Teaching Ideas
Give team 100 points with which to bid. The teacher states a question and takes bids from 1 to 10 points for the answer. The team with the highest bid is allowed to answer. If the answer is right, the points are added to the score. If the answer is wrong, the number is deducted.…
John 1:36-50 Assign Parts: Narrator # 1, Narrator # 2, Narrator # 3, John the Baptist, Andrew, Peter, Philip, Nathanael, person in crowd, shopkeeper, boy. John the Baptist: Look! There is the Lamb of God! Andrew: What did John just say? Person in Crowd: He said that Man over there is the Lamb of God.…
Luke 5:17-26 Man: I have been paralyzed for so long. I can’t even sit up or move my legs and arms. I am here day after day after day and wait for my friends to bring my food. Today, I heard some people outside my window talking about Jesus being in Capernaum. When my friends…
Monologue from Shepherd’s Viewpoint I have been a shepherd since I was a young boy. During the day, the sheep wander up an down the grasslands of Judea. We are always moving closer to Jerusalem where the sheep are sold. One night, it was my turn to watch the sheep during the night. The other…
Make it a habit to ask boys and girls, “What’s happening in your life or family that I can pray about?” Also regularly ask parents, “What can I pray with you about?” Make a note in your phone and follow-up. Boys and girls will not remember much of what we teach them, but they WILL…
Lexington Baptist Church, North Carolina, has a prayer time for the unborn child. At the Blessing of the Baby, family and friends gather around expectant parents and pray for an unborn child’s physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual development. Expectant parents call the church office to schedule a time after a Sunday morning worship…
Lexington Baptist Church, North Carolina has a Labor Force Prayer Team. This team is ready to “stand in the gap” for parents experiencing the birth of a child. A prayer support team prays for parents from the time they enter the hospital until the birth of the child.
Find people within the congregation willing to be a prayer partner for each Sunday School teacher. Also, provide these individuals with the names of each child in that class and challenge them to pray daily.
1. Be sure children understand what prayer is. Prayer is talking to God in an ordinary manner, out of the depth of your heart. Talking to God is Just like chatting with a friend. 2. Keep prayer a priority in your classroom each week, not just when you have lessons on prayer. Knowing about prayer,…
Teaching children to pray is not so much “how” to pray, but “what” to pray for. Provide children with ideas of things for which they can pray for on a regular basis, such as the following: Church Members Make a list of people in your church who are home bound, ill, or bereaved. After…