Lesso 10 105 Lydia Is Coverted Acts 16:9-15 Third- ad fourth-graders love to share good ews. They also care deeply for their frieds. As they realize that ot all people have heard God s message of salvatio, they will wat to share this ews. Ecourage childre to pray for their frieds, to lear all they ca about the Bible so they ca teach their frieds, ad to rely o God to give them opportuities to share with those they love. If childre lear to boldly talk of their faith ow, they ll have fewer fears as adults. Lesso What Childre Do Supplies easy prep 1 Gettig Started 2 Bible Exploratio Get Ready (about 10 mi.) Figure out how to be prepared for various situatios. Go! (about 15 mi.) Lear how Paul was always ready to go tell people about Jesus. I Seaso ad Out (about 20 mi.) Write postcards to childre who eed to hear about Jesus. idex cards, pe Bible Bible, Bible Truth Sleuth, pes, scissors Write each of the followig phrases o a separate idex card: a campig trip, a test, a trip to a amusemet park, ad a baseball game i which you are playig first base. Tear out the Lesso 10 pages from each Bible Truth Sleuth studet book. Bible Poit Be prepared to tell others about Jesus. Key Verse Preach the Word; be prepared i seaso ad out of seaso (2 Timothy 4:2). Weavig Faith Ito Life Kids will tell others about Jesus. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Grades 3 & 4 Lesso 10
106 Lesso What Childre Do Supplies Easy Prep 3 Weavig Faith Ito Life Be Prepared (about 15 mi.) Act out tellig others about Jesus i specific situatios. scissors, CD player, copies of the lyrics (at the ed of this lesso) Teacher Pack: CD, Be Prepared poster Cut apart the four sectios of the Be Prepared 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. Bible Truth Sleuth Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 10 Grades 3 & 4
107 Lydia Is Coverted Acts 16:9-15 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders God Alters Paul s Plas The Jesus Coectio Although Paul had other plas, he did t hesitate to chage them whe he had clear directio from God i a visio. The text says that they got ready at oce to leave for Macedoia. Ad lookig back o the effect Paul s missioary joureys had o that part of the world, we see that God s strategy i leadig Paul where he did oly improved Paul s origial pla. Wheever Paul came to a ew city, he made it a practice to go to the local Jewish syagogue o the Sabbath to see if a opportuity would arise to share the message of Jesus with the Jews meetig there. However, there must ot have bee a syagogue i Philippi. It took 10 Jewish males to costitute a syagogue, but Jewish me must have bee lackig. Istead, a group of Jewish or God-fearig wome met at a iformal meetig place outside the city. Paul ad his team foud this meetig ad told the wome there about Jesus. Paul did t hesitate to give them his time ad attetio. He wated to reach everyoe he could with God s message of grace. Paul did t waste time woderig about what God wated. He kew. As you sped time with Jesus through Bible study ad prayer, sese his will for you ad make it your ow. Lydia was a stadout i her society, impressive by ay stadard. Do you feel itimidated by others ad too timid to share the love of Christ with them? Eve the least eedy eed Jesus. Choose oe perso to share God s love with i the comig week. Pray for that perso. You ca write your prayer here. Lydia Becomes the First Europea Covert Lydia, the leader of this little group, was a dealer i purple cloth. Purple dye was extremely costly, ad ayoe able to deal i it had to be wealthy. For a woma to be successful ad wealthy o her ow was uusual i that culture, ad it says a lot about Lydia. This woma was the first perso i Europe who Paul led to faith i Christ. Why were all the members of Lydia s household baptized? Though Luke cocetrates o the story of Lydia, that does t mea that others i her family were t preset ad did t believe o their ow. Her childre ad ay servats i her household likely followed her example ad believed i Jesus. Grades 3 & 4 Lesso 10
