Over 300 Sharing times from the Friend

61. Sharing Time: I Am Grateful for Many Things

Margaret Lifferth

Sharing Time Ideas (Note: All songs are from Children’s Songbook unless otherwise noted; GAK = Gospel Art Picture Kit, TNGC = Teaching, No Greater Call.) 1. Using GAK pictures, summarize the principles and accompanying blessings that have been taught each month from the Sharing Time Outline.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > December 2005

62. Sharing Time: Follow the Prophet

Vicki F. Matsumori

Click to View Larger Format Illustrated by Beth M. Whittaker Sharing Time Ideas (Note: All songs are from Children’s Songbook unless otherwise indicated; GAK = Gospel Art Kit; TNGC = Teaching, No Greater Call) 1. Before sharing time, choose messages from the most recent general conference talks that can be reinforced with scriptures located in the Epistles—e.g., (your body is a temple), (study the scriptures), (pray).

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > November 2003

63. Sharing Time: Priesthood Blessings

Karen Lofgreen

Click to View Larger Format Illustrated by Phyllis Luch Sharing Time Ideas 1. Talk about how families are blessed whn Lofgreen, “Sharing Time: Priesthood Blessings,” Friend, June 1995, 36 2.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > June 1995

64. Sharing Time: Reverence for Creation

Karen Ashton

Click to View Larger Format Illustrated by Julie F. Young Sharing Time Ideas 1. For additional Sharing Time help on “Reverence for the Creation,” please see the following Friend Sharing Time pages: “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” Nov. 1988, pp. 44–45; “I Live in a Beautiful World,” Apr. 1989, pp. 14–15; “Ears to Hear,” July 1990, pp. 12–13.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > September 1996

65. Sharing Time: I Believe in Being Obedient

Karen Lofgreen

Click to View Larger Format Illustrated by Jerry Harston Sharing Time Ideas 1. Have the children draw a picture illustrating the following terms to add to their “My Articles of Faith Book” (see Sharing Time, Jan. 1995, p. 36): obedience—when we are willing to make the right choice, law—a rule that requires us to be obedient.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > May 1995

66. Sharing Time: Fasting and Prayer

Ann Jamison

Sharing Time Ideas (Note: CS = Children’s Songbook) 1. In Sharing Time, have the class tell or dramatize the story.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > September 2000

67. Sharing Time: Choose the Right

Sydney S. Reynolds

Develop a Sharing Time to meet a challenge facing your children. Use “My Gospel Standards” or any of these Sharing Time Ideas to help the children understand the blessings of choosing the right. 1.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > July 1999

68. Sharing Time: I Will Make Important Choices Now

Karen Ashton

Click to View Larger Format Illustrated by Julie F. Young Sharing Time Ideas 1. Each time you finish the song, have the child holding the beanbag tell how they show their love for others.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > November 1997

69. Sharing Time: Faith Helps Us Choose the Right

Vicki F. Matsumori

This time he waved back. Click to View Larger Format Illustrated by Richard Hull I Have Shown Faith to Choose the Right Today I Will Choose the Right Sharing Time Ideas (Note: All songs are from Children’s Songbook unless otherwise indicated; GAK = Gospel Art Kit; TNGC = Teaching, No Greater Call) 1.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > October 2002

70. Sharing Time: I Can Keep My Covenant

Sydney S. Reynolds

Sharing Time Ideas (Note: CS = Children’s Songbook) 1. To get her home on time, provide a safe place to work, pay her.) Role-play contracting a lawn-mowing job (or a paper-delivery job) with another child.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > August 1999

71. Sharing Time: Magnificent Promises

Elizabeth Ricks

Sharing Time Ideas (Note: All songs are from Children’s Songbook unless otherwise noted; GAK = Gospel Art Picture Kit, TNGC = Teaching, No Greater Call.) 1. Tell them that the sacrament is a special time to think about Jesus.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > November 2006

72. Sharing Time: Build Upon My Rock

Sheila E. Wilson

Sharing Time Ideas (Note: All songs are from Children’s Songbook unless otherwise noted; GAK = Gospel Art Picture Kit, TNGC = Teaching, No Greater Call.) 1. On the right side, write Primary Songs and list the songs from the Outline for Sharing Time and the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation that your Primary has been learning.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > August 2004

73. Sharing Time: Follow Jesus Christ

Sydney S. Reynolds

Or make your own.) Then, every time you see someone in your family do a kind deed, give him or her a flower and put one into a vase. Click to View Larger Format Make a Kindness Bouquet (Illustrated by Denise Kirby.) Sharing Time Ideas (Note: CS = Children’s Songbook) 1.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > May 1999

74. Sharing Time: The Prince of Peace

Vicki F. Matsumori

Click to View Larger Format Illustrations by Steve Kropp Sharing Time Ideas (Note: All songs are from Children’s Songbook (CS) unless otherwise indicated; GAK = Gospel Art Kit; TNGC = Teaching, No Greater Call) 1. See Sharing Time Idea #4, Friend, Feb. 2002, p. 32, for temple symbols.) In the scriptures, “ceremonies and ordinances are symbolic in their performance, and all bear record of Jesus Christ” (Bible Dictionary—Symbolism).

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > December 2002

75. Sharing Time: I Forgive You

Judy Edwards

Sharing Time Ideas 1. Using a buzz session (see Primary Sharing Time Resource Manual, page 10), have children read, discuss, and report on situations in which forgiving is a challenge.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > September 1994

76. Sharing Time: Choosing the Right through Study and Prayer

Karen Ashton

Click to View Larger Format Photo by Jed Clark; Photo by Welden Andersen Sharing Time Ideas 1. Share with me a time when prayer has helped you make a difficult choice correctly.” 6.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > June 1997

77. Sharing Time: The Gospel Is a Gift to Share

Linda Magleby

Ahead of time, make small booklets for each child by cutting one sheet of paper in half, placing one half on top of the other half, and folding in the center. Continue as time allows.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > May 2006

78. Sharing Time: “Come unto Christ”

Sydney Reynolds

Click to View Larger Format Illustrated by Nathan Pinnock Sharing Time Ideas (Note: CS = Children’s Songbook) 1. For additional resources on faith in Jesus Christ, see the following from the Friend: “Sharing Time Ideas,” Dec. 1995, p. 34; “A Christmas Message from the First Presidency to the Children of the World,” Dec. 1997, pp. 2–3; “Sharing Time Ideas,” Dec. 1997, pp. 14, 23; “Like a Star Shining Brightly,” Dec. 1997, pp. 24–25, 32.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > December 1998

79. The Power that I Get Each Time I Read

 

Ev’ry day I need The power that I get each time I read. (“Scripture Power,” 2006 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation, 10–11) You are blessed to have the scriptures. Sharing Time Ideas (Note: All songs are from Children’s Songbook unless otherwise noted; GAK = Gospel Art Picture Kit; TNGC = Teaching, No Greater Call.) 1.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > February 2008

80. Sharing Time: My Family Can Be Forever

Margaret Lifferth

Sharing Time Ideas (Note: All songs are from Children’s Songbook unless otherwise noted; GAK = Gospel Art Picture Kit, TNGC = Teaching, No Greater Call.) 1. Sing again and again as you involve the children in ways such as substituting an action instead of singing the word (for example, standing and walking quietly in place instead of singing “walk,” hands together in prayer for “pray,” point finger to head for “know,” stand or sit each time you sing “teach”).

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > April 2005