Story
Hold up the
first pages of the story so the children can see the pictures
Say: Do you see this picture of all the smiling
people? In our story all of these people
are passing around baby Jesus. As we
read we are going to play a gme. When I
pause in our story, say “Praise God!”
Read Simeon and Anna (Jesus is dedicated) in any children's story bible . Pause after Simeon
holds up Jesus and praises God, and when Anna holds up Jesus and praises
God.
Lesson
Say: Who
Held the baby Jesus in our story? (Simeon and Anna) Why are Simeon and Anna so excited? (God
promised to send Jesus. God kept the promise.
Jesus is the one God sent to save us.)
Simeon and Anna praised God for keeping a promise to send Jesus to save
the whole world. How do we praise God?
(Sing, pray, say thanks)
God
made a promise to send Jesus to save the whole world. God kept that promise, and Jesus was
born! God promised to send Jesus to save
us from sin. We sin when we do things
that God doesn’t want us to do. Jesus came as a baby to save us all. Thank you God for Jesus!
Memory Verse
Jesus is a light to show God to all the people. –
Luke 2:32
Big Idea
God made a promise to send Jesus to save the whole
world. God kept that promise, and Jesus
was born!
Prayer- Ask for Joys and Requests
Take a minute to see if
the children have any prayer requests of joys.
Say short prayer thanking God for loving us and sending us his son.
Craft
Children will decorate the name of Jesus (spelled out) using
crayons, stickers, stamps and etc.
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