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1 Lesso 3 27 Jesus Is Bor Luke 1:26-38; 2:1-20 First- ad secod-graders love birthday parties. They especially ejoy watchig the birthday child ope the presets they brought. I order to direct your kids mids away from what they might receive or have received for Christmas, challege them to thik of what they ca give to Jesus for his birthday. Use this lesso to help kids ejoy givig to Jesus as much as they ejoy opeig their ow gifts. LESSON WHAT CHILDREN DO SUPPLIES EASY PREP 1 Gettig Started 2 Bible Exploratio Best Presets (about 15 mi.) Draw pictures of favorite gifts. The Christmas Message (about 20 mi.) Hear about the birth of Jesus ad talk about God s greatest gift. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. My Bible Fu, CD player, crayos, copies of the lyrics page (at the ed of the lesso) Teacher Pack: CD Bible, CD player, My Bible Fu, crayos Teacher Pack: CD, Bible Timelie Tear out the Lesso 3 pages from each My Bible Fu studet book. Bible Poit Jesus was bor for us. Key Verse Do ot be afraid. I brig you good ews of great joy that will be for all the people. Today i the tow of David a Savior has bee bor to you; he is Christ the Lord (Luke 2:10-11). Weavig Faith Ito Life Kids will celebrate Jesus ad tell others about his great love. Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 3 Witer Quarter
2 28 LESSON WHAT CHILDREN DO SUPPLIES EASY PREP 3 Weavig Faith Ito Life Whisper Good News (about 10 mi.) Play a whisperig game, ad lear the Key Verse. Joyful News (about 15 mi.) Praise God for givig us Jesus. Bibles, CD player Teacher Pack: CD CD player, adhesive bows, copies of the lyrics page (at the ed of the lesso), tape Teacher Pack: CD, Christmas Tree poster 4 Lastig Impressios Daily Challeges (about 5 mi.) Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. Weavig Faith at Home (about 2 mi.) Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. My Bible Fu Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Witer Quarter Lesso 3 Grades 1 & 2
3 29 Jesus Is Bor Luke 1:26-38; 2:1-20 BIBLe BACKGROUND FOR LEADERS Superatural Birth The meaig of the word traslated virgi i Luke 1:27 has bee cotested by some scholars. Though it is possible to traslate the word simply as youg woma, it seems clear i the cotext ad from other statemets that virgi is what Luke iteded. He was o doubt seekig to cofirm i people s mids that this was a miraculous, superatural birth. A Agel Visits Mary Zeroig i o this superatural theme, Luke begis by describig the visit of a agel. The agel s aoucemet that Mary was favored by God o doubt caused the girl some cofusio. She was a obscure perso from a obscure family i Israel. I her culture, it was assumed that those i high positios were the oes favored by God. The agel s descriptio of her child must have cofused Mary eve more. How could ay huma much less a youg virgi peasat give birth to the So of God? However, Mary s respose shows us her heart: As cofusig ad frighteig as the agel s message must have bee, Mary wated to live out God s will for her life. The Difficult Circumstaces of Jesus Birth each may still have bee livig. Yet the couple wet willigly, followig through o God s pla for them. Jesus Is Bor Despite the lowly circumstaces of the birth, it was boldly aouced by a throg of agels. This aoucemet truly brought a reaso to celebrate, for the oe who was bor would be Savior who would deliver them from bodage, Christ the aoited Messiah promised i the Old Testamet, ad Lord the Hebrew ame for God. The Jesus Coectio Jesus was bor for us. He came to this world as a baby ad fully experieced life as a huma just so he could be our fried ad our Savior. Whe we become adults, Christmas ca simply be a additioal stressor o a already full to-do list. We may lose our sese of woder. What detracts from your sacred celebratio of Jesus birth? Pray about what Christ s presece o earth ad i your heart meas to you ad ask God to help you celebrate Jesus birth with joy ad woder. You ca write your prayer here. The cesus, which ivolved travelig to the hometow of Joseph s family, created more tha just physical difficulties for the couple. I Jewish culture, if a woma was made pregat by her pledged husbad prior to the weddig, both were shamed by the dishoor. If the woma was made pregat by someoe else, she was to be divorced ad the rejected by the etire culture. So Mary ad Joseph faced possible serious rejectio perhaps eve from family as they traveled to this area where relatives of Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 3 Witer Quarter
