One day Jacob sent Joseph out to visit his brothers who were working in the fields far from home. When Joseph found his brothers they took his beautiful coat from him and sold him to a band of traders who were going to Egypt.

Then the brothers put some goat’s blood on the coat and made several holes in it. They took it home to their father, “It is Joseph’s coat,” Jacob said. “He must have been killed by wild animals.” Jacob was very sad. He thought that he would never see his son again because he did not know that Joseph was alive and that someday they would be together again.

Bible stories

When the servant came to town, he went to its well where women came to get water. He asked God to let the first one to give him water for himself and his camels to be the one he was looking for. Soon, he saw the beautiful Rebekah coming to the well with her pitcher.

The servant asked Rebekah for a drink. She not only gave him water, but also brought some for his animals. He knew this was God’s sign. The servant then asked Rebekah’s family if she could go back with him to marry Issac.

“Yes,” they said. “This is what God wants.” The servant was very thankful that God had heard and answered his prayer that he bowed his head and praised the God of Abraham.

Then Rebekah went with the servant to Isaac’s home were she married him and he loved her all the days of her life.

Bible stories

What would happen to you if you disobeyed Him, do you think?” asked the Serpent. “We should surely die,” said Eve. “Surely not,” the Serpent told her with a wicked, cunning look in his eyes. “God knows that if you eat that fruit, you will be great and powerful, as He is. That is the reason He has told you not to.”

Eve looked at the Serpent again and then she looked at the fruit on the Tree. It hung, tempting and fragrant and cool among its pretty leaves. There was such a lot of it too; the Tree almost seemed to bend with its weight. The Serpent went nearer the Tree and drew the branches towards her, rustling and twisting its long shining body among them.

“You would be as powerful and know as much as God Himself, “ it repeated. “Why don’t you pick the fruit and eat it?”

Eve wanted to obey God, but somehow the temptation was too strong. She plucked some of the fruit and ate it guiltily. Then Adam came down the path to see what she was doing, and she gave him some to eat, too. When they had finished eating, they looked at each other. And, all at once, they were miserable and sorry and ashamed, and they hurried away from the Tree and the Serpent, and went to the other end of the garden, wondering why they should be so unhappy, instead of becoming clever and powerful, as the Serpent had said they would.

The day wore on, the sun sank and the garden grew sweet and holy and cool. Then a deeper hush came over it, and a little wind thrilled through the hush, and a Voice spoke, gravely and tenderly, through the soft breeze. Adam and Eve knew that God was in the garden, and they hid themselves more deeply and trembled among the trees. But God called to them and asked why they had hidden themselves, and Adam answered that it was because they were so unhappy and ashamed.

God knew before Adam spoke that they had eaten the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge; nothing else could have taken from them the joy and happiness that would always have been theirs if they had not disobeyed Him. He was very grieved and displeased, and told them they could not live in the garden any longer, for He could not trust them. And He told the Serpent that it too, must be punished. From that moment on, it would always have to crawl on the ground, instead of being able to lift itself up, as other creatures could.

When God had said this, the Serpent crept away and Adam and Eve went sorrowfully out into the desert. And God put His winged angels at the gate to guard the Tree of Life, so that the man and woman were never able to go back into the garden any more.

This was the story told to the little children of the Tent people in the Land of Wanderings.

Sunday school lesson

The mothers could not explain these six wonderful Days of God, nor say how long or how short they had been. But they told how, on the sixth day, God made man in His own image, and afterwards gave him a beautiful garden to live in, and a fair sweet women to be his wife.

A river flowed through the blossoming garden, and long afterwards it became four rivers, which watered the sandy country which the big cites were built much later. But the first crystal springs of the river were in Eden, where God had planted the Garden of Wonderful Trees. How wistfully the Tent people must have talked of it! Trees of every kind grew there. At noon the sunshine filtered through boughs laden, they like to think, with apricots and oranges, figs and mulberries, red-gold pomegranates and purple grapes. The loving kindness of God breathed through the blossoms, and His mercy dropped n the gentle silver dew. And the man and the woman, who were called Adam and Eve, could eat all the fruit in the garden except the fruit of a tree which grew in the midst of the others and was called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. In the midst of the Garden there was also another wonderful tree, the Tree of Life.

