Fishing for Christ Visuals, Day Five
Here are the visuals for the Fishers of Men Bible lesson.
Come, Follow Me
Jesus and His Disciples
Women at the Tomb
Ascension
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Come, Follow Me
Jesus and His Disciples
Women at the Tomb
Ascension
Fishing for Christ Visuals, Day Four
Here are the visuals for the Following God Bible lesson.
Fishing All Night
Jesus on the Shore
Jumping In
Hauling In the Nets
Fishing for Christ Visuals, Day Three
Here are the visuals for the Raised from the Dead Bible lesson.
Disciples at the Tomb
Road to Emaeus
Anything to Eat?
More than 500
Fishing for Christ Visuals, Day Two
Here are the visuals for The Sign of Jonah. Some of them can also be used for the corresponding preschool lesson, Jonah: Obey God.
Fleeing to Tarshish
Storm
Lightening the Ship
Throwing Jonah Overboard
Big Fish
Nineveh
These visuals were contributed by Mary Beth Frey.
Fishing for Christ Snacks, Day 3: Fish Sticks
| Wednesday: | Snack |
|---|---|
| Elementary Bible Lesson: | Raised from the Dead |
| Memory Verse: | 1st John 4:10 |
| Preschool Bible Lesson: | Feeding the Big Crowd |
Key Item: Fish Sticks
Fish sticks are easy to prepare and (at least theoretically) made out of fish.
We provided ketchup and tartar sauce for dipping.
Snack Lesson:
[Hold up a fish stick.] What is this that we're eating?
Can you think of any times in the Bible when anybody ate fish?
Did Jesus ever eat fish?
In the Bible lesson today, we're going to learn about a time when Jesus
at fish, not because he was hungry, but because he wanted his disciples
to see him eat and know he was really there.
Additional Snack Items (optional):
To make the snack more substantial, we served
applesauce and homemade cookies alongside the fish sticks.
We also provided Kool-Aid to drink.
Fishing for Christ Snack Lesson: Day Two: Whale Cookies
| Tuesday: | Snack |
|---|---|
| Elementary Bible Lesson: | The Sign of Jonah: Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sin. |
| Memory Verse: | Romans 6:23 |
| Preschool Bible Lesson: | Jonah: Obey God |
Key Item: whale[1] cookies
Serve cut-out cookies shaped like whales or fish.
Snack Lesson:
[Hold up a cookie.] What shape is this?
Can anyone think of an account from the Bible that
involves a whale, or some other really big fish?
One bigger than a person? Perhaps even a fish big
enough to swallow someone?
In the Bible lesson today, we're going to learn about
a man named Jonah, who was swallowed by a large fish
and was inside it for three days and three nights.
Additional Snack Items (optional):
To make the snack more substantial, we served
tuna salad sandwiches and carrot sticks alongside the cookies.
We also provided Kool-Aid to drink.
Footnotes:
- [1]:
Is a whale a fish?
In Bible times, yes, the word that we translate
fish
could refer to pretty much any animal that swims in water. The notion that the wordfish
should be used only for the ones with gills (and that whales and dolphins are not fish butmammals
because they breathe air from the surface) is a modern idea. By the time this modern classification scheme was invented, there were already a number of translations of the Bible into English, all of which had used the wordfish
in the traditional way[2][3][4][5][6].Most modern translators continue to use the word
fish
, mostly because English doesn't really have another common, well-known word for anything that swims in the water.We don't know for sure whether the fish described in the book of Jonah was a whale. There are several other kinds of large fish that it potentially might have been; but traditional Bible scholars generally consider a whale (probably a baleen whale) to be the most likely (unless it was a special one-of-a-kind fish directly created by God just for Jonah).
