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    Today's Story:

    		Jesus heals a sick woman.
    Matthew 9, Mark 5 , Luke 8 
    Optional Memory verse: I Peter 5:7
         "Give all your worries to him, because he cares for you."  
    International Children's Bible, New Century Version
    Jesus wants us to tell Him all our troubles.
    • Materials Needed:
    		Promised Land Mat
    Adult Christ figure. 
    5 or 6 Fisher Price or similar type men and woman figures
    1 Fisher Price or similar type woman figure,
    Small hearts, hidden around the room
    		Make small hearts ( or 2 per child)
    Put some black spots with a marker on each heart
    Hide the small hearts around the room before the class arrives.
    The kids won't search for them until after the story.
    Keep one to show the children after story time.
    A box or container with a lid to hold the hearts.
    		Put a slit in the lid that the hearts will fit through.

     

    • Action Game: Obstacle Course 
    		With tables and chairs build an obstacle course that the kids have to go through:
    		For example place two chairs on their sides with their legs together,
    Abut the chairs next to a table,
    Repeat with more chairs on their sides,
    Add more chairs that the kids have to climb over, etc.
    The object of the game is for the kids to:
    		Step through the chair legs with out touching the chairs,
    Crawl under the table without touching the table,
    etc.
    Make sure there are "trouble spots" that the kids have difficulty getting through.

     

     

    • Closing Discussion

    • After the kids have returned with the hearts:

    Close in Prayer 

    • Telling the Story:
    		Where did you have trouble going through the obstacle course?
    		Discuss kids answers
    Just like you had some trouble spots going through the obstacle course,  we all have troubles we face everyday.
    What kinds of troubles do we face everyday?
    		Getting along with brothers and sisters, and friends, etc. 
    Today we're learning that Jesus wants us to tell Him all our troubles.
    Today we're going to hear a story about a woman who tried to hide her troubles from Jesus.
    		Lay out the Promised Land mat.
    Jesus had just crossed the sea in a boat.
    		Place Jesus figure next to the Sea of Galilee
    Jesus was on his way to help someone.
    A crowd of people was walking along with Him.
    		Gather a crowd around Jesus as if they were following behind him.
    But there was a woman who had been sick for 12 years.
    		Place the woman figure behind the crowd.
    She had been to many doctors, but not one could help her get better.
    She knew that Jesus could make her better.
    So she said to herself,  "If I can just touch His coat, I know I will get all better".  
    So she squeezed through the crowd until she got close enough to reach out and touch Jesus' coat.  
    		Squeeze the woman figure through the crowd to stand behind Jesus.
    Then very quietly so no one would see she reached out and touched Jesus' coat.
    Immediately she got all better.
    But do you know what else happened?
    Jesus suddenly stopped walking.
    He turned around and started looking at the people following him.
    		Turn Jesus figure around to face the crowd.
    He knew someone had touched him because he had felt power go out of him.
    So he asked, "Who touched me?"
    Well his disciples thought that was a silly question and said to Jesus, "There is a whole crowd of people pressing against you. Anyone could have touched you."
    But Jesus knew that it wasn't the crowd pushing against him who had touched him. 
    The woman knew that she couldn't hide anymore.
    She had to tell Jesus that she was the one who had touched him.
    But she was scared.  In fact she was so scared that she was trembling.
    So she crouched at Jesus' feet and told Him how sick she had been.
    And Jesus told her that because she believed in Him, she was all better.
    She wouldn't suffer any more.
    How do you think the woman felt after she told Jesus her trouble?
    		Relieved, not scared anymore.
    How do you feel when you tell someone your troubles?
    		I'm not sad anymore,  like he's my friend, etc.
    Jesus wants us to tell Him all our troubles.
    Hiding around the room are some troubled hearts.
    		Show the children one of the hearts.
    The black marks on the hearts are our troubles.
    Each heart is a reminder of some kind of trouble you have.
    Jesus doesn't want us to hide our troubles from Him.
    I want each of you to go and find the troubled hearts and then bring them back to the circle.
    The kids are to think of a trouble they have.
    Show them the box with the slit in the lid. 
    Quietly close in prayer giving each child time to silently tell Jesus his trouble.
    After each has told Jesus his trouble, have him put his troubled heart in the box.
    Close thanking Jesus that He wants to be our best friend who we can tell all our troubles to.

     

    Optional Snack:  Leftover Bonanza

    Supplemental Bible Readings:
    (Suggested daily readings)

     

    • Optional Craft: Valentine growth charts

    • Optional Snack: Valentine cookies

    Materials Needed for Next Week:
    		Promised Land Mat
    Adult Christ figure. 
    5 or 6 Fisher Price or similar type men  figures
    1 Fisher Price or similar type woman figure,
    blocks
    a roll of pennies
    a baggie for each child
    watch with a minute hand or a minute timer
    Before class make a growth chart for each child:
    		Cut a strip of paper 4" wide and 3 feet long.
    Mark it with inch and foot measurements starting the bottom at 2 feet and ending at 4 feet 8 inches
    Write down the whole length of it "I am God's Valentine. He watches over me inch by inch."
    Cut out hearts (this will be the top of the growth chart) for the kids to decorate in class.
    Bring an assortment of ribbon, doilies, stickers, etc. for the kids to decorate their Valentine hearts with.  

     

    © 2000 Linda Lawler.  
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