Lesson Visuals: Obey Your Commander

Here are the lesson visuals for Obey Your Commander:

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Sick Servant

Meeting Jesus on the Road

No Need to Come

Arriving at the House

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Lesson Visuals: Red Cord of Salvation

Here are the lesson visuals for Red Cord of Salvation:

The City of Jericho

Rahab

Marching Around the City

Jericho with the Wall Down

Images are Copyright 2014, Mary Beth Frey. Permission is granted to use them in your local church to illustrate the Bible lesson. See licensing for information about additional rights and permissions.

Prison Cupcakes

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Friday:	Snack
Elementary Bible Lesson:	Prayer Warrior
Memory Verse:	1st Thessalonians 5:16-18
Preschool Bible Lesson:	Peter in Prison

Key Item:

cupcakes, frosted white with dark stripes

Snack Lesson:

What do the decorations on the top of this cupcake remind you of? Stripes? Hmm... what if we imagine that the dark parts are solid, and the white parts are empty space? What would it be then? Bars?

Where would there be bars? On a gate, perhaps, to keep animals out? Maybe on a prison, to keep the prisoners in? Does that work? Do prison bars always keep the prisoners in jail?

Tonight's Bible lesson is about a man who was in prison, but an angel came and let him out.

Additional Snack Items:

To make the snack more substantial, we served chips and sloppy joe alongside the cupcakes. We also provided Kool-Aid to drink.

Mud Pudding

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Thursday:	Snack
Elementary Bible Lesson:	Good Soldier: Jeremiah and the Cistern (non-interactive version)
Memory Verse:	Romans 1:16
Preschool Bible Lesson:	The Blind Army

Key Item:

Dirt Pudding (e.g., this recipe will work fine, or this one)

Snack Lesson:

What does this pudding remind you of? Dirt? Mud? Would you find something like this maybe in the bottom of a pit, where there used to be water?

Our Bible lesson tonight is about a man named Jeremiah, who was thrown into a pit like that, because people didn't like what he was saying. But he was telling them what God told him to say.

Additional Snack Items:

To make the snack more substantial, we served nachos and hot dogs alongside the pudding. We also provided Kool-Aid to drink.

Shield Cookies

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Wednesday:	Snack
Elementary Bible Lesson:	Armor of God
Memory Verse:	Ephesians 6:11
Preschool Bible Lesson:	David and Goliath

Key Item:

Shield cookies (cut-out cookies decorated to look like shields)

Snack Lesson:

What's this cookie shaped like? And what kind of person might use something that looks like this? What are shields used for anyway?

A shield protects a soldier, but a shield is just one piece of a soldier's armor. A real soldier has other pieces of armor besides just the shield: boots, a helmet, body armor, ...

Tonight's Bible lesson talks about what kinds of armor we can have to protect us in life.

Additional Snack Items:

To make the snack more substantial, we served fruit and pizza alongside the cookies. We also provided Kool-Aid to drink.

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: bread overtop, and bread underneath.

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Tuesday:	Snack
Elementary Bible Lesson:	Obey Your Commander
Memory Verse:	1st John 5:3-4
Preschool Bible Lesson:	The Centurion's Servant

Key Item:

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Snack Lesson:

Did you notice that the cheese on these sandwiches has bread above it and also bread under it? It's kind of in layers, with a top, a middle, and a bottom. That's what makes it a sandwich.

Tonight your Bible teacher is going to tell you a story about a man who was like the cheese in this sandwich: he had other people who were above him (his bosses, like the bread on top), and people who were under him, like the bread on bottom – he had to tell them what to do.

Because he was in the middle, this man knew how authority works. He believed Jesus could make something happen just by saying it.

Additional Snack Items:

To make the snack more substantial, we served Jell-O and carrot sticks alongside the sandwiches. We also provided Kool-Aid to drink.

Twizzlers: The Red Rope

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Monday:	Snack
Elementary Bible Lesson:	Red Cord of Salvation
Memory Verse:	Ephesians 2:8-9
Preschool Bible Lesson:	Joshua and the Walls

Key Item:

Twizzlers

Snack Lesson:

Hey, have you ever noticed the way these Twizzlers are shaped? They're not just straight on the sides, like a pencil. Actually, they kind of look braided, almost like a rope.

But they're red. Have you ever seen a red rope?

Did you know there's a red rope in the Bible? There sure is. Rahab hung a rope from her window, on the wall of Jericho, to let the Israelite spies down to safety, and later she hung a red rope from her window so that God would save her family when the wall fell down.

Additional Snack Items:

To make the snack more substantial, we served popcorn and mini-burgers alongside the Twizzlers. We also provided Kool-Aid to drink.

Back to the Beginning Overview

Back to the Beginning

Sometimes you have to get down to the basics and remember how it all got started. We went back to the beginning and wrote lessons on creation, sin, salvation, faith, and the church. In Galion we used these materials in 2006 and again in 2012.

This theme is mostly complete, but I'm still working on getting it all posted online.

