This year's theme was especially fun to do. People from both church and my workplace donated items that helped me create the feel of Biblic...
Some great resources for Group's Nazareth VBS ...or other Nazareth themed church activities. Group Hometown Nazareth Main Page We...
Here's a fun project for the kids that involves turning trash into a work of art. My kids had a blast with this one, and I think yours will too.
House created for Hometown Nazareth VBS
Step into the history of the Holy Land with these hands-on activities ranging from hidden tunnels to biblical bread-baking, to digging up the past.
Below, Abu Saeed prepares the house for plastering, using small chinkstones and mortar to fill cracks and create a flat substrate for the interior plaster. Although obscuring the beautiful view […]
Hello everyone! I hope your weekend is off to a good start. We have been really busy around here this past week working with the VBS program at my church. I'm sorry to say that this week I did not meet my challenge of a new layout per week. But, I do have some pictures to share that will help explain why I have no layout for this week! My hubby, a good friend and myself have spent the last few months working on the set for this year's VBS program....Hometown Nazareth. We worked with 4 foot by 8 foot sheets of foam insulation and carved about a gazillion stones to build our set.... Our program kicked off on Sunday the 4th and ran through this Thursday. We had games, crafts, Bible lessons, snacks and a music class each night from 6:00 until about 8:30. You can see why there was not much crafting done at my house this past week! The kids had a great time and it was worth all the work just to see the smiles on their faces! I wish I could post pictures of some of the events, but they all have shots of the children and I don't want to post photos without permission from parents. It was a great week and I look forward to working on the set for next year (which we will begin in February)! And now it's time to get back to work in my craft corner! My first post with Pink By Design will be this Sunday. I will have a sneak peek for you here, so please stop by and tell me what you think! In the meantime, I'm gonna get busy on that layout! Until next time, Tanya
Foam Board Rock Wall by Brian McGuire from Parkview Baptist Church in Monroe, LA. To make a rock wall like the one pictured you cut "rocks" out of foam board and attach them to a larger sheet of foam board or wood (possibly even sturdy cardboard), and then paint them in shades of gray or brown. Some paints, especially spray paints, will eat away at foam, so you will want to test your paint out before applying to a large area. However, you can also use this property to make foam board rock without having to do any cutting or gluing You can paint around where you want rocks to be, which creates a grout like indentation when the paint eats away at the rock. Then you can paint the rocks that are left with non-eroding paint. There are some significant safety and environmental concerns to using this method though. Make sure to be in a well ventilated place when you do this, as the fumes can be harmful. Wearing a mask is suggested. Foam board too expensive? You can use packaging foam, old or broken foam coolers, etc. Broken up, painted, and attached to a backing they can look great! While the example above is fairly simple, you can get incredibly detailed with foam board rock by carving the foam...just check out the example below. Picture provided by Hugs, Kisses, and Snot You can find some more excellent pictures, as well as more detail on painting and carving techniques for this type of "stone" wall here. There's also step by step pictures of an amazing wall built for an Easter set here. See All Rock Wall Ideas Here
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This fascinating project, relives the ways of everyday life in the village of Nazareth 2000 years ago, in the time of Jesus. It is a reconstruction of ancient Nazareth where Jesus grew up.The combination of archaeological discoveries and the recreated village allows the visitor to go back 2000 years in time and experience the daily life of the first century.The visitor can walk in the historical village, watch different ancient crafters busy with their historical techniques of crafts and tools, carpenter, weave shop, farmers and builders.
This year's theme was especially fun to do. People from both church and my workplace donated items that helped me create the feel of Biblical Nazareth. Pictures to come of the set that was built, and the costumes I sewed, as well as the wishing well that was donated by another church. But in the meantime, here is the sanctuary (and this just the altar area; I'll make sure I get pictures of the entry). The antique rabbit hutch is on loan from my favorite thrift store, Best Thrift, where Dan and Bobbie Sue always help me out come VBS time. (I've seen hutches like this made into rolling coffee tables, simply by attaching industrial wheels to the bottom.) One of the Crafty Ladies cut out and painted the sheep and roosters.
Domestic utensils at Nazareth Village (Seethe holyland.net)
This fascinating project, relives the ways of everyday life in the village of Nazareth 2000 years ago, in the time of Jesus. It is a reconstruction of ancient Nazareth where Jesus grew up.The combination of archaeological discoveries and the recreated village allows the visitor to go back 2000 years in time and experience the daily life of the first century.The visitor can walk in the historical village, watch different ancient crafters busy with their historical techniques of crafts and tools, carpenter, weave shop, farmers and builders.
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Our Israel/Greece tour was postponed due to the coronavirus. We have postponed it to November 2-16, 2021. For each day that we would have been travelling, we will post an article about where we would have been that day. Today we would have been visiting Nazareth. “Nazareth” is located in the nort
A house in Nazareth might have been one roomed or have several small rooms opening into a central courtyard. Stairs on the outside of the ...
