Welcome to Feasting on the Word Curriculum!

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2 Welcome to Feastg on Word Curriculum! You have accepted call to teach God s people. Teachg is an important callg and mistry. Feastg on Word resources will help you fulfill your callg. You can expect se resources to help you: P Introduce biblical stories new and creative ways. P Gar your community with age-appropriate learng activities. P Challenge your learners to put ir faith to action and grow ir self-understandg as Christians. P Prepare your learners for worship and service of God. About Children Grades (K)1 2 These young learners are movg out from ir families to explore worlds of school and church, and Feastg on Word materials help teachers shape learng experiences that proclaim: You are welcome here! You belong to God and to this church family! Children will explore God s Word ways that engage ir senses, ir emergg skills readg and writg, and ir need to learn by dog. About Children Grades 3 4 Third- and fourth-graders are growg ir desire to jo teams and organizations, and Feastg on Word materials help teachers shape learng experiences that address many ways God s Word shapes identity of members of body of Christ. Older children will use ir Bibles to dig to stories of our faith. This resource will encourage ir love of questions and capitalize on ir desire to feel competent ir academic skills. About are on a journey from childhood to puberty, growg reliance on social networks. Feastg on Word materials help teachers shape learng experiences that encourage vestigation of many ways Christian faith can shape life choices. This resource will engage ir expandg ability to understand abstract imagery and ir love of learng by teractg with peers. will explore biblical texts to vestigate what church teaches, wrestle with implications of Jesus teachgs, and give voice to what y believe. About Multi-aged Children Teachers and learners from ages five to twelve will come toger to explore and connect with our faith stories. This resource is designed to encourage cooperative learng across a wide age range. Children will experience Scripture through storytellg, drama, and a variety of activities that appeal to various learng styles. Multi-Age is perfect resource for churches that require plans for groups of learners of different ages, capabilities, and curiosities Westmster John Knox Press 2

3 Session Flow Each session of Feastg on Word Curriculum provides you with a plan for teachg focus scripture age-appropriate ways. Each session assumes a 45-mute period. For a 60-mute session, use more options from Respondg. FOCUS SCRIPTURE Matt. 18:15 20 Focus on Your Teachg Children experience conflict at home and school, and even at church. They are learng that people respond to conflict many ways, some lovg and some not. Today s session offers a strong word about healthy ways to work through conflict. Jesus teaches his disciples carg ways to handle conflict and power of comg toger prayer. Jesus words are a good place for your class to beg your year as a group. Explore toger how peaceful conflict resolution and prayer can brg you closer to one anor and to God. Focus on Your Teachg makes connections between focus scripture and age group. YOU WILL NEED o clear glass bowl o water Lovg God, open my heart and hearts of children you have placed my care, so that we may become a lovg community, Jesus name. Amen. o blue and yellow food Preparg for Session offers excerpts from Feastg on Word commentary series, givg a brief but rich background for your own learng. Exod. 12:1 14 Ps. 149 Rom. 13:8 14 Matt. 18:15 20 September 4, 2011 Proper 18 Goal for Children will learn from Jesus importance of workg out Session ir problems and comg toger prayer. n PREPARING FOR THE SESSION Focus on Matw 18:15 20 WHAT is important to know? From Exegetical Perspective, Mitchell G. Reddish Even though this passage is primarily concerned with matters of church disciple, emphasis throughout is on tryg to reclaim offender, not to punish him or her; this is made clear by context which Matw has placed se verses. Precedg this passage is parable of Lost Sheep (18:10 14), with its emphasis on joy that comes from recoverg one who has gone astray; followg it is Jesus sayg about forgiveness and parable of Unforgivg Debtor (18:21 25), which emphasizes need for unbounded forgiveness. WHERE is God se words? From Theological Perspective, Charles Hambrick-Stowe Jesus sayg verse 18 is susceptible to multiple terpretations. In light of his teachg on life church as locus of God s mission world, and this verse s echo of Lord s Prayer (God s will beg done on earth as it is heaven ), Jesus could mean this: if we church do not forgive and heal, who on earth is gog to do it? If church no matter how small, even just two or three believers will agree Christ and seek prayerfully