Week 4 - Connected to Community
This week’s Theme: Connected to Community
We are moving from connecting with ourselves and with God to connecting with others this week. Perhaps one of the most clear ways we experience God’s love is through the love of others. We are created to be with one another and so many of our relationships fill us up! We read today about a blind man who is healed. It is clear to see that Jesus loved to be with others. When we live and love like Jesus, we invest in the lives of others, too!
The Five Steps of the FAITH5™:
STEP ONE:
SHARE your highs and lows
STEP TWO:
READ a Bible verse or story
(This week: we recommend using John 9:1-41)
STEP THREE:
TALK about how the Bible reading might relate to your highs and lows
STEP FOUR:
PRAY for one another’s highs and lows
STEP FIVE:
BLESS one another
Family Talk QuestionS
What communities are you a part of that bring value to your life? Who are some of the people who might not be in as many communities? How can we help them?
What is good about living in community with others? What is difficult about living in community with others?
God uses some unexpected people and situations to bring life to people (like Jesus using mud to make a blind man see!) What are some of the unexpected ways that you have experienced good things in your life? Are there any people in your life who are unexpected friends or servants?
Additional Resources for your family to Explore
children’s books on the topic of Connecting with Others
Market Street by Matt de la Pena
Love Your Neighbor by Melody Carlson
Look Where We Live!: A First Book of Community Building by Scot Ritchie
Connect with Others This Week by:
Make a list of all of the communities to which you belong. Compare this list with each other and help each other think of communities that are missing.
Write a letter, FaceTime, email, or create a video to send to a loved one.
Make a plan for serving a neighbor in the next few days. How can you do this creatively?
Explore these Links!
These videos and links are intended to spark conversation based on the bible story for the week (John 4:5-52) or the theme of connecting with God.
Veggie Tales: Love Your Neighbor (audience: preschool through elementary school)
Communities for Kids (audience: elementary school)
Don’t Put People in Boxes (audience: middle school through adults)
How to be Alone, but not Lonely, Despite the Coronavirus (audience: high school through adults)
Hold Us Together by Matt Maher (audience: middle school through adults)