tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60393486798043786882024-03-05T12:28:00.942+08:00Merciful Love Family Fellowshipthe joys and challenges of beginning a church ministry among families with autistic children in Macau, ChinaMary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-27302234481205837262013-03-29T20:43:00.006+08:002013-03-29T20:45:00.767+08:00The Ten Plagues<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lots of activities to
participate in for this story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many
that I didn’t end up using the craft I’d prepared!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, we reviewed our Bible phrase from
three weeks ago: “God cares for you,” & reminded everyone how God had shown
His care for His people by sending Moses to bring them out of Egypt.</div>
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goes to see Pharaoh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pharaoh says no
& so Moses pulls out his supposed deal-clincher, the rod that turns into a
snake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I decided to leave Aaron out of
the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Same plot, less
complications.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then Pharaoh calls
his magician, who throws down her rod, which also becomes a snake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though Moses’ snake eats up the magician’s
snake, Pharaoh refuses to let the people go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Moses kneels down & asks God, did You trick me, or what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God answers, don’t worry, by the time I get
done with Pharaoh, he won’t just let the people go, he will drive them
out!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So then God started doing things to
Pharaoh and his people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had our adult
volunteer wear the Pharaoh headdress (and say, NO, NO! after the first nine
plagues) so that all the kids could participate in the activities, which were:</div>
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--God turned
their drinking water into blood (I had some chicken blood I’d saved in the
fridge a few days and then left out in the warm kitchen overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boy did it STINK!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone had to take a whiff—UGH!)</div>
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--God made
frogs appear (everyone hops like a frog)</div>
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--God made
gnats (translated the same as fleas in Chinese) appear (everyone scratches
themselves)</div>
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--God made
flies appear (I had stuck several pictures of flies around the walls before
anyone arrived; now the kids had to go around whacking at them with
flyswatters)</div>
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--God made
the animals get sick & die (first we all got down on hands & knees
& mooed, then we all had to fall over)</div>
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--God sent a
terrible hailstorm (everyone cowered under umbrellas while I threw styrofoam balls
at them)</div>
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--God caused
sores to break out on everyone’s skin (everyone got a bandaid to put on)</div>
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--God caused
swarms of locusts to appear, eating everything in sight and getting in your
house so everywhere you walked you were crunching locusts (we put a picture of
a locust on the board so they could see what we were talking about, but then
strew popcorn on the floor so we could all walk over it & hear the crunch,
crunch)</div>
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--God caused
a thick darkness to fall for three days (we all squished into the windowless
bathroom, turned off the lights, and talked about what you wouldn’t be able to
do with it so dark)</div>
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--Finally,
God said, this one was going to be the worst, and the only way to avoid it was
to do exactly what He said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which was to
kill a lamb and put some of its blood on the doorposts of your house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise your firstborn children would die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we had a yarn-covered “lamb” jar full of
what was more or less red cornstarch paste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it turned out more pink when each once chose a door to paint it on.</div>
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Then Pharaoh
tried to wake up his “firstborn” doll, but of course it didn’t answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So sure enough, he drove the people out
before anything even worse could happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We reminded everyone that this is what God had promised, and He did it
because He really did care for His people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then we went around the room and asked if God cared for…(name)…and for…(name),
etc.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our game was a quiet one for a
change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a sixteen-square “Bingo”
game made up of pictures representing the ten plagues plus six other
Exodus-related items (Pharaoh, Moses, pyramids, nighttime, snake, & lamb).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interesting job to come up with ten playing
cards with the pictures in different order!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But we still had more than one winner in a couple of the rounds, but
that was good because then everyone got a prize without it dragging on too
long.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then we did a little exercise
where we divided the kids into two groups, the “God” team and the “Pharaoh”
team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We assigned our one girl who can
actually read at grade level to read a list of the plagues, after which we said,
“And God said:”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“And Pharaoh said:” --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The God team was supposed to say, let the
people go, & the Pharaoh team was supposed to say, No, No (until the last
time when they were supposed to say God, Go!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were NOT getting into it, except for Ka Hei who was an enthusiastic
Naysayer for the Pharaoh team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Man
Chun on the “God” team was actually willing to speak up with some nudging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since he usually doesn’t verbalize at all,
this was exciting!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when we reported
to the parents at the end of the morning, we had Pin Pin read the plagues, but
then instead of whole teams we just had Ka Hei and Man Chun doing the
responses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see why we called it the
God team instead of the Moses team—it was easier to come up with a halo for God
than to figure out how to represent Moses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the craft we were supposed to do was these
Pharaoh headdresses, so it was just as well we only had the one kid be Pharaoh
since we didn’t have the other headdresses!</div>
Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-9956663765696365712013-03-14T22:09:00.000+08:002013-03-14T22:09:06.754+08:00The Call of Moses<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Well, it had
been a long time since we’d looked at Joseph’s family going down to Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t know if anyone really remembered much
about that even with a quick few sentences’ review.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Exodus was the obvious place to start
next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I skipped the birth of Moses,
since it wasn’t as directly related to the Exodus theme as his call. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>First, though, since I hadn’t
been with the kids since before Chinese New Year, I asked how many had gone up
to China over the holidays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of them
had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tried to look at where they had
gone on a China map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not everyone knew
the place name, so that fell a bit flat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then from there we asked how long they’d stayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had they stayed 400 years?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would they have wanted to?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, that’s how long Joseph’s family ended
up staying in Egypt—of course by that time it wasn’t Joseph and his brothers
but their great-great-etc. grandchildren.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The king of Egypt was also a
great-great-great descendant, and he wasn’t friends with Joseph’s family like
his ancestor was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He made them all
slaves!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We showed a picture of the
pyramids of Egypt, and said, maybe they were the very slaves that built these
pyramids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I didn’t research this—were
they or weren’t they?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we played a
game involving building pyramids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Divided into two teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each got
a set of numbered paper “bricks” and had to stick them, relay fashion, into the
correspondingly numbered brick shapes in one of the two pyramids drawn on the
whiteboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was pretty easy; the
hardest part was trying to keep them playing in line/in order!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But one pyramid ended up being finished both
faster and more neatly than the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So was that team rewarded?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nope—these guys were slaves, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So instead the losing team got “punished” by being made to run down
& up two flights of stairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then
we made the other team run too, and in fact everyone got a bang out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Giggles all the way down & up.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next we introduced Moses, who
was actually one of Joseph’s family but had been adopted by the princess, so he
didn’t have to be a slave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he still
cared about his people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day he saw
one of the slaves working very hard carrying water</div>
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and was very
upset when he saw an Egyptian whipping the slave to work harder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he killed the Egyptian and buried him
(her) in the sand (under a blanket).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
next day he saw two of his own people arguing and he tried to stop them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One said, are you going to kill me too?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Moses knew that he was in trouble and he
decided to run away from Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
grabbed his blanket & stuffed it in a bag & got out of there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Now he wasn’t in Egypt any more, so we took
the pyramids down.)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We stopped and asked, did Moses
care about his people?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was the way he
tried to help them a good idea?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Probably
would have been better if he’d asked God’s help, huh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But did God care?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God always cares! (our theme for this &
the next lesson).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We put up I Peter 5:7
on the board and read it together, but it was too long a verse to try and
remember the whole thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we had one
of the kids come up and circle the last five words of the verse in Chinese,
which are just four words in English: He cares for you (<span style="color: black; font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">他</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">顧</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">念</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">你</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">們)
</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We practiced saying
just that phrase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most would say it
aloud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get a bit frustrated by the one
girl who is perfectly capable of doing so but won’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I try not to let my frustration show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Later when reporting the morning’s lesson to the parents, I made a
point of praising one of the other girls for being quick to respond and knowing
the answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, maybe next time I
will be able to report, the best behaved and smartest girl this morning was
<little dare-you-to-make-me="" miss="">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’ll have to see.)</little></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So back to our story, now Moses
is in the desert, taking care of some sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We put a picture of a flock of sheep on the board and gave Moses the
pole that our slave had earlier used to carry water with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day, he saw something really strange—a
bush that was on fire but not burning up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He went over to look at it, and God’s voice spoke out of the bush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told Moses to take off his shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So he couldn’t run away, maybe?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God tells Moses He wants him to lead His people out of Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moses says no because he’s too afraid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So God shows him what he can do to show the
king that God is with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has him
throw down his staff and it becomes a:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Bandage!”
yells one of the kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, our snake
was an ace bandage with a snake head taped on one end. :-)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moses was afraid of the snake, and tried to
run away from it (got that from Ken Medema, not from the Bible, but it set the
stage for the game we played later...).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But God told him to pick it up, and when he did, it turned back into a
staff.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Moses still didn’t want to go;
he complained that he wasn’t a good talker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God said, come on, who created men’s mouth’s, anyway?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Who? Our star girl said, God did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has learned something!!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moses still didn’t want to go, but God said,
GO, and GO NOW!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Moses quick put his
shoes back on, grabbed his bag with his blanket, and left.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next we had craft time, where we
made “burning bushes” like the one Moses had seen in our story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this craft we combined ideas from two
different craft projects I’d seen on the internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had kids trace their hands on brown card
stock to be the bush branches, but had them trace two hands and then, after
sticking on a bunch of leaves prepped with two-sided tape, slit and fitted the
two hands together to make three-dimensional bushes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stuck them upright in small cups of sand and
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enough time to play the final game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
really wanted to play it though, so we squeezed it in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tied all the kids together in line by
criss-crossing a length of plastic string around & between them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The resulting “snake” had to chase our
volunteer “Moses” down the stairs and come back up the elevator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots more giggles!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we wound up by going into the parents’
room for announcements still strung together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One boy was way too antsy to get untied, so no photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least we’d managed to get him all the way
through the game!</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
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Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-7537372325008187422013-03-04T17:23:00.002+08:002013-03-04T17:23:14.566+08:00Jesus walks on water<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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particular reason for choosing this story for the first week of February except
that I had a sample lesson plan for this that gave me at least a couple of good
ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the one we started with,
where we had one of the volunteers take off her shoes & socks & stand
in a basin of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all stood around
her and took note of how the water covered her feet; she couldn’t stand on top
of the water and neither could anyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Except, today’s story would be about when Jesus did just that.
