One of the new literature items we introduced at the CEF European Regional Conference in May was a single lesson, The Promised Saviour. The lesson had been available before as an overhead projector lesson with black & white line drawings.
This lesson is ideal for a Christmas program such as the one-day Christmas clubs held around Europe. These seasonal children's meetings have been well attended and often result in long term Good News Clubs® being started in unreached areas.
The artwork was redone and instead of separate images, we combined the entire lesson into one A3 sheet (approx. 16.5"x 11.5"). The left and right column have a fold where, in the lesson intro, the visual opens like a double door revealing the entire page. There is a larger picture on the backside as part of the lesson intro which includes the wrapped present and ribbon you see on the lesson text cover at left. The small picture squares are covered ahead of time with pieces of paper and revealed individually as the story is told.
The center panoramic manger scene was designed to be revealed in thirds, showing the family on the left, Bethlehem in the center and the right third panel is revealed when describing the manger and animals. The images needed to be simple because of the size. This style was a challenge for me in addition to working out the mechanics for a single sheet visual.
Artwork was created in Adobe Photoshop and individual squares were placed in Adobe InDesign.
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