Crafts with a Christian Message

By Cindy Peatfield

Have you taught a class and feared participants would forget everything once they left the room? “Crafts with a Christian Message” teaches five easy crafts that will help participants memorize 1Corinthians 13, share the wordless book with an unbeliever, teach the unity of Romans 12, and provide a basket of scriptural encouragement. Each craft requires only basic skills, and can be made in about an hour.

In addition the author includes inspirational stories of how God gave her these ideas, and how He used these crafts for His glory. Detailed instructions both pictorial and written are provided on how to make each craft and how to teach each craft.

This book is not only meant to give you ideas for enhancing your study group, but it is meant to inspire you to listen to the ideas the Lord is giving you and encourage you to act on them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781973673897

Cindy Peatfield

In her twenties Cindy discovered that being a Christian was a lot more than just going to church. It involved having a relationship with God, reading the Word that He gave us, and accepting that Jesus was the only one who could pay the price for her sins. This started a whole new way of life for her. Soon after that she was teaching Sunday School and helping with VBS. Later she became involved with Women’s Ministries. It was during that time she began to provide crafts for Women’s Ministries. Challenged but willing, this opportunity led to lots of fun, great new ideas, and spiritual growth. Later it was suggested, and later still confirmed by the Lord, that she write out instructions for these crafts. Challenged again, but still willing. See what you think.

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Permission is granted to photocopy the patterns, verses, tags, recipe and stickers, as stated in the manuscript, in order to complete the crafts. These crafts are not to be used for retail or commercial purposes including retail sales.

Ross Peatfield (photographs)

Kara Saint (artwork)

Anika Jenkins (artwork)

Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from The New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked ESV taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), Copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-9736-7388-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9736-7389-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019913347

WestBow Press rev. date: 04/06/2021

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Dedication

This is my standing stone.

And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. And he said to the sons of Israel, ‘When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What are these stones? then you shall inform your children, saying, Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground. For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the LORD your God had done to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed; that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, so that you may fear the LORD your God forever.’Joshua 4:20-24 (NASB)

God is still doing mighty things today. These are some of the stones from the river of my life. May these words and these crafts bless you, encourage you and inspire you, both on your own path and in reaching out to others.

Cindy P.

Acknowledgements

I would like to say thank you to my Lord and Savior Who still does mighty things today, Who hears His people and answers their prayers and, Who allowed me to hear His voice.

I would like to thank:

Jan Carlberg who told us to always have a story.

Daisy Catchings who told us to write something in our own words.

Rick Warren who told us to go out and do something.

Be encouraged, I heard you.

There were many who participated, helped, encouraged and advised me each according to their own gift. To all of you I give my heartfelt thanks. To name a few:

Thank you Daisy for your encouragement, and for reviewing the book.

Thank you Joyce for your tireless and gentle, proofreading and editing.

Thank you Kara and Anika for your art work.

Thank you to Linda, Betsy, Kendra and Anne for taking the time to test my instructions.

Thank you to Kathy, for getting me started in teaching crafts. What a blessing it has been!

Thank you Barbara for suggesting I document these crafts.

I would also like to thank those who found gentle ways to remind me to get back to work. I’m so thankful for each of you. To name a few, my sister Dianne, my friend Dione, my granddaughter Anika, my daughter Pam, my son Mike, my friends Joyce, Kathy, Laurie, Harriet and many others.

And last, but not least, I want to thank my husband, Ross, who took all the pictures. But most of all, I want to thank him for always encouraging me and standing by me in whatever I set out to do, and for his immeasurable patience.

Contents

Introduction

Levels of Difficulty

Heart Bag

Heart Bag the Inspiration

Heart Bag Instructions

Heart Bag Correlation

Heart Bag Pattern

Heart Bag Verse

Preparations for Teaching the Heart Bag

Bring List for the Heart Bag

Classroom Setup for the Heart Bag

Teaching the Class for the Heart Bag

Quilted Heart Bag

Instructions for the Quilted Heart Bag

Pattern with Seam Allowance

Preparations for Teaching the Quilted Heart Bag

Bring List for the Quilted Heart Bag

Classroom Setup for the Quilted Heart Bag

Teaching the Class for the Quilted Heart Bag

Heart Bag Fulfillment

Cookie Jar

Cookie Jar the Inspiration

Cookie Jar Instructions

Recipe for the Cookie Jar

Decorative Stickers for the Cookie Jar

Cookie Jar Tags with a verse

Cookie Jar Tags with a space

Preparations for Teaching the Cookie Jar

Bring List for the Cookie Jar

Classroom Setup for the Cookie Jar

Teaching the Class for the Cookie Jar

The Humbling Finale

Scripture Basket

Scripture Basket the Inspiration

Scripture Basket Instructions

Verses for the Scripture Basket

Preparations for Teaching the Scripture Basket

Bring List for the Scripture Basket

Classroom Setup For the Scripture Basket

Teaching the Class for the Scripture Basket

Secret Sister Fulfillment

Treasure Box

Treasure Box the Inspiration

Treasure Box Instructions

Verse for the Treasure Box

Preparations for Teaching the Treasure Box

Bring List for the Treasure Box

Classroom Setup for the Treasure Box

Teaching the Class for the Treasure Box

An Angel

Wordless Book Bracelet

The Inspiration for the Wordless Book Bracelet

The Wordless Book Colors

Instructions for the Wordless Book Bracelet

Preparations for Teaching the Wordless Book Bracelet

Teaching the Wordless Book Bracelet

Wordless Book Bracelet Fulfilment

Introduction

I have always enjoyed making things especially when it involved working with yarn, fabric and thread. I started knitting when I was six years old, after begging my mother for two years to teach me. My sisters and I made doll clothes and went on to make many of our own clothes. But, my crafting always involved following a pattern, not designing or creating.

One day a woman in our church announced that she was going to have a Moms Cottage, to run parallel to our Vacation Bible School program. A quiet place for Moms to have a VBS of their own suited to their own needs, and get the same gospel