Use your children’s playtime to introduce them to other cultures and expand their view of the world God loves. Family Activity: Consider dolls and puppets that reflect ethnicities or cultures different from yours. Include multicultural food sets in your child’s play kitchen. Browse your local library or bookstore for storybooks that introduce your kids to…
In the age before airplanes and cars, global workers advanced the gospel message into far regions despite the hardships of the journey and the uncertainties awaiting them. Today’s global workers don’t face major travel difficulties, but do encounter language, political, and religious barriers as they bring the gospel to the remaining unreached peoples. Family Activity…
Family Activity: Riffians (Riffi Berbers) have a saying: “A meal without bread is not a meal.” Join Mahmoud’s family in creating your own designer bread. Give each person a round piece of biscuit dough. Refrigerated cans of biscuit dough work great. Use toothpicks to press special designs deep into the dough. Place the biscuit dough…
Crossing the Jordan (Joshua 4:23-24) The Israelites prepared to enter into the Promised Land, but an obstacle stood in their way – the Jordan River. Just as at the Red Sea, God parted the waters and provided a way forward. Joshua reminded the people that God’s purposes in both partings were the same – “so…
The word “gospel” literally means good news, but it includes the bad news about our natural sinful state and its consequences as well as the good news about God’s plan to redeem all nations through His Son, Jesus. Jesus died for our sins and rose again to give eternal life to all who put their…
A Gentile Declaration- Rahab (Joshua 2) News of Israel’s powerful God went ahead of them into the Promised Land of Canaan. Stories of what God did to the Egyptians and Amorite kings struck fear in the hearts of surrounding nations. When Israel’s leader, Joshua, sent spies into Jericho, they met Rahab, a woman whose response…
Family Activity: Make your own lantern. Choose your favorite color of 9 x 12-inch construction paper. Cut off a strip, 1-inch wide, from one of the short sides. Set this aside for the lantern’s handle. Fold the piece of construction paper in half, lengthwise. Starting from the folded edge, use scissors to cut a slit…
Family mealtimes are wonderful opportunities to connect with our children. Because everyone is together in the same place, mealtimes also provide opportunities to cultivate habits in their lives. Here’s one way of establishing a routine of interceding for global workers. Family Activity: Make a prayer tablecloth. Find a world map that is large enough to…
Our world is filled with strong, gifted, successful people. But what kind of people does God use? He is looking for families with hearts willing to say “yes” to Him. Maybe saying “yes” seems small or insignificant. But it’s the attitude and character of our heart when we say that “Yes!” that is of greatest…
Family Activity: Give each child a book bag or backpack. Invite them to go to through the house, collect some of their favorite things, and put them in their bags. Gather together and let each child show some of the items from their bags. Imagine that this is all you own and that you must…
Page 7 of 12«‹...56789...›»