to do will of God, n God will respond. The church will really be church, because Jesus will be present. SO WHAT does this mean for our lives? From Pastoral Perspective, J S. Kim In this passage, Jesus seems to assume that re will be conflict among his followers. What makes us Christian is not wher or not we fight, disagree, or wound one anor, but how we go about addressg and resolvg those issues. When we enter to membership Christian community, we bd ourselves to one anor with Christ as our head. We are not free from each or; we are free each or. In or words, we are most free when we brg collective wisdom and discernment of whole diverse body of Christ toger. The mistry of reconciliation must be at heart of any Christian community s mission. NOW WHAT is God s word callg us to do? From Homiletical Perspective, Dale P. Andrews Scholars remd us that se verses have been called Rule of Christ because y redefe goals of confrontation or tervention seekg to rescue and forgive, to offer care a spirit of humility. Discipleship Christ is conditioned by more than sense of call and sacrifice mistry to world. Beg Christ volves livg to difficult disciple or discipleship of fellowship. We seek to care for one anor even when jured or offended, which requires disciple bdg and loosg ourselves to repent and to forgive, all sustaed Christ. 1 colorg o juice glasses o dex cards, hole punch, yarn, crayons o Color Pack 1, 2 o Bible o copies of Resource Sheet 1 o scissors, glue sticks o newsprt, markers o basket of small stones For Respondg o option 1: mural paper, tempera pat, patbrushes o option 2: Sgg Feast, vol. 1, CD player o option 3: Resource Sheet 2 If you prefer to gar on floor, place contaers of water on a low table or tray center of circle. n LEADING THE SESSION GATHERING Before children arrive, place an empty glass bowl center of your meetg space. Next to it, place small glasses of colored water, one for each person blue half glasses and yellow ors. Punch two holes an dex card and attach a 24-ch piece of yarn to make a name tag for each person. Decorate your own name tag. Greet children as y arrive. Write each one s name on a name tag, and vite her or him to decorate it. Wear name tags as you learn each or s names. Gar a circle. Invite children, one at a time, to pour a glass of water to bowl as y tell ir name and somethg that y like to do. Beg by pourg a cup of water and tellg somethg you like to do. Noticg how water turns green, say that when you come toger Sunday school, somethg new is created: a community of Jesus followers. Encourage m to look for green church today, as green is church color for this season of year, called Ordary Time or season after Pentecost. Invite learners to pray with you, repeatg each le: God of love, (Clasp hands over heart.) Be with us today. (Raise both arms over head a sweepg motion.) Guide our learng (Pretend to hold a book.) And what we do and say. (Shake hands with person on your right.) Amen. (Fold hands prayer.) Show Color Pack 1, and vite children to tell about what y see happeng. Encourage m to tell about times y have felt angry with a friend or a family member: P What happened to make thgs better aga between you and this person? Explorg addresses two questions: What is important to know about this passage? and Where is God se words? 2 Leadg Session begs with Garg, a brief worship time and an activity to make bridge from participants lives to me of focus passage. EXPLORING Review how God loves us so much that God sent Jesus to live on earth and show us how to live God s ways. Show Color Pack 2. Comment that people who lived and worked with Jesus had times when y were angry with one anor, too. Jesus taught his followers how to work out ir problems. Open your Bible to Matw, sayg that what Jesus taught is found book of Bible called Matw. 2. Circle of Love Dance Celebrate beg part of community of Jesus followers. Form a circle. As you play Circle of Love (track 12 on Sgg Feast, vol. 1), vite one child to stand center while ors hold hands and dance around circle. Distribute copies of Resource Sheet 1 (Matw 18:15 17) and vite learners to follow along as you read verses. It may help to expla that word s here means words and actions that are not God s ways; sful actions cause hard feelgs. Discuss: P What does Jesus tell his followers to do first if someone does or says somethg to hurt m? Why do you thk Jesus says to do this first? P If or person won t listen, what does Jesus say to do next? How might it help to EASY PREP When verse says reach out, child center reaches out to a child circle and pulls her or him to center and n takes her or his place circle. Contue until every child has had a turn center of circle. 