WOW week 8, G4/G5 Class 1/22/2012

Hi Parents,


Firstly, Happy Chinese New Year 2012! and...wishing everyone

新年蒙恩！

Here is the update on WOW-week 8, G4/G5 Class 1/22/2012, today,
the bible theme is Mark 1:14 to 20., whose account focus on Jesus calling out his disciples
to follow him;
馬可福音 1:17, [耶穌對他們說、來跟從我、我要叫你們得人如得魚一樣.]

Ice Breaking:
We presented a few "objects" (money, food, map (symbolizing fame, since you can travel around the world)...) to the class, asking what each of you would want the most.
All of the above can be "baits" that this world can give. Or the evil one can use it to "bait" us.

However, Jesus is calling out people to follow him as his disciples.
The role is to become the "fishers of men".
(Mark 1:17: 來跟從我、我要叫你們得人如得魚一樣。)

Scripture time:

Once again, it's another time for 4W+1H practice to help students in analyzing the scriptures as if they go about studying on their own.

Who: 西庇太的兒子雅各、和雅各的兄弟約翰, 西門、和西門的兄弟安得烈
What: Jesus calling out his disciples to follow Him
Where: By the lake 加利利的海邊
When: After 約翰下監以後

It's a clever and easy-to-understand parables to use "Fishing" example to a bunch of fisher men to demonstrate the concept of what "Christ Followers" means.

Fish symbol - what it is, and what it means.

We showed a short video clip on the fish symbol of Christianity.

The English translation is
as written, "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior".
It is mission given or called by Jesus for Christ Followers, to bring people to Christ.

Here is a link to wiki:
Fish symbol/Ichthys

Activity to re-enforce the lesson:

To be a Christ Follower (disciples), it often results in trust-n-obey what Christ teaching and commands tell us to do.

We prepared a remote-control car gadget to demo the idea of following Jesus calling on a given path.

Each team gets to work on different route which was chosen by teacher.

As each team is to remotely control the toy car to go from one place to another - it resembles the mission we are called to in our daily Christian walk.
As a side note, boys seem more excited about the toy car game than the girls.

OK -- lunch time, and we have Pizza today.
In addition, since it's chinese new year, we prepared a sweet treat for each student i the class. :))



Memory verse:

Mark 1:17
Chinese: "耶穌對他們說、來跟從我、我要叫你們得人如得魚一樣。"
English: "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."

Regards,
-Sam