2009 Children's Sabbaths Lesson Plans
National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® Manual
A Multi-Faith Resource for Year-Round Child Advocacy
This manual serves as a guide for you and your faith community to engage in year-round child and family advocacy work and celebrating the National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® Weekend. This easy-to-use manual includes resources for Baha'i, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and other faith traditions to use in worship services or prayers, education programs, direct service activities, and social justice initiatives. The resources can be used with one’s own faith community or in multi-faith events.
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Create Change for Children Today: Bring Hope and a Better Tomorrow
National Observance of Children's Sabbaths Manual, Vol. 18
Highlights of this resource include: prayers, readings, sermon resources, a sample multi-faith service, reproducible bulletin inserts, a reproducible seven-day booklet for reflection and prayer, discussion guides and lesson plans, planning suggestions, ideas for promoting your Children's Sabbath weekend activities, and a primer on children’s concerns that will help members of your faith community better understand the problems facing children and what we can do.
The theme of the 2009 Children’s Sabbath weekend is "Create Change for Children Today: Bring Hope and a Better Tomorrow." With millions of children living in poverty, lacking basic health coverage and being funneled into a pipeline to prison, we know that children in our nation desperately need change and they need us to create change today. We must step forward now to strengthen families, call for health care for all children, and create paths of promise for every young person. Creating change for children today brings hope and a better tomorrow for all of us.
Through the Children’s Sabbath, communities will more clearly see the hopeful vision God sets before us and clarify their own vision and hopes for a better tomorrow —for our children and our nation. Join us and make that hopeful future a reality today.
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