Basic suppy kit There are some craft suppies that wi be used frequenty throughout the quarter ather the foowing materias and pace them in a container Have them avaiabe each week In the preparation section of each session, ony the suppies that are not in that kit wi be isted scissors (chidren s scissors and one arge size for teacher) arge gue sticks white gue gue spreaders craft sticks cear tape masking tape washabe cooured markers crayons pencis staper paper hoe punch cooured pencis Basic suppies for the cupboard variety of papers (construction paper, mura paper, newsprint, tissue paper) card stock, poster board variety of recyced items (egg cartons, paper/ cardboard tubes, disposabe foam trays, fabric scraps, buttons, wrapping paper) tempera paint, paintbrushes, ceanup suppies (towes, soap, sponges) paint smocks (shirts, pastic aprons, od piowcases with a hoe cut for arms and head) string, variety of yarn safety pins paper cips sef-adhesive stickers gitter, gitter gue, sequins variety of denominationa and other magazines fabric gue pipe ceaners/chenie stems Praise Harmonica (November 11) Materias: 2 wooden tongue depressors, sef-adhesive stickers, 1 wide rubber band, 2 narrow rubber bands Instructions: ecorate one side of each tongue depressor with stickers and crayons (not markers) Make paper siders by cutting two strips of paper about the 1 same width and ength as a tongue depressor (Ius #1) Stack the tongue depressors together, wrap each paper strip around the stack, and secure each oop with cear tape (Ius #2) Remove the siders from the stack, separate the tongue depressors Side both siders back onto ust one of the tongue depressors (us #3) Stretch the wide rubber band engthwise over that tongue depressor and both siders (Ius #4) Restack the two tongue depressors (pain sides in) and wrap a thin rubber band around each end (Ius #5) To pay, bow in the midde of the harmonica As the air 5 passes over the paper oops, they vibrate and create sound waves Change the pitch by siding the oops back and forth on the tongue depressor When the oops are pushed into the midde they vibrate faster, thus creating a higher pitch When siders are moved apart, they vibrate sower and produce a ower pitch 3 2 4 Coin Pouch (September 16) In Jesus time, cothing was oose and had no pockets Peope carried things in bags and pouches sung over arms or shouders, or hung around necks Materias: fet, gue, yarn or cord, buttons and sequins, embroidery thread, darning needes (optiona) Instructions: Cut a 21 cm x 28 cm (8½ in x 11 in) piece of fet engthwise (Two pouches can be made from one piece of fet) Fod fet in two, eaving approximatey 5 cm/2 in for a fap ue or sew sides of pouch Attach a piece of yarn or cord to hang around the neck ecorate with buttons, sequins Pentecost 2 Ages 6 8 93
Zacchaeus Was a Wee Litte Man (traditiona) # 4 7 ««ˆ ˆ 7 ««ˆ ˆ 7 Zac Actions - chae - us 94 Ages 6 8 Pentecost 2 was a wee Zacchaeus was a wee itte man (Look down and pat the air with your eft hand as though patting the head of a very sma chid) A wee itte man was he (Look down and pat the air with your right hand) He cimbed up in a sycamore tree (Pretend to cimb a tree) For Jesus he wanted to see (Shade eyes and ook around) And as Jesus passed that way, (Swing arms and pretend to wak) He ooked up in the tree (Shade eyes and ook up) it - te man, And he said, Zacchaeus, you come down! (Point to the ground with emphasis) a wee it - te # 4»»»» # 7 ««ˆ ˆ 7 «««ˆ ˆ 7 ˆ 7 cimbed up in a syc -a -more tree, for Je - sus he want - ed to #»»»»»» # 7 7 U «ˆ passed that way, he ooked up in the tree; For I m going to your house today (Pretend to eat food with one hand, from a pate in the other) see man And was as And he said: Zacchaeus, Spoken: you come down! #»»» # ««««ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ 7 ««««««ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ 7 «go - ing to your house to - day, for I m go - ing to your house to - Je he For - I m day #»»»» He sus
A mazing S cience Oi and Water (November 11) Materias: gass ar, water, food coouring/dye, vegetabe oi, and sat Fi a gass ar with about 8 cm/3 in of water and add coouring Add 80 m/¹ ³ cup vegetabe oi Wait unti the ayers sette Sprinke some sat into the ar whie counting to five The oi shoud form a gob and sink to the bottom of the ar A few moments ater the oi wi foat back to the top Add more sat to repeat action What happens At first, the oi foats on water because it s ess dense than the water It aso doesn t mix with water, so it won t dissove The sat, however, is denser than the water and does dissove When sat touches oi, it cings and drags some of the oi to the bottom In time, however, the sat starts to dissove in the water Eventuay it can no onger hod onto the oi, which then foats back up to the surface Toast Faces (September 16) Ingredients: Mik Food coouring/dye Sices of bread Pour a itte mik into two or three sma gasses To make the paint, add a few drops of food coouring to each gass of mik Use a sma cean brush to paint a face on each sice of bread (Note: don t soak the bread) Toast in a toaster and then butter ighty Coour