{"id":1483,"date":"2024-02-20T06:08:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T06:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/primaryblog\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2024-02-20T06:08:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T06:08:58","slug":"the-church-of-jesus-christ-primary-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"“The Church of Jesus Christ” Primary Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love that the song “The Church of Jesus Christ” on page 77 in the Children’s Songbook is all about our testimonies and how we can strengthen them. I think it’s important for our Primary children to understand what a testimony is. A basic testimony comprises of simple “I know”, “I believe” or “I testify” statements. A testimony is not a travelogue about our week, a therapy session with a congregation who can’t escape or a sermon opportunity.<\/p>\n

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Someone in my ward gave a talk recently and said when she was growing up in a small rural branch, she always heard a lady talking about her cows during Fast and Testimony meeting. The lady giving the talk in my ward used to think “I don’t have any cows. I must not have a testimony”. It has stuck in my mind that it’s more important than ever that we teach our Primary children to learn what a simple testimony is, and how we can share it with others. This song is perfect for that.<\/p>\n

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I created two signs you can hold up, to demonstrate whether the words you are singing are a testimony statement, an “I know” or “I believe”.<\/p>\n

The other statements are things we can do to strengthen our testimony, and start with “I will” or “I’ll”.<\/p>\n

\"The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-I-Know-and-I-Will-statements\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ways to use:<\/p>\n

– Print the signs – I print out two copies and paste them back to back so I can see what I’m holding, laminate and stick to large popsicle sticks for you to hold up. The children put corresponding hands in the air whilst singing.<\/p>\n

– Print out smaller signs for the children and have them hold up the signs that correlate with what they are singing.<\/p>\n

– Write the words up on the board under the corresponding signs and point to them as you sing the song.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the link to the signs:<\/p>\n

The Church of Jesus Christ I Know and I Will statements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love that the song “The Church of Jesus Christ” on page 77 in the Children’s Songbook is all about our testimonies and how we can strengthen them. I think it’s important for our Primary children to understand what a testimony is. A basic testimony comprises of simple “I know”, “I believe” or “I testify” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[44,70,78,80,87,88],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singing-time-games-and-ideas","tag-i-belong-to-the-church-of-jesus-christ","tag-signs","tag-singing-time-idea","tag-singing-time-resource","tag-testimony","tag-the-church-of-jesus-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/ldsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}