31 Ways to Grow Your Family’s Faith Through Summer Fun – Animal Fun
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Summer. Life moves slower, time is more plentiful, and the days never seem to end. Summer is the perfect time to be intentional in building faith and in building relationships while having some fun, too.
So often kids love farm type animals so this can be a really fun activity. Find a local barn, farm, or petting farm and head there for a fun time of learning a little bit more about animals. We have some really great places not too far from our house where they also give tours and teach kids wonderful information about goats, chickens, and other small animals that live there. They do have a petting portion as well.
After your outing, come home and read your child the story of Noah in Genesis 6. If your kids are like mine the story will be familiar, but just as when we as adults read the Bible, there is always something new that strikes you. Focus on Genesis 6:19 and 20, which reads, “You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.”
Talk with your child about what it must have been like for Noah to build this huge ark, simply because God told him to. Logically, it made absolutely no sense at all. Explain that this is what faith is: it is listening to God’s voice and following it even when it seems silly to do so.
Close your time in prayer thanking God for the animals, the faith of Noah, and His mercy during the flood through saving Noah, his family, and the animals on the ark. Finally, ask God to help the members of your family listen to His voice, even when following what He says makes no sense to our human minds.
If you are looking for previous days’ faith building tips, you can look here, here, here, here, here, and here.