For Bible School purposes, we just use the words
fish
andwhale
interchangeably, and we used whatever cookie cutters were handy: some of our cookies looked like (cartoon) whales and others looked more like some other kind of fish. This difference is not important. The word used in Jonah (Hebrew: דָּג) can refer to either a whale or some other kind of fish. (The word in Matthew, κη̑τος, is somewhat more specific: it refers to something monstrous that lives in the sea. This could include whales, very large fish, and various other real or imagined sea monsters.) We aren't told which specific kind of sea creature it was, because that doesn't matter. Whatever it was, it was large enough to open up its mouth and take in a man whole.
Fishing for Christ Snack Lesson: Day One: Chocolate Coins
| Monday: | Snack |
|---|---|
| Elementary Bible Lesson: | The Fish with the Coin: Jesus is God |
| Memory Verse: | Matthew 16:16 |
| Preschool Bible Lesson: | The Coin in the Fish's Mouth |
Key Item: Chocolate Coins
Chocolate coins can be purchased at most large grocery stores and from many other sources. We got enough to give each child a couple of coins with their snack.
Snack Lesson:
[Hold up a chocolate coin.] What's this? Well, I
mean, it's chocolate obviously, but what's it made to look like?
Where do you usually find money? At the bank, maybe? In a piggy bank, or safe?
Have you ever been fishing? Did you ever catch a fish? When you catch a fish, does it usually have money?
In the Bible lesson today, we're going to learn about a time when a
man named Peter caught a fish and found a coin in it's mouth. That
may sound unusual, but it wasn't surprising for Peter, because the
coin was right where Jesus told Peter the it would be.
Additional Snack Items (optional):
To make the snack more substantial, we served
spaghetti and fresh fruit alongside the chocolate coins.
We also provided Kool-Aid to drink.
Fishing for Christ Visuals - Day 1
These are the visuals for The Fish with the Coin (and also for the corresponding Preschool lesson).
Peter and the Tax Man
Peter and Jesus
Peter Fishing
Peter Finding the Coin
Peter Paying the Tax
Eating Grain
Accused of Working
These visuals were contributed by Mary Beth Frey.
Second Round of Fishing for Christ Decoration Photos
While we're waiting for the aforementioned Footsteps lessons to be reviewed, I thought I'd post the second round of photographs from 2009. This first shot shows a section of wall with fish and bubbles. We actually made all those fish back in 2004, when we used this theme the first time: we photocopied various outline-style images, colored them in with markers, cut them out, and laminated them. When we took them down after VBS, we saved them, because we knew we'd be using the theme again. The bubbles are just little circles of blue construction paper in about three different sizes.
This one shows a different section of wall, this time with seaweed (made from green construction paper) in addition to the fish and bubbles.
Here you can see one of the nets that we hung from the ceiling. (We bought half a dozen of these nets from the Oriental Trading Company.) In the background you can also see mobiles. The mobiles are a kit that someone bought for us in 2004, and the fish and things hanging from them, and the other ones hanging from the ceiling, are also from a purchased kit. They're double-sided, which is why we hung them from the ceiling rather than on the wall. We use fishing line to hang them, because it's cheap and durable and easy to work with and sufficiently transparent that you mostly don't notice it.
In the auditorium we hang flags of the countries where we have missionaries.
Here's another of those nets, this time by the front entrance. We originally tried to use masking tape to stick it up, which didn't hold well, as you can see. So we switched to the blue tacky stuff, which worked much better.
In the stairwell we had some ceiling tiles out, due to an ongoing renovation project (something to do with the new lighting fixture being a different form-factor from the old one, I think, and also we were putting some of the existing wiring into conduit, because it should have been that way in the first place). So I figured we'd make the best of the unsightly mess by hanging a decoration from it! Indeed, the open ceiling made it really easy to hang the net in exactly the configuration I wanted, because I wasn't restricted by tile-boundaries and could tie up bits of the net more or less wherever I wanted.
We also hung a net from the preschool-room ceiling.I think that about wraps it up for the 2009 decoration photos. I expect the Footsteps lessons will be forthcoming soon, now, and then we can start gearing up for 2010.
