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Blessed to be a Blessing

Unit 1 / Lesson 5

Blessed to be a Blessing

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Teacher's Prep

  • Games

    • Charades

      • Prepare small pieces of paper with words for the children to act out. Make an easy list and a hard list, depending on the age group you’re working with.

      • Easy Word Suggestions

        • Table

        • Tree

        • Bed

        • Cloud

        • Fork

        • Spider 

        • Pencil

        • Hamburger

        • Dog

        • Hat

        • Camera

        • Helicopter

        • Penguin

        • Square

        • Shark

        • Banana

        • Umbrella

      • Hard Word Suggestions

        • Angel

        • Germs

        • Teacher

        • Root

        • Volcano

        • Elevator

        • Escalator

        • Batteries

        • Coin

        • Snowflake

        • Kite

    • Egg Hunt

      • Before the lesson, hide chocolate eggs (or other candy wrapped in tin foil) in a variety of places where the children can disperse and search. You will want to hide about 3 eggs for every child who typically comes. You don't need to hide very thoroughly; maybe some eggs can be easier to find and some can be harder to find. If you have a helper, you can assign this task to the helper, and they can hide eggs even after the lesson starts.

      • Have a box for children to pool the eggs that they find.

    • Three Legged Race

      • A roll of duct tape and a roll of toilet paper (the toilet paper can act as a barrier to prevent the duct tape from damaging clothing or skin)

      • Scissors to cut the duct tape at the end of the race

  • Main Activity (Card Making):

    • Get materials for making greeting cards, including paper, felt pens, and glue.

    • Try to provide some fancy card-making materials, e.g. buttons, stickers, shiny craft supplies from the dollar store.


    Intro

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  • Gathering

    • How was your week?

    SLIDE 2

  • Intro Activity: Charades

    • Instructions

      • We'll start our lesson with a game of Charades! You might have played this game before. You'll each get a secret word, and you'll take a turn going in front and acting out that word so that people can guess. Some words will be easier, and some might be really hard. If someone says the secret word, you can let us know. You'll all have a minute to do your acting, and then if we're still stuck after a minute you can let us know what the word is.

      • Teacher: pass out words -- easy words for younger kids, and more difficult words for more advanced kids.

    SLIDE 3

    • Debrief

      • We played this game because it gives us the feeling of not knowing something, but if we keep trying, we can find out what we need to know.

      • This game helps us understand our lesson today, because our lesson is about knowing God's plan for our life.

    SLIDE 4

  • Relevance

    • It’s really important to know God’s plan for our life. It really helps to know we are on the right track and making a difference, and it’s really nice to know we are doing the right thing and that God is happy with us. 

    SLIDE 5

  • Big Question

    • Our big question today is: what is God's plan for us?

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  • Big Idea

    • Our big idea is that God wants us to bless and be blessed.

    • You might be wondering, what does it mean to be blessed? 

      • When the Bible says God blesses us it means He helps us to have a great life, and He helps us to do well and be successful.

    • God wants us to join Him in His work to help other people too.

    • God’s idea of a great life might be different from most people’s idea of a great life. That’s what we’ll see in our Bible story.

  • Bible Reference

    SLIDE 7 (click image for video link)


    Point 1

    SLIDE  8

  • Our first point is, God wants to bless us

    • This means, God wants to help us have a great life and do well and be successful.

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  • Activity: Easter Egg Hunt

    • Instructions

      • We'll start this point with an egg hunt!

      • We've hidden chocolate eggs in different rooms, and your job is to find the eggs. If you all search hard, there should be two or three eggs per person here. If you do find an egg, don’t eat it right away! Bring it back here, and put it in this box so we can all see them. We’ll split them up for everyone to share.

      • Teacher: give instructions for which rooms to search, and where not to go. Provide a box for eggs to be collected. When there are enough eggs for everyone to have two, gather everyone back into a circle, Give everyone an egg, and you can promise them a second egg at the end of the lesson.

    SLIDE 10

    • Debrief

      • We did an egg hunt because it helps us to understand our Bible story. When you first started the egg hunt, you couldn't see the eggs; you just had to trust me that there were eggs to find.

      • You could have all decided not to go, but then you would never have found those eggs.

      • Instead you went and found the eggs, which is great. However, you didn’t receive the whole prize that I promised. I only gave you part of the prize, and the other part comes later. 

      • That's what it was like for Abraham to follow God.

  • Bible Reference

    • Let's read from the Bible.

    SLIDE 11

    • Genesis 12:1-3 (CEV)

      • The Lord said to Abram:

        1 Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others.

    SLIDE 12 

    • 3  I will bless those who bless you, but I will put a curse on anyone who puts a curse on you. Everyone on earth will be blessed because of you.

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  • Explanation

    • God’s plan for Abram was for him to leave his country where he was really comfortable. God also gave Abram a promise: if he went, God would bless him and give him a great life. 

    • You have to understand something about Abram. If you read the whole story of Abram in the Bible, you'll see that Abram already had a great life. He was a rich man who had servants who lived with him and did anything he wanted. They could cook his food or watch his animals or sing songs for him. He could live in a big city with lots of things to do and lots of things to eat. Abram already had the kind of life that most people wanted.

    • When God talked to Abram, he trusted God and followed Him. God took him to the middle of nowhere. Instead of a nice house, he lived in a tent. He also lived in a place where there wasn't much water. 

    • Abram could have gone back to the big city if he wanted, but he kept on trusting God. He believed that God would give him something better, and he was right. God did give him something better. At the end of his life, Abram went to the city that God has made. We call it heaven. Abram just had to wait a very very long time, but eventually it was worth it.

