101 Agape Ideas

101 Agape Ideas Quick, easy, and inexpensive agape ideas . . .
from The Upper Room Discussion Group . . . Rainbow mechanical pencils: Write this down: Jesus Loves You!" or "Jesus has signed your heart with his blood." Lighters or matches and a candle: "You are the light of the World!" Mending kits: "God fixes everything." Soap bubbles: "Let God's love bubble over in you!" Jigsaw puzzle pieces either hot glued to a pin back or a card (You can put a piece of magnet strip on the back of the card for a fridge magnet.): "God put it all together for you." Or "Puzzled? Talk to God." Or "Don't let Jesus be your missing piece!" or "If life is a puzzle, turn to the Lord." Or "Now I know in part, then I shall know fully. 1 Corinthians 13:12." One-inch wooden disc with clothespin glued to front and a piece of magnet tape on back of clothespin. Decorate disc with a sticker or leave plain. "God can hold it all together!" Little notebooks or note pads. "Write this down: Jesus Loves You!" Small calendars (wallet size are good): "I am with you always. Jesus" Seed packages: "Grow in Christ." Life Savers: "Jesus is the real life saver!" Small rulers: "Measure your life in Christ." Or "Jesus Rules!" Emory board or small piece of sand paper on a card: "Jesus can smooth away all our rough edges!" Nail on a card. "Need an eternal fix? Try John 3:16." Butterfly anything: "God changes things." Diaper pin: "God can change even the worst of things." Earth magnet or pins or erasers: "Jesus: Don't leave earth without Him!" Maps or compasses: "Jesus is the way" or "Lost? Talk to God" or "Need directions? Talk to the Father." Or "Lost? Follow the Son." Magnifying glass: "See everything clearly with Christ" or "Let your faith be magnified." Or "If they dusted your Bible for fingerprints, would they find any fresh ones? Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105." Small bars of soap: "God can make all things clean."
Dinosaur eggs (the little capsules that hatch a dinosaur when soaked in hot water) or small plastic figures: Even when God was dealing with these guys, He was thinking of You! Card should include hatching directions if you use the capsules.
Emergency rain ponchos: "When life gives you rain, God gives you rainbows!" Safety pin with brightly colored beads on it: "God will help you hold it all together." Yo-yos: "God will be there though all your ups and downs." Rock. Write "Jesus is the rock" and draw a cross on the rock. Duct tape and nail. Put a small piece of duct tape on a card. Then put a nail through the card as if you were pinning something to it. On card write: "Men fix everything with duct tape. God used his son." Penny hot glued to a card. "Jesus just makes 'cents'" Runts candies in a small bag. "The fruits of the spirit are." Paper clip chain made of brightly colored paper clips or several brightly colored paper clips hanging on an earring hoop: "Genesis 9:13" Foam heart glued to a card: "Give your heart to Jesus." Or any heart verse. Candy conversation hearts: "These go in your tummy. Put Jesus in your heart." Teddy bear stickers or very small (1/2 inch) teddy bears or gummy bears. "God's love bears all." Erasers: "Jesus erased all your sins." Key chain: "Let Jesus be the key to your life" or "Put God in the driver's seat." Shoe horns: "For a perfect fit every time, try Jesus." Bookmarks with the Order of Reunion printed on them. Disposable razors: "God will get you out of even the hairiest situations." Earplugs: "For all those times when noise is not so joyful." Atomic fireballs: "Get fired up for Christ!" Smiley face anything: "Smile. God loves you."
Small plastic or balsa wood planes or miniature kites: "Fly high with Christ." Band aid on card: "Christ heals all." Small jars or pots made from Play Dough and hardened. "Put yourself in the potter's hands." Finger traps: "Submit to Christ and be free." You may want to explain on the card that the finger trap will hold you as long as you struggle and pull. Hand held fans: cut a large heart from card stock or other paper and tape this to a pencil. Print on heart before cutting and taping: "Join the Jesus fan club." Golf tees taped to a card: "Jesus will always fit your needs to a tee!" Airhead candy: "Don't be an airhead! Listen to Jesus!" Kool Aid packages: "Let Jesus be the cool aid in your life." Hershey kiss(es) on a card: "A good night kiss for you. Sleep in peace as God watches over you" or "An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips." Proverbs 24:26 or with 2 kisses "Angel kisses." A mint taped to a card: "Jesus is 'mint' for you." Small piece of sponge attached to a card: "Soak up God's love." Gum, caramel, starburst candy, tootsie roll or other chewy candy: "Choose Jesus" or "Choose this day whom you will serve." Joshua 2:4-15 Now and Later candy: "Jesus Now and Later." Q-tip taped to a card: "Open our ears, Lord. We want to hear Jesus." Small plastic frogs: "FROG: Fully relying on God." little fake wedding bands (wedding section of a craft store): "You are the bride of Christ." Gold Fish crackers: "Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men." Matthew 4:19 Small back scratchers: "God always has a hand for you!" Skittles candies: "Taste the rainbow of God's love." Small bottles of drinking water: "Drink the eternal water of life." Alka seltzers: "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, Oh, what a relief Christ is!" Rolaids glued to a card that says: "Jesus spells relief." Brightly colored toothpicks or a brightly colored guitar pick attached to a card: "Pick Jesus."
Equal package: "Nothing equals Jesus!" Picture of a cell phone. Photocopy picture on paper and color with bright colors: "Call on God. Unlimited free anytime access." Small packages of tissues: "God will take your tears and make an ocean." Gold wrapped chocolate coins: His love is more precious than gold." Corks or fishing bobbers: God's love is unsinkable. Small match box-size cars: "Put God in the driver's seat." Individual Shout stain removers: "Shout to the Lord." Bit of Honey or fast food size honey package: Psalm 19:10 Tea bag: "No teas-sing, Jesus Loves you." Cream Savers: You are the cream of the crop. Let Jesus be your Life Savior. Empty brown paper lunch bag with a business-size card inside. Card reads: "Feed my Sheep. John 21:17 In honor of your walk to Emmaus, a donation has been made to (a soup kitchen, food pantry, lunch program, whatever you decide). Today, because of your walk, some of his sheep have been fed." Glue stick: "Stick with Christ." Small cross, covered with glitter on a card: "Shine Jesus Shine." Small pocket size mirrors: "Let Christ be reflected in you." Letter openers: "God opens up a whole new world of possibilities." Toy watches: "God has all the time in the world for you." Or "Ecclesiastes 3:1" Nerd candies: "Only nerds don't love Jesus!" or "Jesus even loves nerds." Small plastic or feather birds (floral section of craft store): "Matthew 10:31" Toy paratroopers (party favors): "Let Jesus be your parachute." Small wedding or cowbells: "Ring out! The Lord is near!" Individually wrapped hand wipes: "Jesus makes all things clean." Plastic weighted ducks (the type used in carnival games): "Life with Christ is just ducky!"
One-hundred dollar bill note pads: "In one person's hands, just a few bills paid. In another person's hands, a fortune to be made. A life in man's hands, just biology on earth. A life in Christ's hands, eternal re-birth." Or "Christ has paid your debt in full!" Mini-frisbees or spinning tops: "I may not always know where I'm going, but the one I'm following does. The Lord will guide you always. Isaiah 58:11" Whistle: "Whistle while you work Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. Colossians 3:23." Miniature clothes pins (doll house size) clipped to a card that (ideally) has a graphic of something hanging on a clothes line: "Hang your troubles on the Lord and He will sustain you. Psalm 55:22a" Thin rainbow ribbon tied to a paper clip and clipped to a card. "Clip this to page 48 in your pilgrim's guide." Graphic of a grouchy looking or crying person (ideally a cartoon-looking picture) on a small laminated card with a piece of magnet tape on back. "It's a fact No one crashes a pity party. I am greatly encouraged, in all our troubles joy knows no bounds. 2 Corinthians 7:4" Recipe card with Bible cake recipe on it on one side and "Live, Breathe, and Eat his word printed on the other. Fishing bobber: "Don't let things pull you down." Matthew 6:25-34 WWJD bracelets or pins, PUSH bracelets or pins, FROG bracelets or pins or brightly colored nylon bracelets. Tag these with "Adorn yourself for Christ." Unsharpened pencils: "Without Christ, life is pointless." Milky Way candy bars: "He had a universe to choose from, but God chose you." Pill bottle: outside label Rx from: The Great physician/ Dosage: Daily or as needed Active Ingredient: Holy Spirit /Refills: Unlimited/Amount due: Debt paid in full by Jesus Christ. Fill the bottle with paper strips on which your have printed a variety of Bible verses. Large fishing hook hot glued to a pin back (You may want to use wire cutters to cutoff the barb. ). Glue or dangle a fish on which you have printed Jesus from the point: "I'm hooked on Jesus." Or "Be fishers of men." Small plastic babies (craft store, baby shower section) glued to a strip of cardstock wider the baby. On card stock, print "Born again." Glue card to a pin back.
CD labeled to say: "Jesus Christ Eternity free." Add graphics such as a dove or across. You can get these in a variety of colors.
Baseball trinkets: "No outs. All safe with Christ" or "Hit a home run with Christ." Mustard seed glued to a piece of cardstock: "A little faith goes a long way. Matthew 17:20.
From Mountain Top Emmaus, northeast Georgia and surrounding area of Tennessee and North Carolina 1. Blood drop round red plastic crystal like put in fishbowl, etc. Put tie tack on back of it. Stick it through the card. On card is printed: "THE BLOOD COVERED IT ALL! Try to imagine how this Miracle took place. LOVE beyond measure, our GOD S AMAZING GRACE! Sometimes when we re weary we might stumble and fall. But ONE DROP OF HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD covered it all. THE BLOOD, THE BLOOD covered it all. LOVE has no boundaries. Sin s debt paid in full. JESUS knew in the beginning that man would surely fall. I m glad THE SAVIOR S PRECIOUS BLOOD covered it all!
2. Keyring made with alphabet beads. Ring, silk rainbow colored cord and alphabet beads. Loop cord over ring and back through self loop; small black pony bead, W bead, W bead, J bead, D bead; small black pony bead; red heart pony bead and small black pony bead. Then tie off cord and leave 1" tails.
3. Brown leather (cloth?) book mark shaped like feather part of arrow. (See picture.) <<<<<<
punch hold in pointed end and loop 2 dif. color lengths of skinny ribbon through. Write with gold pen on the bookmark: "Those who wait upon the Lord shall mount up with wings like eagles." Isaiah 40:31. (I like to think of the shape of this bookmark as being maybe like the tether a falconer uses. 4. Globe keychain from Oriental Trading. Attach slip of paper that says: "He s got the whole world in His hands." 5. Small Almond Joy candy. Put on label or attach saying that says: "The JOY of the Lord is your strength." Nehemiah 8:10. 6. Match box. Glue label on that says: "Let your light shine" and what verse that is. 7. Glue small spool of thread to a card. On card print or write: Jesus loves you "sew" much. 8. Plastic canvas bookmark. 9. You are a pearl of great price printed vertically on a label with some small graphics added. Stock on ribbon notched at bottom. At top of ribbon glue a clamshell with a pearl glued inside. Put a magnet piece on back of shell area. 10. Small loaf of bread either made and shellaced or from miniature doll house supplies. Glue onto end of slip of paper that says: Luke 24:30-31. "He took bread and blessed it ... and their eyes were opened." 11. Caramel or Bit O Honey glued to a card that says "How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth." Psalm 119:103 12. Small pine cone glued to an index card. "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." Ecclesiastes xxxxxx 13. Bought gold coin with story about the widow finding the coin. 14. Easter chick. Slip of paper attached: "And the BABE CHICKS with their pio, pio, pio pi." 15. Card with "One who gives an honest answer gives a kiss on the lips." Proverbs 24:26 See picture 16. Emmanuel bookmark. See picture. 17. Community logo printed and laminated, hole punched through one end, keyring put in. 18. Wooden rooster. See picture. 19. Felt bookmark. Blue felt 1" x 7" notched at one end. Straight at other end with slits cut and different color yarn lengths pulled through - 2 thru each hole: purple, blue; green, yellow; orange, red.
20. Mother Teresa s business card: See picture. The fruit of silence is PRAYER. The fruit of prayer is FAITH. The fruit of faith is LOVE. The fruit of love is SERVICE. The fruit of service is PEACE. 21. Small plastic canvas cross "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus." FROM KWA ZULU NATAL Emmaus and Chrysalis in South Africa: 1. Doorhangers: printed on computer "resting in the Lord" Do Not Disturb and Walk# and our group name. 2. Peg fridge magnets: clothes peg with a piece of magnet stuck on the back, and a piece of fabric and paper with the words P _prayer E_ encourages G_ growth glued to the inside of the peg. 3. Chocolate praying hands, butterflies, fish with appropriate Bible verses. 4. "Nutmen": a macadamia nut with a small cardboard hat and feet stuck on and the words "be nutty about Jesus" and our group name attached to the feet. 5. Sweets: an empty pill box / spool box with seven different colour sweets inside with the words "Seven sweet deeds a day will keep you on the narrow way" on a label. 6. Rock paperweights: small smooth rocks, varnished, with the words "He is
my rock" painted on one side and our group name on the other. 7. Spools: a piece of paper wound into an old spool _ "develop a good life for the Lord" 8. Pins: A sewing pin pinned to a piece of paper with whe words "pin your hopes on Jesus" 9. Beady Eye: a face printed onto card and two little plastic beads stuck on the eyes with the words "keep your beady eyes on Christ" 10. Keys: Old keys with a card attached saying "Give Jesus the key to your heart" 11. Tissues tied with bright ribbon and put into the letter bags that the pilgrims receive 12. Dumbell: two soft centred mints on the ends of a toothpick with the words "Be bold, be strong" on a card attached to it. 13. Motorists prayer (printed on card) Each time I drive Lord, may I feel your hand on mine upon the wheel. Give me a watchful eye for young and old as I drive by. Keep me from speeding needlessly, passing earth s beauty heedlessly. I want to use this car for you to drive my friends with safety too. But all these things can never be, unless, O Lord, you drive with me. 14. Prayer rock: A small stone tied into a square of bright fabric with the following verse attached: I am your little prayer rock, and this is what I'll do. Just put me on your pillow until the day is through, then turn back the covers and climb into your bed, and "whack" your little prayer rock will hit you on your head. Then you will remember to kneel and say your prayers. Then when you are
finished just dump me on the floor, I'll stay there through the night to give you help once more. When you get up in the morning, "clunk" I'll stub your toe, to help you remember your morning prayers before you go. Then put me back upon your pillow when your bed is ready made, and your clever little prayer rock will continue in your aid. Because your heavenly Father cares and loves you so, He wants you to remember that you can talk to HIM anytime, all the time, all day long.
FROM DALLAS, TEXAS WALK TO EMMAUS AND CHRYSALIS Crayons with the note "May God color your world with joy" crowns made out of bulletin board border with "rejoice oh child of the King" matches with "may God light the fire in your soul" I love you sticker or button with Jer.31:3b__"I have loved you with an everlasting love" sponge _ "soak up the word of life" toothpick _ "remember to pick the good qualities in others" Matt 7:1 chalk _ "There are NO coincidences _ chalk it up to the Lord" tape _ "God will help you to hold it together" and "Adhere to his teachings" and "STICK to the Word and ADHERE to his teachings" water bottle _ "Rev 22:17" candy conversation hearts, like from Valentine's day _ "Start each day in a conversation with God" cake sprinkles _ "rainbow seeds" Extra gum _ "With God you get a little extra" Tootsie roll and stone _ "Jesus is my rock and he rolls my blues away"
life saver _ "Let Jesus be your life Savior" mini clappers for poster party puzzle piece _ "Rom 12:5" crayon _ "May God color your life with joy" sunflower seeds _ "You are a seed sown by God. Grow and bloom where you are planted" candy _ "GRACE_ how sweet it is" agape lanyard _ "Attach your agape treasures to this rainbow chain. May it's colors remind you of His promise, His grace and His love."
God's Bag 1. Create a crisis (if you already have one, skip to step 2). 2. Write it down. 3. Open bag. 4. Insert crisis. 5. Close bag. 6. Let go....Let God! WARNING: The Disciple General has determined that "taking things back" is hazardous to your spiritual health! Angel necklace _ "angels watching over you" _ made of a "butterfly" paper clip, ribbon and pony bead straw _ "be FLEXIBLE" Paper bag to hold table agape _ "This Jesus Junkie bag belongs to: _______" tiny clothes pin _ "holding fast to the Word of Life" Phil 2:16" compass _ "God's direction is always true!"
party horn _ "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord" Book mark explaining the "colors of salvation" cross bookmark made on plastic canvas with ribbon small colored paper clips hanging from small squares of plastic canvas with pierced earring loops _ "hang your hope on Jesus" small bell _ "joyful noise" tea light candle ( also small birthday candles) _ "Let your light shine" and " you are the light of the world" tea bag _ "God loves you for eterniTEA" wooden cross made of sticks, a pony bead heart _ "God's love was nailed to the cross" tissues _ "For when the Spirit flows and so do the tears...." bubbles _ "bubble for joy with Jesus" GRACE card magnet _ God's Redemption At Christ's Expense Rooster _ made of a plastic cup with upholstery thread (cotton kind) or very thin cotton string poked through the bottom and tied. Felt crown glue to cover. Add eyes, beak and pipecleaner tail. Take a small 1" square of thin sponge and tie to the end of the string. Get sponge damp, fold in half over string close to cup. Grasp firmly and jerk down the string. This produces a "clucking/crowing noise" _ sticker inside cup says "Jesus gives you something to crow about!" bath salts with "Create in me a clean heart oh God __Ps 51:10" salt packages _ "you are the salt of the earth __ Matt 5:13"
wet wipes with "wash away all my iniquities and cleanse me from my sin. __ Ps 51:2" gold fish crackers _ "Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men. Matt 4:19" trash bags for dirty laundry with "Air your dirty laundry before Christ"
Recipe for "Bible Cake" 1 cup Psalms 51:21 2 cups Jeremiah 6:20 4 Isaiah 10:14 2 TBLS 1st Samuel 14:25 1 cup Hebrews 5:12 3 1/2 cups Exodus 29:2 2 TBLS Leviticus 23:17 1/2 tspn Leviticus 2:13 1 cup Nahum 3:12, chopped 1 1/2 cups Numbers 17:8, chopped The last two ingredients may be substituted for your favorites. Cream and mix cake in usual manner. Bake in large bundt pan for at 325 or in two mini bundts for 40 mins at 350 or two large loaf pans for 40 mins at 350 __or until done. Cool 10 mins before removing. Freezes well.
FROM FOURTH DAY FRIENDS REUNION GROUP
(From Golden Spread, Rushing Wind, and Hearts Afire Communities)
OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE Hello! Here are a few agape ideas that my Fourth Day Friends reunion group makes for various Emmaus Walks in the Texas Panhandle. _Use crazy straws (the plastic kind that twist and swirl) and attach John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice,"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink." (you can also use regular drinking straws) _Use dryer sheets (Bounce) and attach a message that reads "Cling to Jesus"
FROM: share_gods_love@hotmail.com 1. A pencil with the following quote attached to it, "Be a pencil in God s hand and let Him write the book." Mother Teresa 2. A word search puzzle with all of the candidates and team member s names. 3. "Don t let the things of this world burst your bubble," attached to a piece of bubble gum. 4. "God is always with you," attached to a hand made cross key chain. 5. A necklace with a foam heart and foam butterfly with the flight number written on the butterfly. 6. "God Loves You a Bunch," in a baggie of jellybeans. 7. "Give all the PIECES of your life to God," in a baggie of Reese s Pieces. 8. "May you spread your wings and fly sharing the love of Jesus," attached to testamint. 9. "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord," attached to a toy kazoo. 10. Ziploc Agape bags decorated with stickers to keep all the pieced of agape in. 11. "May you MAGNIFY to LORD," attached to a small plastic magnifying glass. 12. "Jesus! The one mint for you," attached to a peppermint. 13. By their fruits you will know them." Matthew 7:16 attached to a jolly rancher.
14. Don t "BLOW" it, "CHEWS" JESUS! Attached to a piece of bubble gum. 15. "Jesus is the key to your heart," attached to a cross key chain. 16. "He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." Matthew 3:11, attached to a Fire Ball candy. 17. "Don t be a Nerd, spread the WORD!" Attached to a small box of Nerd candy. 18. "Don t let Satan burst your bubble," attached to a small container of bubbles. 19. "Let Jesus ROLL away the stone from your heart, as the stone was rolled away from the tomb," attached to a Tootsie Roll pop. 20. "Jesus love you NOW and LATER," attached to a piece of Now and Later candy. 21. "You are such a SMARTIE for seeking God," attached to a roll of Smarties candy. 22. A fake pearl on a safety pin with the following attached. YOU ARE A PEARL! A Person Eternally Altered (by God s) Redeeming Love. You are special and unique and HE loves you because HE made you in HIS image. Like the oyster makes the pearl, each one priceless but different, you too are a priceless treasure bought at a great price by GOD with HIS life. Remember HE made you and HE loves you forever. 23. Safety Kit #1: comic strip = to remind you to laugh, Hershey Hug = to remind you to hug someone, an eraser = to remind you that everyone makes mistakes, and that s ok, a tissue = to remind you to dry someone s tears, a coin = to remind you that you can never say you are broke, marble = to remind you in case someone says you have lost yours, band_aid = to remind you to heal hurt feelings_yours or others, a cross = to remind you that Jesus loves you, scripture = to remind you to feed your spiritual soul. 24. Emergency Kit (for pain, trauma, or disaster) Q_tip = to open your ears to hear God s voice, candle = to light your way, Band_aid = to help those hurt feelings yours and someone else s, toothpick = to pick your brain for
