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Has your family ever observed Lent? Maybe you aren’t quite sure what the Lent season even is {I’ll admit that I wasn’t quite sure myself!!}.
Simply put, Lent is the season leading up to Easter where we anticipate one of the greatest miracles of all – when Jesus willing gave His life for us.
Family Life has put together an amazing resource for families to use during the Lent season – a six session study {one session a week for the 40 days leading up to Lent} where families can search for clues called The Messiah Mystery.
The Messiah Mystery Lent Study
The Messiah Mystery study was created by Barbara Rainey at Family Life, so families would have a resource to teach kids the truths about Easter and the ‘clues’ that the Bible shares about Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection long before He was even born.
Each session starts with an optional activity and is then divided up into sections that are read together, questions that are asked and answered, and several clues that are searched for during the lesson. The lessons focus on six places in the Bible where your little sleuths can search: the Garden of Eden, the mountain {with Abraham}, the Desert {the Exodus story and Passover}, the House {the Tabernacle}, the Scrolls {the Dead Sea Scrolls}, and the Vineyard.
The study is designed to use with a range of ages and is adaptable to the ages of your children. You can have older children participate in the reading, read less for younger children {key paragraphs are in bold print}, and also work on some fun hands-on activities together. There are little ‘clues’ that kids look for in the lessons and need to use a magnifying glass to find. Children keep track of the clues using their ‘clue books’.
The study also includes a numbered paper chain that has forty links. Each day, one of the forty links in the paper chain is removed and added to the go-along poster for the Messiah Mystery. The strips together form one large image that children use to search for a final clue to the Messiah Mystery.
Included in each Messiah Mystery Kit is the following: the family guide, two ‘clue’ books, 40 strips for the paper chain, a magnifying glass, and a poster to add to your wall when putting the strips together.
The Good News {and the Bad News}
First, let me start with the bad news – well, at least for the 2013 year. Family Life put together almost 3,000 of The Messiah Mystery kits together and they already sold out. That’s really great news for them, but that means that there aren’t any left to purchase this year {go pin this RIGHT NOW so you remember for next year, ok??}.
The GREAT news is that Family Life put aside one kit for me to giveaway to one of my readers!!! YAY!!!! To enter, just follow the directions in the Rafflecopter widget below. There are lots of ways to enter, so be sure to use as many options as you can.
We are so excited to use this resource with our family this year and know that you all will love it as well!
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