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Family prayer strengthens my family CSMP-booklet 2009, July week 1 |
Ask the music leader to lead the children in singing, "Family Prayer" (CS, 189) while you draw a circle on the chalkboard and write "The family that prays together stays together" around the circle. Explain that President Thomas S. Monson likes to quote this phrase (see "How Firm A Foundation," Ensign, November 2006, 67). Discuss what it means.
Display GAK 606 inside the circle.
Have the children form a circle and pass a ball from one child to the next while they sing "Family Prayer." When the music stops, ask the child holding the ball to name a blessing that his family might express thanks for or ask for in a prayer.
Write the blessings on the outside of the circle you have drawn on the chalkboard. Testify of the blessings of family prayer