Endurance - Collective Worship Session!

This fun and original collective worship session aims to assist children in understanding the value of endurance, through:

Understanding what endurance is, and recognising why it is important;

• Understanding what the bible teaches us about endurance, and learning about how Jesus demonstrated endurance;
• Completing a fun challenge to demonstrate their own endurance;
• Learning strategies to demonstrate endurance in their own lives.

This worship session is tried and tested, and has always been really well received in the past. The slides are visually engaging and well-presented, and the subject matter is tailored to the interests and needs of young people. For example, there are references to real-life examples of endurance in action (for example in the lives of J.K Rowling, Ed Sheeran and Lionel Messi) in order to help them to make the right choices in their own lives. The session also includes a reading and discussion centering on the endurance shown by Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The session also includes a fun interactive activity, a wonderful, thought-provoking video about the importance of endurance, and various discussion activities regarding how to show endurance in different areas of their own lives. No further resources are required, except for 3 potatoes and 3 straws for the endurance activity.

The slides are fairly self-explanatory, but I’ve included two pages of notes to assist the speaker. Hope that you find this useful!