[Teachldsseminary] Teach: Christmas Advent Calendar

[miriama ormsby]

Hi There,  You have inspired me to pursue this advent idea. Thank you so 
much! My Mind is running away with me with ideas how to present this to my 
students. Thank you for keeping me 'alive'!!!
May you continue to be blessed for your righteous efforts with these special 
children of our Heavenly Father. When our Saviour returns I would be 
honoured to meet all you valiant teachers who labour so selflessly with our 
youth. Isn't Seminary exciting?!!!
Kind Regards
Miriama.


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>Subject: [Teachldsseminary] Teach: Christmas Advent Calendar
>Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:51:31 -0500
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>Here is an Advent Calendar idea I've used for many years, with adults and 
>in
>Seminary.  On Dec. 1 (or the Sunday closest if I'm teaching a Sunday class)
>I bring in a large advent calendar I made out of two pieces of poster board
>stapled together back to back.  The front piece has a large picture of the
>Savior--try to find the one of the Savior in red robes by Minerva Teichert,
>if you can.  This is an advent calendar counting down the days to the 
>Lord's
>Second Coming!
>       On the front poster board, surrounding the picture,  I have the 
>usual
>"doors" cut open with the numbers 1-24 on each.  Behind the doors, on the
>back poster board, I pasted a brief outline of each of 24 "signs" of the
>Savior's 2nd coming that has been prophesied.  For instance: the gathering
>(of 12 Tribes of Israel, Zion, the dead, the whole world); the battle of 
>Gog
>and Magog; wars and rumors of wars; gospel preached to the world, etc.
>       Everyone gets a handout listing the 24 signs and 24 scriptures from
>that book of scripture describing that particular sign.  Here's where it
>gets fun!  I was totally amazed at all the signs of the Lord's Second 
>coming
>described in such great detail the year I was teaching the Old
>Testament--just think about Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Amos,
>Zechariah, etc.  I tried to find scripture references scattered about that
>book of scripture, not everything all from Isaiah, etc.  Now that we're
>teaching D&C, it should be a pretty simple job of finding scriptures for 
>the
>signs of the times.  (**If you can spare the time, it could be fun having
>the students each find a scripture for one of the signs beforehand; then 
>you
>assemble the calendar for everyone to discuss.  You would need to be sure 
>to
>challenge them to really think and search for a scripture really describing
>the sign in detail; this will make for better discussion.)
>       We would open a door, assign someone to read that scripture, and
>discuss as a class whether the sign had already taken place, or is yet
>future.  We would then shut the door if that sign is still to be fulfilled
>in the future.
>       I always had great discussions in the class when we used the Advent
>Calendar, and it really seemed to help class members get "the big picture"
>of all that we have seen and are yet still to see before the Savior comes
>again.
>Nora, 11 students, Awesome Class
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