s i r D s i k S e b i B Epic L Y G AC T I V I T! N I N E P O Y OD WEEKL ORSHIP G W L L I W I ESSON - PURPOSE: This activity wi chaenge the chidren to earn Bibe skis whie competing to win pieces of today s Main Point. DESCRIPTION: The chidren wi pay games that teach them about the Od and New Testaments, hep them memorize the order of the books of the Bibe, and hep them earn to quicky ook up passages and verses. MATERIALS NEEDED: You wi need this Hep Sheet, extra NLT Bibes, and the suppies for the games you choose to pay. (See game descriptions beow for additiona materias needed.) For each team you wi need a set of the Books Of The Bibe Cards and a Main Point Poster Puzze Lesson from the Lesson Materias CD-ROM. Each chid wi need a Books Of The Bibe Hint Card from the Lesson Materias CDROM. Note: Cut up the Main Point Poster Puzzes for each team. Cut into smaer pieces for oder chidren or a onger game time, or cut into arger pieces for younger chidren or a shorter game time. You wi need NLT Bibes for Bibe Object Race to work propery. If you prefer to use a different transation, you wi need to edit the PDF to fit the transation of your choice. Od Or New: You wi need a stopwatch. Each team wi need a bucket marked Od Testament and a bucket marked New Testament. Switch Em Up, and Sient Line Up: A be or buzzer. Bibe Book Math: You wi need a set of Bibe Math Fash Cards from the Lesson Materias CD-ROM. Bibe Book Dodgeba: You wi need a marked out area of foor, a ot of dodgebas, a whiste, and a ist of Bibe verses that you want the chidren to ook up. Bibe Object Race: You wi need NLT Bibes and the Bibe Verse And Object Cards from the Lesson Materias CD-ROM. TO INTRODUCE THE ACTIVITY SAY: Wecome to EPIC! Epic means something big and important, and nothing is bigger or more important than the Bibe, God s Word. The Bibe is the best-seing, most epic book of a time. 2. We are going to pay some Bibe Skis Dris that wi hep you earn more about the Bibe and wi revea our Main Point!. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
CONTINUED FROM PAGE For detaied instructions on how to ead the activity, see the Sma Group Leader DVD. Note: Choose two games to pay during your opening time. Pay one of the first three (Od Or New, Switch Em Up, or Sient Line Up) as chidren arrive. Once most of the chidren have arrived, switch to one or more of the arger, chaenge-type games. (Bibe Book Math, Bibe Book Dodgeba, or Bibe Object Race) DURING THE ACTIVITY SAY: The first type of game we pay wi hep you earn about the sections of the Bibe caed the Od and New Testaments and about the order of the books. 2. Let s pay one of those games now!. Od Or New: Mix up the Books Of The Bibe Cards and stack them a short distance from each team. Set the teams buckets a short distance to the right and eft of the Bibe Book Cards stack. Have one chid at a time run up and grab a card from the stack. They wi then put the card in the bucket they think the book beongs in and run back to the ine. The teacher wi time the teams and check the pies for mistakes after they are both done. For each mistake the teacher wi add ten seconds to the time. The team with the best time wi earn pieces of the Main Point. Switch Em Up: Spread out the Books Of The Bibe Cards in the wrong order in front of each team. The team members come up one at a time and can switch the paces of two of the cards. The teams continue doing this unti they beieve that a the books are in the correct positions. Then one team member wi ring the be or buzzer and both teams must stop. The teacher wi check the first team s order. If it is correct, they wi win three pieces of the Main Point Puzze. If it is not correct, the opposite team wi win one piece of the Main Point Puzze for each mistake. Sient Line Up: Choose a section of the Books Of The Bibe Cards to hand out to each team. (Exampe: the Prophets, the Letters, the New Testament.) The size of the section you choose wi depend on the number of chidren you have. Mix up the books out of order and hand them to the chidren. Then instruct the chidren that they shoud ook at their cards and get in order without speaking to each other. The first team to get their section in order wins pieces of the Main Point Puzze. Repeat with arger sections of the Bibe as more chidren arrive and join the game. Once most of the chidren have arrived, pay one of the arger, chaenge type games. For more detaied demonstrations of how to pay these games, see the Sma Group Leader DVD. Now that you have had some practice at earning the order of the books, et s pay some games that wi chaenge you to ook up books and verses in the Bibe as quicky as you can. 4. I wi ask for vounteers from each team who can ook up verses, super-fast! 5. Let s pay! 3. Bibe Book Math: Get four or five members of each team to pay this chaenge. One member of the team wi step up with a Bibe. You wi show one of the Bibe Math Fash Cards. The first chid to turn to any page in the book that is the correct answer wi stay in the game. The other chid wi be out. Continue paying unti a of the chidren from one team have been eiminated. The winning team earns pieces of the Main Point Puzze. 