HYMNS, OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE

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1 HYMNS, OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE LESSON 18 Lwer Level Children f the Heavenly Father PACING: 1 day ESSENTIAL QUESTION, BIG IDEA, and STANDARDS: See Intrductin t Hymns, Our Christian Heritage. CONCEPT: Christian hymns are a cherished and valuable legacy, expressing the emtins and experiences f Gd s peple thrugh many centuries. OBJECTIVES: Learn the text and tune f an imprtant hymn f faith. Interpret the spiritual meaning f the hymn. Understand and cmmunicate imprtant facts abut the life f the authr f the wrds and/r the cmpser f the music. VOCABULARY: hymn, hymn writer, hymnal, text, tune, cmpser, verse, stanza RESOURCES: Links t perfrmances f the hymn Children f the Heavenly Father A cappella chir (3:20), A cappella chir vide(2:40), Mrmn Tabernacle Chir, rchestral accmpaniment (5:32), Mrmn Tabernacle Chir, rchestral accmpaniment, same as abve with different vide/phts (4:42),, Plumb (female vcal), instrumental and vcal, mdern sund, wrds shwn (5:29), Male vcal, sung in Swedish (2:18) ACTIVITIES: Either give each student a printed cpy f the hymn, display the hymn fr the class electrnically r have the students find the hymn Children f the Heavenly Father (#101) in the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal. Read the wrds thrugh tgether. Discuss what the wrds mean. Review the meaning f specific wrds t clarify the students understanding: bsm, nestling. Des the Bible supprt the fact that ur Prtectr never sleeps? Des Gd the Father really knw abut all ur trubles? Play a recrding f the hymn fr the students. (See links abve) Use discussin questins fund in the Intrductin t Hymns, Our Christian Heritage. Sing the hymn tgether. Discuss its frm, meldy and rhythm. Nte hw many verses r stanzas it has. Des it have a Refrain? Read r tell the stry f Lina Sandell Berg wh wrte the wrds f this hymn, using the bigraphical sketch fund in this lessn. Discuss with the students Bible examples f healing. Discuss why sme peple are nt healed althugh they have strng faith? Review the stry by cmpleting the Lessn 18 Review. Sing the hymn, fcusing n its expressive qualities and memrizatin f at least the first stanza. Learn the sign language fr the first stanza f the hymn. Chse a venue t perfrm the hymn. If n pprtunity is fund fr a perfrmance at the schl, church r ther cmmunity event, cnsider videtaping a perfrmance fr future use. Create psters fr a bulletin bard display featuring aspects f the hymn stry r the wrds f the hymn in a calligraphic style with hand-drawn illustratins.

2 Use activities fund in the Intrductin t Hymns, Our Christian Heritage. Teach the students anther f Mrs. Berg s hymns, Day by Day (#532). EXTENSION ACTIVITIES FOR OLDER STUDENTS: Create a chral reading f the hymn. Create a special arrangement f the hymn, utilizing vcal r instrumental sls r ensembles, etc. Create a skit telling the stry f the hymn writer r the circumstances under which the hymn was written. This may be presented t the yunger students in a wrship r at Sabbath Schl r church. ASSESSMENT: There is a Lessn 18 Review included. Als, any f the fllwing assessments may be used: teacher bservatin, discussin, perfrmance, teacher-created wrksheets. ANSWER KEY: (10 pints) Children f the Heavenly Father 1. B 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. C 7. B 8. A 9. True 10. C

3 Children f the Heavenly Father Carlina Wilhelmina Sandell Berg ( ) Carlina Wilhelmina Sandell was a big name fr a little girl, s she was given the nickname Lina. Lina was brn in Sweden where her father was a minister in the Lutheran church. As a yung girl, she culdn t get ut f bed fr a lng, lng time. She was partially paralyzed but dctrs didn t knw why. The dctrs did nt think she wuld ever get better. The stry is tld f hw she began reading her Bible and praying ne Sunday mrning while her parents were at church. She read the Bible stry abut Jesus raising Jairus s daughter frm the dead and thught, Gd culd d that fr me! S she prayed that Gd wuld heal her and was suddenly made well! She gt up and dressed and was walking arund the huse when her parents came hme. They were astnished! (One versin f the stry says that after her healing she walked t her parents church. Either way, it s an amazing stry!) She published her first bk f pems when she was nly 16. These expressed her feelings abut Gd. When she was a yung wman, Lina s father drwned when they were n a bat trip tgether. That was a terrible experience fr her. Only tw years later, her mther died. S she went t live with family in anther city. There she met the king s sister, Princess Eugenia, and ther prminent peple. Sn she fund happiness with Oscar Berg, whm she married. He was a wealthy businessman. They had a baby by but he died during childbirth. Lina Sandell wrte ver 600 hymns. Oscar Ahnfelt is the reasn many f them are s well-knwn. He wrte music fr many f her pems and sang them, accmpanying them n his ten-string guitar, fr peple all thrugh Scandinavia. Lina said, Ahnfelt has sung my sngs int the hearts f the peple. Jenny Lind, a famus pera singer f the time, als sang Lina s sngs in her cncerts and paid t have them published. Lina was s famus and her music s influential that she was called the Fanny Crsby f Sweden. She was 70 years ld when she died in Fifty years later, mre than 10,000 peple in her hmetwn hnred her by attending the dedicatin f a brnze statue erected as a memrial t her. Lina Sandell Berg s hme is nw a museum.

4 Student Name: Hymns, Our Christian Heritage Lessn 18 - Review Scre: 10 Children f the Heavenly Father Wrd by Carlina Sandell Berg 1. Carlina Sandell Berg was called Lina because a. Peple had a hard time saying her name b. Her name was very lng c. She didn t like her full name 2. The cuntry where Lina lived was a. France b. Italy c. Sweden 3. Lina recvered frm her paralysis because a. She prayed and asked Gd fr a miracle b. The dctrs fund a new treatment that wrked fr her c. She was really never sick 4. Lina published a bk f pems when she was nly a. 14 b. 16 c Hw did Lina s father die? a. He had a disease b. He fell frm a ladder c. He fell frm a bat and drwned 6. After her mther died, she met smene else very special. Wh was it? a. Princess Eugenia b. Oscar Berg c. Bth f the abve 7. Wh helped t get Lina s sngs int the hearts f peple? a. Her father wh was a minister b. Oscar Ahnfelt c. Jenny Lind 8. Wh helped publish Lina s sngs s peple culd buy them and read them? a. Jenny Lind b. Oscar Ahnfelt c. Her father 9. True r False. Lina Sandell Berg was s famus that she was called the Fanny Crsby f Sweden. 10. What has happened t Lina Berg s ld hme? a. It was trn dwn b. It was made int a stre c. It was made int a museum

5 Children f the Heavenly Father Carlina Sandell Berg, 1858 TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA Swedish Flk Meldy 3 & # # 4 Ó œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ 1.Chil - dren f the heaven-ly Fa - ther Safe - ly in His bs - m 4 & # # œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ gath - er; Nest-ling bird nr star in heav - en Such a ref - uge e'er was giv - en. Œ 2. Gd His wn dth tend and nurish, In His hly lve they flurish; Frm all evil things He spares them, In His mighty arms He bears them. 3. Neither life nr death shall ever frm the Lrd His children sever; Unt them His grace He shweth, And their srrws all He knweth. 4. Praise the Lrd in jyful numbers, Yur Prtectr never slumbers; At the will f yur Defender every feman must surrender. 5. Thugh He giveth r He taketh, Gd His children ne'er frsaketh; His the lving purpse slely t preserve them pure and hly.