Faith Hope Love Lesson ideas for 11-16 year-olds Plenary and reflection ideas
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Faith Hope Love plenary sheet (PP slide 9)
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Use the Faith Hope Love plenary sheet to help pupils show what they have learned about The Salvation Army, and think about their own values, ideas and beliefs.
• Invite someone from The Salvation Army to talk about the work they do in the community. Pupils I’ll fight! (PP slides 10 & 11) could prepare questions before or at the start of Using the postcard or student pack, read the story of how The Salvation Army began and look together at William Booth’s ‘I’ll fight’ the session. speech. (Check out www.youtube.com/salvationarmyvideo to watch a 2-minute film based on William Booth’s speech showing how The Salvation Army is still fighting today.) Encourage pupils to think about issues they feel strongly about, and/or things they think William Booth would fight against if he were alive today. Pupils can either write their own ‘I’ll fight’ speech, or a modern-day version of William Booth’s speech.
What’s most important? (PP slide 12) Ask pupils if they have ever heard the words faith, hope and love used together before. There’s a well-known chapter in the Christian Bible which is sometimes called ‘the love chapter’. It’s the one people often read at Christian weddings. At the end of the chapter the writer, Paul, says that in this life we’ll never be able to fully understand everything about God and the world, but one day we will see God and will understand everything. He says that for now, in this life, ‘the three most important things to have are faith, hope and love, but the greatest of them is love’ (1 Corinthians 13:13 New International Reader’s Version).
• A Faith Hope Love RE Day/workshop outline is coming soon from the Schools & Colleges Unit and will be available on request. In some areas this can be led by your local Salvation Army church/centre leaders or youth worker. Contact the Schools & Colleges team for more details. • Watch out for extra Faith Hope Love ideas and resources appearing on our website soon.
Do pupils agree with this statement? If not, what do they think are the three most important things to have in this life? Why? If you’re using the postcards, pupils can write or draw their answers on the back of the first postcard which contains the quote from the Bible. Page 7 of 7