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 Bibe Book Dodgeba: Mark out a dodgeba space with one area for Throwers and one area for Dodgers. The Dodgers area can be in the center, or against a wa, depending on the number of chidren and the size of your space. One member of the Dodgers is the Searcher and stands at the side with the teacher and a Bibe. The Teacher gives the Searcher a verse to ook up and bows the whiste. Throwers wi try to get a of the Dodgers out before their Searcher can find the Bibe verse. Dodgers cannot catch or touch a ba or they are out. Throwers can enter the Dodgers space to pick up a ba, but must ony throw from the Throwers space. When the Searcher finds the verse, the Teacher bows the whiste and the Throwers must stop throwing. The Dodgers receive points for the amount of Dodgers who are sti in the game. Switch teams and pay again. The team with the highest score is the winner and earns pieces of the Main Point Puzze. Bibe Object Race: Divide the Bibe Verse And Object Cards into a stack of Verse Cards and a stack of Object Cards. Spread out the stack of Object Cards at the far end of the room. Hod the stack of Verse Cards. Choose four or five members of each team to compete in this game. From this smaer group, one member at a time wi compete against the other group s team member. You wi show them a Verse Card. The chidren must ook up the verse, read it to see what objects are in it, then run to the other end of the room, grab the correct object and bring it back to you. The first chid to bring you the correct object wins a point for his or her team. (There are two identica object cards for each verse so that each payer can grab one.) Pay unti a team members have had a turn, then run a tie-breaker if needed. The winning team earns pieces of the Main Point Puzze. Note: After the chaenges are competed, compare scores, give the remaining Main Point Puzze pieces to the winning team, and et them put it together. AFTER THE ACTIVITY SAY:. 2. 3. Congratuations! You a worked hard and did a great job in our Bibe Skis Dris! And we got a the pieces of our Main Point Puzze put together. Let s take a ook at our Main Point now. I Wi Worship God! CLOSING STATEMENT: We are going to earn more about our Main Point in our Large Group time. Let s go! 3
e s r u o C e c a t s b O p i h Wors AC T I V I T Y OPENING I P G O D! H S R O W L - I WIL LESSON PURPOSE: This activity wi introduce the chidren to the esson of the day. DESCRIPTION: The chidren wi participate in an obstace course in which the obstaces represent things that might prevent us from worshiping God. MATERIALS NEEDED: You wi need this Hep Sheet, tape, hua hoop, 4-6 piows, 4-6 foam noodes, a 2 foot high stack of books, broom and dustpan, 2 ping-pong bas, 2 basebas, 2 minifootbas, 2 mini-soccer bas, bucket, and cones. Note: Set up the obstace course stations a around the room. Fee free to change or modify the obstaces based on the needs of your space and the materias you have avaiabe. Video Games: Mark off a distance to trave and pace the hua hoop near the start. Overseeping: Mark a narrow path and pace the piows on either side of the path. Teasing: Mark a narrow path and pace the noodes on either side of the path. Homework: Make 2 squares on the ground that are about 0-20 feet apart. Stack the books in one of the squares. Chores: Set the broom near the dustpan. Pace the ping-pong bas in the dustpan. Sports: Put a the different kinds of sports bas in the bucket. TO INTRODUCE THE ACTIVITY SAY: We a face many different kinds of obstaces each day, and today you are going to face some obstaces before we get started. 2. Some of you wi be part of the obstaces and some of you wi be running through the obstaces. 3. Let s pay.. Note: Seect some chidren to fi the roes at the obstaces. You can use a the obstaces at once, ike centers, or use one at a time with the whoe cass sticking together. Be sure to rotate the chidren so that they a get a chance to run obstaces and hep by being the obstaces. For detaied instructions on how to ead the activity, see the Sma Group Leader DVD. DURING THE ACTIVITY SAY:. 2. I want you to do your best to get through these obstaces as quicky as possibe. The obstaces we are facing today a represent some obstaces that might keep us from worshiping God. Note: Expain the obstaces to the chidren. Fee free to adapt the obstaces or repace them due to the demands of the space you are using. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
