Page Turner- Week 3
Page-turners are exciting books, the kind you don’t want to put down, the kind you would stay up extra late to read. Books are exciting when we can find ourselves in the stories and imagine being a part of the adventure. This month we are going to look at some of the page-turning stories of the Bible. Each of these stories has something valuable to teach us about our patient and powerful God who prepares us to fight temptation and celebrates us, the heroes in our own real-life adventures!
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God is patient while we grow.
MEMORY VERSE: "But the Lord is faithful and He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one." II Thessalonians 3:3 (NIV)
TODDLER MV- "God protects me and gives me strength." II Thessalonians 3:3
READ: Parable of the Fig Tree: Luke 13:6-9
WATCH:
Preschool- Teaching Video
Elementary- Teaching Video
SONG: My God is Powerful
ACTIVITY:
In some storybooks, we read about creatures like fairies and elves who live in flowers! What if you were small enough to live in a flower? What kind of flower would you want to live in?
Well, in order to make a house inside a flower, you would have to be as small as your hand.
Now that you’ve created your flower out of paint, draw a stem, leaves, and decorate your fairy or elf house any way you’d like!
INSTRUCTIONS: Give each kiddo a piece of white construction paper. You will be using finger paint to help your kids create flowers with their handprints (or trace if you dont have paint on hand). Use fun stickers and other decorative items for your kids to add to their flowers, and allow them to draw pictures of themselves, too!
ASK; What would you like about living inside a flower?
What would you not like about living in a flower house?
I would imagine living inside a flower when it rained or when it was really windy would be very tough. We would have to wait patiently for the weather to get better and for the sun to shine again.
Jesus told a lot of great stories to teach some things to other people that might have been hard to understand. The stories that Jesus told are called parables. Today we learn that God is patient while we grow!
COLORING: Parable of the Fig Tree
DISCIPLE:
Read Luke 13:6-9.
Did you know that’s how God is with us? God knows that we have a lot of growing to do. We have so much to learn but God never gives up. God gives us time and everything we need!
INSTRUCTIONS: Share a personal story about how you had to wait for something and once you did, the outcome turned out far better than how you originally thought it would.
Think about some of your favorite stories. If every single story ended with the hero quickly getting to the ending, wouldn’t the stories be so boring? Reading about their struggles and challenges is what makes the stories so good and what makes the endings more satisfying when they win!
God is patient while we grow, so we need to learn to be patient with ourselves and with others, too.
ASK; What is one way you can be patient with yourself?
How you can be more patient with your family and friends, or with complete strangers? Having patience is one of the best ways we can show how thankful we are that God has so much patience with us.
Pray: Dear God, thank you for being patient with us. We know we have a lot of growing to do but you take care of us and give us everything we need to grow. Teach us how to be patient like you are with us. Amen.
DISCUSSION:
What kind of tree was the Bible story about?
Why did the owner of the vineyard want to cut down the tree?
What did the vineyard worker say to the owner?
Read I Corinthians 10:12-13. What do you think it means when it says that God will not let you be tempted “beyond what you can bear?”
How can we show how thankful we are for all God’s patience with us?
In response to God’s patience, what are some things we can do to make sure we grow strong?
What are some ways you can show patience to others this week?