Give each of the children’s workers a stapler and three strips of paper. Ask them to write “Bible story” on the first strip of paper, “My story” on the second strip of paper, “Child’s story” on the third strip of paper.

Question: how can we connect these three stories together?

Ask the children’s workers to staple the three strips of paper together.

There is a big danger that when we are telling Bible stories we forget to connect our own faith story with the story in the Bible. Just look at the different children in your group. How many adults will share their own faith story with them? Not just the great victories, but maybe also the waiting on an answer that they have asked God for, maybe their struggles, their experiences with God. How can we teach children that God isn’t Someone who did wondrous things two thousand years ago? How can children know what it means to walk with God in all honesty, if we as children’s worker don’t honestly share our own daily walk with God?

In the previous exercise you wrote down the most important teaching point / sentences for you in the Bible story you were preparing. Which story from your own life can you share with the children that connects with this teaching point?

Exercise:
- Write this short story from your own life down in a few key words.
- Ask the children’s workers to divide into pairs.
- Let people share the teaching point they have chosen, combined with their own story in pairs.