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We introduced one boy as
Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was very tired & wanted to
take some time to pray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So He went off
to the top of a mountain (teacher’s desk) to pray, and told His disciples to go
take a boat across the lake and He would follow them later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we laid out a long strip of brown paper as
our boat & all the other kids had to sit in it facing one way so they could
row together, which we had them do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As they are going across the
lake, a storm comes up and they are getting scared (everyone rocks from side to
side).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then they see something that
really scares them—something is coming toward them on top of the water!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can people walk on top of water?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could our volunteer do that this
morning?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They thought, it must be a
ghost!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it a ghost?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, of course not—it was Jesus.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus sees that they are afraid,
and calls out, don’t be afraid, it’s just me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So one of the disciples calls back, if it’s really you, tell me to come
walk across the water to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do
you think Jesus says: “Are you crazy?” or “Sure, come on!”?</div>
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He says to
come on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Peter gets out of the boat
and starts walking toward Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
then he starts looking around him and realizes, he can’t do this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he starts to sink (crouch).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right away Jesus grabs him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s where I “tweaked” the story just a
little bit—though I don’t know if it was really a tweak or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of Jesus rebuking Peter’s lack of
faith, which is the way I’ve always understood the story, I had Jesus laugh at
Peter (in good Cantonese vernacular): “Silly pig, where was your faith?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you know—is it clear that this wasn’t in
fact Jesus’ tone of voice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So then Jesus
puts His arm around Peter & they walk back to the boat together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all start rowing again, and get to their
destination, where they get out of boat and back into their chairs.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then we looked at our Bible
phrase for the day: “Jesus is the Son of God” from John 20:31.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, we noted, this is why Jesus was
able to walk on top of the water.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next we would tell the story
again, but in a slightly different way, and everyone had to help prepare for
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between the kids, myself, and the
volunteers, we had just enough for each person to get one small picture to
color:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>either of “pray” (praying hands),
a mountain, Jesus, (a group of) <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">disciples, boat, water, “scared” (an alarmed
looking person), and Peter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they
taped chopsticks to the back of the pictures as handles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had one of the volunteers read the story
slowly, and whenever someone heard the word for the picture they colored, they
had to hold it up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which meant they had
to listen carefully—easier for some than for others!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did a little better the second time through,
when we also switched some of the pictures around so the one-mention-only
pictures went to different kids than the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(When we reported to the parents what we’d
done in class that day, we passed out the pictures and made the parents listen
& hold them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was fun.)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next we played a game about
crossing water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we can’t walk on
water like Jesus, we need to walk on a bridge or maybe some stepping
stones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each kid was given several “stones”
(paper plates) and could put them down one at a time as he/she crossed the two
large sheets of blue paper taped end-to-end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That was the theory, anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
lot of the kids had trouble staying on task with this one—they’d walk on the
first plate or two but then get impatient and just dash the rest of the way
across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t really want to slow down
and force them to get it right, for fear of boring the kids that got it right
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did play a second time through,
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Reminder:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>why didn’t Jesus need stepping stones to walk
on?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because, as our Bible verse says,
Jesus is the Son of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had two sets
of each word of this phrase printed out on little boat-shaped pieces of
plastic, with holes in them to fit paper-clip hooks into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids divided into two groups and each had
to work together to hook the boats up in a line so that the Bible phrase was
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Okay, still
way behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the first lesson of the
new year, January 6<sup>th</sup>, I wanted to follow up on the theme of
salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But first, we talked about
how it is a new year, and a lot of people try to make resolutions to
change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m afraid most of our kids
don’t think ahead in that way!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
instead we looked at some ways God might want us to change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had our two teenage volunteers act out a
lot of bad behaviors & ask if God would like this kind of behavior:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dropping candy wrapper on the ground,
watching TV instead of doing homework, being mean to another kid, complaining
instead of praying, bragging instead of being thankful, having a temper
tantrum, being greedy, stealing, worshipping idols.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course the answer was always no! (Or at
least it was supposed to be…)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We put up a list of these bad
traits and had everyone write one or two of them in black permanent marker on a
hard-boiled egg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Said this is like our
hearts when they are full of sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if
we let Jesus take our sin away (one of the kids helped peel the egg), then we
are clean and smooth again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And pleasant
to be around just like this egg is good to eat! (everyone got a slice)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So then we moved into our Bible
story about how we need Jesus to help us get rid of our sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We introduced a picture (covered by clear
plastic) of a man who was controlled by sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His clothes were torn and dirty (someone sticks on a ragged paper
garment), his hair was long and uncombed (someone draws on messy hair), he
never took a bath (someone smears dirt all over arms & legs) and he had
wounds from hurting himself (someone sticks on a couple of bandaids).</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Does
everyone who sins look like this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NO!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us, when we sin, it
doesn’t show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if we keep on sinning,
it gets more and more obvious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if
we don’t look this bad, still, people don’t like us very much, just like no one
liked this man at all!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone was
afraid of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except Jesus (one of the
kids chosen as Jesus).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually this man
was afraid of Jesus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He thought Jesus
was going to hurt him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew that
Jesus wanted to get rid of his sin, but he thought he was such a bad sinner
that the only way Jesus could do it would be to get rid of him!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that true?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and that’s something else to remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even when you have a lot of sin in your
life—laziness, temper, selfishness—that’s not the real you, that’s only the sin
inside you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real you wants to be a
good person, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Jesus loves YOU,
even when he doesn’t like your sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
He loved this man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he commanded the
evil spirit that caused him to sin to come out of him—and it did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It jumped right out and went into a bunch of
pigs that were nearby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all went
crazy and jumped into the sea and drowned!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Everyone got a little paper pig to throw into a bucket of water)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
happened to the man?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was no longer
afraid or scary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus’ disciples helped
him clean up and gave him better clothes to wear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(wiped off plastic, had different kids add
nice clothes, neat hair, smile)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
so happy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told everyone what Jesus
had done for him.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To
illustrate how unpleasant it is to have to walk around with sin in our hearts,
we all had to “crab walk” over to “Jesus” who would help the person up so they
could walk freely again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found this
idea online but with the twist that the kids were supposed to do this with a
book on their stomach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That wasn’t just
hard, it was impossible for me when I tried it; the book kept sliding off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we just did the crab walking and that was
plenty hard enough!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"> Mrs. Wong was a great coach though!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So
then we asked, if it feels so good to get rid of our sin, why don’t we just get
rid of it ourselves?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it’s not
that easy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To illustrate this, we gave
them all dirty coins and had them try to scrub them with toothbrushes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not much progress was made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then one by one they got to put their coins
in a solution of salt and vinegar and watch them magically become bright
again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s like Jesus does for us!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
lesson wasn’t quite long enough, even after having some snacks and tidying the
room, we were just a tad early going over to the adult room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized afterward, I had not had any time
for prayer, which is not a good idea any week, but especially on a day we were
talking about salvation!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OOPS!</span></div>
Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-75442254509114111662013-02-12T21:47:00.001+08:002013-02-12T21:47:23.106+08:00The Three Wisemen<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The three
wisemen…in February?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay, so I’m way
behind in updating this blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
actually did this story on December 30.