3. Role Play Practicg Jesus teachg about solvg conflicts helps children remember it. Cut apart Resource Sheet 2 (Issue Cards), and lay cards facedown on a table. Tell children that you are gog to take turns pretendg to have a disagreement and have or people go with you to talk to a person who has hurt you? P If or person still won t listen, what does Jesus say to do? Who is church? Invite children to recall times y have told someone that y were upset or angry with m: What happened? Comment that sometimes a person won t listen to us, and n or people can help us to talk to her or him. Distribute scissors and tell children to cut four picture squares from resource sheet. Have children put pictures squares with Bible verses to show how this situation might be handled accordg to way that Jesus teaches. Have m check one anor s work and n glue story squares place. Read Matw 18:19 20 from your Bible. Jesus promises us that when we come toger to pray and do God s work, Jesus will be re with us. It is a mystery how this happens, but Jesus promises it is so. Circle of Love Refra: The circle of love goes around, around, The circle of love goes Stop, reach out, your sister (your bror; someone) Listen, someone is cryg, Wonderg why she s been denied. Stop, reach out, your sister solvg it way Jesus taught. Ask a volunteer to take a card. Have child beg conversation with words on card. Encourage child to add somethg about her or his feelgs: I am upset/mad/angry that you won t give me a turn. Then you may say somethg like, I m so sorry. Here, you swg now. Or be unrepentant so that learner needs to ask ors for help. Encourage children to thk of lovg thgs to say or do when anor person apologizes. Contue until every child has had a turn to choose a card. CLOSING Gar around bowl of green water from Garg. Invite children to tell what y have learned from Jesus about what to do when someone does or says somethg that hurts m. Affirm that we can work and pray toger to solve problems. Pass around basket and ask each child to take one stone. Ask learners to thk quietly If this is first meetg of your class, agree on three or four behavior guideles for your group. State m positive terms; for example: speak kd ways, take turns listeng and talkg, share supplies. Toger, learn Matw 18:20: For where two or three are gared my name, I am re among m. Write verse on newsprt. Say verse toger several times, clappg once for each syllable. After y have mastered clappg rhythm, say first half of verse and have learners say rest of it. RESPONDING Mark activities you will use: 1. Church Family Mural Encourage children to thk of people church that y could ask if y needed help with a problem. It might be a friend, a family member, or anor adult. Use tempera pats to pat a mural of community of people who will be with m when y need help. Refra (your bror) Look, someone is searchg, Tryg to fd his way back. Stop, reach out, your bror Refra (someone) No one can travel life s road all alone; We all need a friend now and n. Stop, reach out, someone of somethg y need God s help with or somethg that is upsettg m. Demonstrate how to drop a stone to bowl as you say, Lovg God, please help me... and offer your own prayer. Invite children to do same. Some children may want to offer a silent prayer while droppg stone. Close by sayg: Thank you, Jesus, for promisg to be with us when we gar your name. Amen. Say good-bye to each child. As you take her or his name tag, say: Go God s peace, (name). Remove stones from bowl of water for use upcomg sessions. Refra (someone) 3 Respondg poses questions So what does this mean for our lives? and Now what are we, dividually and as church, called to be or do? 2016 Westmster John Knox Press Closg suggests a prayer and an opportunity for participants to recall what y discovered and what y are called to do. 4 3

4 Grades 3 4 t1 Resource Shee 2011 September 4, The Bible and How October 23, 2011 The has 66 books.. a little librar y. It The Bible is like New Testament means library. Testament and The word bible er by each book sections Old The page numb to two ma Bible is divided front of your Bible. at nts conte Fd table of s. New Testament beg is where that book Pharisees Ask a Question Old Testament Letters to Early Look here s your chance; no one is talkg It would be a good time to say somethg to him, but why do you even want to ask question? How long have you been studyg law? Too many years to count. Church stories, histor y,. They conta n down before Old Testament books were writte 39 books saygs. These Fd list of gs when y poems, and wise read se writ laws, prophecies, Hebrew people books. Jesus knew Long ago, today still use se le time of Jesus. peop ip God. Jewish gared to worsh t m. and taught abou The first se writgs time of Jesus. were written after els conta New Testament l means good news. The Gosp New The 27 books Gospe also are letters called Gospels. are s book Jesus taught. There They expla what it four and thgs that Christians. early to n stories about Jesus