CONTINUED FROM PAGE Video Games: Two chidren work together. The Jumper jumps from the starting ine into the hua hoop that is hed on the ground by the Hoder. The Hoder then ifts the hoop over the Jumper without touching him or her and paces it a short distance away. The Jumper then jumps again into the hua hoop. Repeat unti the pair have crossed a specified distance. If the Jumper ever ands outside the hua hoop, the pair must start over. If the Jumper ever touches the hua hoop whie jumping or if the Hoder touches the Jumper with the hua hoop whie it is being ifted, the pair must start over. Overseeping: The Runner has to run from one end of the area to the other and back whie the Snoozers swing the piows and hit the Runner. Teasing: The Prayer Waker has to wak from one end of the area to the other and back. The Prayer Waker must hod his or her hands in a prayer position. The Teasers wi poke the Prayer Waker with the noodes and augh at him or her. Homework: The Runner has to run, carrying one book at a time, from the fu square to the empty square and stack the books. Once a the books are stacked in the empty square, the Runner must run them one at a time back to the first square and re-stack them. If either stack of books fas over at any time, the Runner must re-stack the books at the beginning and start over. Chores: One chid is the Mess Maker. The Mess Maker picks up the dustpan fu of ping pong bas and scatters them across the room, then sets the dustpan down on the ground. The Ceaner uses the broom to sweep a of the ping pong bas back into the dustpan. The Ceaner cannot touch the ping pong bas with anything but the broom. Sports: One chid is the Scatterer. The Scatterer dumps out the bucket of sports bas, scattering them across the room, and then hods the bucket. The Paymaker runs to each ba and tosses it to the Scatterer so that he or she can catch it in the bucket. The Paymaker can not run or wak whie picking up a ba. He or she must throw from where the ba ies. AFTER THE ACTIVITY SAY: Way to get through those obstaces! When we face obstaces in a game ike this, we don t back down, we push through them and get to the goa as fast as we can. 3. In ife, we wi often face obstaces that wi try to keep us from worshiping God. 4. Some of those obstaces are sports games that keep us from coming to church, other kids who tease and augh at us for praying and going to church, or even being too seepy to wake up and pray or come to church. 5. We need to remember that no matter what kind of obstaces are between us and worshiping God, we need to push through them and not et them stop us.. 2. CLOSING STATEMENT: Today we are earning about a group of peope who had to escape savery in order to go and worship God. Let s go into Large Group and earn more about it. 2
I WILL WORSHIP GOD! LESSON GOAL: The chidren wi earn that God is the ony One worthy of our worship. MAIN POINT: I Wi Worship God! BIBLE LESSON: Exodus of Israe - Exodus 3-4 BIBLE VERSE: You must worship ony the LORD your God. He is the one who wi rescue you from a your enemies. 2 Kings 7:39 (NLT) WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THESE ACTIVITIES? EPIC BIBLE SKILLS DRILLS (WEEKLY OPENING ACTIVITY) This activity wi chaenge the chidren to earn Bibe skis whie competing to win pieces of today s Main Point. WORSHIP OBSTACLE COURSE (OPENING ACTIVITY) This activity wi introduce the chidren to the esson of the day. SKIT AND BIBLE LESSON (LARGE GROUP ACTIVITY) This Skit and Bibe Lesson wi teach the chidren that God is the ony One worthy of our worship. EPIC BIBLE VERSE SEARCH (WEEKLY REVIEW ACTIVITY) This activity wi chaenge the chidren to remember detais of the esson and use Bibe skis to hep sove a scrambed version of a phrase simiar to the Main Point. BIG THINGS FIRST (APPLICATION ACTIVITY) This activity wi show the chidren that worshiping God must be the first priority in our ives and everything ese must come second. WORSHIP BINGO (APPLICATION ACTIVITY) This activity wi remind the chidren of many ways to worship God. WORSHIP REMINDER CHART (APPLICATION ACTIVITY) This activity wi give the chidren a reminder of worship activities that they shoud do each week. REVIEW GAME OF DOOM AND/OR GLORY (WEEKLY REVIEW GAME ACTIVITY This is a strategic time to review and reinforce the content of the esson.
