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Pen Pal Story Swap: a Discipleship Tool for Children's Ministry SPIRITUAL HABIT: Share Your Story AGE GROUP: Elementary & Preschool This activity is designed to help kids practice the spiritual habit of sharing your story. Because if we want to grow spiritually, we need to make faith a regular, everyday, go-to topic of conversation as we learn to connect our stories with God's story and then share our stories with others. Ever had a pen pal? There's nothing quite like getting a handwritten letter from someone far away who actually wanted to hear from you... and wrote back to prove it! Pen Pal Story Swap gives kids a chance to discover exactly that-and practice sharing their story along the way. Over 12 weeks, kids write to the people around them and respond to whoever writes back, starting with the people right beside them at church and slowly reaching further out into their neighborhood and town. And when a letter comes back, kids discover that their story is worth telling. All our discipleship activities are built to be flexible! You can use this activity in a variety of ways with just a little bit of modification, but here's how we recommend using this one: Families can use this activity any time at home.

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