It’s the end of summer in the northern hemisphere. While school was out and the weather warm, summer camps were in full swing. Many children attended Christian camps, backyard Bible clubs, or Vacation Bible Schools (VBS) where, in the midst of fun activities, they also got to learn the message of the Bible. For many of these children, it was the first time they heard the gospel message.
We received an email from Julia,* who taught at a VBS. She said she had to confess something to us. She wrote:
Dear GoodSeed, I am teaching VBS this week and, as you may know, no matter what the curriculum is, since I only have one week with the kids, I ALWAYS incorporate The Lamb book. 😀
This time, however, (here’s the confession) I took a copy of The Lamb and cut the pictures out, backed them with black card stock and laminated them. I am teaching the story using these pictures instead of flipping through the book.
Then later, I have file folders that contain the pictures I have used for the story. The children get to pick a file, look at the picture, and try to find the picture in a similar book, What are Christmas and Easter All About? They will be doing this all week. They LOVE finding the pictures in the book and touching the cards of the story that has been taught earlier. I will give them copies of What are Christmas and Easter All About? to take home with them at the end of the week. They can read it because the book is written using simpler language and grammar. Or, their parents can read it to them. That way, the whole family gets it! I love it!
Thanks for these tremendous resources.
Love,
Julia
Julia, we’re not offended that you cut up the book. In fact, we do it all the time when we need to teach a bigger group. We’re glad that you were able to use the tools we create to help children understand the gospel message and be able to put their trust in Jesus for salvation.
(*Name changed as per GoodSeed policy.)
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It would be great if Goodseed could offer large, laminated LAMB photos with text on the back for use in teaching large groups! Look at all the bindings it would save! ( < ;
Thank you Constance for you suggestion! It has been on our mind for some time now and we’ve been exploring how we can print “The Lamb” images as posters in an inexpensive manner. We’ll post more information when we’ve figured this out.
Not to nitpick, but do you have any images with people who have brown skin? It’s a little weird when there isn’t a brown face to be seen in the entire book. Some sort of variety in skin tone would be nice. Honestly, I’m not trying to be difficult, but I am brown, my children are brown, and most of the kids I work with are brown. They can’t relate.
Thank you for your feedback. While we currently do not have plans to update the artwork for The Lamb at this time, we do have a booklet with new black and white line art. This new art helps to make the book appeal to a wider audience. The book is called The Story that Matters and you can see it here: http://www.goodseed.com/the-story-that-matters.html
You’d want to put a comb or ring binding on it so it can be opened 360 degrees. That way the teachers can hold the book it so the words are on the back and the pictures are facing front. This is very helpful when reading to a large group of kids. You can show them the pictures and still read the words without having to crane your neck.
Thanks Digital Vagrant for your suggestion. We’re continuing to test different ideas and production methods for large Lamb posters and we’ll post more information when we have an affordable solution.