When we teach Bible stories, we want the children and young people to know that they are historical truth - about real people who lived in real places at a real time. That's why I'm a great fan of using Bible timelines to help young people see WHEN a story happened, and Bible maps to show WHERE it happened. Maps can also be of great help to us as we prepare a passage - often helping us to understand the flow of a narrative. So I was delighted a couple of weeks ago when a colleague told me about a new web tool, that uses Google Maps and Google Earth to help us explore the geography of the Bible. There's masses of fun stuff you can do, like zooming in on the details, plotting the distances between cities to find out the length of Paul's missionary journeys or overlaying modern satelite images with ancient maps. And it's all free! You can find out all about it here. Have fun!
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I've just checked out the site and it looks very useful! Thanks for sharing it with us Alison . It's good to be able to show the young people we teach that the bible stories took place in real locations. Matt
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