Last month at Victory Church we had an intergenerational and intercultural service.
We love bringing our whole whānau together – interculturally with our Myanmar congregation and intergenerationally where we can truly be family together. It’s about talking, hearing from each other and “passing on the faith” as we are instructed to do in so many verses.
We will tell the next generation
the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
his power, and the wonders he has done.
Psalm 78:4*
When we gather around tables for a service and shared meal it fosters a greater sense of hospitality and connection with each other.
We used a great resource from Kitchen Table Project to structure the morning. They have a family service outline called “The Big Scrumptious Faith-Filled Feast” (you can find it here) based on Psalm 78 that comes with placemats filled with activities. We set round tables with a few snacks, colouring pens and an activity placemat for each person, so the kids could keep busy with the placemat or drawing. Each person also wrote down a testimony or memory of God’s faithfulness, then had the opportunity to share around their table and clip it onto a string. They could also share to the entire church if they felt they wanted to do that.
People responded so positively! Several said they loved being at the round tables, others said they really enjoyed the testimony time of sharing about God’s faithfulness in our lives. One member shared how they have found great healing from anxiety while being in our church community.
We are meant to journey together, learning from and encouraging one another – across cultures, ages and stages of our lives. How will our young people know of the faithfulness of God unless they hear it? Just as Moses told the Israelites to remember and to tell their children (Deut 8:7-18), we must also do the same.
*See also: Psalm 71:18, Psalm 79:13 and Psalm 145:5-7
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Last month at Victory Church we had an intergenerational and intercultural service.
We love bringing our whole whānau together – interculturally with our Myanmar congregation and intergenerationally where we can truly be family together. It’s about talking, hearing from each other and “passing on the faith” as we are instructed to do in so many verses.
We will tell the next generation
the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
his power, and the wonders he has done.
Psalm 78:4*
When we gather around tables for a service and shared meal it fosters a greater sense of hospitality and connection with each other.
We used a great resource from Kitchen Table Project to structure the morning. They have a family service outline called “The Big Scrumptious Faith-Filled Feast” (you can find it here) based on Psalm 78 that comes with placemats filled with activities. We set round tables with a few snacks, colouring pens and an activity placemat for each person, so the kids could keep busy with the placemat or drawing. Each person also wrote down a testimony or memory of God’s faithfulness, then had the opportunity to share around their table and clip it onto a string. They could also share to the entire church if they felt they wanted to do that.
People responded so positively! Several said they loved being at the round tables, others said they really enjoyed the testimony time of sharing about God’s faithfulness in our lives. One member shared how they have found great healing from anxiety while being in our church community.
We are meant to journey together, learning from and encouraging one another – across cultures, ages and stages of our lives. How will our young people know of the faithfulness of God unless they hear it? Just as Moses told the Israelites to remember and to tell their children (Deut 8:7-18), we must also do the same.
Check out other articles in the
series below.
More articles in the
series are to come.
