BIBLE TIMES MARKETPLACE RETURNS TO FIRST CHURCH

BIBLE TIMES MARKETPLACE RETURNS TO FIRST CHURCH

HOMETOWN NAZARETH

A unique experience for church school children will be held in the auditorium on  January 29  and February 5 during the regular church school time.

 We will be trying to recreate a Bible Times Marketplace, insofar as we can make it happen, so the children can experience what life was like when Jesus lived. Each class will visit the shops of the marketplace and learn about Bible time occupations by working as apprentices. They will witness events in the life of Jesus as they are enacted in their midst by street players.

Imagine, if you will, the small village of Nazareth where Jesus lived as a boy with his family. The marketplace shops are clustered around the well, the hub of social and economic life. The smell of baking bread is in the air, mixed with mouth-watering aromas from the candy shop. Above the clang from the metal worker’s shop, you can occasionally hear the carpenter’s tools as he fashions a yoke for oxen. The potter is busy setting up a display of his wares, and across the way, the basket weaver prepares the looms. There is a festive mood in the air. The villagers hurry their chores, for they don’t want to miss the storyteller, camped for a short stay outside the village.

 Doesn’t it sound like fun? Don’t you wish you could be a part of it? It is and you can!!! You can be a shop keeper, a storyteller, a kitchen helper, a street player or a tent setter-upper, a well builder, or one who helps with costumes and gathering supplies. For each shopkeeper, there is an easy script and activity and shop keepers will have experienced apprentices to assist. There are scripts and/or directions for all participants. Please help make this experience a memorable one!

You are invited to be part of this journey of faith and learning.