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We started by reviewing our song
from the previous week with the bells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We asked, who told the shepherds this good news?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So we all played at being Christmas angels and telling each other the
good news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each kid got a turn to take
one cellphone and dial a number which caused a second cellphone to ring with a
“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” ringtone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each kid also had a turn being the one to answer that phone, upon which
the first kid was supposed to say: “Good News, Jesus is born!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone did great at the dialing and answering;
not so well at the greeting part, but we tried!</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Okay, besides sending angels to
announce Jesus’ birth, God made a huge star appear in the sky (post on board)
that was different from all the other stars in the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People could see it a long, long way from
where Jesus was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the people
who saw it were scientists from a faraway country (introduce three wise men who
look at the star through a telescope).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They thought it was especially strange that it didn’t seem to move like
the other stars, but seemed like it was hanging over one place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They decided they would go see if they could
find out where it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were sure
that it meant something special, like a great king had been born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
they figured they’d better bring gifts to give to this great king.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Each wise man gets a bag with a wrapped gift
inside).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They start out to follow the star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was really a long way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long do you think it took them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--one week?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>--six months?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>year?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>--two years!</div>
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Finally they
arrive in the country of Israel, and it’s obvious that this is the country the
star is hanging over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They think, okay,
since this is a king’s star, the new king must be in the palace, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they knock on the palace door, and tell
the servant who answers that they are here to see the new King who is so
special he has his own star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The servant
figures he better tell the King (in crown) about this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The King has not heard about any new
King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you think he takes the
news?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wants to know more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He welcomes the wisemen & asks them why
they think there is a new King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
explain they saw this special star almost two years ago, and it seems to be
hanging over Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells them to
wait until he talks to his own wisemen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He talks with some people who know the Bible and asks, isn’t there some
place where the Bible says exactly where the everlasting ruler of Israel is
going to be born?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They open a Bible and
say, it says here that He will be born in Bethlehem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the King tells them how to get to Bethlehem
from there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells them, when you find
out exactly where He is, please come back and tell me, so I can go see Him
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The wisemen go to Bethlehem, and
the star leads them right to Jesus </div>
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had the wisemen stay overnight with Jesus and His family. (Wisemen, Mary &
Joseph lay down on towels on the floor).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While they are sleeping, an angel with halo appears to the wisemen &
says, don’t go back to see the king; go back to your home another way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they get up and go home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the angel goes over to where Joseph is
sleeping and says, get up, take Mary and Jesus and go to Egypt, quickly, before
it is too late!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they get up and
leave.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the king realizes the
wisemen are not coming back, he gets angry and kills all the baby boys in
Bethlehem (a couple of kids assigned to be soldiers find the babies that were
posted around the walls, take them down and tear them up).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sad end to story!</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next, we reviewed how the
wisemen had come looking for a king, but how we had seen last week that Jesus
was also born to be a Savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
prepared a simple visual to explain the plan of salvation; I think I should
have just used it as a visual instead of having the kids make their own as a
craft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed to distract from it
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then we played a game where the
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finally, we harked back to how
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stacked cookies tied up with licorice strings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’d hoped we’d have time to make extra so each kid could give one to
their parent, but we ran out of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I had Sunday the 16<sup>th</sup>
“off” again, thanks to Grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Though I
did lead the adult Bible study, which I enjoyed.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had chosen the story of the three wisemen
for her theme, which I’m planning to do on Sunday the 30<sup>th</sup>, but it
doesn’t really matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likely the kids
won’t remember the subject matter anyway—sigh.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So for Sunday the 23<sup>rd</sup>
we did the Luke 2 story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, though,
we harked back to the main character of our last three stories together, named
Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Said it was now time to meet
another Joseph, from many, many years later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This Joseph was very happy, because he was going to get married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then he found out his girlfriend was
going to have a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not good to
have a baby before you’re married is it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Joseph didn’t really want
to marry her then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when he went to
bed that night (on a mat on the floor), an angel came and told him it was okay
to marry her because God Himself had asked her to have this baby, and it would
be God’s own Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now He was asking
Joseph if he was willing to take care of the baby and raise it as his own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Joseph said yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the last thing the angel said was to
name the baby Jesus.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Here we took a little break to
explain what the name Jesus (<u>Yèh</u>-Sòu in Cantonese) meant, which was God
(<u>Yèh</u>-wòh-wàh) saves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of the
kids’ names have meanings too, and we had them all written out on star shapes,
and explained them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were very apt—like
the tall, willowy girl whose name means beautiful and graceful; others were
deeply meaningful—like the girl whose name meant to swim in grace(!); while
some were a little funny—like the basically non-verbal, but constantly giggling
boy whose name proclaims that his speech is refined and dignified!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For our craft, then, the kids cut out their
star shapes, plus another yellow star shape with a precut X in the center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After gluing the yellow stars on top of the
name stars (on the points only, not the center!), they could fold out the
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next—back to our story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary and Joseph are now married, and they
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>While they sit there admiring
her baby, a couple of shepherds sitting in the back of the room next to a
picture of sheep taped to the wall are visited by an angel who tells them there
is good news, that God’s Son has been born in Bethlehem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They go to see Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They go away rejoicing, and singing a song we
adapted from our “God created…” song to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the real carols that we’d learned
would have been nicer BUT I only had bells for do through sol, so our options
were limited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After singing the song a
few times, we passed out bells to the kids at their individual desks and worked
with them on ringing them in the correct sequence as I pointed to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They weren’t perfect, but it got to sounding
recognizable after several repetitions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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in with the adults, it didn’t go so well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They didn’t have the individual seats but were crowded together at the
front desk, distracted both by each other and by the watching adults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think (I hope) the parents liked it anyway!</div>
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sends all of his remaining sons except Benjamin down
to Egypt to buy food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To go down to
Egypt in our new venue on the fourth floor, they all had to go down the
elevator one floor, and then back up via the stairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph recognizes them and gives them a hard
time about being spies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gives them
some food, but says if they ever want any more—and if they ever want to see
this particular brother again,</div>
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they would
have to bring their youngest brother to meet him.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So, minus Simeon, they head back
to Canaan: down the stairs to the third floor and back up the elevator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacob is upset with the bargain they made,
but eventually has no choice but to send Benjamin with his brothers, down the
elevator & up the stairs…Simeon gets out of prison & Joseph plots how
to get to keep Benjamin with him without revealing who he is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He puts his cup in Benjamin’s bag of grain
(actually sand; I figured hey, the kids aren’t fussy & this way I’m not
risking spilling & losing pricey rice), and off the brothers go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But before they get to the stairs, a servant
(me) runs out and drags them all back to see who has stolen the cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph says he must become his slave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then one brother says, please, our father
loves his so much, it would kill him if he didn’t come back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please, take me for your slave instead and
send him home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph was so happy to
hear this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His brothers had finally
learned how to pursue things that make for peace!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he tells them who he is, and tells them to
bring their father back and settle in Egypt for the duration of the famine so
that he can see they are all cared for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So…down the stairs, up the elevator, grab Jacob, down the elevator up
the stairs—and Jacob embraces his long-lost son.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We talked about Joseph’s ups and
downs again, and pointed out that if Joseph hadn’t gone down to Egypt, maybe he
and his brothers would always have hated each other, but because of how it all
happened, they are now friends again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God wants all of us to have good relationships with our family
members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each volunteer took one or two
kids and prayed with them about their relationships with different family
members that could be better.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then, since they’d already had a
lot of exercise during the story, we did craft time before the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made these paper-plate thingies (I don’t
know what to call them) where you could turn the top plate and it would show
through one hole, some needs we all experience (hunger, sickness, loneliness,
need to know God), and through a second hole, the corresponding provision by
God (food, doctor, group of friends, our church).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was what it was supposed to mean, but
our volunteer mom was interpreting it as, when we have this need, we meet it by…sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still made a nice craft, but not as related
to the story.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For our game we took our “grain”(/s
of sand), and had a relay race by which the kids had to take small cupfuls
(cut-down paper cups) at a time to see who could fill up their team’s tall
glass first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(It was a tie)</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I didn’t write up anything for November 25 because I
didn’t have to lead the children’s session, woo-hoo!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grace graciously substituted for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then last week, back to me again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We continued with the story of Joseph in Egypt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
introduced a new Bible verse, “God helps me, I will not be afraid.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To illustrate the point, we had the kids walk
on a small balance beam, which they all did just fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glad I was prepared with a blindfold!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also glad all the kids were willing to wear
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve had some fussing about
blindfolds in the past, so in an activity I forgot to report last time, I had
tried simply placing a paper bag over their heads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No way, not one kid would keep it on!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they all tolerated the mask-type
blindfold today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they all found they
did not want to try walking the beam blindfolded without someone holding their
hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Application being, it’s a lot less
scary if someone is holding your hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And God is willing to hold your hand through every scary thing, if you
will let Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>God
held Joseph’s hand through all his scary times too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though he was a slave in Egypt, God
helped him and his master trusted him completely (he gets a gold star).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then one day, the master’s wife wanted him to
do something he knew the master wouldn’t like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He refused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wife begged,
Joseph continued to refuse because it was wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally the wife says, you will regret this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when her husband gets home, she tells him
that he wanted to do this wrong thing but she stopped him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The master believed his wife and had Joseph