innovative ideas, rubber band = to remind you to hold someone close, heart = to bring gentle comfort, Kleenex = to remind you that love is contagious, life buoy (life saver candy) = to rescue someone adrift, Hershey Hug to let you know that you are loved. 25. The Jelly Bean prayer. In a baggie put the following color of jelly beans (2 each), red, green, yellow, orange, black, white, purple, pink. Attach the following poem. Red is for the blood He gave. Green is for the grass He made. Yellow is for the sun so bright. Orange is for the edge of night. Black is for the sins we made. White is for the grace He gave. Purple is for His hour of sorrow. Pink is for our new tomorrow. A bag full of jelly beans colorful and sweet. Is a prayer, is a promise, and is a special treat. 26. An invitation to join a free weekly devotional. Written on an index card decorated with stickers: Keep connected to Christ! Join a free weekly e_mail devotional. Send your name and e_mail address to share_gods_love@hotmail.com (yeah, a spoof for my weekly devotional I created.)
From: Robin Sculthorpe De Colores from the Richmond, Va Emmaus Community! Melt and pour soaps Melt and pour glycerin soaps _ can buy heart shaped latex molds, glycerin melt and pour soap and fragrance or essential oils from:
http://www.brambleberry.com/kits.html also, many other websites (do search on melt and pour soap) _ very easy to make, little time and expense ( a pound of soap costs approximately 2.50 or less if you buy in very large bulk quantities and can make a lot of soaps depending on the size of the mold) If adding fragrance or essential oil, use the following verse: " . . . and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" Ephesians 5:2 Also, can buy business card sized_soap molds from: http://www.northcountrymercantile.com/ Can print verse on business cards with a computer printer and the cards fit in the top of the soap. I buy business cards that have a rainbow preprinted on them. North Country also has very thin molds with hands folded in prayer (for just a sliver of soap). Note: some of these molds are candy molds, but they work well for soap. Or you could do chocolate_molded candies for agape as well.
From Lora with Southwest Indiana Community: REALLY cute idea I saw recently. A LEGO block glued on cardstock paper. It said LEGO and let God! Real economical for moms & dads whose kids have outgrown playing with them. Also saw something cute with puzzle pieces. Saying was something about being just a piece of His puzzle, a part of His plan, part of the Church, part of the community etc. Thanks for the great ideas! I am looking for something to go with Ps. 28:7 - The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Another verse I'd like to use is Psalm 31:5. "Into His hands..." DeColores! Subject: Agape Shopping
From: John or Shirley Lowe <jwlsll@atmc.net> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 06:26:43 _0500 Greetings All, I found an interesting web site as I was searching for different places to purchase agape items. http://www.christiandollarstore.com And they do have some bargains. Would you care to share any interesting sites you've found? God's peace, John DeColores Card sites if you want to send something by email on Fourth Days: http://www.you2web.com/decolores/epostcard.asp Check out these websites that Gita sent me the other day. She sent links to a bunch of things __ baby jar poupourri (sp?), baby jar animals (cute babe chick is one of them); safety pins with beads on them ___ safety pin with safetypins with beads on them hanging __ rainbow one, heart one, butterfly ones. And some other things. I noticed something about shrinkles (or shrinky dinks) and am in the process of thinking about those/researhcing. Think sheets can be bought that can run thru color printer, print picture on (like a rooster), then cut it out and shrink it and put a jewelry pin on the back. So I shall proceed to looking for possible pics to use. sites: www.makingfriends.com www.freekidscrafts.com In response to my request for GRACE (God s Riches at Christ s Expense) received these ideas. It was mentioned in a Journey talk, so we were looking for some agape to go with it. From Sue: Grace Bookmarks. God s Riches At Christ s Expense words on front with G, R, A, C, E in a standout color. Made by Sue Jones. Poem by her on back. From Mike J. (MJQuartet@aol.com): Grace magnets. Square of paper with rainbow and GRACE God s Riches at Christ s Expense on it. Laminated and magnet piece on back. Print sheet, color copy, laminate, cut apart, and put magnet piece on back.
From Deb (qofe@quixnet.net): A money bag (made from inexpensive material with a drawstring), play money coins (chocolate maybe), poker chips with a message, a coin purse (old fashioned squeeze open kind), nails (to remind us of Christ s expense), an expense account bookmark (with message). From Rhonda (kc10@nightly.com) : GRACE in WordArt rainbow colors on a business card with "God s Riches At Christ s Expense" typed under it, laminated, and a magnet put on back.
From : A check (or a bookmark made to look like a check) with that wording in appropriate places. Make into a bookmark and laminate. From Pamela Lea (termite601@aol.com) in Florida: quick, Easy, and Inexpensive Agape Items are listed with possible saying to accompany it. Possible Sources of some items are noted: DT=Dollar Tree stores OTC=Oriental Trading Company 1. Rainbow Mechanical Pencils (DT): Write this down: Jesus Loves You! or Jesus has signed your heart with his blood. 2.Lighters or matches and a candle: You are the light of the World! 3.Mending kits: God fixes everything. 4.Soap Bubbles (DT): God s love bubble over in you! 5.Jigsaw puzzle pieces either hot glued to a pin back or a card (You can put apiece of magnet strip on the back of the card for a fridge magnet.):God put it all together for you. Or Puzzled? Talk to God. Or Don t let Jesus be your missing piece! 6.One-inch wooden disc with clothes pin glued to front and a piece of magnet tape on back of clothes. Decorate disc with a sticker or leave plain.: God can hold it all together! 7.Little note books or note pads.: Write this down: Jesus Loves You! 8.Small calendars (wallet size are good): I am with you always. Jesus 9.Seed packages: Grow in Christ. 10.Life Savers: Jesus is the real life saver! 11.Small Rulers: Measure your life in Christ. Or Jesus Rules 12.Emory board or small piece of sand paper on a card: Jesus can smooth away al lour rough edges! 13:Nail on a card. Need an eternal fix? Try John 3:16. 14.Butterfly anything: God changes things. 15.Diaper pin: God can change even the worst of things. 16.Earth Magnet or pins or erasers: Jesus: Don t leave earth without Him! 17.Maps or compasses (OTC): Jesus is the way or Lost? Talk to God or Need directions? Talk to the Father. 18.Magnifying glass (OTC): See everything clearly with Christ or Letyour faith be magnified. Or If they dusted your Bible for fingerprints, would they find any fresh ones? Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105. 19.Small bars of soap: God can make all things clean. 20.Dinosaur eggs (the little capsules that hatch a dinosaur when soaked in hot water) or small plastic figures: Even when God was dealing with these guys, He was thinking of You! Card should include hatching directions if you use the capsules. 21.Emergency Rain Ponchos: When life gives you rain, God gives you rainbows! 22.Safety pin with brightly colored beads on it: God will help you hold it all together. 23.Yo-yos (OTC): God will be there though all your ups and downs. 24.Rock. Write Jesus is the rock and draw a cross on the rock. 25.Duct tape and nail. Put a small piece of duct tape on a card.Then put a nail through the card as if you were pinning something to it. On card write: Men fix
everything with duct tape. God used his son. 26.Penny hot glued to a card.: Jesus just makes cents. 27.Runts candies in a small bag.: The fruits of the spirit 28.Paper clip chain made of brightly colored paper clips or several brightly colored paper clips hanging on an earring hoop.: Genesis 9:13 29.Foam heart glued to a card: Give your heart to Jesus. 30.Candy conversation hearts: These go in your tummy. Put Jesus in your heart. 31.Teddy bear stickers or very small (1/2 inch) teddy bears or gummy bears.: God s love bears all. 32.Erasers: Jesus erased all your sins. 33.Keychain: Let Jesus be the key to your life or Put God in the driver s seat. 34.Shoe horns: For a perfect fit every time, try Jesus. 35.Bookmarks with the order of Reunion printed on them. 36.Disposable Razors:God will get you out of even the hairiest situations. 37.Earplugs: For all those times when noise is not so joyful. 38.Atomic Fireballs: Get fired up for Christ! 39. Smiley face anything: Smile. God loves you. 40.Small plastic or balsa wood planes or miniature kites (OTC): Fly high withChrist. 41.Band aid on card: Christ heals all. 42.Small jars or pots made from Play dough and hardened.: Put yourself in the potter s hands. 43.Finger traps (OTC):Submit to Christ and be free. You may want to explain on the card that the finger trap will hold you as long as you struggle and pull. 44.Hand held fans: cut a large heart from card stock or other paper and tape this to a pencil. Print on heart before cutting and taping: Join the Jesus fan club. 45.Golf tees taped to a card: Jesus will always fit your needs to a tee! 46.Airhead candy: Don t be an airhead! Listen to Jesus! 47.Kool Aid packages: Let Jesus be the cool aid in your life. 48.Hershey kiss(es) on a card: A good night kiss for you. Sleep in peace as God watches over you or An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. Prov. 24:26 or with 2 kisses Angel kisses. 49.A mint taped to a card: Jesus s love is mint for you. 50. Small piece of sponge attached to a card: Soak up God s love. 51.Gum, caramel, starburst candy, tootsie roll or other chewy candy: ChooseJesus or Choose this day whom you will serve. Joshua 2:4-15 52.Now and Later candy: Jesus Now and Later. 53.Q-tip taped to a card: Open our ears, Lord. We want to hear Jesus. 54.Small Plastic frogs: FROG: Fully relying on God. 55.Little fake wedding bands (wedding section of a craft store): You are the bride of Christ. 56.Small back scratchers: God always has a hand for you! 57.Skittles candies: Taste the rainbow of God s love. 58.Small bottles of drinking water: Drink the eternal water of life. 59.Alka seltzers: Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, Oh what a relief Christ is! 60.Rolaids glued to a card that says: Jesus spells relief. 61.Brightly colored toothpicks or a brightly colored guitar pick attached to acard: Pick Jesus. 62.Equal package: Nothing equals Jesus! 63.Picture of a cell phone. Photo copy picture on paper and color with bright colors: Call on God. Unlimited free anytime access. 64.Small packages of tissues: God will take your tears and make an ocean. 66.Gold wrapped chocolate coins: His love is more precious than gold. 67.Corks or fishing bobbers: God s love is unsinkable. 68.Small match box-size cars: Put God in the driver s seat. 69. Individual Shout stain removers: Shout to the Lord. 70. Bit of Honey or fast food size honey package: Psalm 19:10 71. Tea Bag: No teas-sing, Jesus Loves you. 72. Cream Savers: You are the cream of the crop. Let Jesus be your Life Savior. 73. Empty Brown Paper Lunch Bag with a business-size card inside. Card reads: Feed my Sheep. John 21:17 " In honor of your walk to Emmaus, a donation has been made to (a soup kitchen, foodpantry, lunch program, whatever you decide). Today, because of your walk, some of his sheep have been fed. 74.Gluestick: Stick with Christ. 75. Small cross covered with glitter on a card: Shine Jesus Shine.
 76. Small pocket size mirrors: Let Christ be reflected in you. 77. Letter openers: God opens up a whole new world of possibilities. 78. Toy watches: God has all the time in the world for you. Or Ecclesiastes 3:1 79. Nerd candies: Only nerds don t love Jesus! or Jesus even loves nerds. 80. Small plastic or feather birds (floral section of craft store): Matthew 10:31 81. Toy Paratroopers (party favors): Let Jesus be your parachute. 82. Small wedding or cowbells (OTC): Ring out! The Lord is near! (Some communities use a bell to reconvene pilgrims after a break, etc. This is a fun reminder of the bell. 83. Individually wrapped hand wipes: Jesus makes all things clean. 84. Plastic weighted ducks (OTC) (the type used in carnival games): Life with Christ is just ducky! 85. One-hundred dollar bill note pads (OTC): In one person s hands, just a few bills paid. In another person s hands, a fortune to be made. A life in man s hands, just biology on earth. A life in Christ s hands, eternal re-birth. Or Christ has paid your debt in full! 86. Mini-frisbees or spinning tops (OTC): I may not always know where I m going, but the one I m following does. The Lord will guide you always. Isaiah 58:11 86. Whistle: Whistle while you work Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. Colossians 3:23. 87. Miniature clothes pins (doll house size) clipped to a card that (ideally) has a graphic of something hanging on a clothes line.: Hang your troubles on the Lord and He will sustain you. Psalm 55:2a 88. Thinrainbow ribbon tied to a paper clip and clipped to a card. Clip this to page48 in your pilgrim s guide. 89. Graphic of a grouchy looking or crying person (ideally a cartoon-looking picture) on a small laminated card with a piece of magnet tape on back. It s a fact " No one crashes a pity party. I am greatly encouraged, in all our troubles joy knows no bounds. 2 Corinthians 7:4 90. Recipe card with Bible cake recipe on it on one side Live, Breathe, and Eat his word. Printed on the other. (Contact me if you cannot find recipe.) 91. Fishing bobber: Don t let things pull you down.Matthew 6:25-34 92. WWJD bracelets or pins, PUSH bracelets or pins, FROG bracelets or pins or brightly colored nylon bracelets. Tag these with Adorn yourself for Christ. AGAPE IDEAS PICKED UP FROM EMMAUS DISCUSSION LISTSERV AFTER SOMEBODY REQUESTED SOME INEXPENSIVE IDEAS OR DIRECT DISCUSSIONS WITH PERSONS FOUND THERE Also some things aren't agape items they are ideas that people had about what to do with the agape they received or the other stuff they received on their Walk. Pictures are available upon request, please email me @agapeideas@yahoo.com with your email address and your snail mail address (in case there are problems). Or if you wish to send us a blank CD-R or CD-RW we could make you a CD with all the pictures. Most pictures are in groups. * a Hershey's kiss on a small card that says "a good night kiss" and has a scripture about sleeping peacefully because God is watching over you. * a mint taped to a small card that says "God's Love is mint for you"
* a small piece of sponge (bright colored kitchen sponge cut into small pieces) taped on a card that says "Soak up God's Love" * cut cardstock into business-card size pieces with various colorful, inspirational messages or scriptures and pictures. If have computer/color inkjet printer- you can print these out easily and then use papercutter to cut cardstock. Can be laminated with the self-laminating sheets before cuttting, can get a roll of strip magnet (see your hobby store) and cut off 1/2 inch pieces and put on back of card to make a magnet card that will stick to a frig or file cabinet. * stick of gum taped to a card that says "Choose (chews) Jesus" * out of brightly colored cloth, sew small (perhaps 6x8") bags (drawstring top is nice) that are large enough to hold the purple book plus nametag plus lanyard plus small notebook - this can be used to hold everything that one takes to Reunion group or to a Gathering or to Candlelight and keep it together - then you can just grab the little bag and go and have all the Emmaus things you need at these events. * Now & Later candy taped to a card that reads" Jesus Now and Later" * buy one zigsaw puzzle - and then glue one piece of the puzzle to a card that says "Jesus is the missing piece in your life" We use Airhead candy, and write..Don't be an Airhead, listen to Jesus. We staple this candy to half a piece of bright paper. Our master paper has 2 agapes to it, so when we make 1 copy it really has 2 pieces of agape. I don't know if this is clear, but it's a quick, inexpensive way to show someone you care. We get Kool-aid the little packs, and on a piece of paper write something like "Let Jesus be the cool aid in your life." Then we have our reunion group name on it. We' ve used this idea in two women's walks now and they're very well received as well as inexpensive. You'll need: -- floral tape (1 roll covers 100+pens) -- assorted "cheap" brightly colored silk flowers with stems cut to about 3 inches -- Paper-Mate type pens (black ink looks better because the bottom 3/4" of the pen is usually black, too, and doesn't clash with the green tape) 1. Place the flower stem next to the pen with the flower/leaves as close the the top of the pen as possible. (You'll probably need to slide some of the leaves "up" the stem until they're touching the flower, first.) 2. Wrap the stem and pen together with the tape, spiraling down the pen.3. When you get to the end of the stem, roll some extra layers of tape around it so that its wire doesn't work through. (This is another
reason to be sure your stems aren't so long that they "end" where your hand would be holding it when you write.) My friend and I did over 60 in 15 minutes the other day while watching a volleyball game. ENJOY!!! My wife puts two Hershey's Hugs and the following in a sandwich bag: Why God Made Hugs Everyone was meant to share God's all-abiding love and care He saw that we would need to know A way to let these feelings show. So God made hugs -a special sign, And symbol of His love divine, A circle of our open arms To hold in love and keep out harm. One simple hug can do its part To warm and cheer
another's heart. A hug's a bit of heaven above That signifies His perfect love. Jill Wolf I print them eight to an 8-1/2 x 11 inch page and she cuts them up into the small strips. One of my favorites is a take-off on the word DeColores! I take a Crayola brand crayon, make a slip of paper w/the scripture: "For now we are all children of God... Galatians 3:26" on it and instead of DeColores underneath, I put DeCrayola! That's followed by my reunion group name and my city. This was sent to me by friends in NM after I went on my walk and I've adopted it for use around here, you're more than welcome to it if you want to use it. It's quite inexpensive, a 96 box of crayons is less than $4 around here, and I buy the assorted pastel colored paper to run off the scripture, etc, in my printer. One of the funniest (and cheapest!) was a Q-tip taped on >a >card that says: "OPEN OUR EARS, LORD" (and help ups to listen. Open our >ears, >Lord, we want to see Jesus." Another one was a brown paper lunch bag >that >had written on the front: "GOD BAG".....underneath is says 1. Create a >crisis >(if you already have one, skip step 1) 2. Write it down 3. Open bag >4. >insert crisis 5. close bag 6. Let go and let God under that is >says "WARNINGG; "the DISCIPLE GENERAL has determined that "taking things >back" is hazardous to your spiritual health. I put this one first since it is my favorite from last week-end. It was used as a place mat, but could be used as door agape (which is how I'm going to use it) or as just general agape. Now I can't DRAW this one to show it to you, so you'll have to let God help you but it is a powerful agape. It is simply a butterfly with the WINGS......get this......SANDALS. I am going to barely color the wings with highlight pens. It says" Not to be served, but to serve". 2. a plastic airplane that says: "FLY HIGH WITH GOD" 3. I drew a lamb sleeping on a bed snoring with a blanket covering him with the Walk # on the blanket. This is darling bed agape that the pilgrims loved. You attach a Hershey's kiss and write: "A KISS GOOD-NIGHT" 4. This next one is great....my daughter loved this one and it is so simple and neat. Go to the bride's section of any craft store and find the the fake little wedding rings. Attach one to a piece of paper and type: "YOU ARE A BRIDE OF CHRIST"
5. A plastic frog with this attached: F (fully) R (relying) O (on) G (God) 6. Two Hershey's kisses with an angel picture attached saying simply : "ANGEL KISSES" 7. The poem "TOO BUSY" (the "letter from God") typed on Laser RAINBOW paper (Wal-mart carries this). 8. Another one of my favorites: A piece of towel stapled to the letter about "the Order of the Towel" See below. 9. Some STARBURST and a piece of gum in a tiny baggie saying: "CHEWS" you this day whom you will serve. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord." (Josshua 2:4-15) 10.Go to someplace like Wal-mart and get the SMILEY erasers. Attach to a piece of paper and write: IF YOU SEE SOMEONE WITHOUT A SMILE, JUST GIVE HIM ONE OF YOURS 11. The poem "Jesus from A-Z".. See below. 12. The good ole prayer rock 13. The "MINT" poem....( I "MINT"......) with mint attached 14. The GOD BAG.....this is cute and cheap.....Brown paper bag with cute label on front : GOD BAG...1.Create a crisis (if you already have one , skip step 1) 2. write it down 3. open bag 4. insert crisis 5. close bag 6. let go and let God .....WARNING: The DISCIPLE GENERAL has determined that "taking things back" is hazardous to your SPIRITUAL health , to take those little plastic fish ( we have some cheap at the local christian store ) and write "Be fishers of men." We do a similar thing with giant brass fishooks that have been bent so they can be clipped on a hat brim or lapel. Other things that we have done is use the little packs of Skittles candy with a sticker that says "Taste the rainbow of God's love" Also (more for the guys) we've spray painted nuts (the hardware kind, not the kind you eat) in rainbow colors and put them onto a key chain with a card that says "NUTTIN' but love" All three have gone over real well in our community. -- JESUS FROM "A" TO "Z" A--Abiding Vine-John 15:4 B--Bridgroom--Ephesians 5:32 C--Creator--Colossians 1:16 D--Deity--John 10:30
