Winter Week 1 Take Home Sheet

WINTER WEEK 1 TAKE HOME SHEET

I encourage you to think about starting or continuing to do these weekly take home activities. I think that our families could benefit so much by simply using these discussion starters and other ideas as families.

Planning for Jesus's coming

TRAVEL PLANNING SITE

Find the Travelocity site and then click on "Vacation Packages."

Pretend you are planning a vacation to one of the places mentioned there. Discuss what each member of the family would need to do as a part of the family's preparation for the trip.

Be sure to discuss the following questions:

• Why would you look forward to this trip? In what ways would you need to plan and prepare?

• What if a friend or family member that doesn't live with you decided to plan a trip to come visit you? How would you prepare for his or her arrival? Would you get the guest room ready or buy groceries to prepare a special meal?

• If you had lived in Solomon's day, would you have believed him when he told of Jesus' coming the first time? What do you suppose Solomon wanted the people to do in order to prepare for Jesus' coming?

• Why should we look forward to Jesus' coming? How can we prepare for Jesus' return

GAMEDAY- LIKE PREPARATION (ONLINE GAME LINK!)

PLAY SOME OF THESE FUN GAMES AND THEN ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS!

Go to this football Web site and check out the games. How fast are your reflex effects? Whew! That was fun. But getting ready for real football games is hard work.
Spend a few minutes and talk about what it must take to get ready for each NFL game.
Compare that to what we should be doing to get ready for Jesus' coming.
Solomon encouraged the people to prepare for Jesus' coming. Are we ready today?