This game helps us to understand that the love of God is sometimes hard to feel – but it’s definitely there! Being able to feel God’s love and protection gets us through many hard times. Sometimes it feels like our problems are so overwhelming that the soft quiet presence of the Lord can hardly be felt. With the following game, we can practice feeling soft and quiet, yet strong, presences.
Archives for May 2012
Use Carrot Salad Snack for the Lesson on Jesus Healing the Blind Man
When Jesus healed the blind man, we’re not sure why he used his own spit as part of the healing. We’re just glad it worked! Today we’re also glad the physicians don’t use spit when we visit them. But modern science does tell us carrots are good for the eyes!
Environmental Service Projects for Sunday School
The world is more environmentally conscious than ever before. Trees, flowers and bodies of water may not seem as interesting to kids as pets and people. However, environmental projects can generate opportunities to talk about the future of the planet and how God asks us to take care of it.
Teaching Teamwork Using a Pillowcase & a Race!
Learning the value of being patient and working as a team. Teamwork isn’t always easy. But if we can learn to work together without getting impatient, we are pleasing to the Lord. We can make it really fun, too! Let’s try.
Chips & Salsa & the Lesson Of Jesus and the Woman at the Well
Here is a popular snack that you can use to teach the lesson of Jesus and the Samarian woman at the well. When Jesus met the Samarian woman, she was surprised that Jesus would even speak to her. He told her that he would give her rivers of living water, implying it was perfectly all right for Jews and Samarians to mix up together.
Sunday School Community Service Projects
Large charities count on grass roots clubs and businesses to loan support and many go out of their way to make it easy. Your Sunday School or Bible Study class can help contribute to these charities with their own projects.
How a Game Can Help Us Ignore Gossip
The Bible says, “Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down. (Proverbs 26:20)” This means that gossip fuels an argument. Something may start out as a small disagreement, but if you throw in some gossip, you get a full on dispute. That’s how gossip works. Someone says something to someone else […]
How to Use Bananas to Teach about the Fishers of Men
We tend to think of the disciples as very holy and very special people. Truth: they were normal guys, just like us at first. When Jesus called them to be disciples, Peter and Andrew were out fishing in boats. So lets make Fishers-of-Men Boats to celebrate how they were called!
Ways Younger Children Can Help Serve the Community
Here is an idea for your younger Sunday School or Bible study students to help with large charitable organizations. It is a direct way your younger students could do a fund raiser to help fund cancer research for children and find that their efforts can help.