Youth & Children’s Resources for Sunday 28 June
The latest resources, events and announcements from Tim and Julie at DDYC.
YOUTH MINISTRY
The Big DDYC Camp Out
We can’t do SUMMER MADNESS this year but DDYC is bringing SUMMER MADNESS to you with The Big DDYC Camp Out! We would love you and the young people in your parish to join us for one night only, on Friday 26 June from 6.00 pm as we provide a Summer Madness experience. Find out more here.
Reflections from the Woodpile
The tenth of a weekly video bible reflection series for young people exploring the Sermon on the Mount is now available, you can find it here. This one discusses Matthew 6: 16–18, Fasting.
This can be used for young people within the parish as part of your Sunday worship or as a discussion starter within a zoom youth gathering. Download the script and questions for reflection and discussion here.
Reflections on lockdown
We want to hear from young people and youth leaders on what lockdown has meant to them.
Lockdown has brought unprecedented changes to our lifestyle, our interactions with others and what we consider normal. Each experience is also unique and important.
We have created a form here by which young people can give us their perspective Through these responses we want to build up a picture of experiences of lockdown that we can share and learn from. There is the option to give a name or not, to have what you submit be used publicly or not. There are a number of ways to respond this. There are set questions to answer, you can also submit photos, drawings, journaling, poems and videos by uploading onto the form here. Please share this opportunity widely.
DDYC Minecraft Realm
Our DDYC Minecraft Realm is underway and has been having good interaction. For young people to be involved parents must fill in an online permission form (download here). From there the young person will be invited to join the realm.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Youthscape
Youthscape is excited to announce Now What? — a brand new online event designed to help you define your youth ministry vision in a COVID-19 world. Find more details here.
CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
JIGSAW
Catch up on the videos we have put together that might be useful over the summer including the all age family talks on our Youtube channel: downanddromore
Together@Home
Lectionary based Sunday School material for Sunday 28 June, two great ideas from Together@Home:
- God keeping his promises to Abraham Genesis 22:1-18 download here
- The early church feeding the widows Acts 6:1-7 download here
For Families
‘Hannah Prays’ encourages Family prayer together for the week ahead and is posted each Monday on our Instagram and Facebook pages - Challenges in our lives using our trainers or hiking boots!
Beginning in July, weekly things to do over the summer
Each week Julie will be taking one or two of the ideas off this C of I Children’s ministry Network for Ireland ‘Summer of Kindness’ newsletter for families, kids and young people to engage with . . so keep an eye out on our fb and Instagram pages for these. She will send out the full pdf for you to print off next week.
The online 5 day Holiday Bible Club 2020 will be ready for the end of June.
FORKY’S GREAT ESCAPE . . . from the ordinary to the extraordinary. You can organise this in whatever way suits best as all the elements we’ve prepared are separate –talks, reflection time, quiz, prayer activities, craft activities etc. Run it as a one–off HBC or on 6 weeks of Sundays (or week days) the last being a drive–in cinema where the families watch toy Story 4 with treats and an epilogue.
AND REMEMBER...
There are constant updates on Facebook and instagram. Visit DDYC or JIGSAW for more resources and ideas or @ddyc and @jigsawddyc on Instagram.