108 gettig started Get Ready Supplies idex cards pe Get Ready Easy Prep Write each of the followig phrases o a separate idex card: a campig trip, a test, a trip to a amusemet park, ad a baseball game i which you are playig first base. Get Ready What You ll Do Welcome kids warmly as they arrive, ad ask them how their week wet. Have kids form four groups, ad give oe card to each group. Say: I your group, talk about what you eed to do to be prepared for what s writte o your card. You ll have a few miutes to talk about it ad will the preset your aswers to the rest of the class. Whe kids have fiished talkig, have each group make its presetatio. After each group has made its presetatio, give kids the followig additios to their scearios: A campig trip: You wet o a day hike, ad bears ate all of your food. A test: You ve studied for a spellig test, but whe you get to school, you discover you re actually havig a math test. A trip to a amusemet park: You ve bee at the park a hour, ad it starts raiig hard. A baseball game i which you are playig first base: Your team s pitcher breaks his arm, ad you ow have to pitch. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. How did you feel whe you foud out there was more to your situatio tha you had thought? How could you have prepared for the additioal situatios i your sceario? How ca you be prepared to tell others about Jesus? Say: It s ot always easy to kow how to be prepared for every situatio. I today s lesso, we ll lear how we ca be prepared to tell others about Jesus. Lesso 10 Grades 3 & 4
109 2 Bible Exploratio Go! What You ll Do Ope your Bible to Acts 16:9-10, ad show it to the kids. Have kids sit or lie o the floor, close their eyes, ad preted to sleep. Go! Supplies Bible Say: Our Bible story today comes from Acts 16. Read aloud Acts 16:9-10. Say: We eed to go to Macedoia! The people there eed to kow about Jesus! Pack your bags! Have kids sit up ad preted to pack bags. Say: We re goig o a boat ride to get to Macedoia. Let s go! Have kids hold out their arms ad touch their figertips together to form a V shape. This will represet the bow of a boat. The have kids preted to jourey o the sea from Troas to Samothrace to Neapolis ad fially to Philippi as you read Acts 16:11-12. Say: Whe they reached Philippi, Paul ad his compaios stayed for several days. O the Sabbath day, they wet to a river to fid a place to pray. Let s fid out what happeed at the river. Desigate oe area of your room as the river, ad have kids walk to it ad sit dow. Read aloud Acts 16:13-15. Say: The Bible does t tell us why the wome were there, but it does tell us that oe of the wome, Lydia, was a worshipper of God. Eve if they were there to worship God, they did t kow about Jesus. They eeded someoe to tell them. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. How did Paul react as soo as he was told to go tell others about Jesus? Whe should we tell others about Jesus? Grades 3 & 4 Lesso 10
110 Say: Paul was ready to tell others about Jesus. He showed that by leavig for Macedoia as soo as he was told to go. Whe he met a group of people there who eeded to kow about Jesus, he could tell them about him. We ca be prepared to tell others about Jesus at ay time, too. Let s take a look at our Key Verse for today to see what it says about beig ready. I Seaso ad Out Supplies Bible Bible Truth Sleuth pes scissors I Seaso ad Out Easy Prep Tear out the Lesso 10 pages from each Bible Truth Sleuth studet book. I Seaso ad Out What You ll Do Ope your Bible to 2 Timothy 4:2, ad read the Key Verse aloud: Preach the Word; be prepared i seaso ad out of seaso (2 Timothy 4:2). What does it mea to preach the Word? Say: Preachig the Word is tellig others what the Bible says. Whe we tell others about Jesus, we re preachig the Word. Whe should we tell others about Jesus? Say: We should be prepared i seaso ad out of seaso, or all the time, to tell others about Jesus. We should always watch for opportuities to tell people what we believe. Today you ll have a opportuity to tell someoe who you do t kow about Jesus. Distribute the Bible Truth Sleuth pages, ad have kids tur to the I Seaso ad Out activity. Say: We re goig to write postcards to people i aother coutry to tell them about Jesus. So o the postcard i your Bible Truth Sleuth, write somethig you kow about Jesus. The cut the postcard from the bottom of your page. We ll give our postcards to a missioary to give to kids who eed to kow about Jesus. Share with kids that just as Paul was a missioary who traveled from place to place, we have missioaries today who do the same thig. Let them kow that eve if the kids i the coutry the postcards are set to do t speak Eglish, a missioary will traslate the cards ad let the kids kow what the postcards say about Jesus. Lesso 10 Grades 3 & 4
