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Topic: Peace
POSTED BY Ruth Kroboth:
I'd recommend the book Peace Begins with You by Katherine Scholes (ISBN# 0-316-77436-7). It's nice for young children. We're using it for K-4th grades. Among other things, it talks about how working for peace may mean starting a conflict, standing up and saying "NO!" We will also be learning a bit about Nelson Mandela & Desmond Tutu encouraging South Africans to put injustices of the past aside and work for peace. Brand new Nobel laureate, Jimmy Carter is another great role model (and a Sunday School teacher!)
For older kids (middle school & high schoolers - even adults) we will use Mark Twain's "The War Prayer." It describes a congregation praying for the success of their young soldiers and the destruction of their enemy. Then flips the coin to consider that victory for one side means tradgedy for the other. Powerful & thought-provoking.
With so many tensions in the world I too have given this a lot of thought and prayerful consideration. All I can say is that I have no idea how to counsel about war. I can only work to teach peace to the next generation if only in my small corner of the world.
I just posted my lesson on peace & peacemaking. Check them out under "Beatitudes - Blessed are the Peacemakers." Blessings to you and to all of us as we try to answer the unanswerable, Ruth
Topic: Peacemaking
POSTED BY Catherine
After 9/11 we changed our plans for Advent and wrote worskhops for a rotation on The Prince of Peace - Peacemaking. Though we did this at Christmas, it could be used anytime.
One activity was to make origami cranes for world peace - part of the true story about a Japanese girl named Sadako. The entire congregation got into it! They are a bit complicated, but once you get the hang of it, it is easy. We made 1000 paper cranes. The little kids made a simple origami peace dove.
Our other workshops deal with how children can resolve conflict in their own lives.
We need to start somewhere!!
You can find this lesson set at the exchange under Jesus' Birth/Advent - other ideas Or you can find the set at our web site: http://www.kirkofkildaire.org/quest/contents.html
Yours in Peace, Catherine
Topic: Peace
POSTED BY Lisa M
In the current political climate: the story of Hagar and Ishmael in the Abraham narrative is good for helping us understand that Judiasm, Christianity, and Islam all have the same roots.
The peaceable kingdom (Isaiah 11:6-9) is good for children. Through nature programs they know that wolves and lambs aren't natural friends, but that God's vision is for a world at peace.
Topic: God is in control
POSTED BY Cindy LB
We are using a book in our Children's Worship program that goes through names for God.
Last Sunday's name was Jehovah Sabbaoth- God is in control. We talked about God being in control of the whole world, even when it doesn't look like it. We touched on war a little, and that God is still in control of these places where wars are happening. We then prayed for different countries- that God would show his love to them and that they would learn about his love in Jesus.
The kids really got into it- we had a few globes and the blow up beach ball type globe that we passed around. Each child chose a country and then prayed for that country as they held the ball.
Along with teaching kids about individual peacemaking, remember prayer is our greatest weapon!!
Topic: Peacemaking
POSTED BY julie burton
A couple of resources that may help are Peacemaking resources from the Presbyterian Church (USA). Go to www.pcusa.org and search the catalog.
A great book I found is "World Peas" (author escapes me). No, that's not a typo! It has some great activities.
Blessings,
Julie Burton
POSTED BY Lisa M.
One of the posted rotations for the Beatitudes is a unit on "Blessed are the Peacemakers" which is very good.
Peace, Lisa
POSTED BY Jan FPC Napa
There's a free lesson from Cook Ministries called "God's Peace, My Peace". We've adapted parts and used the prayer labyrinth from it. See Cathy's lesson here at rotation.org who also used it. https://www.rotation.org/topic...garden-of-gethsemane