Nobody knows what these two trees were like; but they must have been very beautiful, with cool and tempting fruit. We know that the Tree of Knowledge was pleasant to look at; while the Tree of Life seems to have been in a quiet holy place all alone, as if in its boughs lingered the secrets of God. It has never been described to us, and we can only picture it as a Tree of fragrance and mystery; with songs in it that were not sung by birds, and gentle rustlings that were not made by breezes.

Story of  Adam and Eve

People who could make beautiful things in silver and gold and brass, who could carve in ivory and shape delicate vases upon potters’ wheels lived there. They hunted lions and other wild animals in the deserts, and then came back to banquets where music was played to them as they ate and drank. And at the kings’ courts were men who called themselves magicians, and thought that they could read the future in the water, or sand or sometimes the stars.

Away from the great cities, where the kings and princes were often very wicked, lived the people of the Tents. They had sheep and cattle for property, and they moved through the Land of Wandering from place to place. Some of them were very rich and owned beautiful things made of silver and gold, though they did not build temples or houses. The greatest treasure they had, greater than any jewel that ever shone, was their belief in God.

They told of God in all their stories and sang His praise in all their songs. The little dark-haired, dark-eyed boys and girls who played about the tent doors or sat near their mothers at sunset, never tired of hearing the beautiful tales. Some of their grown-up brothers had harps and cymbals, and were taught music and to dance, not merely for pleasure, but for worship of the great God to whose people they belonged. Other nations around them prayed to the sun, or the moon or even to big stone pillars set up in the temples of the hills. But the children of the Tent people prayed to God alone.

Sunday school lesson

Incorporating fresh folks into an existing class is difficult as the existing group has a history. New starters haven’t been a part of that history. A few choices are. one continue as is: keep going to meet and maintain the position. It could not be the advisable option, only it will allow for a sense of comfortableness for those who favour what is familiar and “secure.”

The additional option is to take in and embrace newbies who will add new thoughts and vitality to the group. To do this, discover persons who are not presently members of a class. Determine on a particular study that will last a limited amount of time and ask in those new people to attend. Furnish them with the study book or additional needed resources. Make certain to extend sincere hospitality to every one who attends the study. You could also prefer to apply these steps to coordinate a class mission project, and invite newcomers to take part.

Our teacher has instructed us for 10 years. She would like to  do something different. No one else wants to teach. What ought we do?

You need to determine whether your group favours a instructor/kids model or a facilitator/group discourse format. Both models might call for team instruction, in which two or more persons accept responsibility for the sessions. Groups could decide to rotate leaders amongst participants.

The instructor/kids model, implies the instructor bestows data to the group mainly by lectures/lessons. The primary goal/aim is for the group to acquire particular information.

In the facilitator/group model, the leader takes part both as leader and learner. The group talks about the information jointly by reading material or other activities. The leader asks fundamental questions which produce contemplation and discourse. The chief end of this format is for the learner to absorb the subject by observation and discourse with other people.

A different alternative is to ask for another speaker. In that respect there are also, video studies accessible for offering data and for inducing group discourse.

We have been learning and talking about Bible passages in our class. We love learning the Bible but we are fed up just reading aloud. We would like to do something different. What could we do?

Considering the programme and the groups need is key. It’s not always easy to acquire a “good fit” between the two. Simply decide the format that looks better for the class. Define its needs and interests, and take some time to research these subjects.

Regenerating Sunday School groups and classes is an ongoing operation. Whether it’s by participants, leaders and/or course of study (or any combining of the three), revitalisation boosts faith growth.

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 Kid’s ministry

The world and it’s people belong to God. (Psalm 24:1 )

What you will need:

• green crepe paper
• continent templates
• A4 card
• marker pen
• scissors
• ballon weights (you can buy these from fancy dress shops or make your own by painting rocks or putting coloured sand in mini jars)
• string

Each child will need:

• A blue helium-filled ballon (with string attached
• continents
• glue stick; verse on strip of card

Your preparation:

Cut the continents out of green crepe paper. Make a banner out of a 5cm-wide strip of card and write the verse on one side and the child’s name on the other. Make a hole in one end for the string.

What to do:

Glue one side of all the continents first, and then attach them to the ballon. Tie the banner onto the end of the string.

Talk about:

God made the world. It belongs to Him. He made it for us to live in and we belong to Him to.