thrown in prison (twine “fetters” around ankles).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In prison, did Joseph lose his temper or
decide that God didn’t love him anymore?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He remembered that we are always
happier if we pursue the things that make for peace, so that’s what he did in
prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He might help wash the windows,
or bring water to the other prisoners, or comfort those who were unhappy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So even in prison he was trusted (second gold
star), and sure enough, that made it nicer for him too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One
day two of the other prisoners had some dreams and Joseph was able to tell them
what they meant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told one of them
that in three days he would get out of prison and go back to being the king’s
servant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph asked him to tell the
king that he was stuck in prison for something he didn’t do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man said he would—but then he
forgot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only several years later, when
the king had a dream he wanted to understand, did the man remember Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they took him out of the prison and had
him wash his face and comb his hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
king told about how he saw seven fat cows (picture of fat cow walked back &
forth across the front of the room seven times), and then seven skinny cows
(picture of skinny cow does seven passes).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then the skinny cows ate the fat ones (fat cow picture covered by skinny
cow) but they looked just as skinny as ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Joseph explained about this meaning seven years of plenty followed by
seven years of famine, and suggested that the king appoint someone to take care
of arranging for food for the seven bad years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The king says, I’ll appoint you, because I’ve never met anyone so
smart!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph gets a royal medallion to
place around his neck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
reviewed the story’s highlights and lowlights, and then we all worked together
to set up a game about the alternating ups and downs of Joseph’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you’re “up” you walk tall with your back
straight; when you’re “down” you walk kind of hunched over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we had two rows of eight desk/chairs
facing each other. Each pair was labeled with one of the ups & downs of his
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the “ups” we taped string from
one seat to another; for the “downs” we taped string from one desktop to
another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then each kid had to go through
the obstacle course, walking tall over the lower “up” strings, and crouching to
go under the higher “down” strings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
last up string, though, was taped between desktops, because it was the biggest
up, Joseph becoming the #2 leader of Egypt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We practically had to lift our shortest girl to get her leg up that
high, but she made it!</span></div>
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Didn’t take
any pictures last Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just too
busy “doing” to step back with the camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First we reviewed that Joseph was Jacob’s favorite kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Showed a picture of Joseph, wearing an
origami shirt and labeled, “Jacob loved Joseph…he was Rachael’s son.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then asked, who is Mary’s favorite kid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before anyone had a chance to guess, the mom
who was helping out that day said, “every single one” which was the right
answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reeled off my (prepared ahead
of time, I admit) reasons each one was special, and then we sang our “God
created so-and-so and did a great job” song, with one verse per kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they made little origami shirts like
Joseph’s, stuck them onto a paper-doll type background, added their own photo faces,
and stuck on labels that said “We love so-and-so…he/she is such-and-such”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(note I deliberately left out the word
“because”) This was one of those crafts everyone chose to take home, so the
only picture I have is Joseph’s.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then we began our story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chose the only boy as Joseph, and had him wear
the “coat” we’d made two weeks ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
brothers (all the other kids) were at the front of the room watching the sheep
(flock picture on the whiteboard), while Joseph waited at the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brothers said, hey, here comes our little
brat of a brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobody is around to
see us, let’s kill him!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked, was
that a good idea?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One brother yelled out
NO!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course that was what happened
in the Bible too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So instead of killing
Joseph when he came to the front of the room, they ripped his fancy coat off
and threw him in a pit, which in our case was the kneehole under the teacher’s
desk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did NOT like being under there,
though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we ended up putting him in
one of the chairs (all our chairs have desktops attached, so I say “in”)
against the wall, and surrounding him with other chairs so he was
“trapped.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then all the brothers sat
down to eat their snacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had pity
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teenage helpers) came along and the brothers decided to make some money off
Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The traders gave each brother a
couple of coins & then took Joseph away with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The brothers then squirted ketchup on the
torn-up coat, and brought it to show “Jacob”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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are separated) who obligingly pretended to cry over his presumably dead son.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next took a break from the
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</span>First they had to see their dad cry, and then they had to spend the rest
of their lives worrying about whether he would find out what they did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So our verse from the last lesson, pursue
what makes for peace, shows its merit again.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Meanwhile what has happened to
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and he decides that he will pursue what makes for peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, if Potiphar tells him to sweep
the floor, is it better for him to sweep, or to say he’d rather eat something
first?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sweep, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Joseph swept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about if Potiphar gives him money to go
buy fruit?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should he go buy the fruit
& bring it back, or should he take the money and use it to run away back
home to his father?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone agreed he
should buy the fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Potiphar trusted him, and so even though
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So then we wound up by playing a
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spread peanut butter on a cracker and feed it to the master, comb the master’s
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We didn't have our usual program this past Sunday. Instead went to the beach for our first-ever baptismal ceremony! Congratulations, Mrs. Wong and Mrs. Chu!<br />
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<br />Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-40054087237026589522012-11-10T21:24:00.001+08:002012-11-10T21:26:17.416+08:00Jacob's Favorite Son<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We started
today’s lesson by doing the craft we hadn’t had time for last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Jacob had twelve sons, and he couldn’t
just go to a furniture store and buy a new bed, he must have had to make a lot
of beds!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we followed suit and made
these cute cradles out of empty Pringles cans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next, we did a little exercise
in which the kids had to find the right son on the whiteboard and match it with
the right mother as we read out the birth order story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not that we are trying to get them to
remember all those names, but it’s good reading practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay, so we said last week that Jacob loved
Rachel best, so then which was his favorite son?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her oldest boy Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though he made beds for all his sons,
only for Joseph did he make a fancy coat, so together we made just one fancy
coat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Originally I was going to just lay
out the paper “tunic” on a large table that they could all stand around while
attach the strips of double-sided-tape-backed wrapping paper to front and
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then I realized it would be
more fun to have one of our volunteers wear it while the strips were being
stuck on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then when it was done,
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We tried to talk a little about
jealousy between brothers & sisters, and some of the kids did express that
they knew how it felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We said that
Joseph had made things a little worse by boasting, but that we were going to
try doing a little of that ourselves. Each one in turn had to come stand on a low
stool in the front of the room. I had also brought a portable microphone in
hopes that hearing their voices echo would motivate them to speak up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all seemed to like getting up on the
stool, but the mike was something of a fizzle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The grunter still grunted, the echolalic was still echolalic, and the
girl who has to be coaxed to speak at the best of times was flummoxed by the
mike—kept trying to stick it in her ear instead of up to her mouth (mikes help
you hear better, right?) :-)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part two of
this exercise was to do what is better, and instead of saying good things about
yourself, each person was supposed to say something good about the person on
the stool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He drools,” volunteered one
girl promptly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psst…you’re supposed to
say something GOOD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh—well, he has a
fat stomach!” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.</div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After all this hard work, we
needed to do something a little more physical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So we introduced our Bible phrase for the week,</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 追求和睦的事 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">or</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“pursue those things which make for peace.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of those things being cooperation, and
our game involved some cooperation, as well as concentration and dexterity
skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The six words of the phrase,
with magnetic strips on the back, were stuck to a cookie sheet, with the edges
sticking out so they could be grasped with a clothespin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids lined up & the person at the end
of the line would take a word and it had to be passed to the front of the line
from clothespin to clothespin, with the front kid sticking it on the whiteboard
and then running back to the end of the line. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, we had quite a few fumbles, but it was
fun to watch at least some of them gradually get the hang of when to pinch and
when to let go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our final “thing which
made for peace” was to tidy up the room and line up the desks (and being
rewarded with a snack) before going over to gather with the adults for announcements.</span>Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-90056824761718427572012-11-02T17:30:00.001+08:002012-11-02T17:30:37.446+08:00Introducing Jacob's Family<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Most of
today’s activities were only very marginally related to our Bible story, but
some good things happened, so I guess that’s okay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We only had three kids (big Special Olympics
event going on).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First thing we did was
give everyone three name labels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were instructed to write their names on two of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the third one, they had to think of the
name of a friend or relative that they loved better than anyone else in the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also had to tell us why they
loved that person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we stuck those
names on hearts with “love” ( <span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">愛)</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">in the middle to read (for example) Mary loves Bruce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we showed a large heart saying Jacob
loves…reminded everyone that in our story last week, Isaac had two sons, one
named Jacob, and today we were going to find out who it was that Jacob
loved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved…Rachel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But her dad wouldn’t let her marry until her
big sister married too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Jacob ended
up having to marry them both (Wedding march around the room)—in fact, he ended
up with four wives!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he still loved
Rachel best of all.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
her dad made him work for 14 years to get to marry her!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He must have really loved her a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We probably don’t love candy (candy hearts,
no less!) enough to work 14 years to get one package.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But are we willing to do 14 different
things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this we used the “Do” cards
from “The Appreciation Game,” which are obligingly bilingual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our helpers read them off and everyone had to
do each one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or carefully selected ones;
it was very perceptive of Melissa NOT to go with “Pluck out a strand of your
own hair,” when Sally has just recently broken this bad habit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the 14 tasks was to jump like a
frog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone tried, and we gave them
all credit, but none of them did it as well as our talented helper Melissa.</span></div>
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one was making ugly faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought
they mostly ended up cute rather than ugly, but they tried, right?</span></div>
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was also one where you had to look into someone’s eyes for a count of
five.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds too simple to be in a game
like this for ordinary folks, but for Sally, who is notoriously bad at making eye
contact, this was a real challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
she made it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Took a few tries, and when
she finally did it, it was with her eyes nearly squinted shut, but facing the
right direction anyway!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thrilled!</span></div>
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won their candy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While they were eating,
we talked about how Jacob was willing to work 14 years because he loved Rachel,