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  • Application

    • The story of Abram is important because the Bible says that all Christians are Abraham's children. The Bible tells all of Abraham's children to do what he did. It's not just a story about a guy who lived a long time ago, but it's a story about us. There's actually a song about doing what Abram did. It's called Father Abraham. Does anyone know this song?

    • Teacher, play this video: 

    • This song  was pretty silly, but it actually teaches us something that is totally right. We're supposed to copy Abram. We're supposed to keep trusting God even when things are not going the way we wanted.

    • When you were hunting for Easter eggs, it was probably easy to keep going because your friends were finding eggs, so you knew there were other eggs to find. If you had looked and looked and found nothing, you probably would have wanted to give up.

    • Abram was like someone who looked and looked and found nothing for a long time. But he kept on looking, because he knew God had made him a promise, and he trusted that God was telling the truth. Abram was right. In the end, God gave Abram the greatest life, in the greatest city, with the greatest family. Abram left behind a great life in the city, but God gave it back to him and made it a thousand times better. That's what it's like for us when we trust God and do what He says.

  • Discussion Question

    SLIDE 15

    • Let’s stop for a discussion question:

    • Can you think of any reason why we should trust God?


    Point 2

    SLIDE 16

  • Our second point is, God wants us to bless others.

    • This means God wants us to work with Him to help other people to have a great life.

    SLIDE 17 (click slide for video link)

  • Activity: Three Legged Race

    • Instructions

      • We'll start this point with a race! It's called the three legged race. All of you will have a partner. One of your legs will be taped to your partner's leg so that you can only walk forward by moving that leg together. 

      • We'll play this video to show you what it's like:

      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XHQ4XPsmJI&ab_channel=PMXLab

      • The key to going fast is to work together. Hold each other's shoulders and say "one-two-one-two" and that will help you keep in time. The most important thing is to be steady.

      • Your first job is to find a partner and then we'll tape your legs so you can walk together. You can practice a bit. Once we're all ready, we'll all try to walk across the room, and then we'll try to do another race where we go around the room.

      • Instructions for Teacher:

        • Fasten legs together as seen in the video. In the absence of special velcro bands, you can use duct tape in multiple layers. For sensitive clothing or skin, you can put tissue paper as a barrier to prevent damage. Give the children some time to practice. 

        • Line everyone up and have them race from one wall to the other. 

        • Then, have them do a relay race around the room where they start off touching a chair, and their goal is to touch the three other chairs and come back to the chair where they started. For the relay race, you can start up to four pairs at a time in different corners, and they can all move in one direction around the room (clockwise, or counterclockwise)

        • At the end of the game, praise them for their efforts, cut up their duct tape bands and have them sit back in a circle.

    SLIDE 18

    • Debrief

      • We played this game because it's about teamwork. You need to think about the other person, not just what you want to do. You can only win if you help each other.

      • As Christians, we can't just think about ourselves, we need to think about other people. We can only do well in life if we help each other.

  • Bible Reference

    • We see this idea in our Bible story. Let's read it again.

    SLIDE 19

    • Genesis 12:1-3 (CEV)

      • The Lord said to Abram:

        1 Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others. 

    SLIDE 20 

    • 3  I will bless those who bless you, but I will put a curse on anyone who puts a curse on you. Everyone on earth will be blessed because of you.

    SLIDE 21

  • Explanation

    • God told Abram that he would be a blessing to others, that God would bless those who bless him, and everyone on earth would be blessed because of him.

    • God's plan was much bigger than just helping Abram to have a good life. God wanted to work with Abram to help other people. 

    SLIDE 22

  • Application

    • That’s supposed to be our story too. God wants us to work with Him to bless others. The Bible encourages us and tells us it’s worth it.

    • The Bible tells us: 

      • Generosity will be rewarded: Give a cup of water, and you will receive a cup of water in return. (Proverbs 11:25, CEV)

    • Jesus once said, “it is more blessed to give than to receive.”

    • We can't help everyone, but we can help a lot of people, and we can make the world better. If we do, God will be happy with us, and He will take care of us.

  • Discussion Questions

    • Let’s stop for a couple of discussion questions.

    SLIDE 23

    • What is one way you can help people?

    SLIDE 24

    • What is a way you can make the world better?


    Conclusion

    SLIDE 25

  • Let's end this lesson by going over the big ideas again, and then we'll move on to our activity

  • Our big question today was: what is God's plan for us?

  • Our big idea was: God wants us to bless and be blessed.

    SLIDE 26 

  • God wants to help us to have the best life, and He wants us to join Him in His work and help other people have the best life. Let's be like Abram and follow God. God is leading us into everything that is loving and wise and helpful. He wants us to help lots of people and to make the world better. If we do, it will be good for other people, but it also will be the best thing we can do for ourselves.


    Main Activity: Making Greeting Cards

  • Now it’s time for our activity!

    SLIDE 27

  • Today we will be making cards! When we make cards, we can really make someone else's day better. We can bless someone.

  • A good card shows effort. You want to show someone that you cared enough to try for them. So try to make your card fancy.

    SLIDE 28 

  • Teacher: show the students some cards on Pinterest to give them ideas.

  • Let’s try to do something like that. We have stickers and shiny things that you can glue on your card. We can make some fun cutouts. Try to make something nice.

  • If you have time, maybe you can make two or three cards.

  • Teacher:

    • Help them with their cards. 

    • Give them the second chocolate egg that you promised them earlier in the lesson. 

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