Hi, Friends!
You and your kids are on my heart extra this week with so much heavy news circulating. As a parent and as a pastor of young people with diverse backgrounds, I feel deeply the need for truthful dialogue, mutual support, and productive action against injustice. To that end, I am sharing some resources that may be helpful for parents especially as we seek God's own heart for racial justice in our world. If you have a resource to share, please send it! We will also continue to pursue these conversations and initiatives as a church family, so more to come. And, of course, if you want to pray or talk with us, we are here for you. Sending you so much love this Friday.
Here are some other weekday wonders for you that we are excited to share:
New Wonders
KiwiCo Summer Resources
KiwiCo is offering some fun free resources to help fill summer weeks with innovation and enrichment. If you need something else in your back pocket to do with the kids this summer, then you might want to check it out!
Make a Zine
This article walks you through a fun little activity—making your own zine (a mini book!). They give you prompts to make a quarantine zine specifically, but you could also make it about anything you want. This is for all ages (as you will see in the example) because no one is too old to zine.
Paper Airplanes
This site takes paper airplanes to a whole new level! It even includes instructions and planes designed for different qualities like distance, speed, and time aloft. Happy folding and flying!
Breathing Exercises
This resource has some fun illustrated breathing exercises based on animals, and it's adorable! You could use this to talk to your kids about how important breath is to God—like when God breathed creation into being and how the Holy Spirit is often described like a breath. Breathing is such a good way to calm and center us in God's presence, too. (And adults, feel free to try these animal breathing exercises out yourself.)
Sunday Specials
Sunday Video
It's Pentecost on Sunday, and we can't wait to usher in the Holy Spirit with you! Lots of changes awaited the disciples that first Pentecost Sunday, and we are eagerly trusting God as we seek fun changes we can make during this time. See you soon!
Youth Hangout!
We are on for our regular noon call this Sunday, and here is the meeting link that you can use each week to hop on the hangout. Games, jokes, smiles, and creative prayer activities await. Yay for our youth!
Sending you so much ❤️and virtual hugs!
With gratitude for you,
Pastor Lindsay & Pastor Mary