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Thanks to Sonja from Palmerston North for this great idea. She has taken our Easter Journey serial story and created a walk-through experience from it. Use it as is, or take her idea and modify it to suit your own context. The Easter Walk-Through has 16 stations that are set up around the church. Each station has a photo or two on the wall. Each station has two sets of the story; a simplified version and a fuller version.  Place a small table at each station with an action point and an activity. On a few of the stations there is also some history for people to read if they are interested.  At the end of the 16 stations have juice, coffee and tea available, and warm hot cross buns with butter! (Include a yummy gluten-free option) Here are all the files you will need to set up your walk-through experience:  Easter Walk-Through Instructions Easter Story - Full Version  Easter Story - Simplified Version Easter Action Points Easter History Points ...

The second book in The Chronicles of Paki S eries Two is:  Ngakuku, Tarore and the Little Book.  Find out what happened when Chief Ngakuku faced a tragedy and had to decide between revenge and forgiveness.  This programme works well for a holiday programme, afterschool club or your church Children’s Ministry programme. Choose the ideas that work for your children and within the time you have available. Click here to download the ‘Ngakuku and Tarore’ programme.   Here are some extra bits and pieces to go along with the programme: - D ownloadable posters of the karakia and waiata - link   A Photo Journey: Recently I travelled to Matamata and visited the sites where this story happened. I took photographs of my travels which you are free to download and use. Just make sure you credit Scripture Union. These are available as downloadable resources, with photos and information.  Click on this link to dow n load th e photos . ...

The first programme in The Chronicles of Paki S eries Two is 'Henry Williams the Peacemaker'. This programme comes as a downloadable booklet that is free and easy to use: Click here to download it from our website. Here are some extra bits and pieces to go along with the programme: - A poster of the karakia on pg 5 of the programme  - link - A poster of the waiata words on pg 7 of the programme - link - A template to create your own Paki puppet - link - Posters of the Four Spiritual Styles - link - A poster of the Punakaiki Prayer layers - link  Websites to check out:  These are the website referenced in the programme material. They are great resources to bookmark and refer to over and over: - The colouring pages on pg 4 of the programme: www.doc.govt.nz - A great games website to check out: Becky's Guiding Resource Centre - The words, video and guitar chords for 'E toru nga mea': www.folksong.org.nz  

Did you enjoy the first series of The Chronicles of Paki books? Well, GREAT news! The second series has just been published and it is packed full of wonderful stories to share with your church, family and community.  Scripture Union has written another curriculum series to go with these books, suitable for: · Sunday Schools · Afterschool programmes · Holiday programmes The programme is designed for 5—12 year olds, and it comes in five downloadable booklets that are free and easy to use.  They are packed with great ideas to get your tamariki (children) excited about ‘The Chronicles of Paki’ and discover the stories for themselves.  They will help you to dig deeper into how God has been at work in Aotearoa, New Zealand right from the very beginning. Our programme for Series One focused on the use of stations as a way to allow children to explore the stories. You can download it for free from our website. This...

Ancient Corinth I have recently returned from a holiday in Greece, walking on the same stones as Paul.   As you can see, I was a little bit excited. This photo is of the main street of ancient Corinth, a street that Paul walked along, and conducted business on the edges of.   And my camera went crazy! Over the next months I intend to create resources using my photos. I want children to understand that the events of the New Testament happened in real places, at a real time with real people. Grounding the New Testament in context is vital. I have already shown my photos to my Bible in Schools class and they love them. Boy did they kick start some conversations! Mars Hill/The Areopagus My resources will include photos of the Areopagus ( Acts 17 ), Corinth, Philippi and Patmos, as well as curriculum ideas and discussion starters.  Watch this space!  Annette.