E--Everlasting Life--John 3:16 F--Faithful Friend--I Corinthians 1:9 G--Good Shepherd--John 10-11 H--Hiding Place--Psalm 32:7 I--Image of the Invisible God--Colossians 1:15 J--Joy Unspeakable--I Peter 1:8 K--King of Kings--I Timothy 6:15 L--Lord of Glory--I Corinthians 2:8 M--Merciful Mediator--Hebrews 2:17 N--Never-ending Love--Jeremiah 31:3 O--Omnipotent One--Revelation 19:6 P--Prince of Peace--Isaiah 9:6 Q--Quieter of Fears--Proverbs 1:33 R--Rock of Salvation--I Corinthians 10:4 S--Sacrificial Lamb--John 1:29 T--The Truth--John 14:6 U--Understanding Guide--Proverbs 3:5,6 V--Victorious Warrior-I John 5:4 W--Word of Life--I John 1:1 EXalted Name above ALL Names--Ephesians 2:12 Y--Your Only Hope--Ephesians 2:12 Z--Zion's Messiah--Isaiah 55:11
ORDER OF THE TOWEL (write our John 13:2-5)
He took a towel. HE did that! God incarnate took a towel and performed the task invariably assigned to some slave. And that, EVEN THAT, was not the final depth of humility to which He stooped. For, bearing our sin and atoning for our guilt, the Man with a towel became the Man on the tree in a self-humbling which baffles our comprehension. Take this small piece of towel and put it in your wallet or billfold. Carry it with you everywhere. Look at it daily for the first few weeks after you voluntarily join the highest and noblest of all fraternities, the ORDER OF THE TOWEL. Do that, if you are able to do it sincerely. Let the towel motivate you to follow the example of our God who humbled Himself not only to wash the feet of His disciples but to wash away our sin with His own blood on the cross. (this from a reunion group in Bakersfield, Calif) Prayer Rock I'm your little prayer rock And this is what I'll do Just put me on your pillow Till the day is through. Then turn back the covers And climb into bed, And WHACK, your little prayer rock WIll hit you on the head! Then you will remember As the day is through To kneel and say your prayers As you wanted all the day to do. Then when you are finished Just dump me on the floor! I'll stay there thro the night-time To give you help once more. When you get up the next morning CLUNK! I'll stub your toe
So you will remember Your morning prayers before you go. Put me back upon your pillow when your bed is made, And your clever little prayer rock Will continue in your aid. Because your heavenly Father Cares and loves you so, He wants you uto remember To talk to Him, you know. someone had posted the a-z Jesus poem (which I loved) and i think we are going to use it in a bag of Alphabits cereal :) I just got this poem today and thought these might be good agape ideas... maybe with a little of product mentioned or a copy of their symbol on a card with the saying? Just an idea :) What God is just a little like God is a little like General Electric He lights your path God is a little like Bayer Aspirin He works wonders. God is a little like Hallmark Cards He cared enough to send the very best. God is a little like Tide He gets out the stains that others leave behind. God is a little like VO-5 Hair Spray He holds through all kinds of weather. God is a little like Dial Soap
Aren't you glad you know Him? Don't you wish everyone did? God is a little like Sears He has everything. God is a little like Alka Seltzer Oh, what a relief He is! God is a little like Scotch Tape You can't see Him but you know He's there! God is a little like The Copper Top Battery Nothing can outlast him. God is a little like American Express Don't leave home without Him! MAY GOD BE WITH YOU !!! I just love all these ideas! We all can remember how much the agape = meant to us on our walks. Here's an idea that I shared with the = pilgrims on the last walk that I worked on: What do we do with all that agape? I bought a 30 inch grapevine wreath = & hot-glued it all on. It is the first thing that I see in the morning = which is a good thing being as I'm NOT a morning person. It's just a = constant reminder of my walk. DeColores! wreath idea cool!! What I did was got a large 3 ring binder with a see thru cover ---put the group photo and table photo onside --then got those cleare plastic sheet protectors and placed each letter that i recieved and even the prayer letter & conformation letter I recieved before my walk... then I took the all the agape and taped into these sheet protectors -taped them to the plastic so you can see front and back --was going to put them on colored paper but decided that wouldn't work coz some of the things were signed on the backs anyway it holds everything nicely and on those down days I can grab my note book and relive those first days!!! also keep my purple book and name tag inthere so I don't loose them!!!LOL The Savior's Words
If you never felt pain, Then how would you know that I'm a Healer? If you never went through difficulty, How would you know that I'm a Deliverer? If you never had a trial, How could you call yourself an overcomer? If you never felt sadness, How would you know that I'm a Comforter? If you never made a mistake, How would you know that I'm Forgiving? If you knew all, How would you know that I will answer your questions? If you never were in trouble, How would you know that I will come to your rescue? If you never were broken, Then how would you know that I can make you whole? If you never had a problem, How would you know that I can solve them? If you never had suffering, Then how would you know what I went through? If you never went through the fire, Then how can you become pure? If I gave you all things, How would you appreciate them? If I never corrected you,
How would you know that I love you? If you had all power, Then how would you learn to depend on me? If your life was perfect, Then what would you need Me for?
cut a piece of seam binding tape, affix to card..."bind" us together in love affix a drinking straw to card..John 4:14, "whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst" got this one from an emmaus friend in texas....psalm 51:10 "create in me a pure (clean) heart, o God" stapled to the individually packaged wash 'n dry towelettes glue a penny to a card.....Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth... Matthew 6:19a **** Key chains are good for men. Also, I've seen this done: On a 3x5 card, or whatever you decide on, use duct-tape to tape a nail to the card. The caption reads "Men use duct-tape to fix everything, God used nails." Another thing that's good for men or women is: Dove Promises chocolate candy with the caption "God's promises are true." 1. Goldfish crackers in a snack-size ziploc bag with the verse about being "fishers of men". 2. A large fish hook on a piece of paper with the same verse. 3. A bottle of water with the verse about Jesus being the "water of life". 4. A small piece of brightly colored sponge taped on a card that says "Soak Up God's Love" 5. A piece of a jigsaw puzzle taped to a card that says "Jesus is the missing piece in your life" Here's a few "quick and easy" and inexpensive ideas: Ear Plugs (because not all noises are joyful.) These are a standard in our community. A battery with note that says "Let Jesus be your energizer." The 3Amigos happened upon a great deal on sewing kits (hotel size). We put on a note that says "Be
prepared to Get Repaired." I was surprised at how much the guys like these. We've done fans - not hard - get paper with a rainbow on it and print "Join the Jesus Fan Club" on it. Cut heart shape out of paper and put a small horizontal slit at the top and the bottom of heart. Slide this onto a pencil. Very cute. A book of matches with a note or sticker that says "you are the light of the world." There is a company - Oriental Trading Company that sells a wide variety of stuff fairly cheap. Their web site is TeacherCentral.Com. or call 1-800-246-8400 for a catalog. We've considered yo-yos because God is there through all our ups and downs. I have an idea-it may be corny- get a piece of candy that is chewy-like Star Bursts or carmel-Use the Bible verse in Joshua 24 where Joshua tells the Hebrews as for me and my family we will choose God for whom we serve-put on the paper with the candy attached and say "Chews God." Another idea, get colored tootpicks- PICK Jesus; and put it on a piece of paper. Get a package of Life Savers that are individually wrapped and say Jesus is the true Lifesaver. They are simple and very easy to do. The idea of Oriental Trading is good also. My reunion group uses them quite frequently. One agape gift I received on a walk was a bookmark made on a computer with great graphics and scripture and laminated. I use it every day. Another one was wallpaper with hand done calligraphy and then laminated. It had the walk # and the scripture on it and helps for pilgrim's to remember the walk # and dates later on. a Band-Aid on a card printed with "Jesus binds up the broken-hearted." Cards printed with graphics that say "Someone prayed for you today!" I like to put these on the beds Friday night because they have been told about the prayer vigil, etc. the "Jesus Loves You" bracelets from Oriental Trading on a card with the bracelet on the top and underneath the words "this I know for the Bible told me so." small bottles of water with appropriate verses about the "river of life" etc. packets of Alka-Selzter with a card that reads "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, Oh what a relief HE is." Andes chocolate mints with cards that say "Emmaus is a mountaintop experience."
Cards that say, "Knowing and Loving Jesus just makes " ". (with a bright, shiny new penny stuck in the space with double-stick tape.) just makes "cents", get it? haha Go to a craft store and buy a roll if magnetic tape, the necessary number of one-inch round wooden diccs (flat), and rainbow, sun(son)flower, or other appropriate stickers. Put a small piece of magnet on one side of the disc and the magnet on the other and presto, it's a fridge magnet. Or you could even glue a sunflower seed to the disc and attach a card with the parable of the seeds. Personally, I like the Oriental Trading Post idea, but this is less expensive and hand made. I printed out business cards that said "Let... the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God... sharpen your life." Ephesians 6:17 and attached a plastic cocktail sword. I also used business cards and printed out one that said "Coupon Good for one free hug from God whenever you need it. Keep this in your wallet and read daily!" Our community seems to love to make music (noise) during their walks - I shop at the discount party stores and pick up flutes, clappers, or any other instrument and print out labels that say "Make a joyful noise!" or "Praise the Lord with music!" I got a compass that says "If you need direction in life, 'come pass' the time with Jesus!" Also, little rolls of paper with cute stories or good poems and such works well. Some of my favorite agape were a few strands of colored ribbon tied together for a bookmark. They have a butterfly bead at the top. I also got a plastic spoon that says "Dig into Jesus." One more thing: I got a peice of paper with a rock on it and a tootsie roll pop. "Rock and roll with Jesus." I just thought that was cute. I have tons more if you need more ideas. A nail taped to a card which reads "Men fix everything with duct tape. God used nails." Alka Seltzer taped to a card with reads "Plop, plop, Fizz, fizz. Oh what a relief Jesus is." Small bars of soap with label that says "To get really clean, Choose Jesus.' Small maps (you can make one up) folded with the words "For real directions, Go to God!" on the outside of the map. Small toy compasses with a card taht says "God will show you the right directon." Yo-yos with a tag or label that says "God will see you through all life's ups and downs." > More projects include-a rock that is big enough to write on it and say Jesus > is the Rock with a
rainbow painted on it; a Tootsie Roll or a Starburst > candy and refer to the scripture Joshua 24 where Joshua said As for me and > my household we choose God- put the candy on the back of the paper and say > "Chews God!",pens or pencils with WWJD, a Colored toothpick on a sheet of > paper and say PICK JESUS, a band-aid on a sheet of paper and say Jesus heals > our boo-boos. These are easy and not very expensive. > > reply to Kimberly's question about using > > > purchased agape items I > > > must say we have had plenty of those on the walks > > > that I have worked. On > > > those walks I have either worked on the agape team > > > or in the conference > > > room. Some things we had were little cars with tags > > > attached that said "Do > > > you have the drive for Jesus", Small plastic rulers > > > that have the label > > > about the golden rule. Bible verse erasers attached > > > to a card that said > > > something regarding Christ erasing our sins, there > > > are dozens that use > > > Hershey's hugs or kisses, there are the 911 or > > > emergency numbers (Bible > > > verses that apply to certain problems) typed on a > > > paper, done up as a > > > scroll, etc. Bookmarks, the inexpensive ones > > > purchased in packages of 10 or > > > those made on the computer using the theme for the > > > walk. Plastic canvas > > > cross-stitched roosters, rainbows involving God's > > > promises and covenants. Subject: Re: first talk visuals From: "Tommy & Leslie Cohen" Christine, I just completed my 3rd teaming experience and gave my 1st weekend talk = (Christian Action). This is a talk that you can do alot with visuals. = I think that pilgrims often get tired of poster after poster. So, I = took an actual cross in a stand as my visual. I used the white drape = for the "ressurection" focus, and led my talk in the direction of "take = up your cross". I also made agape to be handed out during the talk. I = bought small masonry nails, hotglued them into a cross, tied white = ribbon around the center to secure it, and glued a pin attachment to the = back. During the talk, I had each person hold the cross in the palm of = their hand and close their eyes. I had them focus on all that Christ = had done for us and that we could do no less than to follow His example. = The group found it VERY effective and I truly received God's spirit and = blessing through this specific idea. It is also a great follow up to = the concept of dying moments, since it is the first talk that follows = that ceremony. May God's peace be with you as you prepare for this = important calling. NO-BAKE BROWNIES Easy sweets filled with nuts and marshmallows 1)Put two 6-oz or one 12-oz Jumbo pkg (2 C) NESTLE'S Semi-sweet Chocolate Morsel's and 1 C Evaporated
Milk into a heavy 1-qt saucepan. Stir over low heat until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat. 2) Mix well in a 3-qt bowl, 3 C fine Vanilla Wafer Crumbs, 2 C Miniature Marshmallows, 1 C broken Nuts, 1C sifted Powdered Sugar and tsp salt. 3) Reserve C of chocolate mixture for glaze. Stir the rest into crumb mixture until well blended. Press evenly into a well-greased, 9-inch square pan. 4) Stir 2 tsp Evaporated Milk into reserved C of chocolate mixture until smooth. Spread evently over mixture in pan. Chill until glaze is set, cut into about 36 squares. Cheese-Marmalade Turnovers 1 stick butter 6 oz. Sharp cheese spread 1 cup AP flour jar orange marmalade. Mix first 3 ingredients together until ball is formed. Cover and chill for 1 hour. Roll out to 1/8"
thickness. Using 2 3/4" cutter, cut out circles. Put tsp. of marmalade on each center. Fold over and
crimp with fork. Stick fork in top once. Bake at 350 degrees until barely brown. Cool on rack. Makes
about 2 doz. Agap Ideas Please make 70 items of Agap for each Flight/Journey. Take them to the weekend to be distributed. Feel free to mail the Agap if you can't make it to the flight! Click for address. Here are some ideas - please feel free to be creative and think of some of your own ideas! Agap will be distributed in the conference and dining rooms. Please do not use loose glitter on agape - only glitter that is pre-mixed with glue. This saves cleanup headaches! Special thanks to the Boone Bible Believin' Butterflies for compiling this list!
Snickers Tape or glue a "fun-size" Snickers bar to a note card and put the words, "Hungry for God, Why Wait..." Thumbodys Place your thumb onto an inkpad and place on a note card Draw each thumbprint as a person be creative! Write "Thumbody Loves You!" Stick with God Tape or hot glue a small stick to a note card and write "Stick With God" Dryer Sheets Staple a dryer sheet to a note card and write "Cling To Jesus!" Kleenex On a travel-size package of Kleenex, write Rev. 21:4 - "God shall wipe every tear from their eyes." Noisemakers Attach this message to a noisemaker: Psalm 100:1 - "Make a joyful noise..." Bag of nuts To a bag of nuts, write: "Jesus is nuts about you!" Good candy Attach an individually-wrapped piece of chocolate or any kind of candy to a note card and write: Psalm 34:8 - "Taste and see the Lord is good." UNO To an UNO card, write: "DO UNO JESUS?" Sponge To a piece of sponge, attach the message: "You made the journey, soak it all in!" Belly Button Cleaner To a piece of matchstick, glue a piece of pipe cleaner, rounded. Attach the message: "Just when you think you had everything, a belly button cleaner!" and the verse 2 Cor. 7:1 "Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." Pixie Sticks Attach a Pixie Stick (sugar stick) to a note card and write: "God 'picks' you as His
beloved." Mints Attach a mint to a note card and write: "You were mint to be a child of God." Candy Cane Attach a candy cane to a note card and write "By the stripes, we are healed." Bubble Gum Attach a piece of bubble gum to a note card and write "Jesus' love keeps me bubbling all over!" Atomic Fireball Attach an Atomic Fireball to a note card and write "On fire for Jesus!" Salt Shaker Attach to a salt shaker: "Let your conversation be always full of grace (love), seasoned
with salt, so you may know how to answer everyone." - Col. 4:6 Grace Stick To a glue stick, write "Grace Stick" and attach the message: "Sin breaks your life apart -
Grace puts it back together." Birthday Candles Attach a birthday candle to a note card and write "Let your light shine..." - Matthew 5:11 Play Doh To a small Play Doh container, write Isaiah 64:8 - "We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand." Prayer Rock Wrap a small rock in cloth and tie shut. Attach a sheet that says "Jesus 'spoke to them in parable to show that they should keep on praying and never lose heart.'" - Luke 18:1 Stir it up Attach a plastic spoon to the message "...let us consider how to stir up one another to love and to good work." Hebrews 10:24 Band-Aid Attach a Band-Aid to a note cards that says "God Heals all Wounds." Pencil Attach a pencil to a note card that reads "Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart." Proverbs 7:3 or "You're all 'write' with God!" Lamb Bell Attach a small bell to a ribbon, attach the message "All we like sheep have gone astray." Isaiah 53:6 Gummy Worms Throw some gummy worms into a bag and attach the message "Come follow me, Jesus said, and I will make you fishers of men." or "Let Jesus work His way into your heart." Washers Attach a metal washer to a note card and write "Jesus will wash away your sins." Paper Umbrella Attach a paper umbrella to a note card and write "His love shelters us from the storm." Rubber Band To a rubber band, attach the message "Band together for Christ's Sake." Hawaiian Lei Attach the message "Jesus Leid down His life for you" to a Lei. Missing Piece Attach a puzzle piece to a note card with the message "Jesus is the missing piece." Paint Brush Attach the message "Let Jesus be the artist of your soak" to a small paint brush. Marble-ous To a notepad, attach a marble and the message"Jesus is Marble-ous!" Equal Attach a packet of Equal to a note card with the message "We are all Equal in His eyes."
Sugar Attach a packet of sugar to a note card with the message "Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus!" Rainbow Seeds Place some rainbow sprinkles into a small baggy and attach the message: "Rainbow Seeds." Genesis 9:13: "I have set my rainbow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the Earth." Warheads Attach a sour candy or Warhead to a note card with the message "Don't let your love for the Lord grow sour." Riesen Attach a piece of Riesen candy to a note card with the message "Let Jesus be the reisen for your Joy!" God's Bag Write on bag with colored markers: God s Bag 1. Create a crisis (if you already have one, skip to step 2) 2. Write it down. 3. Open bag. 4. Insert crisis. 5. Close bag. 6. Let go....Let God! WARNING: The Disciple General has determined that "taking things back" is hazardous to your spiritual health! Angel necklace Small gift tag that says: "Angels are watching over you" Attach ribbon and pony bead to a "butterfly" paper clip to make a necklace Compass Attach small gift card to compass that says: "God's direction is always true!" Party Horn Attach a small gift card to party horn that says: Make a joyful noise unto the Lord GRACE card magnet Type God's Redemption At Christ's Expense on card Cut out and laminate Attach small magnet to back
Emergency Kit Materials Needed: Q_tips, small birthday candle, Band-aids, toothpicks, rubber bands, small candy heart, Kleenex, Life Saver candy, Hershey Hug, baggies, labels and a gift cardPut all items in baggie, attach a label that says: Emergency Kit (for pain, trauma, or disaster) Attach or enclose a card that says: Contents: 1)Q-Tip = to open your ears tohear God s voice, 2) candle = to light your way, 3)Band-Aid = to help those hurt feelings yours and someone else s, 4)toothpick = to pick your brain for innovative ideas, 5)rubber band = to remind you to hold someone close, 6)heart = to bring gentle comfort, 7)Kleenex = to remind you that love is contagious,8)life buoy (life saver candy) = to rescue someone adrift, 9)Hershey Hug to let you know that you are loved. Sunflower Seeds Attach card to bag of seeds that says: "You are a seed sewn by God. Grow and bloom where you are planted" Candy Hearts Put hearts in small baggie Attach gift tag that says: "Start each day in a conversation with God" Motorists prayer Type on card stock: Each time I drive Lord, may I feel your hand on mine upon the wheel. Give me a watchful eye for young and old as I drive by. Keep me from speeding needlessly, passing earth s beauty heedlessly. I want to use this car for you to drive my friends with safety too. But all these things can never be, unless, O Lord, you drive with me Laminate Door Hangers Print on computer "Resting in the Lord" Do Not Disturb and Walk# our group name Hershey s Kiss Attach Hershey s Kiss to index card that says: "One who gives an honest answer gives a kiss on the lips." Proverbs 24:26 Bit O Honey Attach card to Bit O Honey that says "How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth." Psalm 119:103 Loaf of bread Take small loaves of bread (either made & shellacked or from miniature doll house supplies) and glue onto gift tag that says: Luke 24:30-31. "He took bread and blessed it ... and their eyes were opened." Almond Joy Put on label or attach small gift tag that says: "The JOY of the Lord is your strength." Nehemiah 8:10 WWJD Keyring Loop cord over ring and back through self loop Start with a small black pony bead, then a W bead, W bead, J bead, D bead; small black pony bead; red