Teaching Creatively

Looking around at the excited faces of her class of six-year-olds, she asked, “Are you all ready?”  “Yes, yes” came the replies from eight young voices. “Alright then, let’s go,” she said. At once the children fell into line in their right places. Two of the kids cautiously bore a little chair between them. That was the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. Two conveyed cardboard rolls from paper towels. Those represented the trumpets. Two others held paper swords and the remaining two followed geared up to march wordlessly along acting as the Children of Israel. This class was marching round the city of Jericho (which chanced to comprise many cardboard boxes in the middle-of-the classroom). They had cautiously heeded the story of the magnificent triumph of Joshua’s people at Jericho. They appreciated the rules God gave His people and right away were ready to witness for themselves in an illustrative fashion the miracle that happened a lot of years ago.

The eight-year-old kids were playing “I see”. They had gone back in time to join the Israelites in the land of Egypt. Today they were hiding outside the family home of Moses’ parents. Whilst they peered into that dwelling in their imagination and then they followed on to the river bank, they alternated narrating what they encountered. “I see a baby crying, ” said one. “I see a mother threading a basket,” said another. On and on they went till the class had “conveyed” the whole object lesson of the baby Moses.

The young teenage class was assembling a newsprint account of Paul’s shipwreck and upstairs one of the grownup classes were having a discourse on the day’s lesson.

Teaching creatively isn’t  for a couple of specially gifted teachers. Anybody could deliver creative lessons whenever they’re willing to commit a bit of additional time and effort to preparation and planning. Just about all creative people have gained the ability to be imaginative by perpetually searching for ideas that have worked for somebody else.

They’re people who study new spiritual magazines and periodicals, as well as “idea” books that may be discovered in just about most Christian bookstores. They’re zealous to attend teacher training sessions and to trade ideas with a different group of teachers.

They keep an eye on the activities that are used to heighten studying in the school their kids attend, and finally, they ask themselves, “If I was the pupil in my class, what would I love doing in order to understand this lesson? What would aid me most to see how I could put the truth of this lesson to work in my own life?”

We inhabit a world where we’re perpetually finding out by creative media demonstrations. Let’s get Sunday school “with-it” in order that our children will find the Sunday school class more fascinating and applicable than the evening news program broadcast or the Saturday morning animated cartoons. Apply audiovisual aid, roleplay games, dramatise, deliberate, give individual assignments and sing together. In that respect there are an infinite amount of activities to make studying a delight for all age levels. Whenever you’re willing to work at it, you are able to do it!  

Sunday school lessons 

You will need:

• bag of clay
• roll of greasproof paper
• marker pen
• A4 card
• hole punch
• string
• scissors

Each child will need:

• lump of clay the size of your fist
• modelling tool
• sheet of greaseproof paper

Your preparation:

Cut labels from the card and write the verse on them with the marker pen. Punch a hole in one end and cut the string into 8cm lengths. You will need to work each lump of clay to make it pliable for each child. Cut the greasproof paper into squares for the clay to sit on.

What to do:

The clay should be worked into a fairly round disc about 3cm thick, and large enough for the child to spread their hand on top. They should press down very hard, until a handprint is made in the clay. Next, with the modelling tool, an adult should help them write their initials or name and date. Let them decorate teh edge of the print with the tool.

Talkabout

God loves all people all over the world. Let’s all clap our hands and sing to God to thank him for His love.

Sunday school craft

Then God gave a son to Abraham and his wife, Sarah. They named him Isaac. One day God called to Abraham, “Abraham, take Isaac your only son whom you love so much. Go into the widerness ans sacrifice him to me.”

Usually Abraham wou;d kill a lamb and offer it to God. Must he kill his son this time? The thought of this made Abraham very sad, but he knew he must obey God. The next morning Abraham loaded his donkey and set out with Isacc.

Isaac did not understand what was happening. “Where is the lamb that we are going to sacrifice?” he asked his father. Abraham replied, “God will give us one.” The Abraham built an altar. He put Isaac on top of the altar. Slowly, he took out his knife.

Just then a voice from heaven called out, “Stop! Don’t hurt the boy. I now know you love Me because you obeyed My voice.” Just then Abraham saw a ram caught in the nearby bushes. Instead of his son, Abrahm sacrificed the ram and offered it to God. God was pleased.

Sunday school lessons for 3-11 year olds