Resources for Worship Recede or Reseed – Worship + Formation Resources Resources for Kids Bible Story Video: What Is The Church? Central Christian What Is The Church? LifeKids Coloring Pages: 4 Kids Together (Parents, talk to your kids about how the church is all the people who love and follow Jesus, not a building or just something we do on Sundays.)
Resources for Worship Come & Rest – Worship + Formation Resources Resources for Kids Bible Story Video: God Our Father Sabbath Coloring Pages: Father’s Day #1 Father’s Day #2
Resources for Worship What’s Your War Horse? – Worship + Formation Resources Resources for Kids Bible Story Video: Hope Hope Gets Personal Coloring Pages: Hope (simple) Hope (detailed)
Resources for Worship Undone – Worship + Formation Resources Resources for Kids Helpful Guide for Parents Three Tips on Teaching your Children about Racism Bible Story Video: Justice Video on Injustice (not a Bible story, but helpful) Systemic Injustice Explained Coloring Pages: Note: Talk to your kids about racial/ethnic diversity. Encourage them to portray children of different races/colors, and think about how Jesus loves them all the same. Kids around The World Friendship
We are blessed to share a multicultural church where multiple races/ethnicities and socioeconomic groups worship, fellowship, and serve together as equals before God. But until we reflect the full diversity of our city, and until we are all-in on both pursuing and modeling racial reconciliation for all our neighbors, we still have a lot of work to do. As a church positioned in the heart of urban Denver, at the edge of a gentrifying-but-historically-African-American community, we have a particular responsibility to lead the way on this issue. We must move from simply “not being racist” to being anti-racist. Many of...