======================================================= Title: Primary Sabbath School Program, December 16, 2,000 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date Completed: November 15, 2,000 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, WHAT IS JESUS DOING NOW? ======================================================= Lesson Aim: Right now, Jesus is doing a special work for me in the heavenly sanctuary. Memory Verse: "God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil." Eccl. 12:14, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - BALLOON OBJECT LESSON Materials needed: One helium-filled balloon for each child, complete with string (plain, so it can be decorated) Markers WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary except getting the helium-filled balloons. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Tell the students you are going to give each one of them a balloon. It is theirs to decorate and personalize. It belongs to them, and they can make it into whatever they want. (Give them five minutes to draw and write on it with markers. Encourage them to write their name somewhere on it.) Take all the balloons from the children. Put them up in a far corner of the room. Say, "Let's pretend that one day as you were playing with your balloon a gust of wind grabbed it from you and sent it into the sky. You were sad because you had spent considerable time on it, but there was nothing you could do to get it back. Imagine several days later you are in the park. You notice another child playing with a balloon. As you look closer there's no doubt it is yours. You even see your name on it. You ask the child where they got the balloon. They tell you they rescued it from a tree. You inform them it is your balloon. You even show them where your name is printed on. The child does not have the slightest intention of giving you back your balloon unless you pay them for it. For one dollar they offer to sell you the balloon. Even though it doesn't seem fair you pay the dollar and take the balloon back home. (Let each child go to the corner of the room and rescue their balloon, bring it back to their seats and tie it to their chair.) In our Bible story today, we learn about the price that has to be paid for sins and who was willing to pay that price for each of us. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - BIBLE STORY RHEBUS Materials needed: 6 sheets of poster board Colors Black permanent marker WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Write the following sentences on the six sheets of poster board, one sentence to a board. Write large enough so it takes up most of the poster board. Adam and Eve had to sacrifice a lamb for their sins Israelite families had to bring a lamb to the sanctuary, confess their sins and kill it The priest took blood from the lambs into the sanctuary The Day of Atonement was when the sins of all the people were removed from the sanctuary Animal sacrifices stopped when Jesus died on the cross Jesus is in the heavenly sanctuary judging everyone Line all the poster boards up on the floor in a rectangular pattern in order. (For example: the poster board in the top far left-hand corner should be Adam and Eve. The poster board next to that one should be the Israelite families confessing their sins.) Line all the poster boards up on the floor in order as the story goes, then turn them all over to their blank side. Draw a cross so that there is a section of it overlapping onto each poster board. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Turn all the poster boards over so the sentences are showing. Guide the children in putting them in order as they occur in the story. When you're finished the story, have them turn the boards over one by one displaying the cross. Give each child a section of the cross to color. Have them add their names in black marker to the cross. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE REVIEW GAME Materials needed: Bibles 3 cardboard discs about the size of quarters Marker WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Cut out three cardboard discs. Write #1 on one of them, #2 on one and #3 on one with the marker. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Help the children locate the memory verse in their Bibles. Read and repeat it several times together. Show them how the memory verse can be divided into three parts each part ending at a comma. God will bring every deed into judgment including every hidden thing whether it is good or evil Have the children sit in a circle. Have them put their hands behind them. Give three different children the three cardboard discs in different places in the circle. When you say go, they pass the discs behind them to the right. The discs keep going around until you say, "stop". When you say, "stop", whoever has the disc with the #1 on it repeats the first part of the memory verse. Whoever has the disc marked #2 says the second part and whoever has the disc marked #3 says the third part. The discs are then taken by you and given to three other children. The rotating begins again. Keep this going as time allows. ACTING ON SCRIPTURE -RECORD KEEPING Materials needed: Rubber stamp with words marked, PAID on it Ink pad Pens Small spiral notebook for each child WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Give each child a small spiral notebook and a pen. Have them think about and write down sins they have committed that day or week. (One words are sufficient) Talk about confessing our sins. Pray together and ask for forgiveness. Using the rubber stamp and ink pad, have each child stamp PAID beside each sin. What is it that has taken care of the sins? Jesus' death on the cross. Encourage the children to take their notebooks home to help them remember to confess and ask for forgiveness of their sins. The PAID stamps will help remind them that as far as Jesus is concerned they are gone, forgotten.