5:30-6:00 Kid-friendly Dinner provided
6:00-6:15 Opening Group
6:15-6:45 Session One in small groups
6:45-7:15 Session Two in small groups
7:15-7:30 Closing Large Group
"Compassion Camp: What Every Living Thing Needs" from Illustrated Ministry
Our best-selling Compassion Camp curriculum is back with a brand-new edition. Compassion Camp is a program where participants explore what it means to have compassion for themselves, others, and the world.
While Compassion Camp is geared toward K–5th graders and preschool-aged children, it is highly flexible, adaptable, and fun for the entire church (and includes activities for youth, as well).
Through Compassion Camp: What Every Living Thing Needs, participants will explore what all living
things need to live—shelter, food, water, air, and community—and how we can have compassion for
the living earth. Through awareness, gratitude, wonderment, reciprocity, and kinship, participants will
consider how to become co-sustainers and participants in the work of God’s creation.
Using Psalm 104 as our grounding text—and supported with additional scripture—participants will take a close look at the interconnectedness of the whole earth, humans alongside the more-than-human world.
Session 1: Every Living Thing Needs Shelter—Shelter Protects Life
Participants will develop their skills of awareness as the first step in compassion by noticing how God provides shelter in the Bible.
Session 2: Every Living Thing Needs Food—Food Energizes Life
Participants will practice gratitude for food by compassionately acknowledging the world God made
(as described in Psalm 104).
Session 3: Every Living Thing Needs Water—Water Hydrates Life
Participants will seek wonderment in the power and vulnerability of water by learning about the cycles of God’s life-giving resource and how we need to protect it compassionately.
Session 4: Every Living Thing Needs Air—Air Sustains Life
Participants will explore reciprocity in the function of air by seeing their own breath as the sign of God’s Spirit that breathes in them and how the world’s influence on the air affects what they receive through it.
Session 5: Every Living Thing Needs Community—Community Produces Life
Participants will identify their kinship with the world by understanding their membership in, and connection with, the diverse “neighborhood” of God’s creation.
If you are willing and able to help please contact Pastor Heidi at heididavidyoung955@gmail.com
To register please use the QR code below or fill out a form located in the Sanctuary entry.
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