and we were willing to do 14 different things because we loved candy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that Jesus was willing to do a lot more than
that—He was willing to die because He loved us so much!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked each one if they know Jesus loved
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all said yes, and they all
said they loved Jesus too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I asked
them to just pray one sentence each out loud: Thank you, Jesus, for loving
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they all did, even Wing Yan who
never talks if she can get away with gesturing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thrilled again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So then we took
the last labels, with their names on them, and stuck them onto hearts to make
them read Jesus loves…(name)</span></div>
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so back to our story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacob loved Rachel
best, but he did have four wives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
four wives, you could end up with a lot of kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacob had twelve sons!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were all tacked up around the room at a
height that required the kids to stand on a stool to reach them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our helpers read out the names and one kid at
a time had to look for that son, climb on the stool to get it down, and stick
it on the board in the order of the numbers on the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone really enjoyed this, except for
Sally had way too much trouble getting up on a stool, so she had other kids get
them down for her & then she went & stuck them on the board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This took longer than I’d estimated, so we
didn’t have to do our last activity—now I’m slightly ahead for next week,
hooray!</span></div>
Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-7061595353879858452012-10-26T20:45:00.003+08:002012-10-26T20:45:23.815+08:00Isaac the Peacemaker<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Things went a teeny bit better
today—still had a little more time than I had ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost none of the activities suggested in
the curriculum booklet were workable in our setting. :-(<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We started by reminding the kids of what God
had promised Abraham (a baby), then showed one of the craft papers from last
week that tell us another promise from God:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He gives peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So today’s story
was about how God helped Abraham’s baby, Isaac, to become a man of peace.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We introduced Isaac, now all
grown up with a wife and two children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Isaac was a wealthy man with lots of cattle and sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do sheep and cattle eat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nobody could think of anywhere there was much grass in Macau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But where Isaac lived, there was plenty of
grass—at least, until it didn’t rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
what could they do if it didn’t rain and there was no grass?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had to move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked who had ever moved, and if they
thought it was a good thing or a hassle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone agreed—hassle!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the
family had to pack their suitcase to move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I should have slowed this down a lot more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had brought a huge suitcase full of stuff
for our “family of four” & unpacked it in & around the teacher’s desk
in our classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically kids just
grabbed stuff and threw it in & I tried to name it as it was being
dumped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the family had to haul it
once around the room to arrive at “Gerar.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was originally going to have them unpack the suitcase at this point,
but after the first free-for-all I decided, forget it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So anyway, the reason they went to Gerar is
that Abraham had once dug a well there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But—someone had filled it in!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
the family had to work together to “dig out” the black circle taped to the
floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, then along came the local
folks and said, hey, that was their well, they couldn’t use it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaac did not lose his temper; they just went
a ways away and dug another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the
neighbors came again and said, sorry, since we lived here first, this well you
just dug is ours too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, that’s
unfair!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who dug this well, anyway?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Isaac did not lose his temper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, he told his family they would just
have to move again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another trip with
the suitcase around the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dig some
more, tape down the third black circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This time, none of the neighbors fought with them over the well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Isaac thanked God for giving them peaceful
neighbors, and good water to drink.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After this, we all sat back down
& divided the kids into two groups (of three each).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Helpers asked the kids if they had good
neighbors or if they ever got in fights with their neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or their classmates, or their siblings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of the kids in my group insisted they
never lose their temper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve seen them both hard at it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the helpers prayed that they would be
able to get along with their neighbors/friends/siblings, with the peace that
God promises.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So after praying to be peaceful
neighbors, our next two activities focused on doing what the bad neighbors had
done, oh well…we <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQMUVf7mM4tYOkNr8dTCLUGSkYhjh3eGqFFbZQ-Z8yilWekE7T8lsD9dsznZ-XuY0QisRLp7o_LDcGsYfCw-qV1nxJK2OpJJcyJIk53USjydqIiwJdPveb3EQNkuEaUt7ILQ7L66iLko/s1600/wheelbarrow.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQMUVf7mM4tYOkNr8dTCLUGSkYhjh3eGqFFbZQ-Z8yilWekE7T8lsD9dsznZ-XuY0QisRLp7o_LDcGsYfCw-qV1nxJK2OpJJcyJIk53USjydqIiwJdPveb3EQNkuEaUt7ILQ7L66iLko/s200/wheelbarrow.jpg" width="200" /></a>passed out two paper cups to each kid; one full of sand and
the other empty, though with a blue circle stuck in the bottom to represent
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQMUVf7mM4tYOkNr8dTCLUGSkYhjh3eGqFFbZQ-Z8yilWekE7T8lsD9dsznZ-XuY0QisRLp7o_LDcGsYfCw-qV1nxJK2OpJJcyJIk53USjydqIiwJdPveb3EQNkuEaUt7ILQ7L66iLko/s1600/wheelbarrow.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>They got plastic spoons and were
instructed to use them to fill up their “wells” like Isaac’s neighbors
had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Sorry, with the spoon, not by just <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQMUVf7mM4tYOkNr8dTCLUGSkYhjh3eGqFFbZQ-Z8yilWekE7T8lsD9dsznZ-XuY0QisRLp7o_LDcGsYfCw-qV1nxJK2OpJJcyJIk53USjydqIiwJdPveb3EQNkuEaUt7ILQ7L66iLko/s1600/wheelbarrow.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>pouring from one into the other!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
they were all done, we pointed out that the now empty cup also had “water” in
the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you try to fill up a well
by digging up the dirt right next to it, you’re going to end up with another
well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much for filling it up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you really want to <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQMUVf7mM4tYOkNr8dTCLUGSkYhjh3eGqFFbZQ-Z8yilWekE7T8lsD9dsznZ-XuY0QisRLp7o_LDcGsYfCw-qV1nxJK2OpJJcyJIk53USjydqIiwJdPveb3EQNkuEaUt7ILQ7L66iLko/s1600/wheelbarrow.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>plug up a well, you
should bring the dirt from somewhere else, probably in a wheelbarrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So of course then we had to play at being
wheelbarrows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t sure if any of
the kids had done this before and how willing they would be to do it, but
everyone seemed to really enjoy it, even Wing Yan who could NOT hold herself up
with one hand while dumping a cup of sand with the other, collapsing in
helpless laughter!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our helpers weren’t
real used to it either and preferred to go with one helper per wheelbarrow
“handle” but that was okay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
trouble was the game didn’t take nearly as long as I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We probably should have gone out into the
hallway for a longer “runway” rather than stay in our small classroom, oh
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after I proclaimed we were
done, I looked at the clock (horrors!) and retracted my statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Said we had to do it as a race now.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvraMV_WpAjN0COM_VXXq6INs9YFVlXoiV-2tEF-_je-5dPGHiqU6XJ4ftdJ0fHp5gEj1GQXLBXeoA9IxOxejJwt4K8hlQcHgoXbPoXCbch_46mK954eTUoV7KbX-OWUKxQz6jC4_XQM/s1600/S2050023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvraMV_WpAjN0COM_VXXq6INs9YFVlXoiV-2tEF-_je-5dPGHiqU6XJ4ftdJ0fHp5gEj1GQXLBXeoA9IxOxejJwt4K8hlQcHgoXbPoXCbch_46mK954eTUoV7KbX-OWUKxQz6jC4_XQM/s320/S2050023.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finally, after all that
work—it’s hard work being a bad neighbor, much easier to live at peace!—we all
needed a drink of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Not from our
sandy wells though.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a little
snack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, to be “good neighbors” to
the Education Center whose rooms we borrow, we all worked together (more or
less) to sweep up and put the desks back into rows before going to meet the
adults for final announcements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(We just
started this last week—having the kids signal “time’s up” by invading the
parents’ classroom rather than the other way around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids get antsy but the parents could chat
on forever and forget we need a break over in the kids’ room!)</div>
Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-39790407138070065832012-10-18T17:03:00.003+08:002012-10-18T17:03:48.479+08:00Father Abraham<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The
curriculum I’m following jumps from Adam & Eve to Isaac; for a couple of
reasons I didn’t want to do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
compromised with a brief overview of Abraham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So had to totally make it up myself and yes, I’m afraid it was a bit
boring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitshO3fjSPohC2YmY4rmaw23QrMgP5Isxq79Nc0DMaB8wTXkiNYyj7QcdGsAHSFwD01_Mv8QuJoNG-fgynKgvu_LBHgbkfluRscDwpfrfNfpHhty3X9AVxy9kl7hB20864YuEEK7j-nw0/s1600/S2050005.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitshO3fjSPohC2YmY4rmaw23QrMgP5Isxq79Nc0DMaB8wTXkiNYyj7QcdGsAHSFwD01_Mv8QuJoNG-fgynKgvu_LBHgbkfluRscDwpfrfNfpHhty3X9AVxy9kl7hB20864YuEEK7j-nw0/s320/S2050005.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We needed a starry sky for our
story, so rather than make one myself, our opening activity was sticking star
stickers (everyone got a little baggie with 20 stars) onto a big piece of black
paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That done, we had a brief review
of last week’s theme of making good choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(For example, if you have homework, do you do your homework or play on
the computer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Do your homework!” Ka Ho
shouted out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yea, Ka Ho!) Said we were
going to learn today about a man who made a good choice, the choice to believe
and obey God.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But first, we illustrated the
idea by choosing one volunteer as “God” (complete with halo), who held a
mysterious bag of goodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then each kid
was offered a choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would give them
a piece of chocolate, or they could believe “God” when He said He had something
much better in the bag that they could trade it for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had seven kids, altogether 3 of them opted
for the chocolate, and 4 for the mystery gift which turned out to be a whole
box of chocolate pretzels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then all the
kids had to wait, though; we marked down on a list what they had chosen &
they would get it at the end of class.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next, to our story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We introduced Abraham and Sarah, who lived in
a big city called Haran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God had already
blessed them, since they were rich and lived in a big city with lots of friends
and neighbors and relatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But God
told them that He would bless them even more if they would follow Him to
another land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had to make a choice,
and they chose to believe God and follow Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So we had a couple of the kids help move Abraham & Sarah from their
home in the city in the back of the room to the “bleak,” empty whiteboard at
the front of the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So there they
were, and they expected God would bless them right away, but just like with our
game, they had to wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had they done
the right thing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at how empty this
place was!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t even have any
kids; if they died who would bury them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Should they give up and back to Haran?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everybody who answered verbally said no, they should stay and believe
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not long after this, God tells Abraham to
look at the night sky, which we now put up on the board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could anybody count all those stars? No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, God said, you’re not going to be able
to count all the grandchildren & great-grandchildren you’re going to have
either!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So now Abraham and Sarah think
they’re going to have a baby real soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But still they wait, and wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Abraham is really old now—one of the kids glues on a cottony white
beard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s almost 100 years old—that’s
even older than ME! :-)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But God says,
now you’re going to have a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
sure enough, they did (out comes the baby doll).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So now Abraham and Sarah knew that when God
made a promise, he would keep it, even if it seemed impossible.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then we talked for a little
about why it is good to know that God keeps His promises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked if any of the kids had ever had been
promised they could go to McDonald’s, for example, and then later been told
they couldn’t go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or if a teacher (like
me) had ever promised them they could play at the end of the class, and then
they didn’t get to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty sure such
things had happened to most if not all of them (I know our play time got cut
short last week!), but no one seemed to remember any such things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I should have expected that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made for a very short & flat “discussion”
time. :-(</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Okay, so if God always keeps His
promises, we can be glad about that, but only if we know what His promises are!
