Story
Say: Why did we all come to
church today? (Take time to get answers)
Why is church important? (Take time to get answers) Did you know that the church isn’t the
building we meet in on Sundays? What is
the church? (The people!) Today we are going to read a story about the first
church. It was a group of people who
started meeting together after Jesus rose from the dead and went to Heaven
Read “The Early Church” in any children's story bible.
Lesson
Say: Who came to Jesus disciples? (The Holy Spirit)
How did the first church help each other (sharing with each other – food,
clothes, money and their homes) How can we help other people (give time for
answers) Who did they talk about (Jesus –and they thanked God). What happened when other people saw them
sharing and talking about Jesus? (They decided to become Christians too). Thant’s right!
We
can learn a lot from the first Church.
If we help others the way they did and talk about Jesus like they did
then maybe people around us will become Christians too just like people did in
our story!
Big Idea
We are God’s church not the building we meet in! God’s church
needs to help one another and share about Jesus.
Memory Verse
Everyone will know you are Christians if you love one another. - John 13:35
Prayer
Take time to see if children have any prayer requests or
prayer joys. Say a short prayer thanking
God for sending Jesus to save us and asking him to help us be helpers to others
and talk to them about Jesus.
Craft
Children will decorate paper plate bags (Happy Helper Kit)
with crayons, stamps and stickers. They
will cut out the various clip art pictures of things that can be used to help
people and put them in their Happy Helper Kit. (Example on the counter)
Additional Activity
Use the Helper Kit to talk about how we can help others.
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