It’s like stepping back into village life at the time of Jesus, with villagers in authentic costumes demonstrating farming practices and talking about their daily life and work . . . .
Thinking about our recent Holy Land trip and sharing some highlights from new site visits. Nazareth. A small village in the day of Jesus. The shop of Joseph a carpenter- where Jesus learned the family trade. Today a site that brings to life what it might have looked like when Jesus lived there. nazareth village "It is very important to understand the first century life. Jesus’ teaching had to make sense to His audience, which means He had to use stories they could relate with. The story about sowing the seed on different kinds of soil, and the story of the lost sheep, are two of many. Jesus used every day life events in His parables. He knew how much a farmer waited for the seeds to grow. He knew how valuable one sheep is. He knew what it is like to live in the first century home." from the nazareth village website Stripped away from modern images. It is easier to SEE how it might have looked. A place for food preparation. Weaving on a loom. A long process from yarn to wearing a garment. Fully functioning olive oil press Materials and function just like in the time of Jesus. The Sheep herders. Tending and care giving. Nazareth Village is an open-air museum that reconstructs and reenacts village life in the Galilee in the time of Jesus. The village features houses, terraced fields, wine and olive presses all built to resemble those that would have been in a Galilee village in the 1st century. Living history enactors dress in period costume and show visitors how farm, domestic, and craft work was performed two thousand years ago.(wikipedia) Donkey- the cargo carrier of the village. Son-in-law Daniel and daughter Jessica. Photo op with the herder. “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip. John 1:46 As we begin the Holy Week Journey - my answer is YES. THE very good thing for US- has come from Nazareth.
Our VBS was Babylon, and this post has the photos of main building decorating and my classroom decorations. The entrance: The main foyer: Registration Booth Walking the main hall to the classes and craft area: From the main foyer, into Daniel's Lion Den. This last picture is looking back down the hall with the pictures above on each wall. These are some of the craft tents: I made the signs with my Cricut machine: The areas were not all finished when my husband took the photos for me, so I don't have pics for everything. These are pictures of what I did for my classroom: The kids LOVED the fur on the lions! 12 Tribes Wall Daily Info Wall This is one of the posters I made to go with the lessons. I changed the border and men with graphics that you can use. Click here to print it.
Where was Nazareth? Among Bible scholars and archaeologists there is much disagreement on that point. I chose one of the traditional locations, a small area in the middle of modern Nazareth, to focus on when I decided to research what daily life would have been like there. While we don’t know for sure that that particular spot is the same place where Jesus spent his childhood, it is representative of what we know about Nazareth from the Biblical accounts, and much like other small towns in the hills of Galilee. During the time of Jesus, there’s evidence that this location was a Jewish community with less than 400 people living there. Archaeologists found a stone quarry there, terraced farmland, a wine press, and watch-towers like the ones which Jesus describes in the Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers in Matthew 21 and Mark 12. They also found a house with a cistern and stone and chalk vessels that Jews typically used at that period to preserve purity of food. But what wasn’t found there was just as telling. No glass, mosaics, frescoes, paved roads, or imported materials were found in this town from the 1st century, suggesting that this was a simple, rural village at that time. (This is typical of many small towns in Galilee at this time.) Would you like to learn more about what life was like in Nazareth? I've written a series which covers various aspects of life in this small town in Galilee, and also collected some historical crafts and activities you can use with your church group, for homeschool, or just do with your family for fun. Click the links below to read on... A House In Nazareth A Meal in Galilee The Synagogue at Nazareth Joseph, The Carpenter Nazareth Pictures CRAFT IDEAS: Making Thread, Weaving, and Dying ACTIVITY: A Galilean Garden Nazareth VBS Resources Biblical History Resources This series was originally housed on Squidoo, but when they merged with HubPages I decided to move it here because their link policy didn't allow enough links to properly credit my sources. I've tried to site my sources throughout, on each post, but I want to give a special thanks to See the Holy Land, a company which organizes tours of various Holy Land Sites, for the use of many of the photos in this series (and for the wonderful Biblical timeline shared there, which I wish I had discovered earlier in my research), and to James Emery and Ian W. Scott who made their photos available through Creative Commons on Flickr. And I want to thank all the people who offered help on the Group Forums, and for all the people who answered my questions on Yahoo Groups and Squidoo (which now is a part of HubPages). SOURCES The Nazareth Village Website Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus by Jonathan L. Reed. Bible Places.org Blog: First-Century House Excavated in Nazareth SHARED ON Dear Homeschoolers Bookshelf Encouraging Hearts and Home Throwback Thursday
House created for Hometown Nazareth VBS
