Harvest on 12 Oct 2014
20 x 8-11 year olds
1.
Warm up game – Fruit Shakes
Suitable party
music.
Like
musical statues, when the music stops the kids become statues
The
twist – as the music stops the leader shouts out the name of a fruit or
vegetable, and the children have to make the shape of that fruit/vegetable as a
statue.
2.
Bible Drama
Read out 1 Kings 17:8-16
This passage is an example of Gods provision and Gods
abundant care for his children. God is not
a God who is mean, but a God who delights to give.
Kids in Pairs
They can act out the story – but try to convey the emotions
and feelings of Elijah and the widow at different stages in the story
Exaggerate the emotions with hand and body movements.
Before we start, think how you would act it out, think of
these questions
1)
How would Elijah felt when he saw the woman?
2)
Was he sure she was the woman whom God had
chosen to provide for him?
3)
How do you think the woman was feeling as she
replied?
4)
Do you think that the woman believed Ellijay or,
do you think she thought they were going to die anyway then might as well share
their last meal?
5)
How do you think that the both felt when the
bowl did not run out of the flour or the oil run out?
6)
How do you think they felt each day?
7)
What difference did it make to their lives?
(time taken to plan it)
Read the bible verse thru so they can practise….
Does anybody want to show their drama?
Discuss their feelings – sadness that the widow had no food.
Willingness of widow to share. Wonder that God had met their needs to
miraculously
What do you feel like when you realise that others in the
worlds have no food?
How could we share our food with them?
How do you think others would feel to know that Christians
in the UK were sharing with them?
1 Kings 17:8-16The Voice (VOICE)
8 The Lord gave him this message:
The Lord: 9 Get up, and travel to
Zarephath. It is in the possession of Sidon, which is outside Israel.
Remain there, and do not leave for any reason. There is a widow in
Zarephath whom I have told to take care of you.
10 Elijah got up and immediately
travelled to Zarephath. He arrived at the city gate, and at that moment, a
widow was picking up sticks nearby.
Elijah: Please bring me some water in a jar to quench my
thirst.
11 (as she fetched the water) Also, could you please
bring me a piece of bread?
Woman: 12 As certain as The Lord, your True God lives, I don’t have any bread. In fact,
I am starving. I don’t have anything except for a bit of flour in a bowl
and a few drops of oil in a jar. I was gathering sticks when you arrived to
make a fire so that my son and I could eat one last bite of food and then
die. It’s all over for us.
Elijah: 13 I assure you that it’s not over
for you yet. Don’t be afraid. Continue what you were doing, but make a
small bread cake for me first, and bring it here to me. Then you and your son
may eat your own bread cakes. 14 This is the message of the God of
Israel: “The flour and the oil will not run out until the moment when the
Eternal showers the earth with rain.”
15 She did exactly as Elijah
had instructed her to do, and everyone who lived in her house had food for
days. 16 The bowl of flour and the jar of oil did not run out, just
as The Lord had said through
Elijah.