4 30 GETTING STARTED Best Presets Supplies My Bible Fu CD player crayos copies of the lyrics page (at the ed of the lesso) Teacher Pack CD: Glory to God (Luke 2:11) (track 5) Best Presets Easy Prep Tear out the Lesso 3 pages from each My Bible Fu studet book. Best Presets What You ll Do Welcome kids warmly as they arrive, ad ask them how their week wet. Gather everyoe together. Give each child a My Bible Fu page, ad distribute crayos. Say: I Box 1, draw a picture of the best preset you ve ever gotte. Allow time. The have each child tur ad tell a fried about the picture he or she drew. Ivite a few willig childre to share with the group, as well. Say: Now, i Box 2, draw a picture of a preset you d really, really like to get. Allow time. The have each child tur ad tell a fried about the picture he or she drew. Ivite a few willig childre to share with the group, as well. Say: Christmastime makes us thik about presets. Ad most people give presets at Christmas to show their love for oe aother. A very log time ago, right before the first Christmas, God gave the world the best Christmas preset of all. He gave us Jesus. Say: Let s sig a sog, thakig God for givig us the best Christmas preset of all. Give kids the lyrics pages. Play Glory to God (Luke 2:11) (track 5 o the CD). Ecourage kids to sig alog to the sog. The Savior Yes, the Messiah The Lord has bee bor today. The Savior Yes, the Messiah The Lord has bee bor today i Bethlehem. Ad the agels sig: Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God i the highest! Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God i the highest! I the highest! (Repeat from the begiig.) Glory to God (Luke 2:11) by Jay Stocker Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved. Witer Quarter Lesso 3 Grades 1 & 2
5 31 Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. Ask: How do you decide if a preset is a really good preset? What makes Jesus a really good preset? What ca you do to show God you love his preset of Jesus? Say: JESUS WAS BORN FOR US. Jesus birth was the best preset God could ever give the world! The people had bee waitig a log time for God to sed a Savior. God set Jesus ito the world to save us that s why Jesus is called our Savior. Today we ll hear all about how Jesus came ito the world. 2 BIBLE EXPLORATION The Christmas Message What You ll Do Ope your Bible to Luke 1:26-38, ad show childre the passage. Say: The Bible tells us JESUS WAS BORN FOR US. Actually, he was bor to save the whole world, ad he really is the best Christmas gift we could ever receive. Let s hear about Jesus birth from a agel, Gabriel. Play Part 1 of Christmas (track 6 o the CD). Pause the CD whe the arrator istructs you to. Ask: Tell about a time you were ervous ad excited about somethig that was goig to happe. Allow time. The Christmas Message Supplies Bible CD player My Bible Fu crayos Teacher Pack CD: Christmas (track 6) Bible Timelie Say: Thaks for sharig Mary probably felt the same thigs you feel i times like that. Remember, Mary was a ordiary perso, like you ad me. Say: Whe it was almost time for Jesus to be bor, Mary ad her husbad, Joseph, had to make a log trip. The ruler of the coutry said that all the people had to go back to their hometows so they could be couted. Let s preted to travel with them as we liste to what happeed. Play Part 2 of the CD track, leadig the childre i followig the arrator s istructios. Pause the CD whe the arrator tells you to. The have childre sit. Say: God wated Jesus to be a preset for everyoe i the world, o matter who they were. The first people God told that Jesus had bee bor were some earby shepherds. Beig a shepherd i those days was t a very good job, at least Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 3 Witer Quarter
6 32 accordig to most people. Let s hear what happeed with the shepherds. Have kids lie o the floor, as if i a field at ight watchig sheep. Tell them that whe you tur the lights o, they ll stad up. Tur off the lights as you play Part 3 of the CD track. Tur the lights back o whe the agel appears to the shepherds, ad have kids stad. Pause the CD whe the arrator tells you to. Have kids tur to their My Bible Fu pages. Set out crayos. Say: I Box 3, draw a picture of what the shepherds saw. Use your imagiatio to thik about what the agels looked like. Allow time. The ivite kids to share with the group what they drew. Say: Let s fid out what the shepherds did. Wheever you hear the word hurry, ru i place. Play Part 4 of the CD track. Stop the CD whe you re istructed to. Say: The shepherds could t wait to tell the ews that Jesus had bee bor! It was such good ews that they wated all the people to kow about Jesus. Remember what the agel said? The good ews of Jesus is for all people, icludig us! Direct kids to Box 4 o their My Bible Fu pages. Say: Draw a picture of everyoe i the stable. Allow time. The ivite kids to share with the group what they drew. Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. Ask: Why is Jesus birth special to you? What do you wat to tell others about Jesus birth? Say: We celebrate Christmas because it s Jesus birthday ad JESUS WAS BORN FOR US! God gave us Jesus because he loves us. Jesus is the best preset we could ever get. If we believe i Jesus, we ca live forever with God i heave. What woderful ews! Let s play a game to remid us of God s greatest gift. 3 WEAVING FAITH INTO LIFE Whisper Good News Supplies Bibles CD Player Teacher Pack CD: Backgroud Christmas music (track 18) Whisper Good News What You ll Do Help kids fid Luke 2:10-11 i their Bibles. Say: Our Key Verse today, Luke 2:10-11, remids us that JESUS WAS BORN FOR US! This is what it says: Do ot be afraid. I brig you good ews of great joy that will be for all the people. Today i the tow of David a Savior has bee bor to you; he is Christ the Lord (Luke 2:10-11). Witer Quarter Lesso 3 Grades 1 & 2
7 33 Say: Jesus birth was great ews! Let s say our Key Verse together. Lead kids i a simplified versio of the Key Verse: I brig great ews; Jesus is bor! Have kids repeat the simplifed Key Verse with you several times. Say: Let s play a game ow that will help us remember this great ews. Have kids sit i a circle. The say: I ll whisper some good ews i my fried s ear. Poit to the child ext to you. The he [or she] will whisper the same ews ito the ext perso s ear. Poit to the ext child over. We ll cotiue doig that util the ews is passed to everyoe. Ad the last perso to hear the ews will say it aloud to the rest of us. Check for uderstadig. Play Backgroud Christmas Music (track 18 o the CD) to add to the challege ad the fu. Say: Let s see if our good ews makes it all the way aroud the circle without gettig mixed up! Begi the game by whisperig the followig ito a child s ear: God loves us so much that he set Jesus to save us from our sis. What do you thik of that? Have each child whisper the same thig to the ext perso util everyoe has heard the good ews. The have the last child say aloud what he or she heard. Say: Whether or ot you got to hear our good ews correctly, God loves you ad he set his So, Jesus, just for you! It s importat to tell others this good ews, too. Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. Ask: What did you thik whe you heard the message the last perso received? Why do you thik it s importat to share messages of good ews? What will you do to tell the good ews about Jesus this week? Say: We have great ews about Jesus that ot everyoe kows about. Jesus is the best fried we could ever have, ad he wats everyoe to be his fried. JESUS WAS BORN FOR US ad for everyoe who believes i him. He loves us ad died for our sis. That s great ews that we ll wat to share! Joyful News Tip If you used the Christmas Tree poster for the Clea for Jesus activity i Lesso 1 or the Spreadig the Light activity i Lesso 2, you ca leave the decoratios o it, as this activity simply decorates the tree eve more. What You ll Do Hag the Christmas Tree poster o the wall at kids eye level. Say: We celebrate Christmas because of the same great ews the agel told the shepherds: JESUS WAS BORN FOR US! After the shepherds wet to see Joyful News Supplies CD player adhesive bows copies of the lyrics page (at the ed of the lesso) tape Teacher Pack CD: Joy to the World (track 7), Jesus, Jesus (track 8) Christmas Tree poster Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 3 Witer Quarter
8 34 baby Jesus, they were filled with happiess. The Bible says they wet back home praisig ad glorifyig God. We ca celebrate Jesus, too! Give each child a adhesive bow. Say: Jesus is a gift the best gift of all. Thik of somethig about Jesus that you wat to celebrate. Whe you re ready, take the paper off the sticky part ad come up to the tree. Stick your bow o the tree ad, if you d like, say I celebrate Jesus because ad tell the thig you re thakful for. Whe kids are fiished puttig their bows o the tree ad sharig, say: Let s sig some sogs to celebrate Jesus. Distribute copies of the lyrics. Play Joy to the World (track 7 o the CD) ad lead childre i celebratig Jesus birth through sog. The Lord is come! Let earth receive her Kig! Let every heart prepare him room, Ad heave ad ature sig, Ad heave ad ature sig, Ad heave, ad heave, ad ature sig. (Repeat all. The repeat itro.) Joy to the World by George F. Hadel. The play Jesus, Jesus (track 8 o the CD) ad clap alog with the kids as you sig ad celebrate Jesus birth. Jesus came ad (clap) Lived amog us. Now we ca live for him. Jesus came ad (clap) Walked amog us. Now we ca walk with him. The he gave his life, The greatest sacrifice! (Chorus) Jesus, Jesus, (clap) Precious Jesus, He died ad rose agai! Jesus, Jesus, (clap) Precious Jesus, He gave his life for you ad me! Witer Quarter Lesso 3 Grades 1 & 2
