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| | Just wanted to share what we did as I was unable to find someone that spoke another language fluently. I hung the yellow, orange and red streamers from the light at a length that the kids could stand directly underneath them and it would touch or almost touch their heads, and I set the fan to blow directly on them. I told the story of the disciples trying so hard to share the good news of Jesus, but that there were people who couldn't understand them and how frustrating that must be for them. Then I let every child take a turn being a disciple and they stood under the "flame" and used their own crazy, made-up language to try and tell the rest of the group about Jesus - you should have seen them gesturing and speaking these crazy ways. Then my helper would turn on the fan and I would turn on the light and the child would say very loud and clear - "Jesus loves you" Then we sat and spoke about all of us having the Holy Spirit in us and each child named one person they knew that didn't go to church, and we prayed they would invite that person, or at least let them know that Jesus loved them. It turned out to be a great lesson - even without the bilingual person. Just thought I would share in case someone else was in the same boat. |
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| | Fantastic idea! I have someone lined up, but she may have to drop out, so this will be a great alternative. Thanks so much for sharing it. |
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| | I was also unable to find someone who spoke another language. So I decided to use my own made up language (well, I didn't make it up, my friend taught it to me in college). It is called "tally-talk" and is sort of like pig latin, but more complex. Basically you add "-an" to every consonant and pronounce each vowel with the sound it makes. So Jesus is pronuonced jan-eh-san-oo-san. It is not hard. I kept saying "Jesus gives us the power to live forever" You just have to spell out the words in your mind while you are talking. The good thing about it was that I wasn't just babbling, but it was completely impossible to understand what I was saying. |
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Hi I just wanted to share what we did on DAY 5
I made head bands with flames. Bought cheap party store princess head bands in cardboard and foil. We painted the crowns in red orange and yellow flames over the paper crown.
As I told the story we threw paper confetti on the kids to illustrate the holy spirit. (Be aware that the colored confetti color came off on the kids if they were wet or sweaty. Maybe white confetti would have been better. The kids loved the confetti...it did make a slight mess. )
Next I asked the kids to help me with the sound of the wind. We gave each child a party blower (To keep, I had their crew leaders put their name on it and hold after my rotation)
Then I handed out the crowns and told them to place them on their heads. I had a teen helper dressed in a bible robe with a crown. He came up to a small podium and was my Peter and he gave a short sermon. Afterwards I told the kids how 3000 were baptized that day and how Pentecost is the birth of the Christian church and how we were sort of having a birthday party for the Church. The kids loved the blowers and the confetti. I kept the crowns for the next rotation. We had approximately 170 elementary kids come through my rotation in bible blast.
The best part is at the end of the day the fire truck came and cooled everyone off. It was like everyone was baptized at the end of the day.
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