Water
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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 the Parable of the Sower
. . . the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. (Matthew 13.23) The parable of the sower is an opportunity to examine how we respond to the Word…
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Interactive Prayer Stations on Trinity Sunday
Trinity Sunday provides a lot of wonderful images to explore the different names of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Below are ideas for interactive prayer stations focusing on our relationships with the different images of the Trinitarian God. The interactive prayer stations are meant to be intergenerational. There are also stations designed for ages 2-4.…
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Interactive Prayer Stations on Pentecost II
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were…
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Interactive Prayers Stations on Jeremiah 2, Creation, & Earth Day
7 I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruits and its good things. But when you entered you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. (Jeremiah 2.7) Taking care of the earth is one of the first commandments that God gives humankind. God tasked Adam to name creation as well…
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Tapping Living Water
1 In the first month, the entire company of the People of Israel arrived in the Wilderness of Zin. . . 2-5 There was no water there for the community, so . . . they attacked Moses: “We wish we’d died when the rest of our brothers died before God. Why did you haul this congregation…
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Psalm 23
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; 3 he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. (Psalm 23) This passage is usually read during funerals – bringing words of comfort to those who…