Tips for Family Worship

To help you succeed in a moment of sharing and prayer as a family :

• Prepare a little in advance your intervention in front of the children with the help of the educational sheet (you can ask for advice from the leaders of your church who are used to using this material).
• Choose a fairly quiet time in the children’s day.
• Arrange everyone comfortably in a circle.
• Limit your speaking time to a maximum of 10 minutes.
• To allow children to react through reflections, questions, experiences, but by channelling these exchanges. Otherwise, we go off in all directions and in interminable monologues!
• Conclude the teaching with a time of respectful prayer.
• Finish with the various activities that are proposed.

Ideally, this family gathering should be repeated every day at the same time. This is your appointment with God.

This moment should be joyful, relaxed, enjoy sharing the Word of God. It may take some time for the children to get used to being quiet, but persevere and pray, the Lord will help you.

Encourage an attitude of respect for children, especially during prayer. Adopting a contemplative posture (eyes closed, hands together, stable position…) helps them to concentrate and stay calm. Encourage every child to participate, without forcing. The little ones can repeat a prayer said by a parent. Prayer time should be short: about 5 minutes.

TO REMEMBER:

A child’s ability to concentrate is, on average, one minute per year of age!

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Info: Lessons continue to be sold on the site. The current offer concerns lessons already acquired by individuals or churches, which normally can only be used in the context of teaching in church. This is an extension of the right of use. During the lockdown, monitors will be able to send parents materials that they or their church already have.

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Hello children and parents!

For the past few days, each of us has had to stay home. It may sound like a lot of fun at first, but soon we’re going to get bored. Why don’t we take advantage of all this free time to get to know our God better? I’m sure that He has a lot of things to tell us and beautiful experiences to make us live… and usually, we don’t have too much time for Him…

You will receive by email a Bible lesson that I invite you to share with your family in one or more times. This lesson contains a Bible story, teaching, pictures, games, coloring, crafts, activity sheets. Usually, the people who use these documents are the instructors who teach the children in the Church. But during this particular period, it is the parents who will explain the lesson to the children.

I wish you good times of sharing and prayer as a family.