Elementary Week 4 Nvember 25/26, 2017 Bttm Line Always Be Grateful! Staging: Waterclr backdrp Film Strip (t be used as a backdrp) Red curtain with lights (t be used as backdrp) Standees (camera, film reel) Large inflatable camera Cardbard camera Game: Supplies needed Marker bards (2-6 depending n yur number f small grups) Dry Erase Markers (1 per marker bard) Candy (as prizes)
PROGRAM Refcus_Pre-Service Refcus_When We Pray_Vide Refcus_Intr_Vide Refcus_Lg_Slide Hst Enters Hst What s up, party peple? Welcme t the Way Statin! My name is [Name f Hst], and I want t thank each ne f yu persnally fr being here with me tday. I thught we culd play a game t get started! Refcus_Game Refcus_Game Time_Slide Hand ut marker bards and markers t small grups. (1 bard and 1 marker per grup) I m ging t put a picture n the big screen. Upn first glance, this picture may seem ttally nrmal... but upn secnd, third, and even furth glance, yu may ntice that sme things are nt quite right. The jb f each small grup is t write dwn, n their marker bard, as many things that are wrng with the image as they can find. At the end f sixty secnds, we ll g ver the picture tgether and see which small grup has the mst finds! Use timer n phne t keep track f 60 secnds Refcus_Pht Hunt_Slide At the end f time, g ver picture with small grups and see wh has the mst crrect answers WOW! The results are in, and it was CLOSE! Let s give it up fr ur winner, [Name f Winning Small Grup]! Great jb t all ur Small Grups sptting what was wrng with ur image! Exciting annuncement nw in just THREE weeks we ll be helping t lead a sng in the adult wrship center. That s right, I said we re ging t LEAD a Christmas sng. And the cl part abut the sng is, it s a sng that musicians in ur church wrte! S nw we re ging t kind f play a game while we wrship. We re ging t play fllw the leader! As we are wrshipping and trying t learn the sng, let s see hw well yu can keep up with the mtins! Refcus_Wrship Refcus_Emmanuel_Wrship Vide Refcus_Oh Sing_Wrship Vide Refcus_Lg_Slide
Refcus_Lessn Great time f wrship, everyne! I ve been blessed enugh t have lived a pretty cmfrtable life. I have fd n my table every day, a rf ver my head when I g t bed at night, and a Netflix subscriptin that allws me t watch [Name f Ppular Kid s Shw n Netflix] wherever and whenever I want. But even thugh I ve had it pretty gd, I m n stranger t a Bad Day! And if yu culdn t tell by my inflectin, that s a Bad Day with a capital B and a capital D. See, there are regular ld bad days where ne r tw things g wrng... and then there are capital B capital D Bad Days where abslutely everything ges wrng! On thse days, hw d we refcus s we re nt stuck in the negative? (Wait fr respnse) Verses thrughut the Bible talk abut hw we need t be grateful even when things are at their wrst... but hw is that even pssible? Let s lk t the Bible fr the answer. Refcus_Wk 4_Bible Stry_Vide Refcus_Lg_Slide Bttm line f what Paul was telling us in 1 Thessalnians 5:16-17: Help thse wh are weak. Be patient with everyne. Did yu catch that? Help and be patient. Was there a time when yu were having a BAD day and yu WEREN T patient r helpful? (Wait fr respnse) Nw let s talk abut the ppsite, was there a time when yu were having a bad day and yu WERE patient and helpful? (Wait fr respnse) Yu are ging t have a decisin t make abut gratitude nt just during the hliday seasn, but during EVERY seasn. Smetimes it s easy t say thank yu and gave a gd attitude. And smetimes... smetimes it s hard. S let s take ne mre lk at ur memry verse. Refcus_Memry Verse_Slide Our verse says: Give thanks in all circumstance; fr this is Gd s will fr yu in Christ Jesus. Which brings us t ur Bttm Line fr tday! Refcus_Wk 4_Bttm Line_Slide Say it with me Always be Grateful! Always be grateful. D it n matter what nt because it makes peple feel gd, and nt because it makes US feel gd, even
thugh it des bth f thse things. But always be grateful because Gd wants yu t give thanks! Yu can always find a way t be grateful. That means yu can be thankful when everything is great. But it als means yu can be thankful when things aren t s great. N matter what happens in yur life, find sme way t be grateful t Gd, because He is wrthy f yur gratitude fr mre reasns than yu can cunt! Jesus ffers t make us clean and free frm sin, and He lves it when we thank Him fr His salvatin! We dn t deserve Jesus lve and salvatin, but He gives it t us anyway. That is a reasn t be thankful! Refcus_Annuncements All right, everyne! I have ne mre game fr us t play tday. Yu did a great jb sptting all the weird things in ur first picture, but can yu spt all the differences when tw pictures that lk alike are side by side? Hst and kids interact with the picture Refcus_Oh Snap_Slide Refcus_Oh Snap_Reveal Slide That was s fun! The reasns why we take a lk at all this camera stuff is because it s easy t fcus n the things that aren t ging right. But like we have been learning, we need t have an attitude f gratitude. Refcus_Offering_Slide Did yu realize that when yu give ffering yu re nt nly giving THANKS, but yu re als giving HOPE! Yu re giving thanks t Gd fr His blessings, and yu re helping t give hpe t thse wh will hear the message f the Gspel thrugh yur ffering. If anyne has ffering, please place it in (Indicate area). Refcus_Nvember Family Missin_Slide Let s all participate in ur Nvember Family Missin-Lve Gives! We are asking that yu and yur family purchase ne f the gifts listed n ne f the Christmas tags lcated n the Lve Gives Christmas tree! Then, bring the UNwrapped gift t church and place it under ur Lve Gives Christmas tree. If yu participate in the Family Missin tday, yu get a Family Missin pin! Refcus_Snw_Prm Vide Refcus_Snw_Slide
Yu heard that last message crrectly! We might live in Miami, but here at CF Kids it s frecasted t snw! Check ut ur snw flurries all mnth lng in December! This week, lk fr ways t thank Gd and thank thers. I bet there are all srts f peple in yur life wh yu can thank! Let s end ur time in prayer! Gd, what an amazing mnth we ve had tgether learning abut gratitude. It s nt always easy t shw that we re thankful, s we pray that Yu will help us remember what Yu want, and that s fr us t always be grateful. We lve Yu. We pray this in Jesus name, amen! Refcus_Christmas Cncentratin Game_Vide Refcus_Thank Gd fr Smething_Vide