heart pony bead and small black pony bead Tie off cord and leave 1" tails.
Good hand To a playing card, attach the message "Let the Lord be your lucky hand!" AGAPE IDEAS FROM VARIOUS MEMBERS OF DAYSPRING EMMAUS COMMUNITY SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOME FROM COASTAL GEORGIA CHRYSALIS and DAYSPRING CHRYSALIS JOURNEY Pictures are available upon request, please email me @agapeideas@yahoo.com with your email address and your snail mail address (in case there are problems). Or if you wish to send us a blank CD-R or CD-RW we could make you a CD with all the pictures. Most pictures are in groups. If have questions or need long sayings or long directions, please email me at: agapeideas@yahoo.com ****Dayspring (southeast Georgia) Community readers: E-mail me please if you know of any ideas left out will try to add on to webpage later.**** ALSO -- DAYSPRING MEMBERS, IF MAKING AGAPE, PLEASE, PLEASE EMAIL US AND LET US KNOW TO AVOID DUPLICATIONS -- and let us know who you and/or your reunion group are and contact info. What you are making will be passed on to the Agape Board Chairs and Reunion Group Coordinator. 1. 4" heart doily (see craft supply info S & S catalog). Glue two together on sides with glue gun. Leave top open. Print out on computer and cut out "create in me a clean heart, renew a right spirit within me" verse and glue with rubber cement to front. First time saw these done person had a small hotel type soap in them and doesn't seem like it had verse on it we just knew it was "clean heart." When we tried it, some of the soap was too heavy. So came up with idea of using a small piece of red terry cloth. First time bought cheap washclothes and Rit dyed them Scarlet.Lesson learned cut the washclothes AFTER you dye them, not before or they get all raveled and tangled together but we untangled and used them. For next time, went to fabric store and bought red terry cloth. Also got some leads that about companies that make hotel soap and plan to see if can get some really small lightweight soaps from them .... Thought this was especially nice to use for pillow agape. Have sample can scan.
2. Chicken cup yellow solo cup with stuff to make it look like rooster, string from top, piece of sponge on bottom so can grab string and pull and make it "cluck."Have sample.
3. Small piece of paper or cardstock Mustard seed verse: Matthew 17:20 Glue mustard seed on. This is a great inexpensive, quick one to do LOTS of mustard seeds in bottle you buy!
4. Prayer rock with prayer rock saying. Request by email if need the saying. Have sample. 5. Masonry (squarish type of nail) about 1 1/2" long Spray paint it gold Glue a pin back to the back of the nail with glue gun Pin this pin you've made onto a piece of paper
that has "FORGIVEN" written at the top and Psalm 103:3 at the bottom. Have sample.
6. God bag. Brown lunch bag. Fold over at top and hole punch one hole. Tie curly type ribbon through
and tie in regular bow (not curled). Glue "God Bag" saying on the front. Dayspring has a longer one
than some other God bag sayings have seen. Email if need longer God Bag saying. Have sample.
7. Fanfold ribbon or paper angel. Lace ribbon too expensive when making 65
so have tried regular
typing paper cut with the decorative type scissors that have recently come in the stores with all the
scrapbook stuff, etc. Email if you want more exact directions. This takes some time
you have to fan
fold 12" strip and two 6" strips and then put them together with wire wound around. And make halo out
of gold metallic pipe cleaners with stem that goes through round head bead with face (order head beads
with faces from Craft King) and stem is stuck down in the pleats so that it is together with the rest
of it when wire is wound around. Then tie a small red bow out of 1/8" ribbon and glue on front. This
kind of hides the wire. Also bought a bow shaped hole punch and punched out some red paper bows
thinking that would be less expensive than ribbon. Have sample.
8. Hat hooks (or tie clasps). A lot of people, esp. people that fish wear them on the bill or the side
of their baseball type hats. They could also be used as a tie clasp. These are the big gold hooks that
are specially made for that purpose. Make poster board or card stock fish shapes and cut out. Write
"fishers of men" complete verse Matthew 4:19 at the tail end - have tail end up and start writing down
toward the middle of the fish.. Write, curved so that it will look like the gill, at the other end:
"Hat/Tie Clasp." Hooks are made by Eagle Claw. Have scanned in so can send picture if you wish. Am
using scanned fishes (3 to a page) and printing out on heavy paper now instead of cutting out of
poster paper. Have sample.
9. Clam shell angel. Glue hole stopper (found at building supply store
Lowes, etc.) on top and draw
face on. Put store bought wings on back. (Have also seen ones made with a bow glued on back). Put
hanging string or ribbon on to hang.
Variation: Glue head bead on. Put halo on. Make arms with thin 1/8" ribbon - glue on one side, slip
medium faceted bead on (so it will hang in middle) and then glue to other side. This one had woodsie
heart wings. Ribbon and faceted bead same size. Have sample.
10. "Bloom Where You Are Planted". Tiny flower pot with silk or dried flowers; Variation: saw flower shaped pasta at a craft supply store and thought about making a card with that
saying and pasting the flower shaped pasta on. When searching on net for pasta one time found a store
from which one can order all shapes of pasta. To find
search the internet by looking for pasta or
pasta shapes.
11. Large vinyl coated and therefore colored paper clip. Tie a short piece of rainbow ribbon to one
end. Attach paper clip to a card with this saying: (Have sample.) "This rainbow clip you see Will help you immensely, If you clip pages 26 - 34 You'll flip with ease When the leader says turn In your Emmaus book, please."
12. Masonry (squarish type) nail. Dip pointed end about 1/2" in red paint. Tie red yarn on top so can
be worn as necklace. (Or I have on rear view mirror in car
only it worries me there sometime because
the nail hits the windshield if road is particularly rough.) Dayspring gives this out and a paper agape that has Jesus foot on cross with blood dripping out
these are the only two things given out after Dying Moments. Have sample.
13. Care Kit
there are several versions
some longer than others. (Care kit is things in baggie
with saying explaining what the cotton ball stands for, the toothpick, the bandaid, etc.) Email me if
you want more detail or saying(s). Have sample of some.
14. Rose of Sharon ring. Small red silk rose ( about 1/2" or less in diameter). Cut hand out of
construction paper and write saying(s) on labels or put saying(s) on hand drawn on white copy paper
and copied on copier. Have sample. Saying: Wear your Rose of Sharon ring. When did for Chrysalis, added some lines from a song called Rose of Sharon with identifying info. Take stem of rose and wind it around a finger so that it can be slipped on and off like a ring. Make
ring big enough that person can take off the paper and put it on their finger.
15. Bandaid. Type on labels and stick them on: "I am the Lord that healeth you. Exodus 15:26" (have sample.)
16. Earrings made with perler beads
with long wire that has loop at one end. You use pliers to turn
up other end after you get beads on, I believe. And then hang the other end that came already looped
onto an ear wire to make earrings. Also, someone found some screw or clip type earrings at craft store
that had a part that one could put that loop on and then take tweezers and close up that ring
so one
could make non-pierced earrings that would look very similar to the pierced ones. My thought is could
give out pierced earrings
but then have an ALD or someone announce after everybody has seen that
piece of agape
that for those of you who don't have pierced ears
hold up your hand or see us later
or something like that
"we have some earrings for non-pierced ears and you can exchanged the
pierced ear ones for the non- pierced ones." Have sample.
17. Poster paper or manila file folder key shape cut out. Write or put typed label on: "Open your heart to God." Have sample.
18. Candy cane and legend of candy cane
talks about the cane and the stripes and what they
represent. Email me if you need the saying. Put saying on red paper, tie to candy cane with white
curly ribbon. Have sample.
19. Cross made from 1/8" (also designated as 3 mm sometimes) satin ribbon and plastic canvas. Plastic
canvas is cut a certain way so that ribbon is criss-crossed when it is put on
it is not just
straight up and down and back and forth. Have sample.
Saying attached: Take up your cross and follow me and whatever book and verse that quote comes from.
20. Poster cut out of tennis shoe; tie yarn as shoestring. Can tie yarn on all cutouts
or cut out
one and put yarn shoestring in and then copy a bunch
so will have xeroxed shoestring.
Write on it --or type and glue on original before copying the Paul's verse about striving for what is
ahead .... Have sample.
21. Poster paper cut out of tennis shoe
see details above. But instead of that saying, make
friendship pins and pin the pin on the xeroxed shoestring. For friendship pins use safety pin or
special craft safety pins that don't have the loop at the other end. Use two seed beads (very tiny
didn't realize what was ordering when I ordered--seed beads are about the size of tiny tiny ice cream
sprinkles, or lead pencil end, etc. ) or "E" beads (which I should have ordered)
one "E" bead of
each rainbow color on pin (haven't determined safety pin size yet. Decided to put pins on drawn and
xeroxed tennis shoe so they would know that's where we had in mind for the pin to be worn. Has saying
on the tennis shoe about this friendship pin
wear it on your shoe and let the colors remind you of
Chrysalis and friends made there
something to that effect. Email me for more specific saying. Have
already scanned in shoe so can print on the computer
that way the shoestrings are colored and not
black. So can send scan - 3 shoes to a page.
22. Decorative ribbon that has hammer, saw, screwdriver, wrench printed on it. Cut piece about 6"
long. Have sample. Attach to saying: "Let this bookmark remind you that God has given you the perfect tools for living. THE HOLY SPIRIT, PRAYER, AND THE WORD
23. Pretzel
put magnet piece on back. Tie to card or paper with history of pretzel. Email and ask me
for saying. Relates to 1 Thessolonians 5:1 and some of saying is: "arms folded in prayer
pretzel
means "little arms". Eating pretzels reminds us Christians to pray. The three sections formed by the
crossed arms represent the Trinity: God as creator, God through Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit. Use
this magnet pretzel to remind you daily to pray without ceasing. This is not the whole saying though
just little parts of it. Have sample.
24. Make a fan
(smaller version of old square funeral home or church type fans
sample I have is
about 3 x 4" I think (I didn't measure
just guesstimated). Draw and color rainbow across mid top.
Glue popsicle stick on as a handle. Below the rainbow, write: "Fan into flame the gift of God. 2 Timothy 1:6. Have sample.
25. Poster board cut out of megaphone. "Shout the good news." Have sample.
26. Seed packets. Attach to paper that has 1 Corinthians 15: 35-43. Have seen this done with different
colors of zinnia seeds for the women and gourds for the men, but any seed packets would do. Person
doing this used to order the seed packets, but the company has gone up on the minimum order of packets
that must be ordered. Suggested she contact seed places or stores and see if they would give her the
old outdated unsold seed packets at the end of the season. If anybody can figure out how to get seed
packets inexpensively and not in such high volume, please email me and I'll pass info on to her. Have
sample. 27. Ice cream sample spoon (like the tiny pink ones you get from Baskin Robbins). Sample we have has a
ribbon tied on the handle and spoon is glued to a card. On it is written: "Chrysalis a taste of Heaven. O taste and see that the Lord is good. Psalm 34:8." Have sample.
28. Plastic regular size spoon. Put some candy or kisses in red netting and tie over . Write and
attach paper: "O taste and see that the Lord is good. Psalm 34:8."
29. Put some candy in a square of red netting. Roll up and tie with ribbon on each end. Use same verse
as in 28.
30. Cloth circle angel. Cut cloth circles out
use pinking shears so won't ravel. Fold circle in
half. Then fold each side toward the middle so that you end up with a triangle with point at the top
and large side of triangle is curved because of it being a circle. Over lap the sides a little so that
you can glue them together so the cloth stays in triangle. Glue wooden hole stopper (found at building
supply places
near where dowels are, I think) on end where point is. Have face already drawnon with
permanent marker. Red mouth, black or blue eyes. Cut a rectangle of muslin about 1" x 3". Twist in
middle and glue to back of angel for wings. Then glue curly doll hair on. You can buy curly doll hair
that is in a continuous ringlet about the diameter of a pencil and you just cut off several lengths.
On this angel you just glue hair to the sides of the head so that it looks good from the front. Don't
need to worry about having hair on back of head. Put self-adhesive magnet piece on back (you can buy it in 1/2" width strip rolled into a roll and just
cut off whatever length of magnet you need). Also put a safety pin on back so pilgrims can where it as
a pin on the walk. Attach paper with verse if so desire: "He will command his angels concerning thee. Psalm 91:11. Have sample.
31. Fruits of the spirit. Put "Runts" ( think that is what they are called) colored fruit shaped candy
in a snack baggie or smaller ziploc baggie like you put jewelry in. ( have seen these jewelry baggies
sold in some of the craft supply catalogs.) Put in baggie or attach verse (to the snack baggie): "But the fruit .... law. Galatians 5:22-23. ( didn't write out whole verse here cause it is kinda
long). Variation: With jewelry baggie just put a label on that says "Fruits of the Spirit."
32. Fire ball. Individually wrapped. Type a label and stick it to it that says: "Get fired up' for
Jesus.
33. Letter opener for agape letters from friends and family. Get plastic knife (white or beige). Write
DECOLORES on handle with different colored Sharpie PERMANENT pens. Must be permanent ink or it will
rub off. Tie curly ribbon bow in middle. Don't have to curl. Tape to front of bag that letters go in
so they can find it easily and know what it is for. (Dayspring puts agape letters in a white lunch bag on which we have colored a rainbow in the left
bottom corner and then written their names at the top. (Each table has a separate color
helps in
distributing bags to right table at distribution time.) Have sample.
34. Salt and light. Put salt in a piece of clear plastic wrap and bundle it up and tie top with
string. (This packet of salt should be about size of fire ball or round bubble gum." Attach slip of
paper with "You are the Salt. You are the Light." Salt is Matthew 5:13; Light is Matthew 5:14. Have sample.
35. Cut lips out of pink construction paper. Glue a Hershey's kiss on one side
but not too close to
side. Write on lips: "A Holy Kiss Goodnight" or "A Goodnight Kiss." We've used that as pillow agape
too
seems best suited for that. Have sample.
36. Plastic communion cup (have also seen them called putter cups). Put black jelly bean in bottom;
cut a piece (about 1/2") red Twizzler and put on top of jelly bean. Cover with plastic wrap and tie
with ribbon. Tie slip of paper to it that says: " This cup is the new testament in my blood which is
shed for you. Luke 22:20' Christ's blood covers our sins." Have sample.
37. White washcloth. Write with T-shirt type craft paint like puffy paint, etc. "Create in me a clean
heart" or draw heart instead of using the word "heart." Have sample. Can find large packages of 18 or so washcloths for not too much $5 or so/packet.
38. Plastic Easter egg. Put macaroni in. TAPE CLOSED. Stick label on
this can help keep in closed
too. On label have typed: "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. And where that is in Bible. Note: Think
ahead and get enough eggs around Easter to last for all walks during the year.
39. Power band bracelet with explanation of the different colors of the beads. Email me if you need
the explanation. Someone said when they were given theirs they were told
"this is to take the place
of the watch they took away." Have sample.
40. Slip of paper on which you have printed in large letters
but leave some space at one end
probably left end. Glue individually wrapped life saver on that end. Words on paper: "Jesus is your
Life Saver."
41. Index card. Glue bear eraser (from Oriental Trading Company) on. Write: "Jesus loves you Beary
much!" Have sample.
42. Index card. Glue heart eraser on. Below it glue saying done on computer with border: "Nothing can erase God's grace." Have sample.
43. Index card. Glue frog eraser on. Write: F.R.O.G. Fully Rely on God.Variation. Write that on side
of a pencil and put frog on
legs are made so that frog will fit on pencil.
44. Index card. Glue apple eraser on. Put verse or saying about apple of eye (in Deuteronomy).
45. Unsharpened pencil. Tape, near unsharpened end, slip of paper that has written on it: "Without Jesus, life is pointless."
46. Piece of rainbow colored ribbon about 1/2" wide, long enough to make a loop that would fit around
your index finger and then tie a knot. (Like a reminder string knot for your finger). Attach slip of
paper: "Knot to worry." Have sample.
47. Rainbow seeds. Put ice cream or cake sprinkles (tiny, tiny, tiny little balls of different colors
that you find in a container in cake decorating area or ice cream sprinkles area of store). Put some
in a small jewerly ziploc baggie. Attach saying (email me for complete saying): When to Plant Where to Plant How to Plant Harvest 48. Pepperidge Farm fish crackers. Put some in a snack ziploc baggie. Put slip of paper in baggie on
which you have typed: "Follow me, and I will make you become Fishers of Men.' Mark 1:17" (Or could
use verse in Matthew
we just wanted different verse than used with hat hooks.) Saw another version
of this where person had had some fish shaped note paper and they wrote the verse on that.
49. Macaroni in a snack baggie. Label stuck to baggie: "For nothing is "im - pasta' - ble" with God.
Luke 1:37".
50. Ribbon bookmark. Have samples. Length of 1/8" (also designated sometimes as 3mm) satin ribbon.
Length should be little longer than bookmark or book length
we don't really measure except against
previous bookmark made. Need a little longer because you will take up some of the length tying knots.
Get one length of each rainbow color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
or as many as you can
find. Stock up on orange at Halloween; on red and green at Christmas. Really hard to find royal or
dark blue, so use dusty blue. Yellow can be a challenge to find too. Can usually find rolls of ribbon
at WalMart or JoAnne's Fabrics
10 yds on roll for 44 cents or 50 cents or so. Usually takes four
rolls of each color to make 65 or 75 bookmarks. Slide pony bead on (see below for bead description); tie a knot using all strands so knot is about 1"
front top; slide bead up against top knot; then tie another knot below bead to keep it in place.
For Chrysalis: Use colored butterfly shaped pony beads. (Can get in packs of 144 inexpensively
from
Craft King catalog. (They have all kinds of neat shaped pony beads
have some that are angel shaped,
etc.) Usually cull out the beige and black butterfly beads and haven't come up with a use for them.
For Emmaus: Use colored heart shaped pony beads. They come in just different colors, or you can get
some with glitter in them, etc., etc.
Variation: Use all white heart shaped pony beads. Cut two lengths of red 1/4" ribbon (ribbon a little
wider than above 1/8". Or don't have to cut
just have a long length and fold ribbon in half so it is
bookmark length. Tie knot 1" from top; put on bead, tie knot underneath. Can write or type Clean heart
verse on paper or card and punch a hole or two through it and thread bookmark through or somehow
otherwise attach paper with verse to bookmark. At least two strands work best for this. If only use one strand of ribbon the knot isn't quite big
enough to hold the bead on as well as you would like. It'll stay on with just one strand knotted, but
could come off really easily. Have also seen this done with burgundy ribbon.
51. Beads, different colors
round faceted kind put on pipe cleaner. Shape bead part into body of
fish shape and twist
leave about 1" on each end out and make into V shape for tail. Glue pin back on
back. 52. Put several Starbursts (different colors) into a snack baggie. Stick label on: "God can satisfy
any craving."
53. Pasta angel (email me for directions
directions are long, but these are REALLY pretty - but can
be fragile. Have seen them shellaced and that made them MUCH less fragile, but we haven't experimented
with what kind of shellac yet.) Have sample. Made from bow tie macaroni for wings and skirt, macaroni for arms, egg pastina 150 (teensy, teensy,
tinsey stars) for hair, wooden round bead (no face already on
will put on later) for head, paint all
that with white acrylic paint, add silk flower between "hands", wedding ring for halo. This is girl
version. There is also a boy version with body made from rigatoni (tube shaped pasta).
54. Piece of yarn tied into a knot. Have a small finger size loop about 1/2" above knot. Glue to card
or paper. Below the knot separate the strands of yarn. Up top
on either side of the loop
glue
small wiggle eyes. On paper or card, write: "Can I live without Jesus? I'm a frayed knot!" May have sample.
55. Boutineere - or flower corsage
attach verse about consider the lilies of the field Matthew 6:
28- 30. Think have sample.
56. Small small flower pot, candle inside. Psalm 36:9 (can't read writing well so not sure of the 6.)
57. Rainbow made from plastic canvas cut in rainbow shape and 1/8" silk ribbon, dif. colors threaded
through. Paper attached: ... and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. Rev. 4:3.
58. Wide popsicle stick (tongue depressor). Paint face and hair on top 3/4" or so of stick, paint rest
white. Put opened paper twist twisted in middle to look like wings glued to back. Paint small heart