Decoration Photos, First Installment
This is our main bulletin board for the elementary group. The items on this board are images out of the main Bible lessons. For example, the fish on the left with the coin in its mouth comes from the first day's story, about Peter and the temple tax. To make these, we trace line drawings (mostly out of coloring books) onto overhead transparencies (using wet-erase markers), project them up onto posterboard, trace the lines with pencil, and paint. Once the paint dries, we outline with black marker and cut them out.
This is the bulletin board in the preschool room, which is built around the Wordless Book lessons. Each strip of color represents the concept for one day's lesson, with a corresponding picture.
In the teen room we don't have a bulletin board, so instead we just put posterboard directly on the walls. This year we went with a missions theme for the room, hence, continents with people on them.
Between the auditorium and the foyer, our building has some internal windows. For Bible School we always do a three-panel scene made to fit. Putting them behind the glass really brings them out, we think. Anyway, this scene is supposed to represent following Jesus, which goes with one of the Bible lessons.
I don't know when or why those cuphooks were put up over the auditorium doors, but they sure came in handy for hanging this net.
This is just the first batch. We've also got wall decorations (fish), decorations hanging from the ceilings (more fish), and a couple of other things, but I'll save those for another post.
Now What? Discussion Questions
| Friday: | Now What? |
|---|---|
| Missions Concepts: | Missionaries disciple new believers, plant churches, and train pastors. |
| Missions Examples: | Project Timothy (Uberlandia, Brazil) |
| Bible Passages: | [needed] |
- In the skit, what did the fisherman need to do?
- What do people need after they come to know Jesus Christ as savior? Why?
- What do the missionaries in Brazil do once people accept Jesus?
- What can we do here?
Reel 'em In Discussion Questions
| Thursday: | Reel 'em In |
|---|---|
| Missions Concepts: | Missionaries must present the gospel to unbelievers. |
| Missions Examples: | India (starting churches). |
| Bible Passages: | Romans 2:12-13, 3:20-24, 5:15-18, 6:10-18, 7:22-8:11, 10:10-15, 12:1-8. |
- In the skit, what did Bob need to do once a fish started nibbling at his bait?
- When we're talking to people, what do we need to do once they're interested?
- How can we do that?
- What do the missionaries in India do once the people in a village become interested?
The Right Bait Discussion Questions
| Wednesday: | The Right Bait |
|---|---|
| Missions Concepts: | Missionaries look for opportunities to interest people in the good news. |
| Missions Examples: | Peter Bejenke (Germany), Paul Rajan (India) |
| Bible Passages: | [needed] |
- In the skit, why wasn't Bob catching any fish?
- What was Peter Bejenke doing in Germany to create opportunities to talk to people?
- What kinds of bait are Paul Rajan and his fellow workers using in India?
- What kinds of things can we do here in Galion?
Fishin' Gear Discussion Questions
| Tuesday: | Fishin' Gear |
|---|---|
| Missions Concepts: | Missionaries must be properly equipped for missions. |
| Missions Examples: | Vermont (Tom Ricker) |
| Bible Passages: | [needed] |
- In the skit, what was Sally's problem? What did she need to do differently? Why?
- What did Tom and Janelle Ricker do to prepare for God's work in Vermont?
- Why was that preparation important?
- How can a church help people prepare to do missions work?
Goin' Fishin' Discussion Questions
| Monday: | Goin' Fishin' |
|---|---|
| Missions Concepts: | Missionaries go where the people are, but they need consent to come. |
| Missions Examples: | India (no missionary visas) |
| Bible Passages: | [needed] |
- Why was the character in the skit dangling a line in the water? Was he being effective? Why?
- How is fishing for men similar to fishing for fish?
- What kinds of missions work can a missionary do on a tourist visa? What kinds of work require a longer stay?
- Do you know of some places where there are people who need to hear the good news? Where?
