Jewelry of the Heart
This theme can also be used for a ladies’ brunch, mother/daughter evening, or similar program.
Theme Image and Decorations
Find an image with a heart-shaped locket to use for promotional, material. Collect various kinds of jewelry to display to decorate. The visual for the devotions also add to the decorations.
If you are setting a place for each person, you may want to use gem boxes like these as favors. You can find the pattern for the boxes here, as well as other places. If you are making a lot of these boxes, you may want to use a Cri-cut machine to cut them out.
Activity
Choose materials to make a simple kind of jewelry and assist ladies in making their own piece of jewelry to take home.
Make a large necklace like the one above visual using the steps below:
- Using the jewel templates at the bottom of the page, cut gems from foiled cardboard.
- Mount the jewels to a white board or wall in a circle using mounting putty.
- Add gold cord for the chain. Then add gold cord for the chain.
- Print labels for each of the nine jewels. (Add these to the jewels during the devotional.)
Activity
Choose materials to make a simple kind of jewelry and assist ladies in making their own piece of jewelry to take home.
Devotions Visual
Make a large necklace visual using the steps below:
- Using the jewel templates at the bottom of the page, cut gems from foiled cardboard.
- Mount the jewels to a white board or wall in a circle using mounting putty.
- Add gold cord for the chain. then added gold cord for the chain.
- Print labels for each of the nine jewels. (Add these to the jewels during the devotional.
Devotional Outline
Giving jewelry is a way to show love.
Wearing jewelry can make us beautiful.
1 Peter 3:3-4 talks about another kind of beauty.
Jewelry, nice hairdos, modest, tasteful clothing, can make us look beautiful on the outside.
Inner beauty is more important. The Bible tells us about jewelry of the heart that can make our inner spirits beautiful.
When you come in dirty, sweaty, with messy hair, would you put beautiful jewelry over your garden clothes? No. Before we put on jewelry, we want to be clean and wearing proper clothing.
Each of ourselves do wrong things that God can’t accept. Isaiah 64:5-6
Jesus offers the opportunity to swap our dirty rags for his perfect righteousness. He can clean us up spiritually and make us clean. Psalm 51:7
We need salvation to prepare ourselves to wear God’s jewelry of the heart.
Jewelry of the heart (from 1 Peter 3:3-4):
- gentle and quiet spirit
- chaste conduct—moral purity
- compassion
- love
- tender heart
- courtesy
- truth
- good works
- love of peace
As we display this beautiful jewelry, the focus should be on others, not on ourselves.
These nine jewels show our love for others.
These nine jewels make us truly beautiful.
This kind of beauty never goes out of style.
It doesn’t fade with age.
It helps others see the beauty of Jesus.
jewel templates: jewel shapes for devotional visual