about 1/2" down the body. Have sample. Attach paper: "Use me as a bookmark
or hang me anyplace. I'll be your constant reminder of God's unfailing grace."
59. Two peppermints in a square of red netting; twist at each end and tie with ribbon. "Taste and see that the Lord is good. Psalm 34:8"
60. Cross made from glow in the dark heart shaped beads. "Let your light shine."
61. Rock
shiny ones. Can be found at craft store with a lot in a bag. Use gold or silver paint pen
to write on them: "On this rock"
62. For Chrysalis: Have sample. Card with Psalm 55:22 and 1 Peter 5:7 both verses with word "cast" in them. select border. Type in verses in order indicated
Use computer and format, paragraph, border/fill
above. Leave some space between the two. Use butterfly hole punch and punch out butterflys out of
royal blue or similar color paper. Fold the butterflies a little so when glue on card to left between
the two verses the wings will stick up off the paper. Bottom right hand corner
use heart corner
punch that has lots of small hearts that punch the two corner sides. Print, do heart corner punch outs, glue paper to a square of red poster paper (so will have red hearts
because red shows thru heart punch outs), glue butterfly on. Then at bottom underneath the two
verses,maye a little to the left since have heart punch outs on left
glue a small (size 6, I
believe) gold fish hook. (Write to Eagle Claw and get them to send you a little catalog of all the
different hooks they have.) Put self adhesive magnet piece to back.
63. Card with footprints drawn on: "Our prayer for you is that Your fourth day will be a brand new beginning to glorify God. May your footprints lead you down a pathway where you will meet others with open arms: renew your love for living and help you to be a beacon of God's great love to others.
At bottom draw a light house with light ray to the right. To left of lighthouse write "Be God's"
Inside lighthouse write "Beacon of" and in light ray write "Love"
64. Card or paper
with picture of candle. With Let Me Be Your Candle Poem. Have sample. or
variation: Glue birthday candle tied with red ribbon onto side of card. Poem on other side.
65. Sausage and egg casserole recipe. (Email me if you want). Chicken head is drawn on left, colored
with markers. This is put on eating table Saturday morning when have western theme. Breakfast is the
sausage and egg casserole. Have sample.
66. Jelly bean prayer. Jelly beans
dif. colors in a small jar like small baby food jar or
prescription bottle. Glue on saying that tells what the different colors stand for. (Email me for
saying.)
67. Craft stick angel - have sample. Email me for more detailed directions if needed. Had seen craft
sticks at the $1 store and they were in a package of all different colors
had each color of rainbow.
(Subsequent packages I only have found 5 colors --- it works out better trying to position 5 sticks (3
on bottom
red, yellow and blue, 2 on top in between - yellow and green so have rainbow colors in
right order). Anyway, saw the rainbow colored sticks and thought be
there MUST be something that can
made with those rainbow colored sticks
then later found angel idea. Spray paint (craft or Krylon
spray paint
regular enamel spray paint seems to be too watery) natural colored craft sticks. Use 3
per wing
put 2 in an x and then 3rd one straight across. Then glue colored sticks on top of that as
indicated above
don't put them too high or will mess up positioning of head. Then hot glue head
(wood head beads with face already on
see Craft King catalog. 16 mm size wood head bead) on. Glue
large woodsie heart (3 sizes come per package) on chest. Have small ringlet (pencil diameter ringlet)
pieces and twine 3 or 4 pieces together (or roll around between your palms.) Put glue all over back
and size and bangs area of head and put hair on. Add hair where needed to cover up bald spots and
until it looks good. When dry, have length of silver necklace thread
put through Wilton wedding ring
(halo) and glue to top of head. Have to use a lot
big glob of glue
but it looks ok. Last time we
made we had the string a litle long and slipped it between the wing sticks on the back and then
brought it up the back. Have to glue the string all the way up to about midway up crown of head so
that it will hang right
so the angel won't be bowing foward. These look really pretty with the
colored sticks. Tried just making some natural unpainted ones and an all white one
they aren't
nearly as pretty as the rainbow ones. Can find the natural craft sticks at the dollar store too
and
found some at Big Lots.
68. Paper agape: - Where His Walk Ended ... Yours Begins. Picture of bottom of cross with just foot showing and blood
flowing out. Color blood red
leave everything else black and white. This given out with nail after
Dying Moments as mentioned above.
- Dear Special Friend
- Fellowship of the Unashamed
- Jesus Laughing
- Why Roosters
- Have You Seen Jesus My Lord? (Retina image
stare at the picture and then look away at blank wall
and will still see it.) I have gotten that in one of the email story forwards
so that image is on
the net. I can find it if anybody wants it.
- God is Like ...
- Our Thinking - His Promises
- The Heavenly Grocery Store (have also seen this done as a paper bookmark)
- The Gospel According to You
69. Verses for Salt and Light mentioned above (in case I forget to go back up there and put them in)
PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK ALL VERSE DESIGNATIONS PLEASE TO MAKE SURE CORRECT.
CRAFT CATALOGS. Once got on Craft Kings list, started getting several of the others. Had to call and
ask for the Craft King one and also had to call and ask for the S & S one (this is the best idea
prompter one). Others starting just coming in the mail. Found Craft King by surfing the web. A friend
had S & S catalog someone had given her.
- Craft King - Discount Craft Supply (this is only place can find 16mm head beads with faces
and
apparently that holds true for everybody else cause they sell them out about as fast as they get them
in)
so word of advice
order in plenty of time
about month or more ahead. They sell them in paks
of 100 for about $7. Can find them in other catalogs
S&S - but they come in packs of 12 and
cost/shipping not as reasonable.
Craft King Discount Craft Supply P. O. Box 90637 Lakeland, FL 33804 1-800-769-9494 (order line) Email: CRAFTKING@GATE.NET 6/9/00 - just found out they have closed; check to see if reopen S & S They charge $10 shipping minimum P. O. Box 513 Colchester, CT 06415-0513 1-800-243-9232
http://www.snswwide.com email: service@snswwide.com This is one with lots of pictures and ideas craft stick angel, boy pasta angels, pine cone angels
Maplewood Crafts Humboldt Industrial Park 1 Maplewood Drive Hazleton, PA 18201-9798 1-800-899-0134
Craft Catalog P. O. Box 1069 Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068 1-800-777-1442
Beady Mania Catalog from: Enterprise Art P.O. Box 2918 Largo, FL 33779 1-800-366-2218 www.EnterpriseArt.com
Mary Maxim 2001 Holland Avenue
P. O. Box 5019 Port Huron, MI 48061-5019 1-800-962-9504
Oriental Trading Co., Inc. P. O. Box 2676 Omaha, NE 68103-2676 Order: 800-228-2269 Customer Service: 800-228-0475 http://www.oriental.com In addition to regular catalog, there is also a craft catalog and an inspirational items catalog.
MORE IDEAS:
70. Wooden spoons like used to get with the little cups of ice cream. Think there MAY be colored ones
in the craft catalog. Cut spoon in half. This gives you two fishes. Glue a string onto the end of a
regular popsicle stick
colored or natural
and glue other end of string to the mouth end of fish.
Attach "fishers of men" saying. Have sample.
71. Cheesecloth angel (haven't seen yet)
72. Hand cross (to hold in hand when praying
idea is to have one to hold like speakers have
two
dowels laced together with leather strip. To use to hold like speaker holds brass cross. Think one
dowel has part cut out so long dowel can fit into it. Have sample.
73. White wooden cross made from wood (painted white)
the square at the top of the cross is about
the size of if you drew a square using the lines on notebook paper. On a platform about 1" x 1" by
about 1/4" thick. DECOLORES is written on platform. Draped with rainbow ribbon. Ribbon ends are glued
on back and covered up with Reunion group name label. Ends come up and over crossbars and loop goes
part way down and is glued. Have sample.
74. Draw shape of angel
pink paper. Write: "Feel the brush of angels' wings." :Laminate. Cut out.
Have sample.
75. Make a necklace with gold necklace thread and white angel pony bead.
76. Golf tee angel. Put plain bead (about 1/2" or smaller) or a pearl on pointed end of golf tee. Glue medium heart woodsie to the back. Put gold glitter around base of angel (the wide end) use
glitter glue pen. Outline wings with glitter glue pen. Put gold sequin on top of head for halo. Put gold necklace thread on for a hanging loop. Have
sample.For picture, click here 77. Still working on creating this one: For the medium and small woodsie hearts left over after making craft stick angels, using one medium and one small glue one on topof the other to make a butterfly. maybe chenille stem, maybe colored coffee stirrers. points together
and overlapping some
Use something for the body
Some are items seen at craft fairs, some just ideas different people came up with. Some haven't made yet.
78. "Welcome each new day." Paint rooster on something.
79. Stickie Post-It note pads
write on one piece of paper: "Stick to Jesus."
80. Laundry bag
(white garbage bag with pull ties)
Jesus Loves (draw heart) You. Let Jesus take care of your dirty laundry. The blood of Jesus washes our sins as white as snow.
81. Reisen candy
"Jesus is the reisen for living."
82. Milky Way candy bar
"In all the Milky Way, God chose you."
83. "A day hemmed in prayer seldom ravels." Or "A prayer hems broken hearts." Get tiny wooden spool in craft dept. (About size of a fingernail can get about 80 in a bag (I
think). Wind a strand of embroidery thread around. Put other end through needle. Put needle in a piece
of cloth. Attach saying. (Haven't done this one yet.) Or instead of cloth use paper with drawings on it (hearts or something) to make it look like a quilt.
I think there is a saying about God can take the pieces of our lives and make something beautiful
can't remember it exactly.
84. Draw Bible with "BIBLE" written on front. Glue tiny colored clothespin on. (They are about 1/2" to
3/4" long, different clothespins are different colored. Wooden ones are the red, blue,green, yellow
and so on.) Underneath write: "Hang your worries on Jesus." Have sample.
85. Butterfly cutout cut out of speckled paper. Two glued together so that have 3 D effect with wings.
Have sample.
86. JESUS the word is shaped like a fish
cut out of wood. I guess this is done by someone with a
scroll saw --or it is a bought item. Wood is stained brown. Have sample, I think.
87. Soap in shape of heart. One group made some. Have seen heart shaped soap at $1 store box.
6 to a
Also saw recently some heart shaped tealite candles (but haven't found any to buy
maybe at
Valentines???)
which would be 10 to a box.
88. Airplanes made with gum and candy. "Fly high with Jesus" Have sample.
89. Red heart keyring with Jesus Loves You written on them. From Oriental Trading. They come in units
of 144 I believe. Dayspring puts them on the eating table on heart night.
90. Fish keyring from S & S. They are natural and person painted them different colors and on some
added features.
91. Crocheted angel! Like you see at craft fairs
3 dimensional. Have sample.
92. Cloth bookcover for Purple Pilgrim's Guide. Have sample.
93. Christmas Tree Angel. Have sample. Tiny Christmas trees
have seen them 6 or more on a card at
WalMart
they are ornaments I think. They are about 3/4" tall. Glue pearl bead to top for head. (No
face drawn on.) There was a ring of tiny, tiny, tiny beads on top of that for halo
they may have
already been made into the ring
haven't figured halo out yet. Wings are very small store bought gold
filagree wings. Tiny gold ribbon (1/8" or smaller) bow underneath "chin".
94. Take a crocheted doily and fold it in half. Glue on 3/4" hole stopper on which you have drawn
face. Put 1/8" wide ribbon bow underneath. Make a hanger of 1/8" ribbon and glue to back.
95. Silk magnolia angel. Get silk magnolia flower. Bend all petals down
this is the skirt. The
center part of the magnolia will be the head. Pull two petals back up and join them together in front
these are the arms. Glue a small silk rose where they meet. Make halo (don't remember how that was
made from
gold beads maybe, gold chenille. Don't remember wings exactly
maybe bow with tails made
the metallic gold ribbon that has holds in it or that looks like chicken wire kind of.
96. Flower pot angel. Get small flower pot
about 1" high. Glue about a 3/4" wooden ball on top. Draw
face on. Put raffia paper or wrinkly paper with scalloped/decorated edges made to look like wings on
back. Can leave without hair or put curly hair on.
97. Cross made with crystal clear starflake or sunburst beads
small, small size and gold metallic
chenille stem. Join chenille stems at right height to look like cross. It may be that the arms are
done first
put 7 beads on each arm, 6 on top part and 12 on bottom part. On top part, bend the
chenille stem over a piece of clear fishing line that has been tied into a loop. Then bend the
chenille stem down some more. This must have been done with needle nosed pliers because the bends were
tight
only a little bit of the chenille stem shows on the four ends. Have sample already scanned.
98. Caterpillars: Batting on a stick. Pom poms on a clip clothes pin.
99. Butterflies: Clothes pin handi wipes (blue striped or pink striped things) rectangular piece bunched up to look
like wings.
100. Treasure Chest made of plastic canvas. Only sewn together on edges. Bottom part is 3 rectangles and 2 squares (ends). Top part is 2 kind of triangles maybe curved some
with a larger square piece sewn up and over the point of the triangle. So you have treasure chest top.
Leave a piece of yarn on the top and one on the bottom so it can be tied closed. Put two cotton balls
in the box t take up room, then a couple of plastic coins (from Oriental Trading
one coin has
praying hands; one has a cross on it) and a Rolo candy. Print on slip of paper (rainbow paper was used
in this sample): "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . . . For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also. Matthew 6:20 - 21." This was for the men. Have sample.
101. For the women, she made baskets. Matthew 6: 19, 20: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon
earth, ... but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." **** Several ideas, but haven't done anything with them yet:
102. God's word gives us the perfect recipe for happiness. Psalm 16:11
103. God gives us the right tools to get the job done. Phil 4:8
104. Our prayers smell sweet to God. (Attach to a peppermint.) God's people make a lasting impression.
2 Cor. 2"15.
105. Rosebud: take two Hershey's kisses. But them bottom to bottom. Cover with colored cellophane
paper like is sold to put around baskets). This makes the bud. Take loose end and bunch together and
attach to a florist stem (example have is like stem you see on silk or plastic flowers
it is not
florists wire) along with a leaf
wind florists tape around it to attach. Was given a bouquet of
these
didn't realize the buds were kisses and cellophane until person pointed it out. Haven't
decided what saying to put with this
but could be something about love if get pink or red
cellophane. Example have is purple. Have sample.
****
105. Bubbles
like for weddings
with doves on top. Bought from Oriental Trading, I think. Agape
head said the pilgrims really enjoyed these.
Found some neat things to buy possibly
if get a group together to fund it:
106. Gospel fly. Handmade fishing fly with saying. About $2.00 each. http://www.snowcrest.net/rbemis/gfly.html
107. Praying the Colors of the Rainbow prayer card. $2.00 each. Have seen at at least two websites.
108. Rooster erasers. $2.00 ea. Apostolic Action. See http://www.apostolicaction.com
___ 109. Twisted paper angel. Take a length of twisted paper about 15" long and unwind it to that you
have it "flat." Fold it in half lengthwise so you have about a 7" long body. Crimp into a small piece
at top that will fit in the hole of head bead. Put hot glue in the hole in a 3/4 or 1" head bead that
has hole at bottom but not at top. (Although holes at both ends would be OK end
going to cover other
with hair). Stick the crimped end of the paper up into the hole in the bead. Let dry. Take another
length of twisted paper about 5 " long. Leave it twisted at the ends (hands) but undo it about to
3/4" inches in the middle. This is the arms and hands. Hold up the top piece of the body and glue the
arms in the middle of the two body pieces. Take another piece of twisted paper about 7" long and
untwist it all the way until it is "flat." Holding each end with a hand, twist it in the middle so you
have wings. Glue that onto back of body. Take a piece of 1/8" skinny satin ribbon (red) and fold it in
half and glue to back of head for hanger. Take curly hair (small ringlets)
a piece about 12 - 18"
long, bunch it up and rub it together between palms of hands, pull it apart and rub it in hands some
more (i.e., work it out of ringlets into fuzzy hair). Put some glue on front of bead (in front of
ribbon hanger) and glue hair on there hanging
put some glue on back of head and pull hair around the
ribbon and glue to back of head. Take a halo
a circle of gold chenille stem that has been made into
a circle with about 1" diameter, put it down over the top of the ribbon and glue it to the hair/head.
Take a red 1/8" ribbon bow
about 1" wide, and glue it at the neck. Can trim length of angel if angel
is too tall; can trim ends of wings if wings too wide. Have sample.
I may try a smaller version of this. Will have to experiment, but have seen angels similar but about 1
1/2" to 2" tall.
110. Pencil cups made from bamboo about 1 1/2" in diameter. Bottom was cut about 1/2" below the joint
so that it had a self-made bamboo bottom. Bottom and top edges sanded so they are not rough or sharp
sanding makes it angled in some. Clear label stuck on "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.
Matthew 4:19" and name of reunion group. Have sample.
111. Ruler. Type clear label(s) with words: GREAT IS THE MEASURE OF OUR FATHER'S LOVE and stick on. Another idea: Put label on that says: "He ruleth by his power forever;..." Psalm 66:7
Variation: Bookmark made from heavy paper. (Have already scanned this and put wording on
7 to a
page. I.e., have it ready to go!): Scan ruler into computer (use wood ruler with very little original
wording on it). Copy so have as many as can get on page and so that ruler is right size, i.e., 7 " on
the paper = real 7". Consider scanning as much of 12" ruler as can and then cutting it at 7". If words
are typed in 14 pt. Tohoma font that will leave about one inch on each side of the words. (Used 7"
because 7 is God's complete number.) Can go into WP and put words on the ruler.
112. Put chocolate on spoon and sprinkles (like gourmet spoons can by at store for sweetening coffee).
Attach verse about taste and see that the Lord is good or the one about Prayers smell sweet to God 2
Cor (2:15?
verse is somewhere else in one of these 3 lists.)
113. Make card with these verses. Glue acorn on. "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ
Jesus.--Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might
Just as you received
Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting
of the Lord for the display of his splendor.br 2 Timothy 2:1, Colossians 1:11; 2:6-7, Isaiah 6:13
114. Card with following verse. Glue flower in flower pot pasta on side, or seed, or a bulb..
>Ephesians 3:17: "May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love." (TLB)
115. Pill bottle with a lot of Bible verses printed on paper and cut out individually
so bottle is
full of Bible verse slips of paper. On front of medicine bottle
i.e., the label: "Seek and Ye Shall
Find Prescripture Shop."
Also on label:
Rx from: The Great Physician
Dosage: Take Daily or As Often As Needed for Spiritual Strength and Renewal
Active Ingredient: The Holy Spirit
Amount Due: This debt has been PAID IN FULL by the Blood of the Lamb
Refills: Unlimited!
116. York Peppermint Patty. Saying glued on: "A generous man will prosper. He who refreshes others
will himself be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25"
117. Brown wooden cross keyring ordered from Oriental Trading.
118. Cocktail umbrella
like for parties. Glue saying to it: "For thou hast been ... a defense for
the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat .... Isaiah 25:4.
119. Sucker. Cut out round piece of paper and make it look like a clock with numbers and hands
but
not all numbers
just 12, 3, 6, 9. Hands point to 12 and 3. Around edge
between 9 and 12, write
MAKE; between 12 and 3 write TIME, and beneath where hands come together in middle, write FOR JESUS.
Put name of reunion group between 3 and 6 and 6 and 9. Cut circle out and paste one on each side of
sucker.
120. Bell angel. Glue wood bead on top of bell. Put hair on. Cut two pieces of white scalloped seam
binding or lace about 1" wide and 1" long and put straight edges together and scrimp together some and
glue to back of angel for wings.
121. Paper doll (i.e., people) cutouts to where 3 are connected together. Bright flourescent paper.
Put heart or star sticker on in heart area. Type saying in front: Go then to peoples everywhere and
make them my disciples. Matt. 28:19. The person that made them used Ellison machine or whatever kind
of machine it is that will do cutouts for you. Tie yarn around and also around Gummy Savers packaged
in a bag. On inside of paper doll chain, one to each person:
KERYGMA - Proclaim and Share; KOINONIA - Community; DIAKONIA - Service.
122. Washcloth angel. Accordian pleat washcloth, fold in half. Come down about 3/4 to 1" and tie off
with skinny ribbon that coordinates with washcloth color. This is head. Scrunch up two more parts of
folds (using all folds) one on each side for arms
tie ribbon around and across in front and tie so
that it makes arms and body. Use rubber bands to hold first and then cover them with the ribbon. Use
lace on back
2" wide lace about 2 - 2 " long and scrunch together some to make wings on back. Can
put some lace on front too as an apron over the dress. Tie ribbon around. Glue a short length of pearl
beads connected together in circle to head to form halo.
SITES WITH DECOLORES STUFF Rooster eraser. About $2.00 each. See http://www.apostolicaction.com.
