God Loveth a Cheerful Giver – 2 Corinthians 8-13

Free resources from church websites to help you teach the doctrine and principles found in this week’s Come, Follow Me New Testament reading for 2 Corinthians 8-13. Find helps for children, youth, and adults!

We are right in the middle of harvesting hay and canning and preserving garden produce. I didn’t have time to separate the resources into the different study headings from the Come, Follow Me manual. The resources listed should still be quite useful to aid your study this week!

Everyone

Activity – Muscleman Challenge – This activity can help your family start a discussion on how Christ can lighten our burdens.

Audio – Prayer, Supplication – Messages of Prayer and Supplication: God loves us and knows our needs, and He wants us to communicate with Him through prayer.

Video – Refuge from the Storm – Watch this video about refugees and learn what you can do to help in your community.

Video – Lessons I Learned as a Boy – Gordon B. Hinckley recalls a story of an older boy and his young companion as they find an old coat and a badly worn pair of shoes by the roadside.

Video – Thanks Be to God – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints produces hundreds of millions of pounds of food on Church-owned welfare farms. This food is harvested, processed, and distributed through volunteer labor and then given to the poor and needy.

Video – The Labor of His Hands – Church members around the world volunteer both time and money to serve others– members and nonmembers alike–as Christ would serve.

Video – Fast Offerings: Are We Not All Beggars? – Through fast offerings, we can follow the example of Jesus Christ to care for the poor and needy among us.

Video – Reflections – When trials and tests come, how do you react? Do you become selfish and scared, or do you face the challenges with patience, faith, and love for others? How you react could change your life and the lives of those around you, for better or worse.

Video – Wrong Roads – When making decisions, God expects us to pray, trust, and be believing and then not give up, panic, or “”jump ship”” when something doesn’t seem to be going right. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland shares a personal experience that reminds us to always trust God and the direction He gives us.

Video – Trusting in the Lord – Trust in the Lord’s will and timetable. You will be supported in your trials and afflictions when you show your faith in Him.

Children

Activity – I Can Share With Others – coloring page

Activity – Being Kind is Doing and Saying Nice Things to Others – coloring page

Activity – I’m Trying to Love My Neighbor – coloring page

Activity – I Can Pray to Heavenly Father and He Will Hear and Answer My Prayers – coloring page

Activity – Children Follow the Savior by Sharing and Helping Other Children – coloring page

Activity – All Aboard the Friend Ship! – We can follow Jesus’ example and be a good friend to others. Here’s a game you can play with friends.

Activity – Sometimes My Life is Difficult – A page that you can fill out to talk about some of the challenges you’ve gone through.

Activity – Tender Mercies – An activity for remembering the blessings Heavenly Father sends us every day. Includes a recipe for spiced nuts.

Youth & Adults

Article – A Holier Pattern of Service – In this Ensign article, Patrick Kearon talks about the need to serve others and notes that “true ministering doesn’t pause. It’s a way of life.”

Article – Service You Didn’t Think Was Service.” – Learn from this New Era article some of the small and simple things you can do to serve others.

Article – God Shall Wipe Away All Tears – In this general conference talk, Evan A. Schmutz teaches that when we exercise faith in the Savior, He will “carry us through all of our trials.”

Article – Are We Not All Beggars? – Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

Article – I Was a Stranger – Prayerfully determine what you can do—according to your own time and circumstance—to serve the refugees living in your neighborhoods and communities.

Audio – Trials and Adversity – How can we learn to trust and really rely on the Lord during our trials? How can we know that during these times we are not abandoned or forsaken, but that Heavenly Father is there? Join us as Sister Julie B. Beck answers your questions about Trials and Adversity. Mormon Channel

Audio – Common Threads of Trials – Host W. A. Christensen explores the “Common Threads of Trial” that have surfaced throughout the interviews he has conducted during the podcast series Enduring It Well. Clips from many past episodes are woven together by his thoughts as he narrates. Mormon Channel

Video – God Will Lift Us Up – Rather than focus on her medical condition, Brittany has found comfort in serving others and trusting in the Lord.

Video – Spiritual Balance – Small and Simple Things – To move upstream toward our eternal goal, we must constantly keep paddling. It helps if we are part of a team that is paddling together, like a rowing crew in action.

Video – Come Unto Christ – music video – No matter what we are struggling with, there is always hope if we come unto Christ.

Video – Things as They Really Are – David A. Bednar warns of the harmful effects digital technologies can have on our souls and invites us to ask ourselves two questions to see if we are using these technologies properly.

Video – Follow the Prophet – Carol F. McConkie describes why God calls prophets. A group of youth discover the importance of listening to the right voices when charting their course.

Video – Strive – It is time to give everything we have to becoming the people God hopes we will choose to become. Join the worldwide movement to strive for the best by developing your talents, loving others, seeking education, and serving the Lord.