Samuel series Christmas special
Over the Winter term, we used the Samuel series at our local church. The kids loved these epic stories, especially some of the ones about Jonathan and the Ark v Dagon that don't often make their way into children's Bibles.
We adapted the last session on the significance of the town Bethlehem Ephrathah (birthplace of Samuel's great-great-great-great-grandfather and of David) into an all age Christmas service. We even used the musical statues game in the middle of the service with everyone on their feet jiggling away, which went down a treat! Beautiful to look at the history of Bethlehem and how Jesus enters the world in this town that had started out so sorrowful, but become a place of hope.
Ellie (Dec 2021)