Sunday School Lessons

In the beginning God created a beautiful garden. This garden was in a strange, hot country, where you sometimes find miles and miles of wind-tossed sand, and sometimes high, rocky mountains and sometimes wide rivers that flowed between banks of tall reeds. Part of this land was called “The Land of Wandering”. In this country there were big cities, once fine and strong but long since fallen into ruins, with kings’ palaces built inside their towered walls.

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

Our class has been together a while. A few have moved away. We are down to 5 regulars. What can we do?

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

Verse:

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 

This lesson is based on Psalm 47:1 All you nations, clap your hands and shout joyful praises to God.

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

Abraham was a good man and God choose him for a special plan. He promised Abraham He would make a great nation from his family.

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

As time passed, God looked at the workd He had made and saw that people were cruel and selfish. There was only one good man called Noah who loved God. One day God said to Noah, “I am going to start again. I will flood the earth with water and destroy every living creature. But first, I want you to build a big strong boat, an ark.

Then take two of every kind of animal and bird into the ark. Take two elephants, two monkeys, two leopards, two rabbits and two ducks - two of evry kind of animal, bird and insect in the world. Take all your family and all the creatures into your ark. There you will be safe.”

Noah did as God told him. Then it began to rain. It rained for forty days and forty nights. Water covered the whole world, but Noah’s big boat floated on top of the flood waters. At last the rain stopped. The water began to go down.

Noah sent out to see if any dry land had appeared. The dove returned with an olive branch in her beak, so Noah know that they would soon be able to leave the ark. When the ark came to rest on the top of a mountain, God told Noah that he could now take his family off the big boat. So Noah and his family walked off the big boat onto the dry land with all the animals and birds following after them.

Noah made an alter and worshipped God, thanking Him for saving their lives and for the return of dry land. God was happy with Noah and put a beautiful rainbow in the sky to show His pleasure. “This is a sign of my love,” God said. “I promise I will never flood the earth again.”

Sunday school activities

Genesis 4:8

when they were in the field…Cain rose against Abel his brother and killed him.

Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain was a farmer and Abel was a shephed. One day Cain and Abel both brought offerings to God. Abels’s gift pleased God more than Cain’s This made Cain angry. He found Abel alone in the field and killed him.

Later God asked Cain, “where is your brother?” Cain answered, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” “The ground cries out that you have killed your brother,” God said. “You have doen a terrible thing.”

So God punished him. He told Cain that he had to leave his home and wander all over the earth. No crops would grow for him, and everyone would know of his sin. Cain was afraid someone would kill him. But God put a special mark on Cain’s forehead so that no one would harm him.

Cain woud have to live with his punishment.

Christian education

In the begining, the universe was shapeless and empty. Nothing had any form or colour. There were no animals, no birds, no people, no blue sky, no earth, no sun.

God created the earth with oceans and dry land. He made the sun to give light during the day, and stars to shine at night. God filled the oceans with fish and the dry land with plants and animals. Last of all, God made Adam and Eve, and gave them the beautiful garden of Eden.

“Everything in this garden is yours,” God said to them, “except the tree of knowledge. You must not eat its fruit.” But a snake in the garden tempted Eve saying, “Eat the fruit. It won’t hurt you. It will make you wise.”

So Eve ate the fruit. Then she gave some to Adam, and he ate it, too. When God found out that Adam and Eve had disobeyed him, He sent them out of the garden of Eden. Then God placed an angel with a flaming sword to guard the entrance to the garden so that they could never return.

Bible stories

Bible Verse: Psalm 61:3 You have been a shelter for me, O God

Your preparation you will need:

A4 card in various colours including blue, acetate, marker pens, scissors - cut out umbrellas, raindrops, sun, rainbows.

Each child will need: Sheet of A4 blue card 1 each of the cut outs above, crayons, glue stick

Explain: how God can keep us from harm and has told us in the Bible that if we follow Him, He will keep this promise.

Activity:colour in the rainbow. Glue the umbrella, and raindrops to the blue card.