exposion Materias: whoe mik, shaow pate, severa coours of food coouring/dye, and dishwashing soap Pour enough mik in pate to competey cover the bottom Add a few drops of each coour of dye Introduce one drop of iquid dish soap into the midde of the mik What happens Mik is mosty water, but it aso contains vitamins, proteins, and tiny drops of fat When soap is added, the proteins and fat dropets ro and twist in a directions As that happens, the food coour is bumped and shoved everywhere and coours swir around the mik Background information for the story Ten Were Heaed (October 14) Bibica references to eprosy incude a wide variety of skin aiments It is unikey that the eprosy referred to in the story Ten Were Heaed was the same disease we know as Hansen s disease today In bibica times, suspected epers were quarantined for seven days and then examined by a priest If the condition persisted, they were confined for another seven days (Leviticus 13:4 5) Those sti afficted were isoated unti their skin was cear again and the priest decared them cean According to Leviticus 13:45, peope with eprosy had to wear torn cothes, et their hair hang oose, and cry uncean, uncean when approached Heathy peope avoided any contact with them so that they themseves woud not become rituay uncean Those with eprosy who were spontaneousy heaed were rituay restored by a ceremony The term Samaritan referred to a person born in Samaria, the region between Judea and aiee Because of difference in poitics, race, customs, and reigion, there was much bad feeing between the Jewish peope and the Samaritan peope They refused to associate with each other Pentecost 2 Ages 6 8 95
Additiona Songs E e X H C x E ance and Sing (tune: This Od Man ) ance and sing; twir and shout od is with us; shout it out Say a prayer of thanks to od ive a shout of praise od is with us for aways We Wi Foow Jesus (tune: The Bear Went over the Mountain ) We wi foow Jesus, We wi foow Jesus, We wi foow Je-sus, And do what Jesus did (cap cap) And do what Jesus did (cap cap) And do what Jesus did (cap cap) We wi foow Jesus, We wi foow Jesus, We wi foow Je-sus, And do what Jesus did (cap cap) (Make up other verses such as: We wi hep each other ) If You re Worried, Tak to od (tune: If You re Happy ) If you re worried and you know it, tak to od If you re worried and you know it, tak to od If you re worried and you know it then od reay wants to hear it If you re worried and you know it, tak to od (Encourage the chidren to make up other verses: If you re happy, excited, scared, sad ) The Church Is Not a Buiding (Stand in a circe) The church is not the buiding, the windows, or the steepe (form an arch with hands, then hod arms above head to create a steepe) The church is so much more than this (move arms wide apart) The church is the peope (indicate the group) When we a come together (everyone pies their hands in the midde of the circe) and show od s ove and care (cross hands over chest) We can reoice and ceebrate (ump up high), for the church is here (raise hands above head) x H X e C 96 Ages 6 8 Pentecost 2
Community Buiding ames Crayon mix-up ive each chid a crayon and invite everyone to find a partner Show the crayons to each other and invite them to te something about themseves that reminds them of those coours For exampe, Yeow: my favourite pie is emon pie or Red: I reay ike red strawberries Trade crayons and repeat this activity severa times with other partners Coect the crayons Show each crayon one by one, and invite the group to share something they remember about another person that was reated to that coour Creating roup uideines Human tange Stand in a circe Ask everyone to reach across the circe and oin hands with two different peope (on t oin hands with the person on either side of you or take both hands of one person) Then try to undo the tange by stepping over arms and ducking under arms on t drop hands but et hands rotate as you twist Hep each other by making suggestions for untanging the group The game is over when everyone is standing in a circe again Have a group cheer! Note: this activity works best with a arge group Home base Cear a space and pace one sheet of paper for each chid on the foor around the room Pay some ivey music and invite chidren to move around the area but not touch the papers When the music stops, everyone must touch a sheet of paper (a base) with his or her foot Vary the body part they must touch the paper each round (hand, head, knee, finger) Start the music again and remove one sheet of paper Now the group has to start sharing bases Take away one base each round The remaining bases become increasingy crowded Everyone reay has to cooperate! Can the whoe group eventuay fit onto one base It can be hepfu for every group to have some rues or guideines to hep them ive together as a earning, worshipping, wecoming community With these guideines, members agree about how they wi ive and act together Creating these guideines together has severa benefits Firsty, it provides the opportunity for chidren to think about and discuss the ways in which their faith community might be together Secondy, it