Now this takes some preparation, but it’s worth it for the impact it has in a school assembly. For the week beforehand, create a sorry board somewhere in the school. It’s a place where students can write messages saying sorry for something they’ve done. Somewhere in the middle, have the word

The Forgiveness Project is a charitable organisation which explores forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict resolution through real-life human experience. They describe themselves as trying to develop Awareness – raise the debate by collecting and sharing personal stories (and images), Education – encourage and empower people to explore the nature of forgiveness and alternatives to conflict and revenge and Inspiration – engage civil society, as well as transform hearts and minds.

A new video version of the parable of ‘The Unforgiving Servant’.

Each month schoolswork.co.uk provide assembly and lesson resources in Youthwork magazine. In the February 2008 issue of Youthwork magazine, the schoolswork.co.uk resource page has a secondary lesson on forgiveness. Here’s the game ‘Can you forgive everything’ that’s part of that lesson.