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had one ready as an example, but they would have to work to find out what it
was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I held up one of the “promises” and
asked if anyone could read it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
written in black crayon on black construction paper, and you could read it if
the light hit it just right—and apparently the angle was just right for our
smartest kid, who called out “<span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">他賜平安”</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(God gives peace)</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So much for the element of surprise!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone got one of the black sheets, and a paintbrush and a small cup
of watered-down yellow paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I hadn’t
realized, and so neglected to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>emphasize,
was that you needed to paint over the paper LIGHTLY for the words to show up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the kids really ground the paintbrushes
into the paper so the crayoned characters got drowned out. :-(<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hate it when this happens—when a craft
works beautifully at home and bombs in the classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1deNkko4eY3UCD_2NVH9WITxiy7N9Cl-lCJskTYbLc3UEDa6ONAzUln2tHE-GwW5ygrG9dPmx0jBaLK2Zvo-hQpldIq9IoXzlc91sdcjx7Kk3Xu1TI5y_sxtpmz8inEqbFtjlsPpDXa8/s1600/S2050010.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1deNkko4eY3UCD_2NVH9WITxiy7N9Cl-lCJskTYbLc3UEDa6ONAzUln2tHE-GwW5ygrG9dPmx0jBaLK2Zvo-hQpldIq9IoXzlc91sdcjx7Kk3Xu1TI5y_sxtpmz8inEqbFtjlsPpDXa8/s320/S2050010.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we tried to talk about when we need peace, what things they are
afraid of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Too much homework?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mean kids?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dogs or cats?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got NO clear
responses except from one boy who said he’s afraid of wolves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolves?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are no wolves in Macau!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
first I thought he must mean high waves like when you take a boat to Hong Kong,
since it’s the same sound in Cantonese, but no, he meant wolves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kind of weird to pray that he would have
peace when facing wolves!</div>
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After we cleaned up, the kids
got to eat their long-awaited snacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ones who’d chosen the small piece of chocolate ended up with the
better deal, as the other kids were generous and shared their chocolate
pretzels with the kids who still wanted more to eat!<br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I hope next week goes better,
somehow!</div>
Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-29269891046510445572012-10-13T19:36:00.006+08:002012-10-13T19:36:57.448+08:00Learning to do Good<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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that are used by other groups during the week, we can’t leave anything
posted).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, in the garden, they could
basically do anything they wanted, such as—and we all did these
together—playing ball, running around, eating a snack, singing and dancing,
“swimming”, and “sleeping.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So we need to try and do better
than they did, and learn to make the right choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We reviewed our 4-character Bible verse
which, taken word by word was learn, review, do good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So first we “learned”: everyone stood in a
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stepping, but the real point was discussing whether or not it was good, so that
was okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next we moved on to
“review.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten scenarios again, but this
time one kid at a time came up & was asked questions like, you have
homework to do, do you get it done or play on the computer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone was allowed to give hints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the kid who was “it” chose the “good”
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next we went on to “do”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since not everyone will necessarily face all
our scenarios, we need to apply our learning to something specific.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of us took a couple of kids and helped
them brainstorm ways they should choose good behavior (e.g. verbalizing instead
of grunting, not sneaking food from the fridge); then we prayed for God’s help
for each one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of our newer girls
couldn’t think of anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked her
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nodded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after we finished praying and
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birthdays were!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too bad most of them
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heart!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sweet!</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The word for “do” in the
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a craft, using our fists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course none
of them had ever seen them done on frosty school bus windows like I had growing
up in Minnesota.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It never gets below
freezing here!</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We had a little time left and
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be out of the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it turned out
to be the right choice for her because the adults came in & we never got to
round two!</div>
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This time,
when I started by asking the question, what have we been talking about so far,
Lai Ting piped up with, “God created the world!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Woo-hoo!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Made my day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We reviewed that He
also created each of us, and loves us.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So—when God created the first
people, they lived in a beautiful garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first thing we did, then, was to make flowers for the garden, out of
chenille stems, and taped them up along the bottom of the whiteboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next we put up six different fruit tree
drawings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God told the people they could
eat the fruit off of any of the trees except this particular one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We reviewed this several times so hopefully
everyone had it in their heads which trees were okay & which was the no-no.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To tell the Bible story, we had
one girl come up to the front to be Eve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At first none of the girls wanted to volunteer; finally one suggested
that one of the boys do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, but
he’s a boy, he’ll have to play the man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Did you want him to be your husband?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay, then, you have to be
the woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Voilà, instant volunteer!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So then along comes a snake (another boy,
with a sock snake puppet on his arm) and started talking to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do snakes talk?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, but they must have back in that perfect
garden, because the woman didn’t seem all that surprised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the snake asks, did God say you couldn’t
eat any of the fruit in the garden?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Did
God say that? NO!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Eve explains and
the snake says, ha, God is lying to you, you won’t die!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Would God lie to us? NO!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he persuades her to try the forbidden
fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She pretends to pick and eat
some.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then along comes her husband, and
she says, look, I ate some of this fruit and I’m not dead!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you want to try some?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Should he try it too? NO!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And the snake laughs at them.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now, God comes to the garden to
talk with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of our boys loves to
wear the halo, so he got to be God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
man & woman tried to hide from Him, but there are no good places to hide in
our new classroom, so God found them! :-)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He said, why are you hiding from me; did you eat the fruit you weren’t
supposed to eat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They admitted they
did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I skipped the bit about nakedness,
and also decided to forgo the specific punishments as too much to digest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, the snake just went & sat down,
while God told the people that He was going to have to punish them for their
disobedience by banishing them from the perfect garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That they would grow old, and get sick, and
die, and all their descendants would die too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But when they did die, they would be able to see Him face to face again,
just like they had in the garden, because God still loved them (hugs them both).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I tried to get some feedback
from the story—what did you learn?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it
a good thing to obey the rules?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does God
still love you even when you are naughty?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Does your mom/teacher still love you even when you are naughty?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does your mom/teacher sometimes have to
punish you even though they still love you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So is it a good thing to be obedient?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Next we played a fun game to
reinforce the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sat in a circle
& everyone got a paper cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
explained that this jar of M&M’s was like the fruit in the garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brown M&M’s were the fruit you weren’t
supposed to eat; everything else was okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So first, everyone got one M&M in their cup, with one person getting
a brown one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we turned on some
music and had them start passing the cups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the music stopped, whoever had other colors could eat them right
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the one with the brown piece
had to make a choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either they could
go ahead and eat their M&M, but then be out of the game, or they could
choose not to eat it, but keep playing and have a chance to get other colors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We played it enough times so that every kid
got the brown piece once, and every single kid made the choice to not eat
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was impressed!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NOT impressed with their ability to pass the
cups along smoothly, however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we have
time to play the game again this Sunday, we will, even though they already “got
it,” partly because games with food are popular, and partly to help them work
on passing stuff, ha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure it will
be a useful skill for more games down the road!</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By now time was starting to run
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1:17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead we just passed out copies
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Well, we needed everything I thought of for this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sure wish I knew if the kids were getting
anything out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We started
by repeating the song about God creating each person, one verse per
person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then moved to, though He created
us and loves us, He didn’t just say, now go and enjoy yourselves!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gave us work to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What kind of work?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I adapted a lesson from an adult Friendship
Ministries book, about how God created apples, but He uses a lot of different
people to keep creating more apples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had different kids come up in turn to—</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(and it grew into a tiny tree—a twig
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with an empty wastebasket in case of freezing</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(and it grew into a big tree—twig
& carton exchanged for cardboard tree with toy fruit stuck on with blu-tak)</div>
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--pick the
apples</div>
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to market by driving it across the room in the back of a toy pickup</div>
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buy the apples</div>
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--eat the
apples!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This one we all did together!)</div>
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So, we
understand that God wants us all to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The very first job he gave the first person he created was to name all
the animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this, each kid took turns
pairing up with a helper to imitate different animals for us to name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought this was going to work better than
it did; our helpers couldn’t think fast enough as to how to imitate them, so I
probably butted in too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think
it was still basically fun.</div>
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The basic
job God gave people was to take care of the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, if all the apples got thrown away &
no one ever planted any more seeds, eventually we’d run out of apples,
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like if we use cans &
bottles & never recycle them, eventually we’d run out of metal &
plastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That wouldn’t be taking good
care of the earth!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I hauled out a big
bag of recyclables I’d been saving at home & the kids had to take the
things out and divide them into different bags according to type.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we all trooped down to the recycle bins
half a block down the street and put them in the correct bins.</div>
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When we got
back, I said we should also take care of our own bodies by drinking water (I
didn’t want to provide snacks since a potluck meal was coming up).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, whether the kids “got it” or not,
I felt I should bring reusable cups from home rather than using throwaway paper
cups right after our lesson on recycling—ha!</div>
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I couldn’t believe
how much time we still had left after all this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was glad I’d found this big poster displaying different
occupations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the kids figured out
what they were, they got to put a little sticker under each one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I left this activity for the helpers to run
entirely, since I wasn’t sure of all the Chinese occupational names myself!</div>
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Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-62134161404698871642012-09-22T22:39:00.003+08:002012-09-22T22:39:49.104+08:00Week Three, God created People<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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This past
Sunday we focused on how God created us, and loves us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But first, we reviewed our memory verse (In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth) & each one who could
say it after review got their butterfly stamp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Next, we took out the creation pictures we’d used last week and everyone
had to find one thing in the picture that God created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For each one, we sang our “God created…so we
thank Him” song.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then we passed out worksheets
with five sets of four pictures, one in each set being something that God did <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> create: e.g. rabbit, fish, tree,
car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the kids had to think at
least a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it was
interesting that everyone knew that God made a tree, but several were ready to
choose that God did not make an apple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(The fact that there was a television in that set of pictures didn’t
give them pause.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay, so if God didn’t
create those things, who did?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And who created
people?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I need to clue in the helpers not to
volunteer the answers to the questions!)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We explained that the Bible says