gives the chidren ownership of the agreement; as a consequence, group principes are more ikey to be honoured by everyone in the group These guideines might be created over severa weeks Each time, use a arge sheet of newsprint Begin with an opening phrase such as, As a part of the church we wi work together to Invite chidren to name hopes and behaviours they woud ike to incude Encourage chidren to use positive phrases For exampe, Listen whie others are taking instead of don t interrupt when someone is taking You may have to hep some chidren rephrase their do not phrases Accept a suggestions respectfuy and write them on the newsprint You may find that you can combine two or more suggestions Keep in mind that for chidren aged six to eight years, it is better to keep things as simpe as possibe When the group has finished brainstorming for that day, read it through together to make sure everyone understands it ispay the guideines in a pace where they wi be seen each time the group gathers Review them from time to time and see if you wish to add anything on t forget to point out when the group is abiding we by its guideines, as we as when there are difficuties Pentecost 2 Ages 6 8 97
Bock Peope Bock figures are used as props in storyteing (see September 2 and 9) 1 Wooden bock peope A variety of chidren s wooden bocks can be used to make bock peope If possibe, use different shaped and cooured bocks Use a permanent marker or sma round stickers to make simpe faces (eyes and mouth) on the side of the bocks 2 Food box peope Use a variety of empty (or fu) sma boxes of food Cover with construction paper and make a simpe face (eyes and mouth) on one side of each box Note: this does not harm the food in the box and the contents can ater be used Heart pattern (September 2, 30, November 18) Peope pattern (September 30) Star pattern (November 25) 98 Ages 6 8 Pentecost 2
Being Church Together Over the ast coupe of months I ve been spending some time in different prisons around Victoria in Austraia It s a in the name of research I m working on a proect to expore what forms of worship wi bring grace and redemption in paces ike prisons On the eve of my first visit to the women s prison, the chapain rang to give me some fina detais In our conversation, she mentioned that the gospe reading for the next day was the story of the ood Samaritan She asked the question, How on earth do you preach the story of the ood Samaritan to the peope who are the bandits in the his I d expected that my visits to the prisons woud be confronting and chaenging To be honest, though, the thing that chaenged me most during that first visit was how that gathering of inmates thought of themseves as being a congregation, ust ike any other congregation worshipping together in Mebourne on that Sunday morning I was rather horrified to reaize that I d thought that the inmates were peope that the church was in mission to, rather than being the church themseves This worship wasn t something the chapain was doing for those in need, this gathering of peope was the church It was on this first visit that I met Maggie She d been in prison for a number of years, and was going to be there for quite a few more We taked for a whie after worship and she tod me how important going to worship was for her not because she needed to confess or be forgiven for her crime (both she and I beieve that od did that ong ago), but because she needs to be chaenged to ive faithfuy in the week to come She finished by saying that one of the things she needed me to do was to go and tak to congregations about her story, so that when she eft prison she might be abe to go back to church and be wecomed there I spent hours in the foowing week wondering which congregation might be a pace where I coud invite Maggie I coud think of many which woud be compassionate and caring, but none which woud wecome her as an equa as she had come to expect of the church from her experience in prison I coudn t think of a congregation that woudn t treat her as someone to be ministered to one of them, not part of us The story of the ood Samaritan resonated again through my ears Over the years I ve heard countess chidren s taks about being a good neighbour, but none that assume that, maybe, we are the one who is hurt and being eft by the side of the road In a simiar way, I ve heard dozens of sermons on the gospe imperative to care for the sick, comfort the oney, show compassion to the poor but I ve rarey heard sermons that acknowedge that many who are istening are themseves sick or oney, or deep in poverty I wonder how many peope in congregations isten to the story of the ood Samaritan feeing ike they are actuay the ones who are ying by the side of the road, or indeed that they are the bandits in the his Our defaut position, as we prepare and ead worship, seems to be that those who are istening are heaed and whoe, not broken and desperatey needing a message of grace At its heart, the gospe isn t about doing ustice: the gospe is that one day there wi be a reign of ustice through a the word The gospe isn t about visiting the prisoner, the gospe is that those who are imprisoned wi have compassion heaped upon them, and one day be iberated The gospe isn t about giving what we can to the poor, the gospe is that one day there wi be no poverty For some of us, the message of the gospe means we have much to do, and much to give up For the rest of us, the hope of the gospe is that in our communities we wi be offered a tiny taste of the grace and whoeness offered to the word through faith Chery Lawrie works in an Aternative Worship Proect with the Uniting Church in Austraia Pentecost 2 99
