This is the fourth of the 4 main courses which you can download in pdf format: Welcome to Corinth pdf There is a template which is needed for printing out for this study: Template for Welcome to Corinth (pdf) Select from the menu on the right or view the Bible Year Menu Card
This is the third of the 4 main courses. You can download the Remembering Him - Jesus' story PDF Select from the menu on the right or view the Bible Year Menu Card
This is the second of the 4 main courses which you can download in pdf format: Who do you think you are? - Israel's story
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This is the first of the 4 main courses. Download the And God said... Creation's story pdf
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The Main Courses illustrate four key episodes in the big Bible story, which holds together the Old Testament, the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament.
2 of the main courses (1 & 4) appear in the Bible Year booklet (see the Bible Year pdf booklet).
Film and the bible including a 5 week course using the film "The Terminal" and other resources based around the use of film
Waiting at the bottom of the mountain is a study using a remembered bible technique and using the experience of families with children who have disabilities.
Studies in Mark's Gospel is a series of 4 studies useful for anytime and tie in with this year's common lectionary gospel.
This is a fun way of sharing experiences of the bible whilst making a quilt.
Download the Making a Bible Quilt study guide pdf
This study uses cooking and bible concepts and appears in the main booklet.
Download the Kennings and Cookies pdf
See also the Extra Kennings generated by other groups
To round off the menu there are desserts, which mix in discussion and creative activities in imaginative ways.
Deserts will appear throughout the year
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Click on the links below to download .wmv files of the videos of characters in the Welcome to Corinth study. You can play these in Windows Media Player. They vary from 5Mb to 22Mb in size so you will need a broadband connection to download them.
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These are all age activities that are a bit alternative to the main courses. Fun for everyone! But please be patient - some of them are still cooking.
This all age session makes use of multi-sensory techniques to discover new things about creation and is an alternative way into the main course "In the Beginning". Download the Getting creative with creation pdf
This is an all age version of one of the main courses which you can download, see Who do you think you are - all age pdf
This all age study explores the theme of friendship and inlcudes work-sheets for colouring in.
Download The Four Friends pdf
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Bible Smells
FAQs Who is Vision4Life for?
Vision4Life is for everyone who wants to renew their relationship with three core elements of our life - the Bible, prayer and evangelism. It's for any Christian community where people want to gain fresh confidence and energy for the future.
Who needs it?
It could be your church is weary or would like a confidence boost in some of the basics of being a Christian community. Perhaps you don't spend much time together with the Bible, reading its stories and relating them to your everyday lives. Maybe the time you spend praying together is almost always in worship on Sundays. Possibly very few of you have confidence about sharing your faith story with other people, or those of you who once did this have got out of the habit.
Do we have to pay?
this page is also available in pdf form: Download the feedback document.
Vision4life is what you make it. Therefore, we need to know what you think about Vision4life.
However, evaluation and feedback are two very important parts of the Vision4life process.
Evaluation
This is a vital part of all the Vision4life activities. You will notice three simple questions at the end of all the downloadable documents from the website. Here they are again to remind you:
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John Campbell
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Vision4Life is a process which the United Reformed Church is following for 3 years from Advent 2008 through to Advent 2011. It is three years of focus on re-engaging with the Bible, Prayer and Evangelism with the purpose of bringing transformation to the URC and its partner churches. Take a look through the contents of the site using the menu above or select items from the Bible Year menu to the right. You can sign up to the process as a local church or join in the forums as an individual below. There’s lots to discover and the site grows week by week with resources, comment and news. Enjoy!
Click here for a guide to using the site.
This is an ‘advent special’ Bible conversations that probably should have been available at the start of Bible Year but didn’t seem to have made it onto the website, so here it is now at the start of Prayer year, to help groups that are still engaging with the Bible even whilst they are extending their explorations in prayer.
Find the Advent specials here along with all the other Bible Year Advent materials
‘Encounters in Mark’s Gospel’ brings you suggestions for a series of up to fifteen small-group conversations based on particular stories in Mark’s Gospel. These conversations all share the same basic shape. They aim to help you, and everyone else in your group, to:
all from watching and talking freely with each other about encounters between Jesus and those he meets – as we find them recorded in Mark’s Gospel.
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This is where you can select various courses - the choice is yours!
You can also download the pdf version of the Vision4Life booklet
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...is a process which the United Reformed Church followed for 3 years from Advent 2008 through to Advent 2011. It is three years of focus on re-engaging with the Bible, Prayer and Evangelism with the purpose of bringing transformation to the URC and its partner churches. The resources for the process are now archived here for churches and individuals to freely use. A fourth introductory year was also followed by many churches and that year’s materials are also here with introductions to each year’s theme along with a booklet to challenge churches to take a further step forward into the whole process.
If you are new to Vision4Life and want to find out how the first year was introduced, visit our list of articles on Vision4Life
