GOOD NEWS CLUB AGENDA LIFE OF PAUL #2 –...

GOOD NEWS CLUB AGENDA

LIFE OF PAUL #2 – “The Stoning of Stephen”

WEEK OF:

MAIN THRUST: It is God the Holy Spirit who will help you love your enemies.

TO DO AS THE CHILDREN ARRIVE:

1. Greet the children; make them feel welcome.

2. Take attendance.

3. Listen to previous week’s memory verse.

4. Have children put money in missions bank.

PRE-SESSION ACTIVITY:

1. OLDER CHILD: “Being Accepting Every Day”

2. YOUNGER CHILD: “Faithful Stephen”

SONG: (2 minutes)

PRAYER: (4 minutes)

1. Prayer song: _______________________________

2. Ask the children to share any “Thank You Prayers” or “Please Prayers” they have.

3. Lead the class in “Thank You Prayers” and “Please Prayers.”

MEMORY VERSE: (7 minutes)

Matthew 5:44 – “But I say unto you, love your enem ies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that

hate you, and pray for them . . . .”

(The underlined portion of the verse indicates what the younger children should memorize. See

“Involvement Helps for Younger Children” for helps in teaching the verse to the younger children.)

“Ping Pong” – After reading the verse from your Bible, explaining what it means, and repeating it at least

two times, you may begin this drill. Divide the class into two teams. Each team says one word as you point

to them. This can also be done between two people. If they miss a word, another child is chosen as a

replacement. You can repeat this several times.

HYMN FOR LIFE OF PAUL: (2 minutes)

BIBLE LESSON: (20 minutes)


(See “Involvement Helps for Younger Children” for ways to involve the children in the Bible lesson.)

COUNSEL TIME:

(If you have a helper, hostess, or Teacher Junior Grade, let them do the review time while you counsel those

who responded to the invitation. Otherwise, at the end of club, be sure to remind the children who responded

to the invitation to stay after club for a few minutes.)

QUIET TIME NOTEBOOK/TAKE TIME TO REVIEW: (1 minute)

Highlight what was learned from las t w eek’s Quiet Time / TT Review. Ask the children to do one per day

before the next club. Remind them to show you their QT Notebook next week.

LEARNING ABOUT THE BIBLE & THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS: (5 minutes)

Teach information for Week #18.

MISSIONARY TIME: (13 minutes)

1. Sing “God’s Way” while child comes to look in the “Go and Tell” Box.

2. Share missionary information for Week #19 using the “Go and Tell” Box. (See attached page.)

3. Pray for the missionaries. (See attached page.)

4. Show goal chart and mention the amount given so far. (Remind children to return the “love offering”.)

5. Missions song:

6. Story: Until the Letter Cam e. Teach the part of the story for Week #9.

REVIEW ACTIVITY: (6 minutes)

Use the activity below or the Bible Learning Game from “Involvement Helps for Younger Children.”

“Love Your Enemies” – Divide your class into two teams and choose a captain for each team. Make 20

yellow faces–ten smiley faces and ten sad faces– and place them in a paper bag. (See attached page.) After

a child answers a review question, he pulls a face from the bag and gives it to his team captain. If he gets a

smiley face, his team earns 100 points. If he gets a sad face and can share one way to show love to an enemy,

his team earns 150 points. Have each team captain add up the points at the end of the game. The team with

the most points wins. - Rita L. Lobdell.

Review questions for LIFE OF PAUL #2:

1. What angered the religious leaders? (Peter said they were the ones who crucified Jesus.)

2. How did the religious leaders punish the apostles? (Put them in prison.)

3. What did Gamaliel say to the religious leaders? (“If this is of God, you can’t overthrow it.”)

4. How did the persecution help others hear about Jesus? (The believers scattered to other countries.)

5. What kept the apostles so busy they hardly had time to pray? (Giving of food to the poor.)

6. Seven faithful men were chosen to look after the poor. What were they called? (Deacons.)

7. Which deacon was a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit? (Stephen.)

8. Why were the Jewish leaders angry with Stephen? (They could not disprove what he said about

Jesus.)

9. What lies were told about Stephen? (“He s aid that Jesus will destroy the Temple and change their

customs.”)

10. What happened as they told the lies? (Stephen’s face became radiant as the face of an angel.)

11. What did Stephen see just before they took him outside the city gate to stone him? (Heaven.)

12. Who stood watching and listening as Stephen was stoned? (Saul of Tarsus.)

*COUNSEL TIME: (*Only if you did not counsel with the children earlier.)

SEND HOME WITH THE CHILDREN:

1. Pre-session papers for older and younger child

2. Memory verse token

3. Quite Time Notebook

4. Take Time to Review

CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF EASTERN PA, INC. g P.O. BOX 4375 g HARRISBURG, PA 17111-0375

PRE-SESSION, Older Child – LIFE OF PAUL #2

Being Accepting Every Day

Value Builders, Accepting & Peaceful, Copyright © 1995 David C. Cook Publishing Co.

PRE-SESSION, Younger Child – LIFE OF PAUL #2

Faithful Stephen

“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you . . . .” Matthew 5:44

Copyright © 1996 Communication Resources, Inc.

MEMORY VERSE HELPS


MEMORY VERSE: Matthew 5:44

“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,and pray for them . . . .”

(The underlined portion of the verse indicates what the younger children should memorize. See“Involvement Helps for Younger Children” for helps in teaching the verse to the youngerchildren.)

