Thriving Mennonite Church

This season, my congregation is doing a sermon series built around the Shine Bible Outlines for the next season. The theme is On the Way with Jesus: Stories from Luke. I’m interested to see where our worship team takes this, since it’s typically a Sunday School curriculum. This week is on Luke 5:1-11, about a miraculous catch of fish. I decided to theme this table based on the bounty of the ocean.

Note: My apologies for posting this a day after service! This week completely got away from me.

During this series, the activity tables I prepare will be more minimal than usual as I will be attending services elsewhere, in order to attend the Anabaptism at 500 worship series, which our congregation will not be participating in. This series promises to be more interactive than usual, as it is based on a youth-oriented curriculum, so more resources will likely not be required.

First, I’ll be using an illustration page with a creative prompt to make an advertisement for the Gospel of Luke from the paid resource from TPT that I referenced last week on Luke himself. I am also continuing to include the biography and review sheet on Luke, as we move through his Gospel.

Claire Watson’s Happy New Year illustration also seemed thematic and temporally relevant (free).

I got a “draw the ocean ecosystem” activity sheet from Twinkl on a freebie day a while back, and lastly, I chose a pack of educational cards featuring sea creatures produced by the Association of Fish and Wildlife agencies (free).