Teen Sunday School Lesson

This teen Sunday school lesson focuses on the harvest, growing food, and nutrition.  Use this time of year, to discuss God’s plan for all of us and how he provided us with the abilities and means to grow our own food and to share it with other people of the world.

God in Action:
Rather than a bible reading today discuss the global harvest.  The rain and sun from God helps the seeds to grow into the produce that feeds us.  The rain also replenishes our water supply.  The clean water we drink, like that which feeds the seeds, helps nourish us and helps us to grow healthy.  Now have the students discuss what they know about other countries where the harvest is not so good.  What can we as Christians do to help our neighbors who are without sufficient food and fresh water?

Now think about the farmers in our own country.  They work to make the harvest bountiful.  They pray for the rain and the sunshine, and yet still it sometimes isn’t enough as crops are devastated by other means – such as?  (fire, insects, etc).  What happens when there is a bad harvest?  Some produce is limited, prices are high, lower income families unable to afford the produce – and what of the farmers themselves, some of them use the money from one harvest to pay the next.

The harvest is vital to our society.  This is why it is important that we give thanks to God for his help in raising the crops.

Activity 1: 
Make a diagram that shows the cycle of the rain coming down, the seeds growing, and the produce being harvested.

Now make a diagram showing a field of corn with no rain coming down, what happens to the corn?  What is left to harvest?

Activity 2:
Show God in action through you.

Have the students brainstorm a fundraising event – such as a sponsored silence, or sponsored spell, something they could do during the next Sunday School class, or giving up their pocket money for a week, or a percentage of their babysitting/newspaper delivery money for one week – organize and hold the event, and then give this to your Church to donate, on behalf of your class, to an international Christian organization helping people in countries where a poor harvest has created famine conditions.