Singe Teacher using the Watch It/Train DVD WATCHING THE BIBLE LESSON AND SKIT ON DVD. PURPOSE STATEMENT: This Skit and Bibe Lesson wi teach the chidren that God is the ony One who is worthy of our worship. MATERIALS/PROPS NEEDED: None. Lead the chidren through the Opening Activity. ogo Begin Large Group Time. 2 Wecome, everyone, to the start of something amazing...and awesome... and huge! This is the beginning of our newest, biggest, and most amazing series we ve ever had. Wecome, everyone, to Epic! When we say that something is epic, that means we re taking about something that is huge, amazing, and awesome! And in this series, we re going to earn from some of the most epic essons of the Bibe. But, first up, I need everyone on their feet for a brand new, epic song! Teacher eads the chidren in singing the song. 2 song 3 Wow! That was great! And now I think we re ready for our first epic esson from the Bibe. And it s a good one! It has a nation of peope crying out to God for hep, an evi ruer that no one has dared to chaenge, and there s even an amazing rescue at the end! The story can be found in the book of Exodus, starting in chapter 3. Note: Pay Bibe Lesson Video chapter # 3. 3 Bibe Lesson Intro side
4 What was true for the Israeites then is sti true for us today. God is the ony One worthy of our worship. He proved His power to Pharaoh and the Israeites over and over again. And He is just as powerfu today as He was then. And if there is one epic point we can take away from this esson, it s that we shoud worship God. And that s our Main Point for this esson. [4] I Wi Worship God! Now et s give this epic point the epic treatment it needs. Everybody stand up and get ready to be oud! 4 Main Point animation The Teacher works with the chidren to make up cheereader-type hand motions that go aong with the Main Point. Once everyone has gone over the Main Point, have the chidren repeat it with motions two or three times. 5 6 7 Great job, my friends. And there are many ways that we worship God. Here at church, we worship God when we sing songs to Him, when we pray to Him, when we earn essons from the Bibe, and when we give our offering! We aso worship God by being obedient to Him, and iving our ives focused on Him. Worship is very important to God and it shoud be important to us as we. However, thinking about the story of the Israeites in Egypt, I can t hep but wonder how things coud have been different. What if the Israeites chose not to go with Moses? What woud have happened if after a the pagues, the peope had decided that they didn t want to go into the widerness to worship God? (aows chidren to respond) Those are interesting ideas, and I think I know two peope...we... two sort of peope that coud hep us with this. There is a way for us to see what coud have happened if the peope in the Bibe Lesson had done the wrong thing instead of the right thing. And to do that, we need to take a trip to the Not So Epic Theatre with Fernando Dupont and Chester Chinsworth. Note: Pay Skit Video chapter # 5 foowed by Epic Fied Game chapter # 6. Wow...that was reay...um...not so epic. I am gad that, in the rea Bibe Lesson, the Israeites made the right decision and chose to go with Moses to worship God. If they hadn t, things coud have turned out awfu! It s the same for us. Things definitey turn out better when we ive our ives worshiping God. And that brings us to today s epic Bibe Verse! Check this out. 5 6 7 skit intro video and first narrator video epic team chaenge Bibe Verse You must worship ony the LORD your God. He is the one who wi rescue you from a your enemies. 2 Kings 7:39 (NLT) Wow, there s a ot of great stuff in this verse. I ike how it commands us to worship God. We must worship Him. And it aso tes us why, because He is the One who wi rescue us from our enemies. That s another way of saying that God is the ony One we can rey on. And that s just one of the reasons He is the ony One worthy of our worship. We ve been taking a ot 2
about worshiping God, but I think it s time we put what we ve said into practice. Let s stand and sing to God and then enter our time of offering. 8 song 2 8 Teacher eads the chidren in singing the song. After the song, the Teacher begins the offering time. Thank you for singing. Now we continue to worship God by giving our tithes and offerings. This is the time to think about everything that God has bessed you with. This is a time to be thankfu and to show our thanks by giving back to Him. Pease bow your heads and pray with me as we prepare to give. 9 offering 9 4 OFFERING Note: Lead the chidren in prayer. If you want to, incude eements of the esson you are teaching today. For instance, today we are taking about worshiping God. So, you might say, God, we know that You have done, and continue to do, amazing things. You are the ony One worthy of our worship. No one is more powerfu than You. Pease hep us to never forget that. Amen. Take up the offering. 0 Thank you. And now we re going to take a break from our Large Group and hang out in our Sma Groups! Learn from your eader and have fun in today s Sma Group Activity. [0] In the meantime, I get your Review Game ready to pay. Note: If the chidren do not change rooms for the Sma Group time, review the Main Point before you begin the activities. If the chidren do change rooms for the Sma Group time, have the chidren review the Main Point whie they exit. Aso, encourage the chidren to exit the room whie performing some sort of creative motion. 0 sma groups MP sti SMALL GROUPS 2 Teacher greets the chidren as they return from Sma Groups. Wecome back from your Sma Groups! I hope everyone was paying attention, because I have something specia prepared. It s a Review Game that is so epic...every singe one of you wi be paying the game. It s time for an Epic Review Game of Doom And/Or Gory! Note: For specific instructions on how to ead the chidren through this Review Game, you wi need to print out Epic Review Game Of Doom And-Or Gory Hep Sheet L from your Lesson Materias CD-ROM. Lead the chidren through the questions. Press Pay when a chid has given you the right answer. 3 2 epic team game/ review game
CLOSING Great job today, everyone! To hep us remember what we earned today, et s a say our Main Point together one ast time. I Wi Worship God! See you a next time for another epic esson from the Bibe! 4