Activity booklet in full-colour for 8-11s to use during Epic Explorers, the children's edition of Christianity Explored
Part of the Epic Explorers series.
The Epic Logbook is specially designed for 8-11s to use during Epic Explorers, the children's edition of Christianity Explored. This full-colour activity booklet contains puzzles, quizzes and discussion questions for each of the five Epic Explorers sessions
Epic Explorers is part of the Christianity Explored range, specially designed for 4-11s. The five flexible sessions can be used for a holiday club, after-school club, or as an opportunity for children to invite friends to their church group.
Epic Explorers takes children through Mark's Gospel as they explore the life of Jesus together. On the way they will discover who Jesus is, why he came, and what it means to follow him.
1. Breathtaking Bay
2. Discovery Dens
3. Mysterious Mountain
4. Captain's Cave
5. Rocky Road
| Age range: | 8+ |
|---|---|
| Contributors | Tamar Pollard, Nate Morgan Locke |
| ISBN | 9781909919716 |
| Format | Paperback |
| First published | November 2014 |
| Dimensions | 152mm x 229mm x 2.8mm |
| Weight | 0.08 kg |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 32 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company/CE |
I'm so thrilled with this latest addition to the Christianity Explored family. Like every edition of Christianity Explored, Epic Explorers is built on the foundation of discovering the identity, mission and call of Jesus in Mark's Gospel. And it does so in a way that is uniquely fun, engaging and, most of all, faithful for children from the ages of 4 right up to 11.
This summer we used Epic Explorers Holiday Bible Club programme with 80 plus children from both church and non-church backgrounds. The teaching was undertaken by a gifted Bible teacher and the children were split into small age groups to fill in their logbooks/ handbooks in their ‘dens’ and do other consolidation activities. This worked exceptionally well. One mum said that her children came home full of what they had learnt and they knew more about Jesus from one week at HBC than they had learnt all year in their own church (which is quite ‘liberal’). The family have started to come to us. This is because the programme is unashamedly Bible based and does not underestimate the children’s ability to absorb and understand Bible truth in larger than the usual bite-sized chunks. The drama script gave plenty of scope for slapstick comedy as well as giving a clear message, however we had to write our own puppet scripts. The website was great for downloading images and logos which we used on our invitations and other publicity. There were loads of ideas for craft and other activities in the Manual and on the website - if anything there were rather too many as it meant a lot of editing for the HBC Leader! However the outline gave us a structure which could also be adapted to different size teams and we would highly recommend the programme.
We have just finished running Epic Explorers as an after school club for 8-11s at our church and it's been a really valuable experience for us all! The best thing about this material is how massively flexible it is. It is rammed with ideas for games, crafts, quizzes, talks etc. and it comes with lots of options for how to run it as either a holiday club, sunday school, after school club etc. Which just means you can take what works in your context and leave what doesn't. The Epic logbooks are also really worth using with your groups - the kids just loved having something so glossy and colourful to scribble in. There were a few frustrations with some resources the book mentioned not being available on the CE website but apart from that we loved it. Just lovely, flexible and adaptable. Thank you so much for your hard work producing it.
Romanian