Fishing for Christ
Fishing for Christ
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This was the first theme we thought up, and while it's not the most conceptually cohesive, it does make for great decorations. The lessons here are pretty basic, covering the deity of Christ, his substitutionary death, his resurrection, and the commission he gave to his disciples. There is an emphasis on salvation.
This theme is mostly complete and online now.
* - Items marked with an asterisk are incomplete or otherwise need work.
Substitute Indoor Games:
Decorations:
Fishing For Christ Decoration Plans
- We took some outline pictures of fish (from the Open Clip Art Library and other sources), printed them, colored them with markers, cut them out, laminated, and used Handi-Tak to stick them to the walls all over the place.
- We also hung some fish from mobiles from the ceiling.
- We got some decorative fish nets (Oriental Trading Company sells them) to hang from the ceiling, and we put small stuffed-animal fish in them.
- On the elementary bulletin board we placed pictures representing the Bible lessons: a fish with a coin in its mouth, a whale with the numeral 3, an empty tomb, a fire with fish cooking over it, and a globe hanging from a fishing rod. To create the pictures, we traced coloring-book pictures onto overhead transparencies, projected them onto posterboard, traced, painted, let them dry, outlined in black marker, and cut them out.
- For the preschool bulletin board, we decorated to go with the wordless-book lessons: five vertical stripes in black, red, white, yellow, and green, with a picture on each: a group of children fighting to represent sin, a crucifix, a heart shape, a golden city, and a family going to church.
- We've got one place in our building where we always put a scene made from three large posterboard panels. This year the scene was a path, with hills and mountains in the background, and Jesus is walking the path at one end (the beginning of the scene) followed by a long string of other people, starting with four disciples with a fishing net, then other Bible characters, and progressing to modern-day people, including children.
- For the walls in the teen room, we did continents, with people on them representing corresponding ethnic categories. (Well, we tried. Some ethnicities can be hard to draw if you live in rural Ohio and don't see very many foreigners.) We originally intended to have the people being pulled out of their continents by grabbing onto Bibles or crosses or something on the ends of fishing lines, but it turned out we didn't have the artistic skill to make that happen.
- We're also thinking of using various non-sharp fishing gear (cane poles, bobbers, etc) around the building, probably on the walls up high enough to be out of reach of the younger children.
I've got a digital camera now, so once we get our decorations all put up I'll post some photos. Update: see the first batch of decoration photos.
Now What?
| Friday: | Now What? |
|---|---|
| Bible Lesson: | Fishers of Men |
| Memory Verse: | Matthew 4:19 |
| Missions Concepts: | Missionaries disciple new believers, plant churches, and train pastors. |
| Missions Examples: | Project Timothy (Uberlandia, Brazil) |
| Bible Passages: | [needed] |
[Start with the skit, Unprepared Fishermen V.]
Introduction: Fishing
In the skit, what did Bob need to do with the fish, after it was out of the water? That's right, he needed to put it in the bucket, with the other fish.
Did you know, after people come to know Jesus, they need something similar? Do we put them in a bucket? No. But they do need to be with a group of other believers, who are learning about God. What do we call a group like that? (A church.)
Example: Project Timothy
In Uberlandia, Brazil, Pastor Sebastian is Fishing for Christ. But now, he's not doing it alone, because he has other men working with him – men who are trained in the Bible, and are planting churches. Do you know where these men came from? They came from Pastor Sebastian's church. When these men heard the good news about Jesus, he didn't just send them on their way. He continued to teach them, everything that they needed to know, about Jesus, about God, and about the Bible. Now, some of these men are ready to go fishing themselves, and they are planting more churches.
The Point: Discipleship
[needed]
Application: Now What?
This week here at Bible School, some of you may have received Jesus, or maybe some of your friends heard the good news about how to be saved. Should you quit coming once that happens? Should you quit bringing that friend who got saved? No! Once we're a part of the body of Christ, we still need to be learning, everything God wants us to know, so that we can grow in our faith and be able to share with others.
Invitation: Missions
Invite any children who want to do missions work to stay after the lesson and discuss it further.
