Mission
bank teaching tools show children how God is at work in Nazareth
Village, and what mission can mean in a child’s own context.
With this mission bank project, children will
learn about Jesus’ hospitality. One of the obvious ways that Jesus
showed hospitality to his disciples was by taking a towel and a basin of
water and washing their (probably very dusty) feet.
Nazareth Village is a place that shows the same kind of
hospitality Jesus did, even if it doesn’t involve washing feet. It’s
designed to look like a village would have looked in Jesus’ time, and to
show people the way Jesus would have lived in a first-century Jewish
town.
Since opening in 2000, Nazareth Village has shown hospitality
to thousands of visitors who have experienced the sights, sounds,
tastes, smells and stories connecting them to Jesus in a new way.
Mennonite Mission Network partners with Nazareth Village to help them
find staff and financial support.
Sometimes it may be difficult for us to understand Jesus’ stories,
because our life today is much different from the village farm culture
of Jesus’ time. While visitors experience Jesus’ culture at Nazareth
Village, they also hear his words. In that way, Jesus’ teachings really
come alive! Your offerings will help Christians in Nazareth share the life and love of Jesus with thousands of visitors each year!
$500 helps to build a study center, where students,
teachers and pastors can come to spend time learning about Jesus’ life
in Nazareth.
$100 helps Nazareth Village stay open for a day.
$50 helps Nazareth Village purchase one lamb for the farm.
$15 allows one person to visit Nazareth Village to see how Jesus lived.