INTRODUCE THE VERSE:

When someone treats you wrong, or hurts you, or sayssomething mean or unkind to you, the natural thing to do is toget mad or even. But, the Bible verse for today gives a betterway.

READ THE VERSE:

Read the verse from the Bible or have an older child read it;then have all the children read with you from the verse visual.

EXPLAIN THE VERSE:

Matthew 5:44 – This is where this verse is found in the Bible. We call it the address. It is found inthe book of Matthew, chapter 5, verse 44. The dots at the end of the verse mean there is more to thisverse that we are not going to memorize. “But I say unto you,” – Jesus was speaking to His people, the Jews, and also to those who knowHim as their Saviour.“love your enemies, – It is easy to love those who love us, but we are to love those who don't likeus and are unkind to us.“bless them that curse you,” – We are to speak well of those who speak evil about us. When wetalk to these people, we should speak kindly, not answering back in anger.“do good to them that hate you,” – We should always be ready to do something to show kindnessto those who hate us.“and pray for them . . . .” – Jesus prayed for those who mistreated Him, and that is exactly what Hewants us to do.

REPEAT THE VERSE: “Ping Pong”

After reading the verse from your Bible, explaining what it means, and repeating it at least two times,you may begin this drill. Divide the class into two teams. Each team says one word as you point tothem. This can also be done between two people. If they miss a word, another child is chosen asa replacement. You can repeat this several times.


INVOLVEMENT HELPS FOR YOUNGER CHILDRENby Linda D. Ruth


MEMORY VERSE: Shortened verse

Matthew 5:44 – “But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good tothem that hate you . . . .”

Sing to the tune of “It’s a Small World.” Stay on “say” and on “love” for two pitches each. Put upa finger as you sing each of the three commands.

BIBLE LESSON HELPS:

Throughout – The Main Thrust statement is “It is God the Holy Spirit who will help you loveyour enemies.” Each time you use this, at “love,” have children move hands tomake a heart shape. At “enemies,” children make a fist.

Card 2-1 – Have one child stand as Peter and boldly announce, “By the name of JesusChrist.” Rest of group as Jewish rulers, rise and shake fists in anger, saying toone another, “We must do something!”

– Give several children, one at a time, the opportunity to repeat the name Gamaliel.

Card 2-3 – Choose seven children. Put your hand on each head as you say each child’s name.Count them. The seven then pass out food to others.

Card 2-4 – Everyone, being Stephen, stands calmly, looks upward and says together, “I seeHeaven and the Son of Man with God.”

Card 2-5 – Have one child stand as Saul. Several others pretend to take off coat and placeit at his feet, saying, “Here, watch my coat for me.” They pick up a stone andthrow it.

BIBLE LEARNING GAME: (adapted from “London Bridge”)

Choose two children to be the bridge as in “London Bridge.” Children form a line and keep walkingunder “bridge” while everyone sings to “London Bridge” tune:

“God wants you to love your enemies,Love your enemies, love your enemies.

God wants you to love your enemies.He will help you.”

“Bridge” falls. Ask caught child, “How do we know God wants you to love your enemies? Let’shelp (child’s name) say the verse from God’s Word.” Everyone repeats today’s memory versetogether.

Caught child then exchanges places with a child who was a part of the bridge. Repeat several times.


LEARNING ABOUT THE BIBLE

& THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS

WEEK #18

(Place figure #1.) Before starting today, we need to review the first six books of the MinorProphets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah. (Place figures #39 and #40.) Today,we are going to learn a little about the books of Nahum and Habakkuk. (Place Nahumwordstrip.) About 150 years after Jonah was there, the city of Nineveh had returned to doingsinful things. God used Nahum to predict the coming destruction of this city. This timethere would be no mercy for them. (Place Habakkuk wordstrip.) Habakkuk is the nextbook of the Minor Prophets. He predicted the coming invasion and capture of Judah, the twosouthern tribes of Israel, by Babylon. He also wondered why God allowed a wicked nationsuch as Babylon to do such a terrible thing. Let’s say the names of Nahum and Habakkuktwice. Now let’s repeat the first eight books of the Minor Prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos,Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk.


GO AND TELL BOX

Week #19 – Great Commission #1

INFORMATION

(Suggested item to put in the “Go and Tell” Box – word GO.)

What do you think this word has to do with go ing and

telling? (Let the children share their ideas.)

Just before the Lord Jesus went back to Heaven, He saidsome important words to His disciples, “. . . Go ye into

all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature”(person) Mark 16 :15. We call these words the Great

Commission, which is God’s command to share theGospel of Christ with every person. God loves each

person in the world, and He wants everyone to hear about His Son, so they can have theopportunity to receive Jesus as their Saviour. Christians have been telling others the “Good

News” about Jesus for almost 2,000 years, but are we reaching every person?

Today, the total world population is over seven billion. That’s the number 7 with nine zerosafter it. Seven billion is a lot of people.

Let’s begin by thinking about America where we live. There are about 325 mil l ion peoplein America. You and I know some of those people who do not understand that Jesus came

to be their Saviour from sin. They may be a neighbor, a friend you play with, or someone inyour family. You can share with them the things you learn in Good News Club (Released

Time Class ) so that they can learn about Jesus. Perhaps you can invite them to come withyou next week.

Adapted from: THE GREAT COMMISSION – MISSIONS (Original content from William Carey Library)

PRAYER

THANK God for sending Jesus to be your Saviour.

ASK God to help you to be willing to tell those you know how Jesus can be their Saviour.

NOTE: It would be good to have permission slips for club for those who want to invite a friend or a tract they can share with their friend.


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