WOW wk11, 5/16/201, G4/G5 Class

Hi everyone,

How quickly time fly! Here we are - 3rd week of May , already passed Mother's Day...
We'll have a quarter end celebration on May 30.


Today's theme: Jesus Saves Us.
Verses in focus: Acts/使徒行傳 16: 16 to 34 (account of Peter and Silas freed from the jail - 地大震動, 監門立刻全開)

Introduction:

Let's start with a letter - "S" - what possible words are there?
Kids responded with a bunch; Then as we added more letter - "S" and "A", and "V"...
The choice becomes less and more precise - here it comes, "SAVE" or "Savior" or "Salvation".

Straight into the verses:

It's about God's rescue - the purpose of freeing Paul and thru this event, something good is about to come out...

No doubt, this is a miraculous rescue from God - (v26 忽然地大震動、甚至監牢的地基都搖動了．監門立刻全開、眾囚犯的鎖鍊也都鬆開了。) As the prison guard (禁卒一醒、看見監門全開、以為囚犯已經逃走、就拔刀要自殺。), woke up to the empty jail cells, he is about to kill himself.

Here comes the Paul's calling to the good news - bringing Jesus's good news to this prison guard.

OK, time to "ACT" out the story:

Often, kids learn with greater impression if they can act it out - the memory will stick longer.
Here we prepared a few puppy - stuffed animal, lego character, etc.

We'll let Boys vs. Girls team to compete with "re-telling the story" their way.

Among the puppets, we have, tiger, lego guard, bear, dog, etc - you get the idea. And each team member has to participate and "act" and "say" something in their play. They need to use all of the puppets, and the more bible verses they cover in the play, the more points won!

I managed to record each play and will post them in a separate blog entry later.
And each team is creative!!!

Cannot just Talk - we need Application: (board game: Building God's Kingdom)

While the point is "Jesus saves Us", I'd like to direct kids' attention to real-life application;
Next, we introduce a home-grown board game: Building God's Kingdom - one church/household at a time!

The idea is simple - after so many bible classes at Sunday school, we need to spring into action - spreading "good news" about Jesus, and bring Christ to one household at a time;

Board game design: Each team plays in advancing the road with different stops - Jordan river, Desert, etc.

There are two special stops: Faith Check and Community Service cards.;

a) Faith Check (card) presents question pertaining to bible verses or/and what we talked about in the classes. If you answer correctly, you get a "GREEN" brick house. This is where we put in many Bible key messages to refresh students' memory on what they've learned.

b) The Community Service card gives each team an opportunity to serve the community we live in; such as "help parents to wash dishes", serving food to the homeless, etc.

By the way, Boys' team gets a "Community Service" card - that is,
***>> Bring some snacks to share with the class next week. :)

At last, here is the points won by each team:
Girls: 16
Boys: 19

This week's memory verse:
Acts 16:31a,

Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.
當信主耶穌、你和你一家都必得救。

See you' all next week.

KLUP!
-Sam