The Bridge Core Values – Week 15 – Healing Through Being Trustworthy

Proverbs 13:17 “An unreliable messenger stumbles into trouble,
but a reliable messenger brings healing.”

This week at Bridge Kids, we learned about our 5th core value: Healing. At the Bridge, we bring the broken hearted into community where true life healing happens as a result of being loved, trained, and being exposed to the Holy Spirit. We have found that the Bible gives us the pattern for this. Today we learned that being trustworthy brings healing.

We started by playing “the bad messenger” where we learned about what bad messages can do. Bad messages include gossiping, using mean words to someone, and betrayal; and all of these can get us into trouble.

We played “trust fall” where we learned that being trustworthy means that if you say you are going to catch someone you always catch them.

Each Bridge Kid created a picture with a promise that they intend to keep this week, because being trustworthy means that you keep your promises. We chose easy promises so that each bridgekid would be successful in their road to trustworthiness.


Dine and Dish:
Talk – Talk with your bridgekid about:
How gossip has hurt you in the past and what you learned from it (remember to not use names otherwise you are gossiping)
What happened when someone “dropped you” when you trusted them. Take the time to listen to times that your bridgekid felt betrayal.
Their promise, and be a cheerleader for their cause.
Do an activity together:

Make a promise – Think of one thing this week that you can do for someone that would be easy for you to accomplish. Tell that person that you promise to do it. And then make sure you do it. Challenge yourself each week to make one promise to someone that you will keep.

Play “Trust Fall” – Have your bridgekid ask “are you going to catch me?” Respond “yes I will catch you!” Then have your bridgekid fall into your arms. Catch them safely.

Go on a Date with your Bridgekid – create a promise and anticipation by asking your bridgekid out on a date. Make sure you keep your promise and the date is full of memory makers.

The Bridge Core Values – Week 15 – Healing Through Words

Proverbs 12:18 “Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing”Proverbs 15:4 “The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit”Proverbs 16:24 “Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones”

This week at Bridge Kids, we learned about our 5th core value: Healing. At the Bridge, we bring the broken hearted into community where true life healing happens as a result of being loved, trained, and being exposed to the Holy Spirit. We have found that the Bible gives us the pattern for this. Today we learned that the Bible teaches us that kind words can make someone whole.

Saying Nice Things to people, without expecting something in return, and saying something genuine is one way the bible says we can heal one another. It just so happens that it is also a way we can express our love for one another. We should never use our nice words to manipulate others into doing something for us.

We learned that two things that cause us to hurt others: reckless words and lying. We shared times that people hurt us this way, prayed and asked God to help us talk to those people and forgive them.

Each Bridge Kid created a card with a kind word written on the inside, or a picture showing how/who they love. We challenged them to give the card to someone that they love this week, whether it’s a parent, sibling, grandparent, or friend. We also challenged them to give a kind word to three different people this week in a genuine way to see how it makes other people feel and to see how it makes them feel, as well.

Dine and Dish:
Talk – Talk about how words have either encouraged or discouraged you when you were growing up – ask your kids about times people have said nice things/not-so-nice things to them and how it made them feel.
Do an activity together:

Love List - Create a List of all the things you love about one another in your family and read it out loud to one another before bed time.
Art – Create a collage with one another using positive words about your family.

Fun Notes – Buy fun postcards write notes to 3 different people telling them why you are glad they are in your life and either hand-deliver them or mail them.Nice Call – Call someone together and sing “I just called to say I love you” and tell that person why you love them and don’t call for any other reason.