Reel 'em In
| Thursday: | Reel 'em In |
|---|---|
| Bible Lesson: | Following God (Fishing All Night) |
| Memory Verse: | 2nd John 1:6 |
| Missions Concepts: | Missionaries must present the gospel to unbelievers. |
| Missions Examples: | [needed] |
| Bible Passages: | Romans 2:12-13, 3:20-24, 5:15-18, 6:10-18, 7:22-8:11, 10:10-15, 12:1-8. |
[Start with the skit, Unprepared Fishermen IV.]
Introduction: Fishing
In the skit, Bob reeled in the fish using his rod and line. When we're fishing for Christ, how do we reel people in for salvation? The Bible asks a question: how can people believe in Jesus if they've not heard of him, and how can they hear if nobody tells them?
So, after we use our bait and start talking to people, to our friends, how do we reel them in? What do we tell them about Jesus?
Example:
[needed]
The Point: Share the Good News
Once you have someone's interest, and they want to know about God, what can you tell them? What do they need to know to be saved? [Accept some answers.]
First, they need to know that they need to be saved! Why do we need a savior? Why do we need Jesus? [Accept answers.] Our sin separates us from God. Because God is perfect, the bad things we do make us unacceptable to him. He can't take us in, if we're like that! Can we change, and be good on our own? No, we can't. Our sin traps us, and keeps us from God.
So after our friends know that they need to be saved from their sin, what else do they need to know? Don't they need to know where salvation comes from? So, what do you tell them? How can our sins be forgiven? [Because Jesus paid the penalty for us.]
Application: Reeling in Your Friends wiht the Wordless Bracelet
[Explain how the wordless bracelet (which they will be making in crafts the next night) can be used to share the good news. Talk about the meaning of each of the five colors and how these five things add up to make a gospel presentation.]
Invitation: Evangelism
Invite any children who want to share the good news with their friends to stay after the lesson and discuss it further.
The Right Bait
| Wednesday: | The Right Bait |
|---|---|
| Bible Lesson: | Raised from the Dead |
| Memory Verse: | 1st John 4:10 |
| Missions Concepts: | Missionaries look for opportunities to interest people in the good news. |
| Missions Examples: | Peter Bejenke makes bread. In India they maintain orphanages and build houses. |
| Bible Passages: | [needed] |
[Start with the skit, Unprepared Fishermen III.]
Introduction: Fishing
In the skit, what did Bob need, in order to catch fish? That's right, he needed bait.
Did you know, missionaries use bait too? Now, they don't use worms, and crickets, and minnows, and they're not trying to trick people into getting caught, but missionaries do have to get people interested in what they're talking about. They need bait.
Example: Bread Ministry
In Germany, Peter Bejenke was having trouble getting people to come to his church. He wanted to tell people about Jesus, but they didn't know they needed to hear, so they didn't realize they should come. Do you know what he did? He started baking bread. Now, Pastor Peter used to bake bread before, before he was a pastor. But now he's baking bread again, and people come into his bakery store to buy bread. Now, people are coming to Pastor Peter. Now, he has an opportunity to talk to people. And now that he's talking to people, he can tell them about Jesus.
Example: Orphanages
In India, Paul Rajan builds orphanages, to help young boys who have no good place to live. While they're there, he can tell them about Jesus. Sometimes they build houses for people who have lost their homes. And they can tell them about Christ. At one of the orphanages, the children are very excited about Jesus. They sing songs, and they worship. And now, some of the families from the communities come and see the orphanage, see what is being done for the children, and [become interested].
The Point: Bait
Here, sometimes we need a way to tell our friends about Jesus. Sometimes we need bait.
One thing that we use for bait is Bible School. Your friends will want to come have fun at Bible School – and they will have fun, but while they're here, they can also here the good news about Jesus.
What else can you use as bait? [Accept some answers.]
Invitation: Missions
Invite any children who want to do missions work to stay after the lesson and discuss it further.
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