===================================================================== Title: Primary Sabbath School Program, February 20, 1999 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Cyndi Long) Date: January 31, 1999 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, MIRACLE ON A MOUNTAIN ===================================================================== Lesson Aim: God will help me when I stand up for Him. Memory verse: "Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me." Psalm 50:15, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION- STANDING UP FOR JESUS Materials needed: None WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Have the students all sit on the floor in a circle. Ask them if they know what it means to stand up for Jesus. Share a time with them when you stood up for Jesus. Tell them You are going to read some scenarios to them and give them a chance to tell how they would stand up for Jesus in that situation. Have them stand up after they answer until all students are standing up if they wish to. Scenarios: 1. Your friend from school has asked you to go to a baseball game with him on Friday night. (Honor the Sabbath) 2. You are with a friend of yours and they keep saying God's name as a bad word. (Don't say God's name in vain) 3. The kids are all making fun of the teacher behind her back. (Respect others) 4. Your friend has asked you to lie to their mom for them. (Don't lie) 5. You broke your mom's favorite lamp while she was out of the house. (Tell the truth) 6. Your friends want you to help them play a practical joke on the old man down the street.. (Respecting others) 7. A group of bigger kids in your neighborhood have asked you and your friends to come with them and try some cigarettes. (Your body is a temple) 8. Your visiting a friend and they want to play war games and you know God tells us not to even pretend to kill others. (Don't kill) 9. Your invited to a birthday party and they put in a movie that is not good. (Don't look at things that God wouldn't want us to do) 10. Your friend has you over for dinner and their mom asks you what you like to eat for dinner. (Your body is a temple) In our story today someone else had to stand up for God when no one else around him did. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE- BIBLE STORY CHARADES Materials needed: None WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Tell them the Bible story first. Then pair them into groups of two or three if you have a large Sabbath School. Have them come up and you whisper in their ear a scene from the story. Have them act out, without words, while the other children guess. An example would be; God gives Elijah the message of no dew or rain. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE- MEMORY VERSE TELEPHONE PUZZLE Materials needed: A copy of the puzzle below for each child Pencils WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Copy the puzzle below. Draw the basic shape of a telephone around the numbers with three letters under it. Draw squares around them so that they look like the touch tone pad of a phone. Put the puzzle underneath the phone. 1 2 3 ABC DEF GHI 4 5 6 JKL MNO PQR 7 8 9 STU VWX YZ * 0 # 123 456 7890 ____ ____ __ __ ___ ___ __ _______; _ ____ _______ ___, ___ 1144 7655 52 35 732 219 52 7657242 3 8344 2243826 957 152 ___ ____ _____ __. _____ __:__, ___ 957 8344 35556 52 651457 0# *0 538 Directions: Use the phone keys to figure out the letters in the words of your memory verse. You must decide between the three letters for each number and use the one you think makes sense. You may use your Bible to look up the verse if you wish. The first word has four letters and the numbers are 1144. The word is Call and you can see that C and A have the same number, 1, and then L L are 4. ACTING ON SCRIPTURE- STAND UP, STAND UP FOR JESUS Materials needed: Hymnal for each child or for every other child to share WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Get someone to play the music to the hymn or record on tape if you don't have a pianist. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Turn to page 618 in the hymnal. Help the students to learn the song if they have not heard it before. Use the following hand motions. "Stand up, stand up for Jesus," (One half of the class quickly stands up and sits down on the first "stand up" and the other half does the same on the second "stand up".) "Lift high His royal banner," (Everyone put their arms up over their heads as if holding a banner.) "From victory unto victory," (Make a V with your fingers.) "And Christ is Lord indeed," (Point up toward heaven.) When we ask God (pray), He will help us by giving us the strength to fight Satan's temptations even though those around us may not. We can be soldiers for Him by asking for His power in our lives.