Dove, Inc. (Can find thru Upper Room Emmaus site)
DeColores, Inc. http://www.decolores.com/basic/index3.htm
Swanson, 1200 Park Avenue, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 swansonhotcom.net (615) 896-4114 Orders: 1-800-251-1402
Bevral Associates, P. O. Box 13825, Savannah, GA 31416
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Emmaus Supply www.emmaussupply.com johnboyd@sccoast.net 800-346-7988 Aynor, SC
ASG,Inc. www.lovewear.arn.net
loverwear@arn.net 800-658-2112
De Colores Designs www.azotus.com/decolores/intro.htm decoloresdes@aol.com 904-264-1889 Orange Park, FL
OVEN and FOOD AGAPE IDEAS
Rice krispie treats with different colored krispies in them.
Found vanilla wafers recently that dif. cookies were different colors. Rainbow vanilla wafers.
Cinnamon Twists (easy, inexpensive, makes a lot
80)
Buy a four pack of plain inexpensive biscuits. Cinnamon, sugar, margarine or butter. Original recipe is one can biscuits, 1 tsp. cinnamon to 1/4 cup sugar, 1/3 stick butter. Triple recipe.
Cut each biscuit in half, roll each piece into a "snake." Roll snake in melted butter. Then roll it in
the cinnamon and sugar that has been mixed together. Tie into a half knot. Bake at 425 degrees 10 - 15
minutes or until golden brown. Works best if use cooking stone (doesn't burn bottom). When take out of
oven take them up immediately or they will stick to the cooking pan.
Jello Jiggler Rainbow
Look on jello box for jiggler recipe. Buy six regular size boxes of each color: Cherry or strawberry Orange Lemon Lime The blue kind (might need to stock up in June or July) Grape
Make jello by jiggler recipe (less water) in 9 x 13 pan
each color made separately. So start several
days ahead of time. Cut them into small about 1" squares and put in ziploc baggie
each color in
different baggie.
On Sunday, spread tin foil on a BIG pan like would cook LOTS of rolls in. Leaving space for "cloud,"
make rainbow, starting with red on the top
this will be longest curve
other curves will get
smaller as you go down the colors of the rainbow. To left side make cloud
heap Cool Whip in cloud
shape, tufting it some.
Watermelon Bowl
Cut bowl (bowl works better than basket because basket handle will cover up part of rainbow). Scoop out put paper towels in to absorb moisture and put in refrigerator over night.
Have canned pineapple drying out in a colander on papertowels; also blueberries.
Red
strawberries or watermelon cantaloupe pineapple green grapes or honeydew melon blueberries purple grapes
Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple
Next morning (Sunday morning)
put small saucer size paper plates wedged down into watermelon to
separate your fruits/colors. Then put the different fruits in each section in the right order. Then
very carefully take out paper plates. Put different colored toothpicks out to be used to pick up
fruit.
123. Butterfly: Bev s Tissue Paper Butterfly. Cut two pieces of tissue paper together (or crease and
tear) about 1.5" x 1.5". Squish middle together. Put tiny, tiny colored wooden clothespin to hold
together and to be the body. See picture.
124. Nylon butterfly - buy from OTC.
125. Coffee filter butterfly - Color coffee filter with food coloring put in different bowls of water.
Dab on with sponge so get several different colors on filter. It will bleed some, so let one finish
bleeding before putting next color on. Squish to middle. Fasten pipe cleaners around and twist and
leave ends free as antennae. See picture.
126. Baggie butterfly - Take quart size ziploc baggie with non colored crease together zip. Put some
basket filler in (shredded crinkled paper) (have seen at dollar store) and a few pieces of other
colorful leftover stuff like beads any kind, pom pom balls, foamies shapes just a few pieces of
that to give it a little extra color and pizzaz. Ziploc. Fold over zipper part about an inch. Squish
middle together and pull down corners. Put colored chenille stem around middle and twist. Curl ends
around pencil some for curly antennae. See picture.
127. Star bead angel. Crystal star beads - 6 or 7 different sizes graduated up from about 3/4" to 1"
at bottom to small at top. Stack on top of each other over silver wire. Put a clear round " bead on
top of that with wire through to secure. Lengths of pearl beads looped shaped as wings and over top
for halo - wire going back through head bead head bead holes on side (like where our ears are.)
128. Wedding bubbles with tag: "The love of Jesus makes my heart BUBBLE with joy!" Put tag on with
curly ribbon - 2 pieces of different colors and curl the ends.
129. Strawberry candy glued to card: "U R Berry Special."
130. Play money $1. Write on it: "You are not your own; you were bought at a price."
131. Mitten put two pieces of felt together and cut out mitten shape. Sew together except for arm
part. Do two. Take a hair clip - the metal kind the hairdresser uses to hold hair out of your face,
but the small ones. Slip one mitten over each side of the clip. Now you have a mitten bookmark. Sllip
of paper attached: "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if you have love one to
another." John 13:35.
132. Color tongue depressor sticks. Slip of paper with saying "Jesus will stick with you" glued on one
side. Wiggle eyes and " pom pom nose glued on other side.
132. Ear plugs: Put label on box: "The Lord loves a well rested body."
133. Small white plastic skeleton. Slide slip of paper between body and arm that says "I ve got Jesus
in my bones!"
134. Smartie candy. Attached to slip of paper that says: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewal of your mind." Romans 12:2a
135. Butterfly made with wire and pearls. See picture.
136. WWJD tablet.
137. Found seeking write up typed in shape of cross and glued to construction paper also cut out in
cross shape. Ask for wording or look at Long Sayings.
138. Very special gift. Wrap a small package (can be just a small square of cardboard.). Type up and
attach "Very Special Gift" saying.
139. Riesen candy. Punch hole in end of Riesen wrapper and tie slip of paper to it that says:
"But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the REASON for the hope that you have." 1 Peter 3:15.
140. Riesen candy. Slip of paper with "Jesus is the Reason."
141. Votive candle wrapped in netting and tied with ribbon at top. Attach slip of paper that says "Thy
Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105.
142. Porcupine guy - bought. Slip of paper that says: GLYASDW. God loves you and so do we.
143. Toothpicks in a little envelope made from old Christmas cards. On front: "You did not choose me,
but I chose you." John 15:16. When you open it up, you see the words: "He picked you!"
144. Gold medal: Hebrews 12:1-2. "Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of
witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily entangles, and let
us run with perseverance th race marked out for us."
145. Tea bag with paper stapled on. (You can find tea bags with out the string and tag.)
"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water."
Eleanor Roosevelt.
"I can do everything through Him who gives me strength." Phil 4:13
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power." Ephesians 6:10.
Have a "tea-riffic" weekend.
Put all the sayings on one pieces of paper about the size of the tea bag and then attach it to the tea
bag.
146. Put Calgon bath crystals in a snack baggie. Put slip of paper in that says: "As you return home
and begin your Fourth Day, stop and take time to soak in the tranquility of the Lord."
147. Fireball: Attach saying that says the verse from look (check for correct wording and verse
designation: "Did not our hearts burn within us."
148. Threads of Friendship. Card with two or three strands of thread in a loop and glued down on one
side. Saying on card: "Threads of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, and love bind
us together in perfect unity." Colossians 3:12-14.
149. Folder like get for school that has pockets but no prongs. Folder is for the handouts given with
talks and also for 8 x 11 paper agape.
150. Placemats with the grace written on them. See picture. Covered with Contac paper.
151. SHMILY bookmarks. Cut out with fancy scissors. Butterfly hole punch.
"See how much I love you."
152. Small frisbee from Oriental Trading: "He makes the clouds His chariots and rides on the wings of
the winds." Psalm 104:3
153. Several Postcards with appropriate verses tied together: "Consequently, faith comes from hearing
the message, and the message is heard through the Word of Christ." Romans 10:17.
154. Party blow horn: "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands." Psalm 100:7
155. Stencil with Christian shapes. Attach saying: "What is STENCILED on your heart and soul?"
156. Cocktail umbrella. Attach saying: "Through rain or shine, Jesus loves you."
157. Sunflower seeds in a baggie: "Plant a seed in someone s life." Matthew 13:8
158. Green plastic toy arm man. Attach a saying with string tied around body that says:
"The battle belongs to the Lord."
159. Prayer reminder. Marble covered with cloth and ribbon tied around. Attach saying: "It is
sad but true ... sometimes we need a little reminder to say a prayer. Keep me on your pillow and I
will remind you to say your prayers before you go to sleep. You can keep me on the dash of your car,
on your desk, or by your favorite chair. Put me anywhere you will notice me and always remember to say
a prayer."
160. Snickers - bite sized, glued to card. On card is printed: "God s love is nothing to snicker
about."
161. Poker chips. With permanent black marker, write on one side: "When the chips are down"
and on the other side: "Choose Jesus."
162. Hotel size soap. Glue on a slip of paper that says: "Hebrews 12:22 ... let us draw near to God
with a sincere heart full of assurance of faith, having our own hearts sprinkled to CLEANSE US FROM A
GUILTY CONSCIENCE and having our bodies washed with pure water.
163. Apple either a candy apple, an apple eraser, apple Christmas ornament, etc. Attach saying: "A
word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver." Prov 25:11.
Added 3/24/02
164. Emory board. Write on the front side: ". . . and make rough places smooth. Isaiah 42:16"
165. Cork glued to paper. On paper is written "Don t plug your jug. Share the Living Water. John 4: 10
- 14." Magnet strip piece on back.
166. Plastic canvas in half circle. Middle bottom has two lengths of ribbon tied on. Outside border
and very middle of bottom of straight part is yellow yarn. Rest is white yarn. Label with "Fan the
Flame! Get on Fire for God!"
167. Really small popsicle sticks glued on index card in shape of cross. At bottom is paper glued on
with "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being
saved, it is the power of God. 1 Cor. 1:18.
168. Fish bead with length of hemp cord bookmark.
169. Two rectangles of the striped webby disposable dishclothes - scrunch together in middle and put
chenille stem around and twist and then curl rest of chenille stem so have curly antennae.
170. Cross necklace made of leather cord and pony beads.
171. Zig zag pape clip angel necklace. Turn clip so flat side is on the bottom and the two ends look
like two wings. Take a doubled piece of skinny 1/4" ribbon and feed through where the two pieces of
clip come together and feed the ends through. Then slip a bead over the ends and move it down to where
it is between the two "wings." This is the head. Then take the free ends of the ribbon and tie them.
172. Wrap a lightweight block of wood with colorful wrapping paper. Tie curly ribbon on. Before tie
simple shoestring bow with ribbon, slip piece of paper over it (hole punched in) that says the
following. This might be especially good for Chyrsalis for after the Gift talk.
This is a very special gift.
That you can never see.
The reason it s so special is
It s just for you from me.
Whenever you are lonely
Or even feeling blue,
You only have to hold this gift
And know I think of you.
You never can unwrap it.
Please leave the ribbon tied.
Just hold the box close to your heart
It s filled with LOVE inside!
173. Spine bookmark. Length of plastic canvas (clear one) about 23 blocks long and 4 wide. Feel 1/4"
skinny ribbon - red, green, yellow, purple over and under about every two blocks or so.
Glue the ends down, about ", so that they don t come out. Put 2 small labels on back:
One says: "Study to show thyself approved unto God ... rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15." On other label put "Insert plastic webbing into spine, Mark four pages at a time!"
and name of reunion group.
174. Pencil (from Oriental Trading or similar company). There are erasers at both ends. On the pencil
is written: "Life without Jesus is Like this Pencil - No Point to It."
175. Plastic canvas American flag. Label with: "God Bless America. God Bless Emmaus. God Bless Your
Fourth Day" and name of reunion group.
176. Magnolia seed pod angel. Dried pod, all seeds out; Looks like it is spray painted gold.
Glue 1" round bead at top for head on which has been drawn closed eyes with lashes, nose, mouth and
rosy cheeks. Glue blond hair on top. Glue on a circle of gold stretch cording (like you would use at
Christmas to stretch over package) for the halo. Tie or form gold webby type wired ribbon into a
double looped (so you have two loops on each side) bow and just two tails hanging down. Wrap wire
around middle to secure and also make a hanging loop with this wire.
Glue these ribbon wings to the back of the angel where the head meets the pod.
177. Paper agape: "I AM" and what each of us is and verse. A Child of God; Justified; A New Creature
and so on. It fills the page. Ask for the complete saying.
178. Paper agape. On ivory or cream colored paper. Print out Prayer of Jabez in calligraphy font.
179. Shell angel. Flat clam shell painted white with diamond dust (tiny) glitter. Round or oval wood
bead glued at top (at straight part - part that holds the two halves of the clam together) that has
eyes with eyelashes and oval mouth drawn on. Make a loop out of gold stretchy cord and a small halo
(size to fit around baby finger) and put ends of these in the hole in top of the bead and put hot glue
in to hold. Two small woodsie hearts painted white and diamond dust glitter sprinkled on are glue on
the back, points inside and glued to the shell, for the wings.
180. Eraser from OT that says God Erases Sin.
181. Plastic bookmark cross from OT.
182. Chenille stem shaped into fish about 5" long.
182. Business card made on computer. Lots of colorful flowers coming out of a box. Inside box are the
words "Bloom where you re planted!"
183. Bookmark. Books of Bible Old Testmant on one side; New Testament and a graphic (dove) on other
side. Different books in different colors. Laminate.
Additions 5/02 - from Journeys 3 and 4
184. Crocheted butterfly pins. Looks like the makers took two granny squares maybe (each one looks
like 4 circles together). Fold one circle in half for each wing (so you have a double layered wing on
each side. They then had a black chenille stem looped at bottom, then part wound around pencil for the
body, and then the two ends came up and made antenna which they made into a circle at each top end.
Then the two wing sides and the chenille stem are all sewn together. The crocheted half is attached so
that the top part of the wing is more than the bottom part. Really pretty in pastel baby yarn.
185. Grace Bookmarks. God s Riches At Christ s Expense. Made by Sue Jones. Poem by her on back.
186. I Am Saying. (Ask for - it s long.) Butterfly done on Ellis machine glued on top right.
187. Poupourri bags with attached verse. (Went with Christian Action talk). "As far as God is
concerned, there is a sweet, wholesome fragrance in our lives. It is the fragrance of Christ within
us, an aroma to both the saved and the unsaved all around us. ... now wherever we go he uses us to
tell others about the Lord and to spread the Gospel like a sweet perfume." The Living Bible,
2 Corinthians 2: 15, 14.
188. Pencil topper frogs glued to a card that had Fully Rely On God. They are about the size of a ping
pong ball. Ordered from Sherman Specialty Company, 1-800-645-6513; www.ShermanSpecialty.com. 72 per
pack; $10.95/pack.
There are bendable frogs in Oriental Trading Catalog which were cute also and used with the F.R.O.G.
message.
189. Grace magnets. Square of paper with rainbow and GRACE God s Riches at Christ s Expense on it.
Laminated and magnet piece on back.
190. Sunglasses - "Let the "Son" Shine.
191. Plastic watches with candy in them.
192. Plastic whistles - Jesus fish ones or cross ones.
193. Plastic fish keychains from Oriental Trading.
194. Wash and Dry packets. Clean heart verse.
195. Confetti papers in a little blow up and pop bag. Good for Sunday breakfast.
196. Juicy fruit gum package on card that had the Fruit of the Spirit items.
197. Poker chips with Jeremiah 3:33. Went with talk.
198. Small paper plate (saucer size) with simple face and hair drawn on. Popsicle stick glued to it so
you can hold it. Saying on back "Face it God Loves You!"
AGAPE IDEAS PICKED UP IDEAS FROM SOUTHEAST REGIONAL EMMAUS CELEBRATION IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA JULY 1999
(Thanks to all who brought their ideas to present and share and those who made agape to share) There are pictures of some of the items that have been scanned into the computer that can be sent to
you, or if you are viewing this as a web page, follow (hopefully). If have questions or need info sent to you, please contact me at agapeideas@yahoo.com
Pictures are available upon request, please email me @agapeideas@yahoo.com with your email address and
your snail mail address (in case there are problems). Or if you wish to send us a blank CD-R or CD-RW
we could make you a CD with all the pictures. Most pictures are in groups. Discovered that some of the
cards and sayings were on heavy 80 lb. Paper
is about thickness of poster paper
it will go through
my computer printer.
1. Earrings
iron together perler beads and then put earring stuff on. Could do non-piereced this way
as well as pierced, I believe.
2. Vest
pin agape on to it (not as agape item
but to display agape have received)
3. Braided bracelet
different colors satin cord braided together.
4. Frog eraser
"Leap for the Lord
Jesus has erased our sins."
5. Mirror
"May your life reflect God's love."
6. Salt packet like get at fast food place and Christmas light bulb small
"Salt and Light"
7. Balloon
"When you feel deflated - God will always fill you up."
8. Today you blossom with the Lord's love." With a small flower pot with flowers. WalMart has some
tiny 1" or less flower pots in craft section
they are spring colors, 6 to a pack. Small width
rainbow ribbon glued around top of pot.
9. Cocoon out of jute thread hanging down from a branch.
10. Jesus nut
6 sided hex nut
1/4" Howard's Lumber had best price; 100/box=$4.00 Not stop nuts
they cost more. Technically, one on helicopter has 8 sides, but I didn't find any little ones with
eight sides. Blue ink: "In the operator's manual the nut that Blue ink: holds the rotor to the top of the Blue ink: helicopter is described as the Jesus nut. Green ink: Keep this nut on your key ring as a reminder Red ink: that Jesus holds your life together and without Him Orange ink: your life could fall apart. Yellow ink: Col. 1:17
11. Put ribbon on 7 square wide plastic canvas cut long enough to fit in spine of Bible and add
saying: "Slide this bookmark in the spine of your Bible."
12. Q-tip "God cleans the deep down dirty places we don't want to think about."
13. Small wooden spoon as butterfly body; poster paper wings.
14. Foamy cut into foot shape: "The mind of man plans; The Lord directs our feet."
15. Coffee filter angel
16. Feather glued to a card with this saying: I am an angel feather Sent from God above.
To serve as a reminder Of His most gracious love.
17. Light switch plate
plain old beige rectangular one. Write DeColores and paint rainbow on with
colored markers.
18. Rooster cup
make comb top out of chenille stick
shape and twist; Make beak out of bumpy
chenille. Stick 2 separate together and then twist. Draw on eyes.
19. Plastic canvas rooster.
20. Clay pin "Abba Father You are the potter We are clay in Your hands Mold us and fashion us into the image of Jesus your son."
21. Short square nail painted black glued crossways to longer square nail painted black to make cross.
Point of long one put in block of wood.
22. Apple cut out of index card (apple hole punch - med size) Somehow the peanut is attached and hangs
down below that. Nut Pop! Peanut in shell, face drawn on; shellaced to preserve Never Underestimate The Power Of Prayer
23. "I will follow Jesus
He knows the Way" Footprint cutouts on small card
24. Stick of gum: "Chews Jesus
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow.
25. Lace angel
26. Peity stool to
wood cut out with hold saw and sanded smooth on edges; dowels miter cut and glued
bottom.
27. Puzzle piece - "Jesus is the missing piece"
28. Guitar pick
"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord."
29 Spool
30. Ear plugs: "For keeping out noise as you're reading God's Word For still, quiet times with Jesus, our Lord For helping you concentrate on God's guidance true For letting you know that we care for you.
Be still and know ...
31. Disposable razor: "The Word of God is living and sharper than any two-edged sword."
32. Take ribbon and make an x. Glue on safety pin to make a butterfly pin.
33. Cross made from perler beads ironed together.
34. Angel made with perler beads ironed together. Wire wings. Halo Head ? Color beige
Body - blue
35. Make a barrette with curly ribbon (red ribbon, etc.
one of each color of rainbow), tie onto big
bobby pin and then curl.
36. Put 6 small gold safety pins hanging from one small gold safety pin. On first hanging one put
lavender seed beads (fill up safety pin); on second one the next color and so on til have as many
colors of the rainbow as you can
all 6 if can get 6 safety pins hanging vertically from the
horizontal safety pin.
37. Tiny twisted paper angel
38. A watch made like: (see below). "A watch to replace the one they took away." Ribbon wrist band striped?
Some kind of ring about the size of a watch face - like on key rings That holds ribbon or cloth in it so you can see it Hands are like the inside flower parts that come off some kind of silk flower. I.e., little oval
things with a tiny, tiny bit of stem.
HAVE SAMPLES OF: (Have pictures of SOME scanned in
several to a page.)
1. # 36 above. Safety pins and seed beads.
2. Card with a feather in the middle I am an angel feather Sent from God above To serve as a reminder Of His most gracious love
Glue colored small feather here
Then reunion group name, town
3. Plexiglass (looks like that must be it) rooster cut out and then painted. Thing to make it a pin
