Bread
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Painting Communion Bread
If you are looking for an interactive and intergenerational way to prepare the communion bread, try painting bread. In the middle of the sanctuary, I prepared a long table and lined it with paper asking “What gives you life?” Jesus refers to bread as the Bread of Life, so participants were invited to consider what…
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Let’s Eat: The Food of Our Faith
This is a 8-part series on food stories in the bible and how that informs our faith. On the chancel, we stacked food boxes collected from our weekly food pantry and set the large communion table covered with a white table cloth in the middle of the sanctuary. Each Sunday, the table dressing changed according…
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Interactive Prayer Stations on Hunger Awareness
“The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’” (Matthew 22.8-9) The parable of the Wedding Banquet speaks of a wedding reception that was fit for a king and yet all those typically considered unworthy were invited to…
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Interactive Prayer Stations on Feeding the 5000 & Calling of Disciples
He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave (Mark 6.41) Below are ideas for interactive prayer stations that combines the calling of disciples and the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand with fishes and loaves. Interactive prayer stations don’t have to be overly…
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Interactive Prayer Stations on Easter & Resurrection
5 But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. (Matthew 28.5-6) Typically, the Sunday after Easter, my church sets up interactive prayer stations. After the hoopla of Easter service…
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