Home Grown Faith & ReadyClickGrow
Hey you--get off your rocker and get active about nurturing your faith. Well first, stay seated and get some easy ideas, information, activities and resources from this page. Also find milestone education information. Then, get the family to join you in some fun faith activities, or fly solo for some faith building of your own.
Upcoming milestones: RSVP @ btomasek@allsaintsphoenix.org for any event.
OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS
First Holy Communion; Both classes required: Thursday, March 24 @6:30, Saturday March 26 @ 10:00. 1st communion recieved Thursday April 1st, 7:15p.m service..
Parents and kids come to class together.
High School Senior Recognition
6th grade special class: Real Life Faith and pre-confirmation sessions.
Columbarium Task force: e-mail btomasek@allsaintsphoenix.org with questions. Our tast force has met and begun the process of designing the space. Our proposed location is just below the nursery for a variety of excellent reasons. When we have a design choice we will begin to get some bids and provide the congregation with more information and opportunity for feedback.
On this page you will find
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• FAITH CRIB NOTES:
Quick and easy faith builders based on "Taking Faith Home" weekly resource
• Faith morsels:
meal time faith activities
• Milestone Ministry and 2009-10 calendar:
Education and recognition events, and faith milestones from Birth through High School and beyond.
• ReadyClickGrow:
A collection of hundreds of online faith-building resources for individuals and families. From games to devotions and everything in between.
- The Prayer Square: Prayers with a twist
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Family Fun Bible Study & Activities:
This feature offers activities, interactive games and puzzles and a kid friendly Bible study. - Click here to find over 60 Bible verses to memorize (one from almost every book of the Bible).
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact Bobbie Tomasek our Director of Faith Journey's at btomasek@allsaintsphoenix.org or 602-866-9191 ext. 117.
There are hundreds of ways to pray. To help nurture your communication with God in ways that are comfortable and meaningful for you, this square offers different suggestions, thoughts or techniques each week.
Lenten Journal
This is one method of praying closer as a family. Give each family member a notebook. Each night share your prayer petitions and praises with each other, writing them all in the notebooks. Say a prayer covering the main points, then each family member will keep those petitions and praises in their private prayers. Share whenever you see answer to prayer.
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All Saints has devotional materials for all ages found in the Narthex, library and office. For more information about devotional resources contact Bobbie at btomasek@allsaintsphoenix.org
Click on this ELCA link to devotions for youth
Wed. and Fri. E-devotions for everyone
Click here for Bible passages to help you with specific topics God's yellow pages
52 important Bible stories your child should know.
Use these activities to help your child understand God's love through key stories and characters of the Bible presented one at a time throughout the year.
Help your child grow in faith in just a few fun minutes each week. Click the links below to see info about the creation story, crafts and activity pages. Look up the verses in a favorite family or children's Bible to read the story. Then do the activities together or use them as a pre-dinner activity. Make family contests out of them or use them as a weekly devotional time.
Enjoy these interactive puzzles and games based on Bible stories, terms, names and places.
Click here for archived interactive games ranging from easy to more challenging beginning Aug 16: Joshua word searches Joshua challenge Joshua crossword Women of God Ruth and company crossword nicodemus Mary and Martha
Coloring
Jesus Ministry Coloring Book Old Testament Characters Epic Events
This track of ReadyClickGrow is specifically designed to help families grow in faith with easy and fun ideas that don't take a lot of time, but provide big faith pay-off.
Click the links for ReadyClickGrow your faith or ReadyClickGrow your family. Or enter through the sample activities below. Then Simply back click to return to this page:
Faith Crib Notes
How to grow in faith when you don't have time to study
Find ideas for integrating your faith into things you already do, or for sneaking a few minutes of faith nurturing between the activities in your already busy day. Find more verses, prayers, devotions and activities on the devotions table in the Narthex.
Updates will resume soon. Check back in a day or two.
WEEK OF Feb. 21
easy faith activity
A blessing for 16 year olds (also find a "quiz" to discuss and a prayer under the Faith Morsels section)
A Blessing for 16 year olds
May God grant you clear vision and wise judgment.
May God grant you the wisdom not to endanger yourselves or those who have entrusted their safety to you.
May you have compassion for those less skilled who you find on your way.
May you use your new freedom to travel always to good places.
May you reach your destinations in health and safety and return in peace to your homes and loved ones.
May God grant your parents faith and courage.
May they know that God's presence is with you wherever you go.
May God who watches over us all, guard your coming and your going from this time forth and forever. Amen
EASY BIBLE CRAFTS
Here are fun and easy Bible Crafts that are based on some of our Sunday School Rotations. Enjoy!
Joshua younger kids
Joshua older kids
Women of God
Mary and Martha
To learn more about Sunday School rotations click here.
ReadyClickGrow Your Faith is an online ministry providing numerous home-centered, faith-building activities such as devotions, thought stimulators, scripture study, prayer, encouragement and comfort. There are tons of ideas.
Here is one you can jump straight to from here: Ways to revitalize your prayer life.
FAITH MORSELS
Meal time is faith time: Weekly "RECIPES" for passing on your faith.
Take this driving test together
shared by Peace Lutheran Church then, together, talk about the responsibilities of driving. At the end you'll find a prayer for 16 year olds
True or false
The risk of getting in a wreck quadruples when drivers are talking on the cell phone______
To reduce your chances of getting into a road rage fight, let pushy drivers have their way.__________
Car accidents are the leading cause of long-term disability for all age groups________
More than three out of four teens speed when driving________
93% of parents think that their teen is wearing seatbelts, but 39% of young drivers routinely tempt fate on teh road by not wearing seat belts__________
How many people in the U.S. die each day for traffic crashes?
- 10
- 500
- 115
- 70
In 1998 what percent of teens killed in a car accident were NOT wearing their seat belt?
- 12%
- 81%
- 32%
- 64%
Americans define aggressive driving as:
- tailgating
- Making rude gestures
- Passing on the shoulder
- Failing to yield to merging traffic
- Pulling into a parking space someone else is waiting for
- flashing high beams at the car in front of you
- waiting until the last second to merge with trafrfic on the highway
- driving through a yellow light that is turning red
- changing lanes without signaling
- honking the horn
- double parking
- driving 10 mph or more over the speed limit
- driving 10 mph or slower under the speed limit
Answers, all true, C, B, All items are considered aggressive
A Prayer for 16 year olds
Loving God, we give thanks for __________ who turned 16 this year and we thank you that we can celebrate this new life stage. We ask that you will give strength, wisdom, maturity, patience, self-control to ____________ . and for our entire family we pray for patience, acceptance, assurance and wisdom for how to respond to new independence and responsibility. Through your son, Jesus Christ,we pray. Amen
At All Saints we celebrate over 20 milestones. Most are recognized with parent/student classes and/or a congregational blessing.
Milestone Classes are an important part of our Christian education, covering topics not addressed in Sunday school, but important to our life as Christians (i.e. Lord's Prayer, Apostle's Creed and many more). Classes also address how to live a life of faith and how to nurture faith at home.
Upcoming milestones are listed at the top of the page. click the link below for the full schedule.
Baptism classes:
Held quarterly on Saturdays from 9:00 - 10:30am
Sep 12, 2009, Dec 5, 2009
Mar 6, 2010, June 5, 2010
Director of Faith Journeys & Milestones, Bobbie Tomasek btomasek@allsaintsphoenix.org
Director of Sunday School, Rendy Horner: rendyh@allsaintsphoenix.org
Click Here for a Print Ready Version of the 09-10 Calendar
