Suggestions originally posted by Neil MacQueen
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Workshop Brainstorms:
Building/Art:
Collage of things that we 'build' today to keep people safe. Ezra/Nehemiah rebuilt the walls.
Walls built out of people and things in the church.
Cooking:
Feast of the Tabernacles (aka "Shelters") celebrated after Ezra's reading of the Law (Nehemiah 8)
Sewing/Drama:
Make sackcloth and dramatize the "sackcloth and ashes" scene described in Nehemiah which occurs after Ezra's reading of the law, and the feast. (Flour is a good substitute)
"Sackcloth and ashes" is rich and familiar biblical imagery, and is common metaphor in English speaking cultures as well.