if you can find it,'Marketplace 29 AD - Life in Bible Times' has some wonderful ideas for explaining life in Jesus' times.
Marketplace 29AD: author has retired and is no longer in print. But, Group will be including his ideas and lesson style in future VBS material.
The first is Holyland Adventure Jerusalem Marketplace (2005) Group VBS - Marketplace was one of his Lesson Plans and group has turned it into a VBS program using all the material from his Marketplace Lesson Set.
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