The Pastora Epistes n e When Jesus, at the Ascension, departed from human sight, the sma group of his foowers beieved that he woud return very soon They spent their time worshipping in the tempe, meeting on the first day of the week to ceebrate, with a specia mea, his death and resurrection, and caring for the needs of the poor They received the gift of od s Spirit at Pentecost They continued to preach and teach Peter emerged as a eader of the community, and specia authority was given to the 12 apostes and those who had been witnesses of Jesus ministry and resurrection As time passed, it became cear to them that Jesus woud not return any time soon The Christian community continued to grow, as peope responded to the witness of the apostes Soon there was a need to define eadership and to deveop ways of organizing the young church The two etters to Timothy and the etter to Titus respond to this need The etters are known as the Pastora Epistes, because of their vaue in instructing Christian eaders They refect a more deveoped church structure (the etters speak of bishops, eders or presbyters, and deacons) As they refect a more estabished church structure than the first Christian communities of Pau s time, they are probaby not written by Pau Schoars suggest they are written around 100 125 CE; Pau s ministry was from about 31 to 62 CE In New Testament times, it was thought that etters woud have greater authority by having the name of a famous person attached to them So these may be written by a discipe of Pau who tried to give to the questions of that day the kind of answers Pau woud give Any community, after a number of years, deveops differences of beief and practice Conficts and power strugges deveop This was true of the eary church as communities became arger and more setted The etters address the differences of practice that were beginning to deveop by the beginning of the second century, and urge Timothy and Titus to hod fast to the Christian faith as Pau taught it The etters are addressed to young co-workers of Pau, but are aso written to a wider audience They speak to the whoe church community of the transforming power of Christian ove Because the church by this time is undergoing persecution by the Roman empire, the etters urge caution and respect for those in authority The etters are addressed to Timothy and Titus, but if they were not written by Pau, then Timothy and Titus may be either the recipients or the inspiration for the etters You can read more about Timothy in Acts 16 He was the son of a reek father and a Jewish-Christian mother He was brought up in the Christian faith by his mother Eunice and grandmother Lois, and was a respected member of the community in Lystra Timothy accompanied Pau on some of his ourneys and sometimes was sent as Pau s trusted representative to other churches He was the co-sender of a number of Pau s etters (among them Phiippians, Coossians) Timothy was eader in the church at Ephesus at a time when it was facing the chaenge of fase teachers within the community The first etter to Timothy addresses the concerns of fase teaching, whie the second etter is more persona in tone it suggests the handing on of a ifetime of wisdom to a younger coeague Titus is a gentie convert He accompanied Pau to Jerusaem, where the counci decided that gentie Christians did not need to be circumcised Titus was Pau s trusted envoy in deaing with probems in the Corinthian church The etter to Titus indicates that Titus is in Crete organizing some churches that Pau had estabished The etter is concerned about faithfu Christian iving, and urges eaders to sound teaching Patricia Bays is a theoogica educator, member of the Angican Church of Canada, and ives in Ottawa, Canada a 100 Pentecost 2
What If You Came to My Church by Linnea ood Cma7 Cma7/ Cma7 Cma7/ Cma7 c c Ó 5 Cma7 What if you came to my church What do you think you'd sus4 see w J 9 m Peo- pe big and peo-pe sma, Ce-eb - ra-ting, giv-ing m/a J m m/a thanks for a, continued next page Pentecost 2 Ages 6 8 101
What If You Came to My Church (continued) 13 m Sing- ing, pray-ing, hear-ing Je-sus' ca That's what you woud see! Peo-pe ike you m/a m7 m/a Usuay and 17 Cma7 me! Cma7/ Cma7 Cma7/ Cma7 Cma7/ Cma7 Ó Last time 21 1 see! Peo - pe ike you and Cma7 me! Cma7/ Ó Cma7 w w w As a member of the PSALM-Body s Prayin Subscription List, you may make free use of this piece Other users may consut our website for our royaty poicy, thanks! Setting 2006 Boreais Music, wwwlinneaoodcom Written for Seasons of the Spirit resource 2007 Primary age-groups 102 Ages 6 8 Pentecost 2