attached to back.
4. Tennis shoe eraser on card "Your word is a lamp unto my feet . . ." Psalm 119:105
5. Piety stool made out of wood circle and small dowels
6. Rainbow seeds
small candies (ice cream toppings
multicolored) Have saying if anybody needs it.
And have scanned it in.
7. Xerox of a butterfly and cut out with saying blocked across top: "Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed." John 8:36
8. Tri bead fish. Tribeads on a colored pipe cleaner
Determine where middle of pipe cleaner is and
twist together about inch up so have a loop to attach a hook to (one like on dog leash where you
attach it to the collar). Then put card on that part indicating which reunion group.
After the loop start putting beads on the top and the bottom parts of the pipe cleaner. Pipe cleaner
on sample is kelly green and the fish is really pretty. Top: 2 clear, 2 yellow, 2 pink, 2 dark green,
2 light green, 2 orange, 2 red, 2 lavender, 2 aqua, 2 dark blue. Bottom: 2 dark blue, 2 aqua, 2 lavender, 2 red, 2 orange, 2 light green, 2 dark green, 2 pink, 2
yellow, 2 clear. Then twist together the pipe cleaners. Have bead part in fish body shape. Leave about 1 and inches
of pipe cleaner for tail in V shape.
9. Agape bag
a bought birthday party bag with balloons on it. Sure was appreciated by the time that
afternoon came around!
10. God bag. - Create a crisis. (If you already have one, skip step 1) - Write it down - Open bag. - Insert crisis. - Close bag - Let go and let God.
WARNING The Disciple General has determined that "taking things back" is hazardous to your spiritual health.
Saying was done on computer - - items were numbered. Printed on colored paper. Then paper was glued to
bag. Computer generated label (small mailing label) with reunion group name was stuck above the cut
out saying. Bag was left open.
11. Yarn bookmark. 3 Different colors of yarn braided together; then 3 different ones of those tied at
top.
12. Silk flower (small daisy
different colors). Puffy butterfly glued in middle. Flower has been
taken off stem. Thing tomake it into a pin glued on back.
13. Mending kit (bought). Saying glued on: "Be Prepared to be Repaired."
14. Felt piece about 6" long (rounded)
2 inches wide
ends rounded. "DE COLORES" written across top
in different color paint. Saying printed on colored paper and pinned onto felt with straight pin: "It's time to see some old and new faces, And name tags are needed to fill in blank spaces. Just pin yours right here, So there's no need to fear; Cause with this nifty gadget You're sure to always have it!<=
DeColores Name of reunion group
15. Pasta Angel. Have directions for those. They are long. Email me.
16. Rainbow yarn
lots of about 2 to 3 inch pieces. Tied together in middle. Will be flat
not
pom-pom (not that many pieces!). Two wiggle eyes glued in middle. Saying printed on white paper (long
strip) and pinned to back with silver med. safety pin. So it can be worn as a pin.
"A new command I give you, love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. All men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another."
John 13:34 - 35
DeColores BE A LOVE BUG!!!
Reunion group name.
17. Rainbow Peephole: Bought little round circle with special acetate in the middle. When you look
through the circle at a light, you see rainbows. Works best when you look at a pin point of light like
a lamp or tiny white Christmas lights. We have gotten "glasses" like this at Christmas --you look thru
and see Noel or Joy. Have internet info where to buy somewhere. On back of peephole is "Rainbow
Symphony, Inc."
Peephole attached to card. Card has reunion Group Info on one side. On other: "As God brought the rainbow to Noah as a symbol of his new covenant, so too you have now
made anew your covenant with Jesus. Use this peephole as a reminder of both God's covenant with you
and yours with Him. Hold it up to the light and see the wonderful colors of God's rainbow and remember
the wonders God has in store for you. Have a colorful Fourth Day.
DeColores!
18. Wooden "Jesus" fish shape keyring
on beaded short chain. Have seen in Oriental Trading catalog.
19. Small (smaller than usual small)
i.e., favor size --matchbox with matches.
Colored paper wrapped around it to cover three sides One wide side has Emmaus community name Other side has: Happy Fourth Day Let Your Light Shine
one strike side left uncovered.
20. Nail cross painted black on wood base
described above.
21. Colored M & Ms in a small ziploc.
22. Yo - yo. (The kind you would find in the birthday party favor section of the store or from
Oriental Trading
i.e., favor size Yo-yo). In a snack baggie with piece of paper that says: "God's
prevenient grace is constantly wooing, pursuing, and drawing us back to Him
like a yo-yo." Label
with reunion group or Emmaus community name stuck on outside of baggie.
23. Praying hands tie tac/lapel pin. (Store bought). Pinned on paper with saying below and put in
snack baggie. Reunion group info at top/place/community "You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body, and knit them together in my mother's womb. Thank
you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous
and how well I know it." Psalm 139: 13-14
24. Small plastic brandy snifter about 1 inches high.br Saying on red paper strip rolled up and put
inside bowl of brandy snifter (so it is filled with red)br "And he took the cup, and when he had given
thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you; for this is the blood of the covenant,
which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." br Matt. 26: 27 - 28.
25. A penny for your thoughts. Bought card and pressed penny. Penny has the 10 commandments pressed on
it. To see the wording on the penny, tilt the coin to the right. Same principle applies with the 10
commandments
to understand each Commandment, you need the light of the New Testament. ........
Living Waters Pubns. At (562) 920-8431 www.raycomfort.com
26. Small 1" pastel flower pot with small flowers in "Let God nourish you where you bloom and grow" on
self adhesive lable. Piece of rainbow striped ribbon around flower pot.
27. Solo cup rooster.
28. Watch (described above
partially.) Ring looks like a key ring ring. Something about 3/4 wide and
textured (but not elastic) is the band. Sample is royal blue. Velcro put on the ends so it can be
fastened together. A piece of striped silky,satiny ribbon is cut into a circle and glued in the middle
of the key ring circle. Stripes: yellow, white, green red, small white, royal blue med., yellow.
Little pieces that come from middle of silk flowers (I think) glued to middle
they have stick with
oval type bead look at end)
one is longer than the other. "To replace the watch they took away." or
"God's Rolex - He has all the time if the world for YOU."
29. Clip clothes pin. Wood heart glued to one end; magnet piece glued to the other. Sticker stuck in
middle of heart.
30. Bottle of bottled water. Yarn tied around neck. Several cards holdpunched and tied to it:
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will
never thirst. Indeed the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal
life." John 4:13-14. DeColores Community name
"As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, Oh God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? Psalm 42, NIV DeColores.
"It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty, I will give to drink without cost from
the spring of the water of life. Revelation 21:6 NIV
These are all printed on cards a little bigger than business card. DECOLOREs and community name and contact info on back.
31. Cloth heart sewn out of rainbow colored cloth (front) and plain colored cloth on back. Stuffed
with fiberfill. Safety pin put on back so can be pinned on. Strip of colored paper with saying also
attached to safety pin. "For God ... made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God in the
face of Christ." II Corinthians 4:6 DeColores Reunion Group info 32. Candy airplane little different from one made by Dayspring
"Flying high with Jesus is Just plane' good sense!"
33. Clay pin with "ABBA" pressed into it and pin thingee put on back. Also described above.
34. Votive candle. Strip of paper wrapped around and glued. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in Heaven.
Matthew 5:16. DeColores Reunion Group name
35. Other pins made with a prefab picture.
36. Magnet sheet "paper"
small. Picture and "Prayer Spoken Here." Have seen a rolled sheet of magnet
at WalMart, but haven't tried it. There are also some interesting computer things
but don't know if
there are magnet ones. Have seen ones you can make bumper stickers (don't know if they are static
cling or what) that you can find in computer supply area.
37. As the deer pants bookmark.
38. Small plastic canvas rectangle with pocket. Small plastic canvas cross inserted. Saying folded up and put in there also: "THE CROSS IN MY POCKET." Long so not printed here.
AGAPE GIFTS
Agape Love We have all had moments when we stood in absolute awe at God s creation. Like the sun rising over the
sea, the majestic mountains, a waterfall, a rainbow
to name but a few. Take a moment and think of
some of the times when God s creation left you in awe and wonder at His Greatness.
These are His gifts for us in every day and yet they are nothing compared to the agape love He has for
us. To begin to define Agape Love , one could only say real Love beyond what we can comprehend, love
so unconditional, expecting no response and nothing in return.
It was Agape Love that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. God loves you so
much in spite of our sin and failures unconditional love.
The agape gifts that you make are an act of unconditional sacrificial agape love the purpose to
remind the pilgrims of Gods love for them
As we begin to prepare for the next set of Walks (and Flights/Journey), please take time now to listen
to the prompting of the Holy Spirit Christ is Counting on You.
Thank you for all the acts of agape in the past many of them I know might have gone unnoticed, but
our Lord knows thank you.
Prayer Agape Often when Jesus spoke in parables he would start with the words listen . . Now that you are
listening this is the most important agape gift
interceding in prayer for the walks and other
communities around the world. Come beautiful people, lets begin to be a praying community. The prayer
vigils are now found online - click on one of the Prayer Vigil links. This makes the prayer vigil
available to the whole community and I would encourage you to sign up early to avoid disappointment.
Agape Gifts Please would all accountability groups confirm the agape they plan to make. These lists are important
to prevent duplicates. Be absolutely blessed this beautiful day
Question: "What is agape love?"
Answer: The Greek word agape is often translated "love" in the New Testament. How is "agape love"
different from other types of love? The essence of agape love is self-sacrifice. Unlike our English
word love, agape is not used in the Bible to refer to romantic or sexual love. Nor does it refer to
close friendship or brotherly love, for which the Greek word philia is used. Nor does agape mean
charity, a term which the King James translators carried over from the Latin. Agape love is unique and
is distinguished by its nature and character.
Agape is love which is of and from God, whose very nature is love itself. The Apostle John affirms
this in 1 John 4:8: God is love. God does not merely love; He is love itself. Everything God does
flows from His love. But it is important to remember that God s love is not a sappy, sentimental love
such as we often hear portrayed. God loves because that is His nature and the expression of His being.
He loves the unlovable and the unlovely (us!), not because we deserve to be loved, but because it is
His nature to do so, and He must be true to His nature and character. God s love is displayed most
clearly at the Cross, where Christ died for the unworthy creatures who were dead in trespasses and
sins (Ephesians 2:1), not because we did anything to deserve it, but God commends His love toward us
in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). The object of agape love never
does anything to merit His love. We are the undeserving recipients upon whom He lavishes that love.
His love was demonstrated when He sent His Son into the world to seek and save that which was lost
(Luke 19:10), and to provide eternal life to those He sought and saved. He paid the ultimate sacrifice
for those He loves.
In the same way, we are to love others sacrificially. Jesus gave the parable of the Good Samaritan as
an example of sacrifice for the sake of others, even for those who may care nothing at all for us, or
even hate us, as the Jews did the Samaritans. Sacrificial love is not based on a feeling, but a
determined act of the will, a joyful resolve to put the welfare of others above our own. But this type
of love does not come naturally to humans. Because of our fallen nature, we are incapable of producing
such a love. If we are to love as God loves, that love that agape can only come from its true Source.
This is the love which has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us when we
became His children (Romans 5:5). Because that love is now in our hearts, we can obey Jesus who said,
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love
one another (John 13:34). This new commandment involves loving one another as He loved us
sacrificially, even to the point of death. But again, it is clear that only God can generate within us
the kind of self-sacrificing love which is the proof that we are His children. By this we have known
the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the
brothers (1 John 3:16). Because of God s love toward us, we are now able to love one another.
Making Clothespin Agape
1. On one side of a clothespin, using a thin marker, write "John 3:16". On the other side, glue a
square nail. MAKE SURE IT DRIES before you put it away! 2. Put a small pom pom on one end, write "Jesus Holds it Together" 3. On one side write "Jesus Always", on other side write "Hangs In There" 4. Write "Stick with Jesus".
Options for most clothespins: Glue a small piece of magnet strip on the back!
From SE Regional Emmaus PICKED UP IDEAS FROM SOUTHEAST REGIONAL EMMAUS CELEBRATION IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - JULY 1999 (Thanks to all who brought their ideas to present and share and those who made agape to share) There are pictures of some of the items that have been scanned into the computer that can be sent to
you, or if you are viewing this as a web page, follow (hopefully). If have questions or need info sent to you, please contact me at agapeideas@yahoo.com
Pictures are available upon request, please email me @agapeideas@yahoo.com with your email address and
your snail mail address (in case there are problems). Or if you wish to send us a blank CD-R or CD-RW
we could make you a CD with all the pictures. Most pictures are in groups. Discovered that some of the
cards and sayings were on heavy 80 lb. Paper - is about thickness of poster paper - it will go through
my computer printer.
1. Earrings - iron together perler beads and then put earring stuff on. Could do non-piereced this way
as well as pierced, I believe.
2. Vest - pin agape on to it (not as agape item - but to display agape have received)
3. Braided bracelet - different colors satin cord braided together.
4. Frog eraser - "Leap for the Lord - Jesus has erased our sins."
AGAPE Suggestions:
Pipe cleaners shaped like a fish with pony beads / Mat1:17 Come, follow me, Jesus said, and I will
make you fishers of men.
Wooden cross / If you had been the only person on earth, Christ still would have gone to the cross for
you! John 3:16
Flip flop made out of form / How beautiful upon the mountains, are the feet of Him who brings good
news
Who proclaim peace?
Who bring good news?
Is 52:7
Army men / For though we live in the world, we do not age war as the world does. The weapons we fight
with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish
strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of
God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Cor. 10:3-5
Bracelet with beads on strength/ Jesus, the king of Angels, ask you to trust Him with the time you
have set aside for Him this week. Please wear His kind of watch now instead of your own to remind
you how much He Loves You!
A big nail/ Hang this on a doorknob. Every time the door opens and closes and you hear this clank
think about what Christ has done for you
Andes mint candy/ Encouragements
Encourage one another and build up each other
1 Thess 5:11
Bible book mark with ribbons/ Put this in the spine of your Bible. The ribbons will mark scriptures.
Salt bag Colossians 4:6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that
you may know how to answer everyone.
Tea Bag/ Wonderful times of refreshment come from the presence of the Lord Act 3:19
Bag of seeds/ Bloom where you are planted! You will reap what you sow. Gal. 6:7b/ on back
instructions of seeds
Pretty paper clap with hearts for top//Jesus loves you!
Jelly Beans/ in baggie/ The Jelly Bean Prayer/ Red is for the blood He gave; Green is for the grass He
made; Yellow is for the sun so bright; Orange is for the edge of night; White is for the grace He
gave: Purple is for His hour of sorrow; Pink is for our new tomorrow. A bag full of jelly beans
colorful and sweet, is a prayer, is a promise, is a special treat.
Book marks for spine of Bible with ribbons/ When yu seek for me, you will find me: if you seek me
with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13
Campos/ Jesus is the one true way!
Smiley face gum/ Psalm67:1 God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us
Square with hand e prints and two hands out of fome board/ Lord make my hands a pleasing servant of
your word. 1 Cor 4:1 Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of
God.
Safety pin with beads on it and a picture of tennis shoe/ Wear this pin on the lace of your shoe as a
reminder that Christ always walks with you
Can food label/ A nutritious can of food has been donated to charity in honor of Walk 275.
Plastic cross in baggie/ Believe
Key chain with pony beads/ I will give you the keys to the kingdom. Matt. 16:19
Toung depressors with a butterfly/dragonfly out of fome board/ Stick with Jesus!
Single row crochet with rainbow colors/ Agape Necklace Use this necklace to wear and to store all of
your agape pins.
Tooth pick fancy/ You didn t pick Me, I picked You! John 15:16
Q-tip/ God will Wipe Away Your Sins
Small ruler/ Make straight the way of the Lord!
5. Mirror - "May your life reflect God's love."
6. Salt packet like get at fast food place and Christmas light bulb small - "Salt and Light"
7. Balloon - "When you feel deflated - God will always fill you up."
8. Today you blossom with the Lord's love." With a small flower pot with flowers. WalMart has some
tiny 1" or less flower pots in craft section - they are spring colors, 6 to a pack. Small width
rainbow ribbon glued around top of pot.
9. Cocoon out of jute thread hanging down from a branch.
10. Jesus nut - 6 sided hex nut - 1/4" Howard's Lumber had best price; 100/box=$4.00 Not stop nuts -
they cost more. Technically, one on helicopter has 8 sides, but I didn't find any little ones with
eight sides. Blue ink: "In the operator's manual the nut that Blue ink: holds the rotor to the top of the Blue ink: helicopter is described as the Jesus nut. Green ink: Keep this nut on your key ring as a reminder Red ink: that Jesus holds your life together and without Him Orange ink: your life could fall apart.
Yellow ink: Col. 1:17
11. Put ribbon on 7 square wide plastic canvas cut long enough to fit in spine of Bible and add
saying: "Slide this bookmark in the spine of your Bible."
12. Q-tip "God cleans the deep down dirty places we don't want to think about."
13. Small wooden spoon as butterfly body; poster paper wings.
14. Foamy cut into foot shape: "The mind of man plans; The Lord directs our feet."
15. Coffee filter angel
16. Feather glued to a card with this saying: I am an angel feather Sent from God above. To serve as a reminder Of His most gracious love.
17. Light switch plate - plain old beige rectangular one. Write DeColores and paint rainbow on with
colored markers.
18. Rooster cup - make comb top out of chenille stick - shape and twist; Make beak out of bumpy
chenille. Stick 2 separate together and then twist. Draw on eyes.
19. Plastic canvas rooster.
20. Clay pin "Abba Father You are the potter We are clay in Your hands Mold us and fashion us into the image of Jesus your son."
21. Short square nail painted black glued crossways to longer square nail painted black to make cross.
Point of long one put in block of wood.
22. Apple cut out of index card (apple hole punch - med size) Somehow the peanut is attached and hangs
down below that. Nut Pop! Peanut in shell, face drawn on; shellaced to preserve Never Underestimate The Power Of Prayer
23. "I will follow Jesus - He knows the Way" Footprint cutouts on small card
24. Stick of gum: "Chews Jesus - Jesus is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow.
25. Lace angel
26. Peity stool - wood cut out with hold saw and sanded smooth on edges; dowels miter cut and glued to
bottom.
27. Puzzle piece - "Jesus is the missing piece"
28. Guitar pick - "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord."
29 Spool - ?
30. Ear plugs: "For keeping out noise as you're reading God's Word For still, quiet times with Jesus, our Lord For helping you concentrate on God's guidance true For letting you know that we care for you. Be still and know ...
31. Disposable razor: "The Word of God is living and sharper than any two-edged sword."
32. Take ribbon and make an x. Glue on safety pin to make a butterfly pin.
33. Cross made from perler beads ironed together.
34. Angel made with perler beads ironed together. Wire wings.
Halo - ? Color Head - beige Body - blue
35. Make a barrette with curly ribbon (red ribbon, etc. - one of each color of rainbow), tie onto big
bobby pin and then curl.
36. Put 6 small gold safety pins hanging from one small gold safety pin. On first hanging one put
lavender seed beads (fill up safety pin); on second one the next color and so on til have as many
colors of the rainbow as you can - all 6 if can get 6 safety pins hanging vertically from the
horizontal safety pin.
37. Tiny twisted paper angel
38. A watch made like: (see below). "A watch to replace the one they took away." Ribbon wrist band - striped? Some kind of ring about the size of a watch face - like on key rings That holds ribbon or cloth in it so you can see it Hands are like the inside flower parts that come off some kind of silk flower. I.e., little oval
things with a tiny, tiny bit of stem.

