Church nature program

Program Aim. Sometimes we need to pack up our Bibles and Hymnals and take a walk outside of the man-made cathedral and enter into the sanctuary made by God's own hand, that place is nature!

This week we will be presenting an AY program that takes your church into nature and reminds them that God is the creator and that he speaks to us not only through the Bible but through his creative works. Scripture References.

Theme Song s. Program Audience. Preparations and resources. Instructions: Form multiple groups 4 - 6 based on the number of people available. For each Item list the following: A Bible verse about the item.

How it is beneficial to us or other plants and animals. How can we protect or conserve it. Program Overview: This is an outdoor program. Opening Prayer Song Service sing songs about nature, eg.

All things bright and beautiful Scripture reading: Special: song or poem about nature. Add new comment. I would like to learn more about what i can do as an AY leader. Thanks for the idea that is there. Reply Permalink. I love this page. Excited to try this. Thank you for sharing your resources. These ay programs are so helpful to the church thanks alot. Am really enjoying these programs, i would like to start practicing at my church. Please keep on and may the Almighty bless u abundantly. God is in nature.

I like your programs its awesome God bless your ministry.. Thank you for sharing this very impressive and helpful resources. Thank you for sharing very helpful. Just be sure to water them often as they dry out quickly. Easy-to-grow vegetables like cucumbers, squash, and lettuce could be shared with the local food pantry. Milkweed seeds can be grown and then replanted as a host plant for threatened monarch butterflies.

Even a small space offers big gardening opportunities. Create and Paint At our church, one of the most popular outdoor activities last summer was painting. All we needed were big pieces of paper, brushes, tempera paint and a few rocks to hold the paper down. Plastic landscape fencing can be used as a prayer loom and woven with sticks, ribbons or scraps of fabric. One of our favorite outdoor prayers is to blow bubbles after each person shares their prayers.

What a different view of the world we get when we look closely at the cracks in the sidewalk, under leaves and on a tree trunk! Consider providing paper and crayons to record discoveries.

Experience Bible Stories with Water, Sand, and Clay Many preschools and kindergartens have abandoned a former staple: sensory tables. To make sensory tables, we use under-bed plastic storage bins which are inexpensive, stackable and shallow.

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