God created people “in His own image.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Does that mean everyone looks exactly alike?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not hardly!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here we broke up into pairs, each pair with one adult helper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were supposed to look together at what
they had in common (two eyes, one nose, etc.) vs. what were differences (shape
of ears, fingers, height, weight—hair and eye color didn’t work for our group,
ha!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then each helper introduced one
special thing about their kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As each
was shared, we put their names in the “God created” song—“God created…and God
loves him/her.”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We repeated the concept that
being created in God’s image didn’t mean we all look alike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that one thing it means is that we can
create things, too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everybody got a
small ball of playdough and were told they could make “anything they wanted.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew this was a stretch for our kids,
creative imagination not being their strong point in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they responded well to suggestions and/or
lots of help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they were done, we
had one helper take them all out into the hallway for a minute while the rest
of us distributed their creations around on various chairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they came back in and had to find their
own creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked about how they
didn’t want to end up with anyone else’s; each wanted the one that he/she had
made because it was special to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Which is how God feels about us—because He made us, we are special to
Him and he wouldn’t trade us for anything! </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The application for this was
that because we are special to Him, we can talk to Him about anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked each kid whether they were happy or
sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all said happy and all gave
reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Except the one boy who had
fallen fast asleep while I was talking to the first two kids in the row,
ha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aren’t I the exciting teacher!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we offered a brief prayer with/for each
child, thanking God for the thing that made them happy.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We ended up the morning with
something I was so excited to be able to pass out to every kid (except two
newcomers, who were promised theirs for next week if they come back): I’d
discovered this wonderful website, coloringpagecreator.com, where you can
upload your photos and presto, they become coloring pages!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So everyone got a picture of themselves to
color!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The two new kids got generic
creation coloring pages, but I have their pictures printed out and ready for
this Sunday!)</div>
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First thing
I did was ask the group, “Do you remember what we learned last week?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dear helpful Lai Ting flashed me her biggest
smile and chirped, “No!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.</div>
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I reminded
them that we had talked about how God created everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Showed them the Bible that teaches us about
God, and had one of our helpers read the first sentence, <span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">起初神創造天地.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we set out to try & learn this
sentence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had just enough words for
everyone to have one word (including helpers).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lined them up and had each one learn to say their word, then worked on
saying them in order, faster & faster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lai Ting was prompting everyone’s word before they said it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So then I asked her to repeat the whole
sentence by herself but she totally panicked and froze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Next,
I told a simplified creation story with everyone instructed to clap whenever I
mentioned something that God created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course holding my hands up ready to clap to give the hint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we went through it again with
instructions to stand up instead of clap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don’t know if they totally understood why they were clapping or
standing, but hey, if it’s physical, they like it!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then
we moved from the physical to the visual, with a picture of a Garden-of-Eden
scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of our helpers read out
things to find in the picture and we helped everyone find them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thirteen things in all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was just about the right level for them,
I think; everybody found at least one without help; no one found them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well,
one brand-new boy, a four-year-old with autism, didn’t find any by
himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mom and I both were happy
the few times he actually looked at the picture when we were pointing at the
right creature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He & his mom left at
the end of this activity; mom felt he’d sat still long enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said they would see if he could go longer
next time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope they do come back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is a PINCHER, big time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uses his fingernails and draws blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He got a grip on our thirteen-year-old
volunteer that had to hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She pried
him loose and then crouched down at his eye level to try and make friends with
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think she succeeded real
well, but I was so proud of her attitude and her patience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Melissa Chu, I love you!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Next
we asked each child which was their favorite thing that God created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Or at least, what was something they could
remember.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they were helped to
repeat, “God, thank You for making…”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Next
(everything was going SO FAST this week!) we showed a display with six little
pictures of different things God created and rehearsed what they were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We kept another display of the same pictures
intact, but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with the main display we had
one kid at a time come “sneak” over to one corner and take one picture off;
then we took it back to the group and the “sneaker” got to hold the display
board and have everybody try and guess what was missing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One boy kept grabbing things off the board
for a closer look, oh well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, it
would have been ideal to have one display per kid and one helper per kid, but
we just don’t have those kinds of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wish I had some magical—or trained or something—skills to keep them
attentive and cooperative like the published curriculum seems to assume the
kids will be, but I don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I still
worry about people’s expectations that I will. :-(</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Still
lots of time left!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So for our next
activity, we said, we can’t create things out of nothing like God did, but we
can use what he has created to make pretty pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone got a picture of bare tree branches,
and a couple of vegetable leaves, and were helped to put the leaves on the back
of the paper and rub the front with a crayon to make the leaves show up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vegetable leaves were definitely better for
this than flower leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had tried
this at home with choi sam leaves and they worked GREAT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the only choi sam in the market when I
went to buy leaves for this craft was older & too big for our pictures, so
I bought some other veggie whose name I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guy thought it was fascinating that I was
buying veggies for a craft and told me to go ahead and pick through his pile
looking for the stuff with the best-sized leaves!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They weren’t quite as sturdy as the choi sam
though so the pictures, didn’t turn out quite as pretty as I’d hoped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lots of sighing this week!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We
reviewed the Bible verse again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still
didn’t get any of them to say it all by themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then asked them to remember some other things
that God created besides “heavens” and “earth”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each one who could got a cracker; fortunately they all came up with
something!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This
was all I had prepared & time wasn’t quite up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then the adult class went overtime!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the kids didn’t really seem to mind
milling around doing nothing for a little while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a closing prayer and, while we were in
the circle sang our “circle” song: “Brothers and sisters, all join hands…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we went over & hinted to the Hong
Kong volunteer leading the adult group (my husband was away at a meeting) that
they needed to wind things up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kind of
rude, but it’s something we really need to stick to in this borrowed facility
where we can’t store enough stuff for the kids to do during any “free time”.</span></div>
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sure wish I knew where to go for some kind of encouragement that this is
actually going to make a difference. (Sigh!)</span></div>
Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-28195243508254595632012-09-06T22:15:00.001+08:002012-09-06T22:21:34.595+08:00A New Home and a New Creation<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Of course,
starting a brand-new Sunday-school format, what better place to start than at
the very beginning—with God creating all things?</div>
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I thought
preparation was going to be easy, mainly translation, as I’d purchased a tested
& well-received curriculum from the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I don’t know what my problem is; I’m notorious for not doing very
well with teaching lessons right out of someone else’s book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Means a lot more work for me but at least
then I feel comfortable teaching it.</div>
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So: what did
we do? First, even though we all knew each other, we had everyone write his/her
name on a sheet of origami paper (so they could choose their own color &
design) and spent some time giving each one a chance to sort through the pile
of names and deliver them to the correct person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the last person’s turn, we slipped in
an extra name tag that said “God”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who
do you give this name tag to?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can’t
see God!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we know He is real because
we can see the things that He has made, so today we will look at how He created
the whole world and everything in it.</div>
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Right away
we found a benefit of the move to our new location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bathrooms have no windows!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when we explained how dark everything was
when God first created the world, we took everyone together into one bathroom
and closed the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was DARK!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when God said “Let there be light,” which
we all repeated, there was light—i.e., I turned on a flashlight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were all thankful that God created light
so we could see things!</div>
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Okay, now
that we can see, what did God’s world look like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was all water!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a plastic tub full of water &
dropped a little plastic doll into it, to show that this wasn’t yet ideal for
breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So God on the second day
separated the waters on the earth and the waters of the sky: we all took turns
ladling water out of the first tub into a second tub which we placed on top of
the first one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was the second
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the third day, God separated the
water and the dry land on the earth:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>everyone helped pour the rest of the water from tub #1 into different
bowls marked ocean, river, and lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then we put a florist’s brick (or whatever you call those green things
you can stick stems into when arranging flowers) in the bottom of the tub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On that day God also caused green plants to
spring up from the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So everyone
got a tree or a flower on a toothpick to plant on the earth.</div>
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On the
fourth day, God took the light He had created and organized it into a sun for
the daytime, and a moon and stars for the nighttime: first we stuck light blue
paper onto one side of the sky tub, and black paper onto the other side, then
added sun, moon and star stickers.</div>
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On the fifth
day, God made creatures to go in the earth’s water—cutout plastic fish—and in
the sky’s “water”—bird stickers.</div>
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On the sixth
day, He made all kinds of animals, also on toothpicks that we all got to stick
into the earth, along with the final creatures, a man and a woman.</div>
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On the
seventh day, God rested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you
like to do when you’re relaxing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides
sleep, which is what everyone answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eat, of course!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, like God,
first we created these edible bugs, and then relaxed and ate them!</div>
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After we
ate, it was time to sing a song:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
created X X X, X X X, X X X, God created X X X, we give thanks to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We put the song up on the board and for each
of quite a few verses, stuck up a different picture of some aspect of God’s
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And that
took our whole hour!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had planned a
couple more activities but things took longer than I expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is NOT a problem since one brilliant
aspect of the new curriculum is the suggestion to use two Sundays in a row to
teach the same truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I am half
prepared for next Sunday already, nice deal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(In fact, I now plan to stretch this theme out to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">three</i> Sundays, with the last one focusing on how God created
people, and how that is why He loves each one of us so much.)</div>
Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-30489186179173464822012-08-31T21:48:00.003+08:002012-08-31T21:48:47.053+08:00End of Phase OneFor our anniversary celebration, we didn't have our usual activities, which meant I didn't have to plan/write/lead them. Yay hurray! One big thing we were going to do instead was look at six years' worth of pictures on the computer. Well, look at them on the computer we did, as when we hooked up the projector we discovered the bulb had burned out, and no, we didn't have a spare. Sigh.<br />
Ironically, I had been halfway to church carrying computer, projector and potluck dish when I realized I did not have the cord to connect the computer to the projector, since there is no room for it in the case & we stash it separately. So I had to haul everything back & forth again, and then it wasn't worth it! Sigh.<br />
Other than that, it was a good morning. I had realized I was seriously stressing out over the new curriculum, worrying that people would think I should be able to produce it with no hiccups, no trial-and-error, since after all I have so much "experience" now. So I shared this with the parents and received assurance of their support and appreciation for whatever I can do.<br />
Here's the "official" photo for the sixth anniversary. The Chinese characters are the same ones we displayed for our opening day photo (except for one that got so moldy it had to be replaced). As part of the celebration, we had the kids climb on stools and take the characters down from the windows were they had been proclaiming our meeting place for the past six years. Next Sunday, new location!<br />
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I had nothing to do with the arrangement of the characters; I was busy positioning the camera and setting the timer. Turns out the way the characters read is clockwise! First from right to left along the bottom, then from left to right along the top. Funny.Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-10043649511801496872012-08-25T21:18:00.000+08:002012-08-25T21:18:09.607+08:00God forgives sin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For our
picture of God’s willingness to forgive, we chose the story of Peter’s
denial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We began with several disciples
