Missing Your Church? Try These Things.
If you aren't using Zoom, Facebook, or other technology, try these low tech methods of staying in touch.
1. Create a conference call, scheduled at a regular time, when you and your small group can: sing together, read scripture to each other, pray together. Try using your conference call time to share insights into a chapter of a book the group has agreed to read during the week.
2. Text prayers to/for each other at a pre-arranged time. Share daily or weekly updates.
3. Find inspirational sermons on YouTube. Choose a certain time to view the video together. Share comments in the video's comment section. Refer other inspirational videos to each other during the week.
4. Create a letter writing circle: send notes, cards, and letters to each other. Share answered prayers and prayer requests and insights from a favorite Bible passage or from devotional reading. Schedule the day when you will send your mail so that everyone in your group receives mail each week. Save your mail in a scrapbook or file folder to share when gatherings resume.
Look for ways to adapt these ideas for children who are missing Sunday School activities.
Recruit tweens and teens to serve as technology tutors. Ask them to create and share short videos that will help non-tech users catch up. Also, ask teens to help set up Facebook groups or Instagram live events.
Remember: we may or may not be able to go a building, but we are always the church wherever we are.
Grace and peace to you.
1. Create a conference call, scheduled at a regular time, when you and your small group can: sing together, read scripture to each other, pray together. Try using your conference call time to share insights into a chapter of a book the group has agreed to read during the week.
2. Text prayers to/for each other at a pre-arranged time. Share daily or weekly updates.
3. Find inspirational sermons on YouTube. Choose a certain time to view the video together. Share comments in the video's comment section. Refer other inspirational videos to each other during the week.
4. Create a letter writing circle: send notes, cards, and letters to each other. Share answered prayers and prayer requests and insights from a favorite Bible passage or from devotional reading. Schedule the day when you will send your mail so that everyone in your group receives mail each week. Save your mail in a scrapbook or file folder to share when gatherings resume.
Look for ways to adapt these ideas for children who are missing Sunday School activities.
Recruit tweens and teens to serve as technology tutors. Ask them to create and share short videos that will help non-tech users catch up. Also, ask teens to help set up Facebook groups or Instagram live events.
Remember: we may or may not be able to go a building, but we are always the church wherever we are.
Grace and peace to you.
Comments