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FROM FOURTH DAY FRIENDS REUNION GROUP

(From Golden Spread, Rushing Wind, and Hearts Afire Communities)

ORDER OF THE TOWEL (write our John 13:2-5)

so have tried regular

you have to fan

thinking that would be less expensive than ribbon. Have sample.

poster paper. Have sample.

Lowes, etc.) on top and draw

hanging string or ribbon on to hang.

from which one can order all shapes of pasta. To find

search the internet by looking for pasta or

be worn as necklace. (Or I have on rear view mirror in car

only it worries me there sometime because

13. Care Kit

there are several versions

some longer than others. (Care kit is things in baggie

you want more detail or saying(s). Have sample of some.

16. Earrings made with perler beads

give out pierced earrings

that for those of you who don't have pierced ears

hold up your hand or see us later

or something like that

18. Candy cane and legend of candy cane

curly ribbon. Have sample.

canvas is cut a certain way so that ribbon is criss-crossed when it is put on

straight up and down and back and forth. Have sample.

one and put yarn shoestring in and then copy a bunch

so will have xeroxed shoestring.

ahead .... Have sample.

21. Poster paper cut out of tennis shoe

see details above. But instead of that saying, make

one "E" bead of

on the tennis shoe about this friendship pin

wear it on your shoe and let the colors remind you of

Chrysalis and friends made there

something to that effect. Email me for more specific saying. Have

already scanned in shoe so can print on the computer

that way the shoestrings are colored and not

black. So can send scan - 3 shoes to a page.

just little parts of it. Have sample.

24. Make a fan

(smaller version of old square funeral home or church type fans

about 3 x 4" I think (I didn't measure

just guesstimated). Draw and color rainbow across mid top.

30. Cloth circle angel. Cut cloth circles out

use pinking shears so won't ravel. Fold circle in

distributing bags to right table at distribution time.) Have sample.

but not too close to

seems best suited for that. Have sample.

this can help keep in closed

"this is to take the place

of the watch they took away." Have sample.

40. Slip of paper on which you have printed in large letters

but leave some space at one end

much!" Have sample.

of a pencil and put frog on

legs are made so that frog will fit on pencil.

paper: "Knot to worry." Have sample.

use verse in Matthew

Length should be little longer than bookmark or book length

we don't really measure except against

or as many as you can