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52 Weekly Devotions for Family Prayer by Karen Whiting

I am delighted for the opportunity to review a copy of Karen Whiting’s recent release, 52 Weekly Devotions for Family Prayer, and am highly impressed with what she has created. This is not a book of read-it-and-be-done-with-it devotions. Instead it is jam-packed with mini-stories, scriptures, craft ideas, prayers, and suggestions for journaling the weekly devotions with each theme based week’s activities. I am especially impressed with the theme choices and find they are suitable for children of various ages –

Jonah: The Fearful Prophet and The Creation – Press Release

Press Release – Feel free to share to any news outlet: Retired elementary school librarian and author of four books for children, Janice D. Green of Hemingway has her newest books, Jonah: The Fearful Prophet and The Creation, published in three formats by Honeycomb Adventures Press, LLC.  She has chosen August 2020 as her “Launch Month.” Green is a Christian writer whose writing goal is to retell Biblical stories. “Our nation is suffering from a lack of Bible literacy,” Green said.

Make a crayon-colored Bible quilt

Images from Jonah: The Fearful Prophet Honeycomb Adventures books are designed with crayon-colored Bible quilts in mind. All pictures are square and available in PDF coloring pages downloads given in each book to make it easy to copy the drawings to cotton fabric, then color with CrayolaTM crayons on 100% cotton. Press the colored pages between paper towels to remove excess wax and set the colors. Then use the colored quilt blocks to make your quilt. The goal

Adapting Bible stories for younger children

Honeycomb Adventures Press, LLC, takes Bible literacy very seriously. Sadly, many parents don’t know the Bible well enough to teach it to their children. For many, all they know is what they learned from Bible storybooks as children, and these typically only skimmed a few key points of the story to hold the attention of the youngest children. For this reason, even though the stories are told simply in child-friendly language, HAP books are written for the parents as

Backyard VBS – The Creation

Here is another alternative VBS idea for parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, or friends and neighbors to consider  for creating a mini backyard VBS program. Use The Creation to share with children who may have already been playing together safely. Outdoors is the safest place to play when we have to be concerned with the Covid-19 virus. One or more canopy tents would be beneficial for shade and/or shelter if it should rain. A coloring page is available for each creation day in the downloadable