 10 commandments to show ...
how to love God,
how to treat each other,
and
how to be part of God's team.
That sounds like good things to listen to.
The 10 commandments are like road signs. They show us safe ways to journey through life.
Let's have a look at what the 10 commandments are..
1. Love God more than anything else
2. Make God most important
3. Say God's name with love and respect
4. Honour God by resting on the last day of the week.
5. Love, honour and respect your mum and dad.
6. Do not hurt others
7. Be faithful to your husband or wife.
8. Do not take anything that isn't yours.
9. Always tell the truth.
10. Be happy with what you have and don't wish for other people's things.
God gave us these commandments because he He loves us so much and knows what is best for us.
These are good rules to follow. It isn't always easy to follow them and we can ask God to help us.
Our Activity Book
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We can have a look in our activity books now and find the pages about the 10 commandments.
We have a fun activity today that you can cut out of your book.
You can make an origami Chatterbox with the 10 commandments on.
Just like the Israelites in today's story, we can get things wrong and we don't always follow God's commandments.
The good news is that we can say sorry to God and He will forgive us for the times we have got things wrong.
Get out your pot of bubbles and say sorry to God for something. Blow some bubbles and watch them float away and pop as a sign that God forgives you and you can start again.
We've got a great song to share together today. It's called "The Boss of Me". Does that sound strange that we want someone to be the Boss of us? The brilliant thing is that because we know God is completely good and completely trustworthy we can totally trust Him that He knows best for us in our lives.
He can be "The Boss of Me" because I know He loves me.
Thanks for popping by today. We hope you can join us here next week for F@CT Online as we have fun together and find out more about Lent with puppets, songs, prayers and crafts.
Hello everyone and welcome back to Christchurch Kids. We hope you've had a great half term week.
We're following the Israelites at the moment as Moses leads them across the desert to the land God has promised them.
Today we are going to be looking at a very special place called "the Tent of Meeting". Let's watch the video together and find out more about it.
In the video, the Tent of Meeting looks like a very simple tent but it definitely wasn't. God gave Moses very detailed instructions on how to build and decorate the Tent of Meeting. In fact, the instructions are so detailed that they can be found in Exodus in chapters 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31!
God gave instructions for how to build a special table and what a golden lampstand should look like. He gave instructions for 10 linen curtains woven with blue, purple and red threads with pictures of cherubim ( a type of angel). And lots, lots more.
Why was the Tent of Meeting so special? What can we learn about God as we hear about the Israelites building it?
The Tent of Meeting was so special because God is so special. We use the word "holy" to describe God and it means completely perfect in goodness and righteousness.
We can never make a building as special and perfect as God but the Tent of Meeting took many precious materials and people devoted their time and effort to show how they considered God to be completely holy and worthy of worship.
There is no one holy like the Lord. There
is no God but you. There
is no Rock like our God.
1 Samuel 2:2
Activity
You may have noticed that we don't have pages in our Moses Activity Books for today's story.
I thought it would be fun to make our own tents today (or dens).
What things are precious to you that you would use to decorate your tent to show God how special He is to you?
Here's a den we made in our house a little while ago. We have used favourite blankets and quilts and there were lots of cushions inside to make it really cosy! Maybe a favourite, precious toy could visit your tent?
Prayer
We've got a prayer today that we can say on our own but it is even better when we pray this prayer with other people. Maybe you would like to pray this with people in your family.
God is so good and so amazing that there are endless things we can thank God for.
You can take it in turns to say...
"God is good, God is great,
Thank you God for ________________"
See how long you can keep your praise prayers going by thinking of different things to add to the end of the last line.
We have a great song today called "Tabernacle". This word means "Tent of Meeting".
Let's see how the people worked together to make this special place for God.
We hope you've had fun building dens today. If you would like to send in pictures of your dens,, we would love to share them on here. You can email Emy at childrenandfamilies@christchurch-clevedon.org.uk
Hi everyone and Happy Valentines Day! We hope you have a good day spent with people you love. Thank you to everyone who sent in Valentines cards for the residents of our local care homes. We love sharing God's love with people in our town.
We've already been on quite a journey with Moses. Our video today starts with a recap of the amazing things we've already heard about.
Moses has led the Israelites out of Egypt and now they are following God through the desert but their tummies start rumbling and so they start grumbling.
Let's watch the video and see how God helped them.
God is amazing! The Israelites were in the desert with no food and they complained to Moses. Moses went to speak to God about it and God heard their prayers.
