(You may need to reassure younger kids that their drawings won’t be lost-that they’ll reappear in a cool way.)Īs kids color, say: Sometimes we face worries and think God isn’t caring for us. When everyone has finished, say: Now use your dark-colored crayon to color over all of what you just wrote or drew. Or maybe there’s something you’re hoping for right now, like doing better in school! Maybe someday you’d like to be a great athlete, a person who works with animals, someone who teaches children, or someone who tells others about God’s Word. Say: Use your light-colored crayon to write a word or draw a picture that shows something good you hope for in your life.

Give each person a sheet of white paper, a white or light-colored crayon, a dark crayon, and a paper clip. While you’re thinking, I’ll pass out supplies. Now think of a dream or hope you have for your life. God loves and watches over us throughout our entire lives. None of the good things in David’s life would’ve happened without God’s love and care. He started out as a simple shepherd boy, and he ended up being king! He was even a relative of Jesus-he lived many years before Jesus, of course. David was an important person in the Bible. Gather kids and say: Let’s look at Psalm 23 and find out more about how.

In this experience, kids will discover that God has a plan for their lives, just as he did for David. Keep the paper wads for use in the Story Excursion experience. Close the prayer by thanking God for his love and care for us. Then go around the circle and let each child contribute. You may want to say something like, “Thank you, God, for loving us when we face problems at school.” I’ll start.īegin the prayer by placing a paper wad in the circle and thanking God for being with us when we face the problem you name. We’ll go around the circle, and each person will place a paper problem in the middle of the circle and thank God for loving us when we face that particular problem. Let’s thank God for his wonderful and powerful love. But even if God allows problems, he’s always, always with us. And in life, we all face problems sometimes. Of course, some of you got bonked on the head in our game. Say: Just as the towel gave us protection in our game, God’s love for us gives us protection in real life. How is this like the way God loves and cares for us?.What was it like to be under the towel when the paper problems were flying?.Ask kids to gather the paper problems and sit in a circle with you. During the game, rotate kids to hold the towel so everyone gets a chance to walk under it.Īfter a few minutes, call time.

As each child goes under the towel, other kids will toss their paper wads into the air, pick up new paper wads from the floor, and continue to throw them into the air and call out problems. Okay? Here we go.įorm a line on one side of the towel, and let kids take turns ducking under the towel, pausing, and moving to the other side. Remember, we’re tossing up into the air, not throwing at anyone. Keep doing this until everyone has gone under the towel. When you toss, just call out a problem, then pick up another paper problem and do the same thing. After each person ducks under the towel, he or she will pause a moment or two, and the rest of us will toss our paper “problems” in the air over the towel. Say: Our towel-holders will hold the towel in the air like a bridge for us to go under. You’ll need these in a minute.Ĭhoose two kids to hold the ends of the beach towel up in the air so it’s flat. When you’re done, scrunch each paper into a ball. Say: Think about some problems you’re facing right now then take a few pieces of paper, and on each one write a word that describes a different problem. Set out a supply of scrap paper, and have kids form a circle. Sunday School Lesson: The Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23) Departure Prayer (up to 5 minutes)

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