Mercy awareness for children

2. kidsare mostly left around
religious
adults
youth
teens
kids
orientation, retreats, recollection
retreats, seminars
reach outs
prayer sessions
?

3. pushedaround by false information
gently injected hidden agendas of the system

4. future
but children are our
and also our responsibility

5. busy
though they are
our vulnerable kids are soft target of evil

6. virtual experiences feel very real
when kids play a game, they are one of the main characters inside the
adventure
Measuring Success through Killing
accomplishment through killing someone else is
bad message
Disrespecting Women
majority of the ultra-violent media feature violence toward
women
Inappropriate Sexual Content
wrong source of subtle education
Resolving Conflicts through Violence
kids are learning to express themselves physically, in a violent way.
De-Sensitizes Killing
teaches kids to disrespect life without any
empathy
Explicit Language
"Oh, sh@#!" enough said
Fuzzy Line Between Real and Make-Believe
young minds are still forming,
how could they possibly understand, who look real, are not really real?
nO mercy?

7. schools
overcrowded
teachers are tied and busy maintaining the status quo

8. controlled
over
condemned
punished
judged
disrespected
bullied
manipulated
pressurized
yelled at
abused

9. visionary
family centric
children are great treasure entrusted to parents

10. children
have great concern about
Mercy should start from children
competitiveness, materialism, media influence, family issues, relationships, attention deficiency, sibling rivalry, poverty, disability,
abuse, attention deficiency, neglecting, abandonment, disrespect, prejudice, stress, trauma, sickness, anxiety, depression, poor faith

11. Reflective oral storytelling
Mercy Camp For Children
Immersive visual stories
Joyful Mercy Activities
Oral and visual stories for positive transformation
Immersive art to heal kids body, mind, and Spirit
Experiencing the river of mercy, to be fully alive!
Instilling the power of Mercy through children
to families, to community and to society
A visual report about Mercy Camps conducted in major
Churches in Bangalore Archdioceses within a short span of 40 days
Introducing

12. “The world is shaped by two things
stories told and the memories they leave behind.”

13. “We grow great by stories and dreams.”

14. JESUSlittle children, come to me

15. “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you
that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in
heaven."
— Matthew 18:10

16. “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the
kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who
will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

17. All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great
shall be the peace of your children. - Isaiah 54:13

18. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is
old he will not depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6

19. “Sometime reality is too complex.
Stories give it form.”

20. “The shortest distance between a human being and the truth
is a story.”

21. childrenlove and remember stories

22. "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the
roots of responsibility and the wings of a good story."

23. “Stories are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or
when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.”

24. with many hidden values
stories

25. “There are no seven wonders of the world
in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”

26. “forget the facts! we need stories!”

27. “There's a great tradition in storytelling
that's thousands of years old”

28. Jesusgreatest storyteller ever lived

29. "The soul is healed by being with children."

30. And He said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become
like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

31. communicate from heart to heart
stories

32. "See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their
angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”

33. “Every great love starts with a
great story...”

34. “A story has its purpose and its path. It must be
told correctly for it to be understood.”

35. Let us sacrifice our today so that our
children can have a better tomorrow.

36. “Stories can conquer fear. They can make the heart bigger.”

37. "Children see magic because they look for it."

39. "While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about."

40. storytellingJesus’ favorite communication technique

41. "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
— Margaret Mead,

42. “There is no greater power on this earth than story.”

43. Jesus knew that stories impacted people and he used these stories to speak directly to the hearts of those who
heard them. When we read the Gospels, we see that Jesus was a master storyteller.
with truth and moral
stories

44. "Every child we encounter is a divine appointment."

45. Jesus fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: "I will use stories to speak my message
and to explain things that have been hidden since the creation of the world." (Matthew 13:35)
that set them free
stories

46. “Listen with your heart and stories will give you wings.”

47. “Life tells the most beautiful stories.”

48. “Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.”

49. that could awake thoughts
stories

50. “Stories make us more alive, more human,
more courageous, more loving.”
Public places

51. “Stories can paint the picture of your surroundings.
Paint it beautifully.”
clubs

52. communities

53. youth

54. novices

55. religious

56. preservegoodness
Jesus said, "Go out into the
highways and hedges, and
compel them to come in, that
my house may be filled.“
Luke 14:23

57. Reflective oral storytelling
Mercy Camp For Children
Immersive visual stories
Joyful Mercy Activities
Oral and visual stories for positive transformation
Immersive visuals to inspire body, mind, and Spirit
Experiencing the river of mercy through live activities!
Instilling the power of Mercy through children
to families, to community and to society
Total time duration : 3 hours
Maximum number of students : 60 Max

58. children
dislike preaching
long retreats
but love storytelling
child centric
Long-term memory
less child centric
inductive intrinsic
informal inspiring

59. Corporal Works of Mercy
• To feed the hungry
• To give drink to the thirsty
• To clothe the naked
• To visit and ransom the captives
• To shelter the homeless
• To visit the sick
• To bury the dead
“Child centric” contents also includes

60. Conditions for Plenary Indulgence
complete detachment from sin
confessed their sins
receive the Holy Eucharist
pray for the intentions of the Pope
“Children to invite families
to pass through Mercy Door

61. The family is the nucleus of civilization and the basic social unit of
society. For a civilization to succeed, the family must succeed, and
right now, it’s not. If we have stronger families we will have
stronger schools, stronger churches, and stronger communities.
childrenare the center of family

62. Secular
crowd
Other
Christian
denominations
Catholic community
Influence
range
Friends
Society
Parish
Parents, siblings & relatives
Mercy Camp
why children?
Grassroots approach
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63. Master storyteller- Jesus
following the
God’s Big Story, the Bible, is made up of
many individual stories.

64. Seed nowthrough children to families Shaji Mathew
91 9845172481
Burning Bush Ministries
cost effective
maximum reach
long lasting
child centric
experimental
disruptive
creative
scalable
innovative
futuristic
dynamic
engaging
reflective
entertaining
reinventing
participatory
practical
viral
mercy camp storytelling does all of this whilst entertaining and amusing children.

65. Mercy drops
creating ripples
Churches , schools, colleges, ministries, public places
Catholic | ecumenical | inter religious | secular
a laity initiative to promote “Year of Mercy”
reaching out to maximum families
through children
before November 20, 2016
Shaji Mathew
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