111 3 Weavig Faith Ito Life Be Prepared What You ll Do Say: We ve just told people i aother coutry about Jesus. But people live right i our ow tow who eed to kow about Jesus, too. Let s take a look at some situatios ad talk about how we ca be prepared both i seaso ad out of seaso to tell others about Jesus. Have the class form four groups, ad give each group oe sectio of the Be Prepared poster. Say: Our Key Verse says: Preach the Word; be prepared i seaso ad out of seaso (2 Timothy 4:2). Let s practice beig prepared. Read the situatio o your poster, ad aswer the questio as a group. Give each group time to aswer its questio. The have each group choose a leader to share the group s ideas. Say: God gives us may opportuities to tell others about Jesus. We should be prepared to talk with others about Jesus ay time. Be Prepared Supplies scissors CD player copies of the lyrics (at the ed of this lesso) Teacher Pack CD: That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) (track 17) Be Prepared poster Be Prepared Easy Prep Cut apart the four sectios of the Be Prepared poster. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Why do other people eed to hear about Jesus? What might happe if we do t tell others about Jesus? Say: We should be prepared because we have a awesome God who loves us ad set his So to die for our sis. That s ews we should tell to all the atios so they might believe! Let s stad ad sig That You May Believe (Joh 20:31). Pass out copies of the lyrics, ad play That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) (track 17). Ecourage the kids to sig, referrig to the copies of the lyrics. Grades 3 & 4 Lesso 10
112 But these are writte that you may believe That Jesus is the Christ, the So of God. (Repeat.) Ad that by believig, you may have life i his ame. Ad that by believig, you may have life i his ame. (Repeat.) (Repeat from the begiig.) That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) by Dea-o. 2003, 2006 Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved. 4 Lastig Impressios Daily Challeges Supplies Bible Truth Sleuth Daily Challeges What You ll Do Say: Let s each choose a Daily Challege for the week to remid us to be prepared to tell others about Jesus. Have kids fid this week s Daily Challeges o the Bible Truth Sleuth pages ad choose oe to do this week. They ca choose oe or more of these three optios: Ivite your fried over to watch a movie with you, ad tell him or her about Jesus while sharig some popcor, too! tell each of your family members about Jesus. Whe the mail is delivered to your house, tell the postal worker about Jesus love. Make sure you choose a Daily Challege as well, ad tell the 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 Lead kids i this discussio. What s a practical way you re goig to do your Daily Challege? Iclude a time, a place, ad other ideas. Say: We eed to be prepared to tell others about Jesus. Let s practice tellig others about Jesus by followig through o our Daily Challeges this week. Lesso 10 Grades 3 & 4
113 Weavig Faith at Home Ecourage kids to talk with their parets about the Daily Challeges they chose ad what they leared about tellig others about Jesus. Kids ca also do the activities i the HomeCoect sectio of their Bible Truth Sleuth pages with their families. Talk to your Director about emailig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Close i prayer. Pray: Thak you, God, for givig us opportuities to tell others about your So. Help us to be prepared i seaso ad out of seaso every day. We love you, Lord, ad wat others to kow what you have doe. I Jesus ame we pray, ame. Grades 3 & 4 Lesso 10
114 Lyrics That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) But these are writte that you may believe That Jesus is the Christ, the So of God. (Repeat.) Ad that by believig, you may have life i his ame. Ad that by believig, you may have life i his ame. (Repeat.) (Repeat from the begiig.) That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) by Dea-o. 2003, 2006 Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved.! ok to copy Lesso 10 Grades 3 & 4