sitting around the dinner table with Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus announces that He is going to suffer, and that all of them would
desert him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all say they will not,
but Jesus says they will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter stands
up and says, even if no one else sticks by you, I will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus tells him that he will deny Him three
times before the cock crows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter
denies it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dinner is over and they all
go out for a walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They get to a park
and Jesus asks His disciples to sit with Him for a while while he prays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He kneels to pray and all the disciples put
their heads in their hands and snore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus gets up and finds them sleeping, and tells them to wake up because
the soldiers are coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few people
with swords come and grab Jesus, and all the disciples run away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The swordsmen take Jesus into a corner of the
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Even though
Peter ran away with the others, he really does care what happens to Jesus, and
he tries to sneak in closer to find out what is going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A servant at the gate says, oh, are you one
of His disciples?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He denies it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a cold night, and several people are
warming their hands around an orange-tissue-paper fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter comes to the fire too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone asks him, didn’t I see you taking a
walk with Jesus earlier?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says no, I
don’t know Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a girl says, but
you have an accent, you must be one of his friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter loses his temper and says he doesn’t
know anything about Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then one of
the parents crowed like a rooster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
Jesus from behind his guards turns and stares at Peter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter realizes what he has done and cries,
and runs away.</div>
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Now three
days later, the disciples are sitting together in a room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter is in one corner with his head in his
hands, too ashamed to look at anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
girl comes into the group and says, Jesus’ tomb is empty, He has risen!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and another disciple run over and look
into the storeroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other disciple
jumps up and down and says, “Yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
is risen!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Peter says, how can you
be so sure?</div>
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The rest of
the story, I confess I took more from Don Francisco’s “He’s Alive” than
directly from the Biblical account—but I think it’s true to the spirit of the
Scripture!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter goes back and sits in
his corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says, even if He has
really risen, He won’t want me for His disciple any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Jesus appears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the disciples start jumping up and
high-fiving each other and Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
except Peter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus comes over to Peter
and pulls him to his feet and hugs him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Peter says he is so sorry, and Jesus says, but I have conquered all your
sin by rising from the dead!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you
still want to be my disciple?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter
says, yes, yes, I do!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus says, then
never worry about it again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>End of story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of our final story in our old-curriculum Merciful Love Family
Fellowship!</div>
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For our
game, we talked about how Peter had three chances to either affirm or deny
Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He chose three denials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We played human tic-tac-toe to see if denials
(X’s) or affirmations (O’s) would win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>X’s
won on the second round.</div>
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We made
roosters for craft time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rooster’s
comb was each child’s traced-and-cut-out handprint; then we added the beaks and
eyes.</div>
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Next week we
celebrate our sixth anniversary, and then the new format begins!</div>
Mary-jehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975603050436102570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039348679804378688.post-6994154181501943712012-08-18T20:13:00.000+08:002012-08-18T20:13:17.849+08:00God's Justice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We were on
vacation over the first Sunday in August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A couple of volunteers from Hong Kong came to lead the service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But August is such a big month for children’s
activities, that the attendance was very low.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So low that the volunteers decided not to lead the regular program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were only two Sundays left, then for
using the old curriculum, but now three more stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we decided this was worth keeping, and we’d
skip the story originally planned for next week.<br />
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The story,
then, to illustrate God’s justice in not punishing the innocent with the guilty
was the rescue of Lot and his family from Sodom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We first introduced Abraham and his nephew
who came to Canaan together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But because
God blessed them both, they had so many flocks and herds they had to
separate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Lot went to live in the
city of Sodom (he goes & sits down).</div>
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So one day,
God came with two angels to visit Abraham (three folks in haloes). First they
congratulate Abraham that he will soon have a son. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, God tells him, another reason we are
here today is that I have heard that the people of Sodom are terribly
wicked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My two angels here are going to
go and see if this is really so, and if they are beyond saving then I will
destroy the whole city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, this was
not good news to Abraham—his nephew lived in that city!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he starts bargaining with God: since you’re
so just, you wouldn’t destroy a whole city if there were 50 righteous in it,
would you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We lined up five people, each
with a<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2F3t7qH4MVzfajFTbAFZLXlNQlq-eXa4oqOc8ypsRBaTljQiyGB9USkZi0bLmx81Cy7R4ikG3t9v4n-oc5Oz9rsSrySimnwqF_0quONcX4LJzqcZvMpchhhGCl3fnqbtdFGIiMD3LVs/s1600/S1960002.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2F3t7qH4MVzfajFTbAFZLXlNQlq-eXa4oqOc8ypsRBaTljQiyGB9USkZi0bLmx81Cy7R4ikG3t9v4n-oc5Oz9rsSrySimnwqF_0quONcX4LJzqcZvMpchhhGCl3fnqbtdFGIiMD3LVs/s320/S1960002.JPG" width="320" /></a> “10” sign around their neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
says, no, I won’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, how about
45?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you destroy it for the lack of
just five of the fifty? (one of the “10” signs is exchanged for a “5”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God says no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Abraham continues: how about 40 (the number 5 person sits down), 30 (a
10 sits down), 20 (another 10 sits) or, please bear with me, how about if there
are 10 righteous people (just one 10 stays standing).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God promises if there are 10 righteous people
in Sodom, he will not destroy the city.</div>
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So God and
Abraham sit down and Lot comes back to the front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lot has a wife (which he got to pick for
himself, a cute visiting girl) and two daughters, that the girl got to
pick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the two angels now come and
spread a blanket on the floor, ready to spend the night in the open square of
the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lot goes out and persuades
them to stay overnight at his house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
they come, but while they are all sitting around with their bowls and
chopsticks, everyone else in the room came and surrounded them, yelling, send
those guests of yours out so we can “gaau” them to death (a great Chinese word
that can mean almost anything you need it to mean).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lot steps to the door and tries to reason
with them but they start attacking him, so one of the angels grabs him and
pulls him back inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then says, in the
name of God, you can’t see!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone
groped around and finally sat down.</div>
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So then we
said, we see that everyone in the city is wicked except Lot and his family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many righteous did there need to be to
spare the city? 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many are there
here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Count ‘em, four!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the angels tell Lot that God is going to
destroy the city, so they must hurry and leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They start slowly packing clothing into tote bags, but the angels say,
there is no time for that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They each
grab two people and pull them back to the back of the room, and then God comes
and dumps “fire” where they were just sitting.</div>
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Next came
one of our favorite game times—everyone was split into groups of three: one Lot
& two angels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoever was Lot sat on
a blanket, while the two angels donned haloes and dragged the blanket from one
end of the room to the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
especially fun when, as happened Sunday, an elderly grandmother got to be the
carpet rider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For craft
time we said that, no one knows for sure, but it is certainly possible that the
fire that destroyed Sodom came from a volcano. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we made little volcano shapes out of clay,
filled them with a spoonful of baking soda, dripped in some vinegar and watched
them foam!</div>
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And then after our Bible study, we all celebrated Sally's birthday. </div>
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Last week we
saw how David was anointed king; this week we met his son Solomon, who
succeeded him as king.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had only one
boy present when we started the Bible story; another arrived later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story leader first introduced the boy as
King David, but then had to take his crown off and make him sit down to “die”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So who should be Solomon?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He grabbed the same boy and said, obviously,
Ka Ho; he looks exactly like his father David, doesn’t he? :-)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU1jpdduRaUwNhzGYJvwpgV8oEvbsoNbg1wDm1Mac0yEeJaRavT9yxeB_QNxD5uECkpowTRgwXvcW9CmBYcVy2PD180O2tOkICnG4ZN-zy6uV0aps_yCUrbGNSy7Z76yeVkybuLkY7o9g/s1600/S1910002.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU1jpdduRaUwNhzGYJvwpgV8oEvbsoNbg1wDm1Mac0yEeJaRavT9yxeB_QNxD5uECkpowTRgwXvcW9CmBYcVy2PD180O2tOkICnG4ZN-zy6uV0aps_yCUrbGNSy7Z76yeVkybuLkY7o9g/s320/S1910002.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>
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One night
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good choice, and because he chose that he would also be given long life,
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It was for
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</span>He was sitting on his throne when two women came before him, one holding
a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The women go into an argument
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both half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has someone come and raise
a sword over the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the women
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Our game was
called, “Wisdom takes all.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We prepared
a large cube with the six sides reading: wisdom, long life, riches, honor, try
again, and wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had also prepared
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life, riches, and honor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone got to
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In our
story, Solomon, thankfully, did not cut the baby in two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for our craft each child had eight dog-stickers
that had been cut in two, they had to find the matches and stick them together
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To
illustrate this truth we went back to Samuel’s anointing of David, which we had
purposely skipped in the previous unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We introduced King Saul, in crown, and holding a <span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">福 </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">character (meaning blessings).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord had blessed Saul, but Saul’s heart
was not pure toward God, so he was no longer under God’s blessing:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very dramatic angel in a halo flew in and
plucked the</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">福 </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">character
out of his hands and tore it up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God was
going to let him continue as king, but then the line would pass to another: we
displayed a hypothetical dynasty chart, listing a sequence of kings as Saul I,
Saul II, Saul III, Saul IV; one of the kids came and crossed out Sauls II-IV
and traced a faint arrow pointing to a large question mark representing the
unknown new dynasty.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">So: at
that time, Samuel was still the chief prophet in Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The angel comes to him and says he is to go
anoint the next king.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is afraid, but
the angel pushes him on his way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes
to Bethlehem and invites Jesse to eat with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They sit down with bowls and chopsticks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Samuel asks Jesse if he has any sons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He goes and gets one and sticks a #1 sticker on him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samuel thinks, what a handsome, strong young
man; surely he is God’s choice! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But God
is not looking on the outward appearance, but on the heart: the angel stands up
behind son #1 and gestures, “No, no!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
Samuel asks if Jesse has any more sons, and we are introduced to sons #2-7, all
of which the angel rejects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samuel is
confused!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asks, are these all of your
sons?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, there is one more, but he’s
just a kid, out watching the sheep while we eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samuel says, but we’re not eating until I
meet him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So David is introduced and the
angel gives the thumbs up sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Samuel
pours an (empty) bottle of oil on his head and says, “God bless you.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">God
knows everything: how much do YOU know, was our game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before our morning started, we had put up
papers of different shapes & colors, with numbers, letters, Chinese and
English words on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each child got
several chances to play by drawing a paper out of a bag and having to look
around the room and find that shape, color, number, letter, or word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tested some attention and perseverance as
well as knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">Craft
time reflected David’s having been out watching the sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We painted glue on a half-sheet of paper (on all
but the “water” part already colored in), and first stuck on a little paper
shepherd, then shredded green paper for grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Small cotton balls dipped into the glue went on for sheep, and then
little stickers with sheep faces were stuck on to the cotton balls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone seemed to really enjoy making these.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">I was
in with the kids for free play time during the Bible study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was trying to help one of our more “
clueless” kids stack some legos, which I thought he had finally learned, but he
was not having a good day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I gave up,
but 13-year-old Melissa persevered and worked with him for quite a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am so impressed with her patience and so
glad she attends our church!</span></div>
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