	Elementary		Preschool		Teens
Monday	Bible Lesson:	The Beginning of Creation (The Altar to an Unknown God)	Bible Lesson:	Creation	Bible Lesson:
	Visuals:		Second Lesson:		Discussion:	9 Questions
	Memory Verse:	Acts 17:24	Memory Verse (all week):	Acts 17:24 (abbreviated)	Memory Verse:
	Missions:				Missions Discussion:
	Craft:	Origami Inflatable Creation Box	Craft:		Craft:	Wax-Dipped Origami Animals
	Game:	Animal Match-Up Relay	Game:	Animal Game (Pretending)	Game:	Animal Match-Up Relay
	Snack:
Tuesday	Bible Lesson:	The Beginning of Sin (The Tree and the Snake)	Bible Lesson:	Adam and Eve Sin	Bible Lesson:
	Visuals:		Second Lesson:		Discussion:	9 Questions
	Memory Verse:	Romans 3:22	Memory Game:		Memory Verse:
	Missions:				Missions Discussion:
	Craft:		Craft:	Paint By Shape	Craft:	Cross Wall Hanging
	Game:	Board Foot Walk	Game:	Bubbles*	Game:	Board Foot Walk
	Snack:
Wednesday	Bible Lesson:	The Beginning of Salvation (The Ark and the Christ)	Bible Lesson:	Noah and the Flood	Bible Lesson:
	Visuals:		Second Lesson:		Discussion:	8 Questions
	Memory Verse:	1st Corinthians 15:22	Memory Game:		Memory Verse:
	Missions:				Missions Discussion:
	Craft: Painted Ark Scene
	Game:	Two-By-Two Race	Game:	Animal Match-Up Race	Game:	Two-By-Two Race
	Snack:
Thursday	Bible Lesson:	The Beginning of the Promise (Abraham's Offspring, the Woman's Seed)	Bible Lesson:	Abraham's Faith	Bible Lesson:
	Visuals:		Second Lesson:		Discussion:	9 Questions
	Memory Verse:	Hebrews 11:6	Memory Game:		Memory Verse:
	Missions:				Missions Discussion:
	Craft: Abraham and the Stars Window Hanging
	Game:	Egg-Push Race *	Game:	Hot Potato *	Game:	Egg-Push Race *
	Snack:
Friday	Bible Lesson:	The Beginning of the Church	Bible Lesson:	Beginning of the Church (Preschool Version)	Bible Lesson:
	Visuals:		Second Lesson:		Discussion:	8 Questions
	Memory Verse:	Acts 2:32	Memory Game:		Memory Verse:
	Missions:				Missions Discussion:
	Craft:		Craft:		Craft:	Garden Stone
	Game:		Game:		Game:
	Snack:

Substitute Indoor Games:

Decorations:

• Stage Decoration: 1/24 Scale Model of Noah's Ark
  • Plans
  • Photos, Part 1
  • Photos, Part 2
• Bulletin Boards (Questions and Answers)
• Additional Decoration Photos, 2012

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Footnote:

* - Marked items either need some work or may be replaced when we get back to this theme again (tentatively in 2018).

Acts 2:32

Friday:	Acts 2:32
Bible Lesson:	Beginning of the Churc: The church was begun in order to witness for God in all parts of the earth.
Memory Verse:	God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact. Acts 2:32

Introduction: Witnesses

What's a witness? Have you ever seen a court trial? On television, or in a movie, maybe, a court scene? What does a witness do in a court room? A witness is called to do what? To tell what they saw or heard. When a witness tells what he saw or heard, that's evidence. If several witnesses saw the same thing, that's good evidence. If six different people all saw the bad guy breaking into the store, what's the jury going to do? They'll find him guilty – they know he did it, because there were six witnesses.

Explanation: Acts 2:32

[Show the card with the verse.] Let's look at today's verse. [Read it through a couple of times.]

Who was talking in this verse? Who's the “we”? Who wrote the book of Acts? [Luke did.] Luke is the author. When he says “we”, he's talking about himself, and other people who saw what he saw. What do we call those people, who saw something – in this case, people who saw Jesus after he raised from the dead? Witnesses!

How many witnesses were there, people who saw Jesus raised from the dead? John did. Peter. Mary Magdelene? All eleven of the disciples (except Judas). 1 Corinthians 15 says that he appeared to more than 500 people at one time. That's a lot of witnesses! That's a lot of people, who saw that Jesus really was alive.

Game: Popcorn

Whoever the teacher points to with the ruler/pointer/whatever has to pop up like popcorn (i.e., stand up quickly out of their seat) and say the next word of the verse. Leave the poster displayed at first, then after a while cover it up. Go through the verse this way until time expires. Make sure to point to all the children so that everyone participates, but don't go in order; jump around so that they never know when it's going to come to them.

Announcement: Verse Points

Tomorrow, when you come to Bible School, if you can say your memory verse without looking, you can earn points for your team's score. Each person who can say the verse can earn 200 points. So, if you want to help your team win more points, go home and practice your verse a few times. Don't forget the reference! On your way out the door tonight, you will be given a slip of paper with your verse on it. Don't lose it, because if you learn your verse, your team gets 200 more points!

You can say your verse for points tomorrow when you check in at the registration table.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.