9 35 Jesus came ad (clap) Lived amog us. Now we ca live for him. Jesus came ad (clap) Walked amog us. Now we ca walk with him. The he gave his life, The greatest sacrifice! (Repeat chorus 2x.) He gave his life for you ad me! He gave his life for you ad me! He gave his life for you ad me! Jesus, Jesus by Jay Stocker Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved. Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. Ask: What was it like for you to celebrate Jesus i this way? What are some other ways you celebrate Jesus birth? What ew thig will you do this week to celebrate that Jesus was bor for you? Say: Celebratios are fu especially whe there s somethig really great to celebrate. The fact that JESUS WAS BORN FOR US is defiitely somethig worth celebratig. As we celebrate Christmas this year, let s remember that Jesus is the best gift of all! 4 LASTING IMPRESSIONS Daily Challeges What You ll Do Say: Let s thik about the fact that JESUS WAS BORN FOR US. Daily Challeges Supplies My Bible Fu Have kids fid this week s Daily Challeges o their My Bible Fu pages ad choose oe to do this week. They ca choose oe or more of these three optios: Tell someoe about Jesus love for him or her ad how Jesus was bor for us. Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 3 Witer Quarter
10 36 Wrap a box with Christmas paper, ad write Jesus was bor for me o a gift tag. Keep the box i your room as a remider that we celebrate Jesus at Christmas. Celebrate Jesus this week by sigig a sog of praise to him. Make sure you choose a Daily Challege as well, ad tell kids what you chose. Kids will be more iclied to follow through o their commitmets whe they see you doig the same. Talk With Kids Leads kids i this discussio. Ask: What s a practical way you re goig to do your Daily Challege? Iclude a time, a place, ad other ideas. Say: JESUS WAS BORN FOR US. Durig this time of Christmas ad all the gifts ad celebratio, let s remember to celebrate Jesus birth by followig through o our Daily Challeges. Weavig Faith at Home Ecourage kids to talk with their parets about the Daily Challeges they chose ad what they leared about Jesus birth. Kids ca also do the activities i the HomeCoect sectio of their My Bible Fu pages with their families. Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Take a couple of miutes to pray with your kids, thakig God for sedig Jesus to earth for us. As you pray, give childre each a opportuity to thak God for a way they ve see Jesus i their lives. Witer Quarter Lesso 3 Grades 1 & 2
11 37 Lyrics Glory to God (Luke 2:11) The Savior Yes, the Messiah The Lord has bee bor today. The Savior Yes, the Messiah The Lord has bee bor today i Bethlehem. Ad the agels sig: Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God i the highest! Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God i the highest! I the highest! (Repeat from the begiig.) Glory to God (Luke 2:11) by Jay Stocker Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved.! OK TO COPY Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 3 Witer Quarter
12 38 Lyrics Joy to the World The Lord is come! Let earth receive her Kig! Let every heart prepare him room, Ad heave ad ature sig, Ad heave ad ature sig, Ad heave, ad heave, ad ature sig. (Repeat all. The repeat itro.) Joy to the World by George F. Hadel.! OK TO COPY Witer Quarter Lesso 3 Grades 1 & 2
13 39 Lyrics Jesus, Jesus Jesus came ad (clap) Lived amog us. Now we ca live for him. Jesus came ad (clap) Walked amog us. Now we ca walk with him. The he gave his life, The greatest sacrifice! (Chorus) Jesus, Jesus, (clap) Precious Jesus, He died ad rose agai! Jesus, Jesus, (clap) Precious Jesus, He gave his life for you ad me! Jesus came ad (clap) Lived amog us. Now we ca live for him. Jesus came ad (clap) Walked amog us. Now we ca walk with him. The he gave his life, The greatest sacrifice! (Repeat chorus 2x.) He gave his life for you ad me! He gave his life for you ad me! He gave his life for you ad me! Jesus, Jesus by Jay Stocker Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved.! OK TO COPY Grades 1 & 2 Lesso 3 Witer Quarter
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