God sent something called "manna" each morning. It was described as "bread from heaven" and it was said to taste like honey. That sounds like a great breakfast to me. I love honey on my toast. Manna was also described as "thin flakes" so maybe it was a bit like Frosties!
In the evenings, God sent quail to the camp (these are small birds) so that the Israelites would have meat to eat too.
God gave them rules about collecting the food. They were told to only collect enough for that day, apart from on the sixth day when they were to collect enough for two days. If they collected too much food, it would turn mouldy the next day.
God was helping the Israelites but they needed to trust Him. It also shows us how important God thinks it is to rest one day a week. This rest day is called a Sabbath. Jews have their rest day on a Friday evening until Saturday evening and most Christians have their rest day on a Sunday.
When we look at the stories in the Bible, we aren't just finding out about things that have happened it the past. We are learning about what God is like and what that means for us today.
In this story we can see that God cares for us. He listens to our prayers and he cares if we are feeling hungry or thirsty or tired.
It says in the Bible...
Do not worry about anything. But pray and ask God for
everything you need. And when you pray, always give thanks.
Philippians 4:6
(You may have noticed another part of the story in the video. We'll come back and look at the 10 commandments in a couple of weeks).
Our Activity Book
If you are new to the Christchurch Kids blog and would like an activity book, please email Emy at childrenandfamilies@christchurch-clevedon.org.uk
We can have a look in our activity books now and find the pages about living in the wilderness.
Today, we have been hearing about manna or bread from heaven so we're going to use bread in our prayers. You will need a small piece of bread for these prayers (or you can imagine a piece of bread as you talk to God).
Tear off a piece of the bread.
We can pray for those who are living in places torn apart by war. We can pray for those people whose families are having to live apart.
We can ask God for peace and healing in these places.
Hold your bread in your hand.
We can pray for people who are feeling lonely. We can ask that they will know God is with them and that they are not alone.
Eat a piece of your bread.
We can thank God that we have enough to eat. We can ask God to help those who are hungry. We can pray for people who are running the food bank and Make Lunch who are helping people to have enough to eat.
Amen
We've got a great song to sing together today. It's got fun actions and bit of dancing too.
We sang it last week at F@CT Online as we talked about how generous God is and it's a great one to sing today as we praise God that He loves us and gives us all that we need.
Thank you for joining us today. We hope you have a great half term.
Have you heard about our Easter play?
We had so much fun putting together our online Nativity play that we are putting something together for Easter Day. A bit of acting or narrating could be a great activity for half term!
If you would like to get involved, please email Emy at childrenandfamilies@christchurch-clevedon.org.uk
Hello and welcome to F@CT Online! It's great that you've been able to join us today as we have fun together and learn about God.
At F@CT we love to praise God together with singing, actions and dancing. We hope this song gets you up and moving as we praise God together.
At church over the past few weeks, we have been learning all about generosity.
Our story today is about when Jesus showed amazing generosity. His friends and followers were feeling really hungry and he gave them not just enough to eat but enough that everyone was full up and there were leftovers.
This story starts with a little boy who was generous enough to share his packed lunch with Jesus. Although, I do wonder how much he wanted to eat his packed lunch ("Oh mum - not bread and fish again!") as he still had it left at teatime!
Let's watch this Lego video and find out more...
Wow! Jesus is amazing! He was so generous when he fed all those people.
When we follow God we follow Jesus' example of how to live so...
How can we be more generous?
Lizzie has been puzzling over this question and she decided to give Supergranny a call to ask for some help.
Activities
We can have lots of fun as we remember the story of when Jesus was so generous feeding all those people with only 5 loaves and 2 fish.
You can make your own racing game with fish cut out from newspaper and a book or a magazine to flap them along. Maybe you can race them with someone else in your family. Maybe you can make a track around the room and time to see how long it takes for you to move your fish along.
We had fun practising this one...
Prayer
Let's take a moment to be still and quiet to talk to God.
Supergranny told us all about the Fruit of the Spirit and how we can be more generous but it isn't always easy. Have a look at our Fruit of the Spirit picture. Is there one that you need to ask God to help you with this week?
Dear God
Thank you that you are so generous to us. You give us so many good things and love us so much.
Sorry when we aren't generous, when we put ourselves first.
Help us to remember your generosity and to be more generous with how we love others.
Amen
You could colour this in and put it up in your house to remind you about how we can be generous to others.
