Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Prayer Gardens for Teachers

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.

4 comments:

  1. 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.

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    1. Oh I wish we had met!! Maybe another course or conference! Life is long!!!
      Donna 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!

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  2. This is awesome! Would you be willing to share the set of guided prayer suggestions?

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    1. Hi Karen! Email me at education@cometochristchurch.org and we'll figure something out. Thanks for your comment and for reading!

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