Our next meeting will be:
Monday, October 15, 2012
7:00-9:00 PM
First Baptist Church of St. Charles
High School Girls Room (Room # 201 off gym)
We will be discussing A Whisper and a Wish by Robin Jones Gunn.
Friday, September 21, 2012
The first meeting of the Peculiar Treasures Club
We had our first meeting of the new Peculiar Treasures club this week. It was a great success. There were several new friends to meet as well as some that attended our Christy party this summer. We had a slight conflict with an Awana skating night so some of our old friends weren't able to attend but we look forward to them joining with us next month.
We passed around the photo book that we made up of pictures from the party. We had a great discussion on A Summer Promise and we played our Forever Friends game while eating snacks. I went through our large stack of traffic light cards and selected cards that could be answered by reading just the first book (plus a few general questions). This made it easier for those who are just starting to read the series and so that we didn't give way any spoilers.
Here are a few pictures from the night.
We passed around the photo book that we made up of pictures from the party. We had a great discussion on A Summer Promise and we played our Forever Friends game while eating snacks. I went through our large stack of traffic light cards and selected cards that could be answered by reading just the first book (plus a few general questions). This made it easier for those who are just starting to read the series and so that we didn't give way any spoilers.
Here are a few pictures from the night.
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| Acting out one of the Memorial Stone verse cards. |
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Discussion for Summer Promise
When our group discussed Summer Promise, we used the questions from the Focus on the Family "Thriving Family" site. You can find those questions HERE. We added a few questions of our own, but the questions at that site are a pretty good start.
Here are questions that we added:
What do you think about Todd continuing to hang out with his surfer friends who aren't Christians?
What did you think of Todd's story about getting to heaven? What it helpful to you? Do you think it was a pretty accurate description?
We also discussed the relationship between Christy and Tracy and why Christy felt jealous of Tracy, Bob and Marti's philosophy of life and how they responded to Shawn's accident. We discussed how Christy handled what happened at the party and what we should do in a similar situation. And as always, we discussed our favorite and least favorite parts of the book and which characters we most related to or liked best. Sorry I don't have questions for those topics written out. I just jotted down ideas for discussion on a print out of the Focus on the Family questions. But, these should help you get started!
Here are questions that we added:
What do you think about Todd continuing to hang out with his surfer friends who aren't Christians?
What did you think of Todd's story about getting to heaven? What it helpful to you? Do you think it was a pretty accurate description?
We also discussed the relationship between Christy and Tracy and why Christy felt jealous of Tracy, Bob and Marti's philosophy of life and how they responded to Shawn's accident. We discussed how Christy handled what happened at the party and what we should do in a similar situation. And as always, we discussed our favorite and least favorite parts of the book and which characters we most related to or liked best. Sorry I don't have questions for those topics written out. I just jotted down ideas for discussion on a print out of the Focus on the Family questions. But, these should help you get started!
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