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Wang Ecumenical Design Team: Allyson Ashmore, Presbyterian Church-USA David Berkey, United Methodist Church Charlotte Hand Greeson, Episcopal Church, USA Liz Miller, United Church of Christ Rex Miller, Church of the Brethren Karen Neff, Church of the Brethren Troy Taylor, United Methodist Church Ailision Wehrug, Presbyterian Church-USA Jerri Wenger, Church of the Brethren 2 InsideOut: Contents Welcome to InsideOut 4 Daily Overview for Peace Works 8 Images for Each Day 9 More Support Online 10 Daily Theme Words Defined 11 Biblical and Theological Overview 13 Staff Devotions 28 Daily Guides for Younger Children 36 Daily Guides for Older Children 64 Daily Guides for Younger Youth 91 Daily Guides for Older Youth 118 Daily Guides for Intergenerational or Family Camps 147 Worship and Devotions 179 Introduction 179 Daily Worship for Children & Intergenerational 181 Daily Worship for Youth 191 Cabin Devotions for Children 202 Cabin Devotions for Youth 205 Song Recommendations 207 Extras 209 Arts and Crafts 209 Multi-Day Projects 212 Games 215 Group Building and Challenge Course Activities 217 Science and Nature 221 Table Talk 223 Story Resources 238 Peace Works! Journal 246 Peace Partners Packet 254 Tell Us What You Think 271 Writers and Contributors 272 InsideOut Themes and Sneak Peek at 2020’s “This Is Our Prayer” 274 InsideOut: 3 Welcome to InsideOut Church camp leaders may find themselves acting match the themes, providing a visual expression as educator, guidance counselor, maintenance of the concepts campers are learning. person, mentor, or song leader—sometimes all at Unique to Peace Works is collection of resources the same time. You are also the embodiment of and special opportunities provided by amazing Christ Jesus to others longing to know God’s love. partners. We are thankful for the work of partners This can feel overwhelming, but as people of God such as the World Peace Prayer Society and the we know that our great responsibility is matched Peace Crane Project. The Peace Partner Packet by an even greater potential. The Spirit will guide has video and print resources for folding paper you, your staff, and the campers in your work cranes, and how to share them in an international while the prayers of many cheer you on. exchange program. You will find directions For this work you need to have the skills of a for installing a “Peace Pole” or submitting art teacher, the comfort of a parent, and the wisdom for the Peace Pal’s contest. There is also a copy of an elder. This curriculum is here to support of the Peters Projection Map, a more accurate you in that work. You will find in the pages representation of the earth’s lands and waters than ahead biblical theology done by scholars (who many are used to seeing. are also camp leaders), activities designed to help The Peace Partner Packet also has links provided you share the Bible stories, games, and projects by our partner denominations to help connect that reinforce ideas and skills, and a whole lot of campers with ministries and projects from their camping fun! home tradition that can be explored at home or How to use InsideOut’s with their home church. Peace Works All resources in the Peace Partner Packet will be made available free online starting in June 2019 Your purchase gives you access to all the tools so congregations and families can also explore the needed for a great summer of camp. Activity files resources. can be opened in either PDF or MS Word formats, allowing you the choice of a vibrant layout, or an Daily Guide easily edited document. In each, you will find: Each Daily Guide begins with a Title. The • Biblical and Theological Overview for each of reference Scripture Passage is given. The Scripture seven days; Focus is one or two verses from a key moment • Daily Guides followed by age-specific Daily in the story. It may be used as a memory verse. Activities for each day; If not indicated otherwise, the Scripture Passage • Worship and Devotions offering experiences and Scripture Focus are taken from the New Revised and tools divided into two age-groups; Standard Version. Next, a Theological Summary is provided that demonstrates how the scripture • Extras section for arts, games, science and and theme connect with campers. Today, campers nature, challenge course and group building will… describes the aim of the activities of that activities, multiday projects, and “Table Talk” day. Next, the Daily Activities are categorized with conversation starters. This section also includes five different labels. Really, they are just notating a complete list of Story Resources for exploring contemporary words for ancient Christian scriptures and daily themes. practices or spiritual disciplines. You could call Peace Works also contains Artwork and Graphics them, “things Christians do in community.” For suitable for T-shirts, marketing, and other use each day’s activities, you will see things that fall within the camp. These include daily icons that under the categories: LEARN, PLAY, CREATE, PRAY, and SERVE. Some activities may fit more 4 InsideOut: than one category. Finally, Leader Notes call How gives step-by-step instructions—whether attention to special details that counselors and those are game rules, recipes, discussion questions, other staff may want to be aware of. or other pointers. Daily Guide BTW (By The Way): Sometimes there are opportunities to take activities to another level. Day 1: theme and scripture for the day BTW will offer suggestions for expanding an Scripture Focus: Quoted from the NRSV. If another translation or paraphrase is recommended for your age group, activity, adapting it for a different setting, or using it will be listed here. some aspect of an activity in worship or other Theological Summary: This is a sentence that relates the camp activity. This is our way of providing more scripture to the theme of the day. resources, while inviting you to use your own Today, campers will… creativity in reimagining activities and teaching • These will list some goals for your campers today. moments. • You may have one or two to whom you want to give special attention. Story Resources • You will also find one acknowledging a legitimate fear. Daily Activities: This is a list of the activities that will be Following the Daily Activities, you will find Story featured this day. Instructions and information will be found on Resources: either a list of storybooks that are following pages faithful to the biblical text, or sometimes a script Labels show which of the five categories that the activities fall for a play, a video that can be found online, or a into. As you plan your day, you will want to have at least one activity from each category. The categories are things Christian contemporary film. You will want to check this communities do together. They are: section before camp to see if there are books or PLAY includes games, sensory experiments, physical DVDs you want to borrow from your library or challenges purchase.

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