letters were writte Testament. These Jesus Christ. Bible? Be sure means to follow. What is your and dictionaries e maps, pictures, Bibles often clud Bible. of back to look The Gospels Resource Sheet 1 to Use It The Early Church to Jesus right now. Prophets HebrewWisdom Hebrew History The Torah Decodg a Bible So you should be teachg Jesus! That s not pot. What is pot? Chapter Number John Knox Press n? You must know answer already. I want to know if Jesus knows answer. After all, re are over 600 laws Law of Moses. Which one will he say is most important? We ve been debatg that question for years. Exactly let s see what Jesus has to say. It s a tricky question. Exactly! Oh-h-h, very clever! Let s make Jesus jo our debate wher he wants to or not! Verse Numbers ew. and fd Matth ure: front of Bible To fd this Script of contents Go to table of page. page of Matw. er 18 at top g for numb Go to first by les of small numbers gh Matw, look at look 15 to 18, Page throu er read from verse have found chapt nce tells you to When you verse 15. This refere writg to fd verse 20. e 5 20 Matw 18: Westmster So you would be considered an expert, I am. Reference Name of Book Two reproducible resource sheets Now you get it. Here s your chance. Ask now. (raises voice) Teacher, what is most important commandment law? Jesus: Well now, that s a loaded question. People have been argug about that for years! Do you really want to drag me to your endless debates? Very well here s what I thk: 2011 Westmster John Knox Press Kds of Pr ayer A = Ad oration or pra ise C = Confessio n T = Thanksgi vg S = Supplicat ion f Kgdom o f God God s perfect world; also ca lled kgdom of he aven. It is arou nd us NOW Christ, and also NOT YET complete. Fall 2015 : Color Pack 14 Color Pack contas illustrations, photographs, game boards, patterns, maps, etc. Fall 2015 Twe ens: Color Pack 6 Preparg to Teach P Read focus scripture and Feastg on Sgg Feast, a collection of child-friendly and faith-spirg songs Word commentary excerpts. P Read Focus on Your Teachg and pray for your group and your leadership. P Look over session plan. Select activities you will use and gar necessary supplies Westmster John Knox Press 4

5 Ways of Learng and Teachg In any group, wher children, youth, or adults, many learng styles will be present. You too have preferred ways of learng somethg new. The session plans clude a variety of learng methods so varieties of learner styles are cluded durg each season. We tend to teach with methods that are most familiar to or comfortable for us. From time to time, clude activities that challenge you so you are cludg learners who prefer to learn that way. If you fd that you tend to lead group verbal activities, for example, try troducg musical, bodily, and or activities suggested by session plan. TEAM OF WRITERS AND EDITORS General Editor: Carol Wehrheim Writers Grades (K)1 2 Beth Hammond, Donna Hanby, Sharon Hardg, Cathy Hoop, Claudette Pickle Grades 3 4 Edye Bender, Sharon Hardg, Samantha Hassell, Care Lovejoy Edye Bender, Christy Lang Hearlson, Gny Holderness, Mike Poteet Multi-Age Sharon Hardg (summer) Youth Edye Bender, Dwight Christenbury, Carol Duerksen, David Ealy, Michael Harper, Ashley-Anne Masters, Mark Ray, Meg Rift, Cathie Talbot Conversations on Feast Barry Ensign-George, David Gambrell, Michael Harper, Christe Hong, Karen Russel, Donald K. McKim, Charles Wiley Adult Martha Bettis Gee, Margaret Krych, Jeff Light, Scott Tunseth Music Editors Carol Wehrheim Carol Wehrheim, Mark D. Hds Carol Wehrheim, Mark D. Hds, David Maxwell Mark D. Hds Published by Presbyterian Publishg Corporation and Congregational Mistries Publishg. Unless orwise dicated, Scripture quotations this publication are from New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of Bible, 1989 by Division of Christian Education of National Council of Churches of Christ U.S.A., and are used by permission. In some stances, adaptations have been made to make language clusive. Every effort has been made to trace copyrights on materials cluded here. If any copyrighted material has neverless been cluded without permission and due acknowledgment, proper credit will be serted once notice has been received. Copyright law provides an exemption for performance or display of a portion of videos, DVDs, and or copyrighted works by structors or participants face-to-face educational struction if followg stipulations are met: video or DVD (or book) is a legal copy; it is shown a classroom (a place devoted to struction); it is part of curriculum for class; only teachers and participants may watch, and you are a nonprofit educational stitution Westmster John Knox Press, Louisville, Kentucky. All rights reserved. Except where permission to photocopy is expressly granted, no part of se materials may be reproduced without permission from publisher Westmster John Knox Press 5