LIGHTGLIDERS Virtual World Great Christian Games Kids Instructions
- June 15, 2024
- LIGHTGLIDERS
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LIGHTGLIDERS Virtual World Great Christian Games Kids
Greetings
Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, guardian, ministry leader, or mentor, THANK YOU for taking the time to learn more about Lightgliders. It is a virtual world of Christian faith, games, and community designed to encourage biblical faith, positive values, and meaningful conversations.
We created Lightgliders to impact kids before their teenage years in a culturally relevant manner. Fundamental perspectives on truth, morality, purpose, and faith are firmly in place before the teenage years. Lightgliders offers a fun way to engage the kids you care about during their most critical years. Everything in the story, content, and gameplay was designed to teach a biblical worldview, to encourage prayer and reflection, to cast a vision for real-world service, and to spark conversations about life’s most important questions. Thank you for taking the time to review this Leader Guide. It explains how Lightgliders can be used as a fun discipleship tool that inspires kids to KNOW, GROW in, and SHOW God’s love.
Thank you for investing in the next generation. With every conversation, you
are planting seeds of hope, purpose, and truth!
Glide on!
THE LIGHTGLIDERS STORY AND GAMEPLAY
Lightgliders is a virtual world where kids play fun games and enter into a story where they become one of the characters. Your kids become students at Lightglider Academy where they are sent out on purposeful missions. Everything is designed to teach a biblical worldview in a fun, gameplay-driven way. The Lightgliders gameplay goals are to RESPECT, RESCUE, and RESTORE. These goals reflect God’s love for us and His plan for the world.
RESPECT
Lightgliders are to respect themselves and each other. Lightgliders
practice respect in how they treat and encourage each other in the Academy.
This goal to respect is based upon the truth that every human being was
created in the image of God and, therefore, has inherent dignity.
“So God created human beings in his own image.” Genesis 1:27a (NLT)
RESCUE
Lightgliders are sent on missions to battle Machines and to rescue the
Gliddles. Once rescued, the Gliddles live in the safety of the Treehouses and
enjoy friendship at the Academy. The goal to rescue is based upon the ultimate
rescue mission—the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
“Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to
rescue us from this evil world in which we live.”
Galatians 1:4 (NLT)
RESTORE
Lightgliders shine their light in the darkness to clear the blight and to
restore the land’s beauty and purpose. The goal to restore is based upon the
knowledge that God will one day restore this broken world.
“For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all
things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets.”
Acts 3:21 (NLT)
A Biblical Worldview and the Lightglider Values
A biblical worldview is important to understand because it shares the story of God’s love for us, answers life’s biggest questions, and encourages positive values to guide decisions and behaviors. Substantiated by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a biblical worldview provides the foundation for the five Lightglider values, which are purpose, humility, confidence, hope, and love.
CREATION
The Bible begins by telling us that God created the world and everything in
it.
PURPOSE
If God created us, then there is purpose for our lives. We can live as if
our lives matter, because they do!
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 (NLT)
REBELLION
The Bible teaches that we are sinful due to our selfishness. Every one of us
has rebelled against God and has contributed to the darkness in the world.
HUMILITY
If this is true, then we are dead in our sin and in need of God’s
forgiveness. Aware of such weakness, we always have a reason to live with
humility.
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.” Romans 3:23 (NLT)
REDEMPTION
The Bible tells us how God’s Son, Jesus, defeated sin and death through His
death and resurrection. Those who trust in Him are redeemed. The cross is the
ultimate rescue mission.
CONFIDENCE
In spite of our rebellion, God loves us. The cross event is the evidence of
this. Knowing that we are loved by the One who forgives our past and secures
our future gives us confidence.
“But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we
were still sinners.”
Romans 5:8 (NLT)
RESTORATION
The Bible says that Jesus was resurrected from the dead and will come back
one day to restore all things to their intended beauty and purpose.
HOPE
Because of this promise, we can look to the future with hope knowing that
all will be made right. The redeemed will live forever with God in His
kingdom. The future is bright!
“For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets.” Acts 3:21 (NLT)
JESUS
The Bible teaches that God loves us and sent Jesus to rescue us. Through
His life, death, and resurrection, Jesus showed us how to love.
LOVE
At the cross, God gave us the ultimate example of love. Because God showed
us His love through Jesus, we should love others.
“So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.” John 13:34 (NLT)
Lightgliders follows a weekly calendar of themes, Scriptures, and reflection questions about these truths. Families are encouraged to follow along and talk about them with their kids.
In a Loving Relationship with God
Growing in a relationship with God comes through prayer and reflection upon truth. Lightgliders offers activities to help. They include:
THEMES
Each week there is a new Scripture-based theme inside of Lightgliders.
There are activities that encourage learning and reflection about a specific
topic. Follow the weekly themes with your kids!
SPARKS
Lightglider Sparks are short devotional videos designed to ‘spark’
meaningful conversations about biblical truths. Each includes a key Bible
verse and a reflection question to help apply these truths to everyday life.
PRAYERS
Lightgliders Prayers are videos that offer Scripture and content to encourage
kids to pray. Each ends with a question to prompt additional prayer and
reflection.
NEWS
Lightglider News offers the weekly themes, lessons, and reflection questions
in addition to fun updates about what is happening in the Lightgliders
community!
Families can do these activities together to encourage meaningful conversations, additional Scripture reading, and times of prayer.
God’s Love to the World
Your kids were “Made to Shine!” To shine means to love God and love others.
Lightgliders has seven student leaders designed to showcase diversity in
gifts, passions, abilities, personalities, experiences, and nations of origin.
We want your kids to understand and embrace how they were uniquely created to
show God’s love and make an impact on the world.
LIGHTGLIDER ACADEMY LEADERS
Bryce
Home Country: Australia
Personality: Courageous and friendly
Passion: Missions to rescue and restore
Theme Verse: Matthew 28:19-20
Keyword: GO
Kwan
Home Country: South Korea
Personality: Humble and inquisitive
Passion: Solving problems behind the scenes
Theme Verse: I Corinthians 15:58
Keyword: HELP
Nisha
Home Country: India
Personality: Quiet and supportive
Passion: Showing hospitality and respect
Theme Verse: Mark 10:43
Keyword: SERVE
Santiago
Home Country: Honduras
Personality: Creative and joyful
Passion: Spreading joy, beauty, and music
Theme Verse: Nehemiah 8:10
Keyword: ENJOY
Tambika
Home Country: Tanzania
Personality: Ambitious and organized
Passion: Servant leadership
Theme Verse: Matthew 5:14-16
Keyword: LEAD
Marlon
Home Country: United States
Personality: Strong and wise
Passion: Knowing and defending truth
Theme Verse: II TImothy 3:16
Keyword: THINK
Tova
Home Country: United Kingdom
Personality: Loving and carefree
Passion: Purposeful adventures to offer help
Theme Verse: Matthew 22:37-39
Keyword: CARE
“In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.” Matthew 5:16 (NLT)
References
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