12 May 2013

Prophesy - Deborah

May 5th 2013

Girl Power


Today is about a prophet, Deborah, we started by discussing if anybody knew about Deborah (and one of the kids said “is she the one that stabbed a tent peg in someone”, which of course is right, but not the focus of today!

Spoke about women in the bible.. led on to “Girl Power”, which led on to the Spice Girls (!)

For a bit of fun we all made simple masks of a spice girl, and (attempted to) danced to a Spice Girl Video (have to say, all but one of the children were boys, so this was a bit of fun!)
 
& some of the masks:
 
 

Origami

Spoke about Deborah being a prophet and making decisions so built a quick origami “choose”, some of the pictures used to guide the kids are below.







 

 

 
 

Word Association Brainstorm/Leadership


What is a judge, prophet, leader – that describes Deborah.

Played a quick game of “word association”, in groups of around 3, the kids wrote words that were associated with an initial word in 15+ seconds… words given are:
  • TV,
  • elephant,
  • car,
  • judge,
  • prophet,
  • leader
and we had some discussion about these...

Video – decisions


Showed a fun video about how to chose breakfast, discussed how we should make decisions and how Deborah did in her role.

Prediction Games

“it’s hard to make predictions”, so we played a few games, with the kids guessing who would win:

-          Running race (where only one person ran)

-          Running race (for all)

-          Throwing a die

 

Showed a card trick that amazed some of the kids, can’t write what I did here, will need to use it again! In short.. three piles of 3 cards, kids chose a pile, the  bottom card is shown to them, cards are shuffled, based on random things (eg kids name), and hey presto… the chosen card appears.

 
This led on to  a discussion about prophesy and messages people receive from God, how do they get them, do they happen now, some examples of messages received were given….

.. then we ran out of time, so final prayer and close..

 

However, a great Lego star wars version of the Deborah story (Judges 4) was planned to play, but timed out.. and is here….

(the day before was May the 4th, Star Wars day, so this is so appropriate)

 

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