April 7th: After Easter – what happened?
All the kids in a big circle, one
child goes out and is the “guesser”, the other kids elect a “leader” who does
regular actions, and when he/she change the action everybody follows. The “guesser”
comes in and attempts to guess who is the leader. 3 attempts….
UPSET AND CONFUSED
Recap of Easter and
what happened.
Today Looking at what
happened after Easter in more detail.
Question “what did you
think the disciples felt after Jesus had died? Devastated? Confused about his
teaching? They had expected him to become a great leader but now he was dead.
Paper given out and children
asked to write some of the words they have thought of. They should illustrate
the words - for instance if they have thought of scared they could write it in
shaky handwriting as if the word was trembling.
The words were cut out
and pined up on a notice board.
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Persuasion Game
Children sat down, and
1 chosen to try to convince the rest of the group of an amazing fact.
After each “discussion”
the other kids are asked “are you convinced by the argument? Why? Why not? What
would convince you it was true?”
Facts attempted:
· There is going to be free MacDonald's served in
every school for dinner.
· There is life on the moon.
· Chocolate is good for your brain.
· The driving age is being lowered to 13.
· CITV is being axed.
· A monkey is going to be the new President of
America.
· Ice cream makes really good shampoo and leaves
your hair shiny.
· The age for leaving school is being raised to
25.
At the end we
discussed the fact that when Jesus rose from the dead the women had to convince
the other disciples that they had really seen Jesus, and he was alive. How hard
do you think it would have been for the woman to convince the disciples? What was the one thing that would have
convinced them ?
“Imagine you are
Jesus’s disciples and that this scene had just taken place”
Read John
20v19-22
In small groups
kids were encouraged to write down what had happened, and how they would feel
about that.
Read John
20v24-25
In small groups
the kids were encouraged to write down what Thomas response was and why they
think Thomas wouldn’t believe that JC was alive
Read John
20v26-29
Small groups
- jot down what happened in these verses
and how did Thomas feel when Jesus appeared? Was he embarrassed by his earlier
doubt? Or happy to see Jesus again?
WoW
“At the beginning
we came up with some words for how disciples felt when Jesus died. We’ve heard
how he came alive again and it was seen by lots of people”
“how do you think
the disciples felt now that Jesus was Alive? (Small groups – brainstorm)
