Raising of Dorcas

I got a new computer last Monday and it took me a significant chunk of time to get all my stuff up and running. Which meant I was behind in preparations for Sunday, which meant posting to the blog was not high priority! So now I'm behind, so once again I won't bother with translating our story, which went like this:

我們上次見到以前逼迫信徒的掃羅子己都信耶穌	介紹掃羅
但很多人懷疑他的改善﹐怕是詭詐的。不想接受他和他們一齊崇拜。	掃羅向大家行﹐大家走去第二道﹔掃羅跟他們﹐大家又走開
後來有一個信徒﹐叫巴拿巴﹐	介紹巴拿巴
去找他﹐領他見信徒領袖﹐解釋他怎樣認識耶穌。他們就接受他﹐知道不要怕。	巴拿巴與掃羅握手﹐一齊去見大家﹐掃羅與大家握手。
所有信徒開心﹗但哪些人不開心呢﹖	問大家
猶太教的領袖想殺死他﹐如同殺死耶穌和施提反一樣﹐所以信徒領他到該撒利亞海口﹐叫他上船﹐回自己家鄉大數﹐等到過了危險。	幾個人與掃羅行一個圈﹐叫掃羅坐凳子﹐ [搖櫓] 。大家向他 [bye-bye]

 

所以﹐我們暫時不知道掃羅作甚麼﹐就會看看彼得的經歷。	介紹彼得 (就可以坐低)
在以色列的約帕城﹐有一位女信徒﹐叫多加。 她很好人﹐很有愛心﹐作很多善事。	介紹多加
但她患病了﹐就死了。	她仆低
其他信徒抬她上去樓上﹐	兩個男子抬起多加﹐放在快板上 (先放板在兩張凳上)
幾位姐妹把屍體洗淨。	幾位女人用毛巾子抹她身
當時有信徒去找彼得﹐叫他來安慰多加的朋友	那兩位男子帶彼得來
彼得來看多加﹐週圍的女人一面哭﹐一面說開多加所作的善事﹐給他看多加為窮人造的衣服	女人一面哭﹐一面將幾件衣服給彼得看
彼得心痛﹐叫女人出方。就關門﹐歸低﹐禱告。	女人行開﹐彼得歸低
禱告之後﹐向多加說﹕多加﹐起來﹗	彼得起身﹐對著多加說﹕多加﹐起來
多加真是打開眼睛﹐見到彼得就坐起身﹗	多加坐起身
彼得申手扶她起身﹐就叫她的朋友回來	那幾位女人來見她﹐擁抱她
這件事情很快傳遍約帕城﹐許多人所以信主

You may note the story was in two sections. In order to explain why we were jumping from Saul's conversion to a story about Peter, we first did a little blurb about how at first the believers didn't trust Saul, until Barnabas took his part, but then he was being hunted by the authorities & so his new friends shipped him off to Tarsus until things calmed down. So in the meantime we would see what Peter was up to.

I was quite pleased with our "troublemaker" (I'm going to have to quit calling him that!) a-Wai. He had picked up a magazine and was browsing, when I asked him to play the part of Barnabas. He said no, but then I said, but we need you, because the only other boy we can ask is a-Si, and "Saul" is afraid of him! So he put down his magazine and did his part. Yay!

Wing Tung is a little ham and did a great job of dramatically dying.

Dorcas had been praised in the story for the garments she made for the poor. So our game incorporated garments. We had a relay in which each child drew a number tile & matched it to a picture of a t-shirt. He/she then had to go to the pile of shirts, find the right one, put it on, & run back to the team.

Going with the garment theme, our "craft" time consisted of learning (or reviewing) how to neatly fold the t-shirts.

Bible study was from Philippians 1:21-25, trying to bring out that while God does not always protect Christians from death, dying is not a thing we need to fear.