Winter Family Faith Formation – Feb 12

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Winter Family Faith Formation – Feb 12

Join us each week as well follow and celebrate the life of Jesus!

Pick from watching our Welcome Videos, Worship Together, Reading the Bible, Talk About It, Family Activities, Pray Together and Bless Each Other – or do them all!


Welcome Video


Worship Together

Share in some faith practices of worship together!

Shine a Light: Light a candle and say “Jesus is the light of the world!”

Sing Together: This Little Light of Mine

Offering: What would you like to give as an offering to today?

Pray together: Give thanks for three things and/or recite the Lord’s Prayer together


Read the Bible Together

Read this week’s God’s Great Story in the children’s Bible for you child’s age.

Spark Bible: Mustard Seed / Matthew 13:31-32; Matthew 17:20


Talk About It!

Have fun asking question for all your family members!

When Jesus talks about faith as small as a mustard seed being able to move a mountain, he wasn’t really talking about seeds or trees or mountains! He was speaking in a story form called a PARABLE. A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. Jesus used parables often. Do you know any other parables? What do you think the parable of the mustard seed means?

Dig Deeper: Let’s think about some examples of how God can take something small and create something great. Complete these sentences:

  • A Bible study with a few friends becomes…
  • A few minutes of prayer each day becomes…
  • A letter to a friend becomes…
  • A small act of kindness becomes…
  • A meaningful compliment becomes…

Family Activity

Pick activities to do together! Supplies are provided in our Monthly At-Home Kits you picked up at our drive thru events or ask to have delivered to your home. 

Activity 1: Life Cycle of a Plant Talk about the amazing life cycle of a plant. Tiny seeds become flowers, fruits and towering trees. Look through a seed catalog and/or watch a short video. This short, colorful video explains the plant life cycle briefly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcSgaUBwIn4

Activity 2: Make Valentines Using materials in your home, create Valentines for family, friends and neighbors. Who might not get a Valentine? Could you make one for them? Here are some Bible verses you could include on your Valentines.

  • Put on love. Colossians 3:14
  • Love one another. John 13:34
  • Love is patient. 1 Corinthians 13:4

Pray Together

“Dear God, you can take something small and make it great. A seed becomes a tree. An act of kindness becomes an endless ripple. Help us to sow love like seeds. Amen.


Bless Each Other

At the end of your time, give each other a special blessing to remember one of God’s promises.

Make your heads look like growing like a plant and say “Your love is like a seed!”