Creating Compassionate Families Day 6 of 6

Changed World/Changed Life

Big Idea: Explore how your family can learn about and pray for children around the world.

Changing the world starts with your family! For six days, you have worked at creating a more compassionate family. We hope that the idea of changing the world — one person at a time — feels possible, and exciting.

Today, we want to take that idea global! God calls us to take His hope-message to the ends of the world.

Where in the World?

Choose a country to learn about as a family.

• What part of the world is interesting to you?
• Do you know someone who lives in a country far away?
• What kinds of foods do you think they eat that might be different from what we eat? Do you think they wear the same kinds of shoes we do?
• How could we learn how to pray for people in that country?

Explore the World at the Dinner Table

SUPPLIES

• Music from another country
• Photos and a picture of the national flag from a country that interests you
• Poster board or paper
• Markers

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Play music from the country your family has chosen. How does this music sound compared to what we normally listen to? What’s similar? How is it different?
2. Share pictures of the country you chose. What did you see in the pictures that we have here? Are there people or clothes or toys in the picture that look unusual?
3. Talk with your kids about how God sees our similarities and differences. A starting point may be: Even though we may look different or like different music, God loves each one of us. God asks us to show His love to people who look like us and to people who do not.
4. Make a flag with your poster board to represent that country. On the flag, write what God loves about children in that country and about kids everywhere.
5. Pray for children in the country you chose — for safety, protection, friends and shelter.
6. Place your flag somewhere prominent, and continue to pray!

Mark 16 NASB

The Resurrection

1When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him. 2Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. 3They were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?" 4Looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, although it was extremely large.5Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe; and they were amazed. 6And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen; He is not here; behold, here is the place where they laid Him. 7But go, tell His disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see Him, just as He told you.'" 8They went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had gripped them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

9[Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.10She went and reported to those who had been with Him, while they were mourning and weeping. 11When they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they refused to believe it.

12After that, He appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking along on their way to the country. 13They went away and reported it to the others, but they did not believe them either.

The Disciples Commissioned

14Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were recliningat the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. 17These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; 18they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

19So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 20And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.]

[And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.]