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12 February 2014

2 Feb 2014: Faith: To Believe The Impossible

1         Wheelbarrow Race 

Not sure of the link, but the kids enjoyed it!

2 Quiz - blind faith

Ø  4 chairs, labelled A B C D

“Gonna read out some remedies for health problems. Historically correct, kids to chose which they think they would prefer. Gonna ask some folk why they have chosen, so listen well.”

Fever


A)     Take a spoon of treacle (made from 40 ingredients which took 12 days to make, including snake skin

B)      Have a cut made in your arm to let the bad blood out

C)      Wrap yourself in red cloth and tie red cloth to the bed you sleep in

D)     Take a cold bath several times a day


Nits


a)      Use dog shampoo, instead of normal shampoo

b)      Put Vaseline in your hair overnight, wrap it in a towel and wash it off in the morning

c)       Wash your hair with mayonnaise

d)      Shave all your hair off.

Headache


a)      Drill a hole in the skull to relieve pressure

b)      Massage your head with lavender oil

c)       Drink half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper in water

d)      Eat 2 tablespoons of honey after each meal

“each time we chose to put faith in one of these things, its putting your trust totally into someone or something”

“when we have faith in God we choose to trust him, and do what he says”

“David in todays story chose to have faith in what God said and now in what other people around him said”

3 Bible Study

“Who knows the story of David and Goliath?”

Each sentence below is in on  sheet of A4, kids have to get them in order,

Giant called Goliath challenges the Jews to  a fight.

Jews were all afraid

David, however, said he would fight and win!

Other Jews told David not to do it

David chose not to wear any armour

He took 5 small stones and a sling

1 stone hit Goliath on the head and he fell

David took his sword and cut his head off

 

Q:

a)      Why did they think that none of the rest of the Jews dared to fight Goliath

b)      What reasons would the soldiers have given for not fighting Goliath

c)       What reasons can you think of that David would have given to say he COULD fight Goliath

d)      Did others agree with David when he said he could fight Goliath

“Have any of us ever fought a giant?”

“what things do we find hard, that maybe could be represented by Goliath”?

“”
David had little faith, he had killed a lion and a bear, so the giant was the next step

And for us, if we continue to pray and know what God wants us to do, we can take little steps, but can do amazing things

4         Song: Faith as small as a mustard seed


 

 

5         Word Collage (10m)


Ø  Paper and pens out

Ø  Video set up
during this we listed/watched this animation
 

“what words come in to your mind when you think of having faith in God? What has God made, what can he do? How  big is God? What is he like?”

“write the words whilst the video is playing”

 

6         Video of what kids think  Faith is:


just to finish off we talked about Faith and what it is. Most of the kids had a good understanding, the discussin was quite wide.,,

 
finished off with some games

05 November 2013

Nature of God: Mighty God (3 Nov 2013)

1         Icebreaker Game – I Went to the North Pole


kids (and leaders) in a circle

The first child begins by saying, "I went to the North Pole and I took a (sleeping bag)."

The second child says, "I went to the North Pole and I took a (sleeping bag) and a (can of tuna)." The next child continues, "I went to the north Pole and I took a (sleeping bag), a (can of tuna) and a(teddy)." etc

We did this twice, raised many laughs, the kids remembered everything very well. For the record, things starts good, eg taking “pen, pencil, paper”… then towards the end changed to “toilet, hairy man”

Lots of fun.

 

2         Strongest Product Comparison

We talked about what we would be doing today, looking at Gods power, then suggesting we could test various products to see which is more powerful….

Kids split to 2 teams

Each team had a sheet of plastic to use, each time they had something to clean up, with a suitable (or not ) implement.

Task1: dry up a puddle of water, team 1 had toilet roll, team 2 had kitchen roll

Task2: scrub some felt tip that was on the plastic sheet, team 1 had J Cloth, team 2 had Scrubby Pad (which resulted in the plastic ripping!)

Task 3: lump of Jam to clean up. Team 1 had a hand brush; team 2 had a kitchen broom (note, had to was the brushes under water to clean out the jam!)

We spoke about what power was, and how we measured it.

 
3         Video – Aladdin Genii

 

Showed the video here, we spoke about how the Genii was like God, typical questions were

 

· How powerful is the genii?

· What does Aladdin have to do to "earn" his three wishes?

· Why does the genii so badly want to use/share his power?

· Do you think the genii is like God in any way?

· In what ways is God's power like that of the genii?

· If God is all-powerful, why doesn't He always use his power to change circumstances for us?

 

One of the kids ended up by saying “Aladdin’s Genii is like the Holy Spirit, just that you can see him” <nugget>

 

4         Power Discussion

 
The kids were tasked with drawing pictures of something powerful, examples given were

¨       River

¨       Sea

¨       Wind

¨       Power Stations

¨       Fire

These were drawn, together with God, Superman, Stars…


 

5          Power in the Bible


We discussed how God uses power

From the passage:  Psalm 89:5-14

We tried to answer the questions:

How does God demonstrate His power in this passage?

Who is He more powerful than?

As well as God's physical power, this passage talks about God's character. What does it say about God?

How does God's character affect the way He uses His power?

How does God treat His people?

 

6         Gods has Power to Drive our Lives


I spoke about the song below, and what I meant to me. (this was the song that my puppet team performed to yesterday, always useful re use things!)

God is so powerful he can take control of our lives, if we let him.

 One child asked for the song title/singer so she could take it home and listen to it later! <nugget#2>

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)