KLAG TIME - 19 AprilFAITH

“Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see”

Hebrews 11:1 ( click to see it in Auslan again )↑ ↑

Try learning this verse this week…your parents could learn it with you! Have some fun with it… Maybe you could send us a video of you saying it?

Discussion:● What is faith? Completely trusting in someone or something

● Did Mim have faith in Kylie? Not really! She knew what Kylie was like!

● Read Ephesians 2: 8-9 … Where does faith come from? God – it’s a gift. He gives to us!

● How can we strengthen our faith in God? By reading the bible, hearing the Gospel message, praying, learning more about Jesus who we trust in… etc…

Dig a bit deeper: 4-6 class: Read Hebrews 11.This passage is sometimes called the “Hall Of Faith”. In it there is a list of some people from the Old Testament who showed faith in God.

● Make a list of all the people mentioned in this passage who had faith.

● Choose one of them - why not try one you don’t know much about…

● Research this person, (look up their story in the bible and read it…) Note how they demonstrated their faith in God. (We’ve given you some passages to look at the end..)

● What did you find out? If you would like, you could send us your findings … We’d love to know what you discovered …

Read verse 39-40 again…

● What was promised? What was God’s plan that was so much better? Jesus died for our sins so we could be forgiven and adopted into God’s family.

ANSWERS - For church activity crossword sheetAcross: Down:2. GIFT 1. RIGHTEOUSNESS4. JESUS 3. FAITH5. CHILDREN 6. WORD7. STARS

TODAY’S ACTIVITIES: Ready for some fun?

Mim is challenging you to a memory verse shoot-out! (Click to see Mim in action!)

● You can write the words of the verse on paper cups.

● Line them up (in order) and shoot them with a nerf gun, or water gun… or you can use elastic bands to shoot them…

● Then line the cups up out of order but knock them down in the right order…

● if you knock off the wrong one, put it back in place and keep going? (start again??)

If you don’t have paper cups you could use cardboard cards folded over… (index cards would work well)

Or you could write the words in chalk on a fence… shoot at them with a water gun, or try throwing a water balloon… As the words disappear… can you still say the memory verse?

Use the cups to stack the verse… Fastest wins… but now it’s tricky cause you have to do it backwards!

Or you could make your own Memory verse puzzle –

● Paste your coloured memory verse sheet onto some cardboard (remember, a cereal box works well for this) – or write out the verse yourself onto a piece of paper, and decorate it. Use lots of colour!

● You can then cut your verse into pieces … try to keep a whole word on each piece - that it will help you learn the verse as you put it together.

● Make it a race with someone in your family. You could either make 2 or you could time each of you putting it together…

● Lost and found puzzle: Hide the pieces around your room for each other, so you have to find them first!

● Or a relay race… you have to pick up the pieces from a pile, one at a time, before running back to the spot where you put the puzzle together..

● Have fun learning together!

HEROES OF FAITH

ABEL – Genesis 4:2-8

NOAH – Genesis 5:32; 6:8 – 9:29

ENOCH – Genesis 5: 21-24

ABRAHAM – Genesis 11:27 – 25:11

SARAH – Genesis 11:29- 23:20

ISAAC – Genesis 21:1 – 49:3

JACOB – Genesis 25:21 – 49:33

JOSEPH – Genesis 30:22 – 50:26

MOSES – Exodus 2:1 – Deuteronomy 34:7

RAHAB – Joshua 2:1-21; 6:22-25

GIDEON

BARAK

SAMSON

JEPHTHAH

DAVID

SAMUEL