At the end of every year I pull together a small gift to thank our volunteer teachers for their ministries. It is always a challenge to keep within the budget and still find a nice way to say thank you. This year I got creative with prayer gardens and I was happy with how they turned out, so I thought I would share them here!
I started with a very inexpensive Zen Garden set from Dollar General, which included a small tray, a rake, a few stones, and some sand. I added more stones and doubled the sand that came with the set. I also added a few shells as a reminder of baptism, and tea light candles to represent the light of Christ. Then I made a set of guided prayer suggestions for using the garden, and put everything together in a gift bag.
I hope our teachers enjoy their little prayer gardens as much I enjoy mine. You can read more about
what I have included in my prayer garden at home and
ways that I have used it in previous posts.
I've just returned from an amazing week of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Level 3 Training in Saginaw, Michigan. I'll post more soon about this wonderful experience.
OH - you were in Saginaw, with Donna? How exciting. We looked at going to that course - would love to have met you! We are instead doing a course in Memphis this fall. I am sure it was wonderful formation.
ReplyDeleteOh I wish we had met!! Maybe another course or conference! Life is long!!!
DeleteDonna was incredible and I loved the course! Level 3 really is beautiful. It's so exciting to see things come together at this level. Have fun in Memphis!
This is awesome! Would you be willing to share the set of guided prayer suggestions?
ReplyDeleteHi Karen! Email me at education@cometochristchurch.org and we'll figure something out. Thanks for your comment and for reading!
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