8th February

Today, we started a series on Proverbs.

We began our lesson by looking at some pictures of road signs, like this one:

 

 

There is a book called "The Official Highway Code", which is full of signs like this. It helps drivers of motor vehicles to drive correctly and safely.

 

In some ways, Proverbs is a little like this book. It is full of rules that help us to live well. We selected six verses from Proverbs to look at this week, and had a go at creating 'road signs' to illustrate them.

 

 

 

 

1st February

Today, we talked about another person who changed completely after meeting Jesus.

Saul encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus. He was on his way to find Christians to take to Jerusalem as prisoners.

After meeting Jesus, Saul (who changed his name to Paul) devoted his life to preaching the good news about Jesus Christ. You can read about Saul's conversion in Acts 9.

Many of the letters to churches (for example, Romans) in the New Testament were written by Paul.

For our craft activity, we drew happy and angry faces on paper plates (one on the back and one on the front).

25th January

Continuing our theme of becoming a new creation in Christ, the junior class looked at the story of Zacchaeus. You can read about it here.

Zacchaeus was a wealthy tax collector. After meeting Jesus, he promised to give half of his money to the poor and to pay back four times the amount if he had cheated anyone out of anything.

We listened to a song about Zacchaeus. You can listen here.

We made models of Zacchaeus in the tree as our craft activity.

 

 

Many thanks to Jackie for providing this craft idea on her web page at http://www.blessingsoverflowing.com/

18th January

Today, we looked at the story of Jesus and Nicodemus in John 3:1-21.

We often say that as Christians, we are 'born again'. Jesus told Nicodemus that he needed to be born again to see the kingdom of God.

We talked about what it meant to be 'born again' and we will spend some more time talking about this next week.

11th January

Our text for the next three weeks is 2 Corinthians 5:17:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!
(New International Version - UK)

We watched a video of the song, 'Bullfrogs and Butterflies' by Barry McGuire. You can watch this here.

We talked about how tadpoles and caterpillars change completely during their lifetimes to become frogs and butterflies.

If we follow Jesus, He can make us like completely new people. We may not look very different on the outside, but we can change a lot on the inside as we become more like Jesus.

As a craft activity, we made butterflies with paper and paint to remind us of our text:

4th January 2015

Just a small group of us this week. We spent some time catching up on holiday news and talked about our New Year Resolutions. We made door hangers to remind us of the things we wanted to achieve this year.

21st December

We had a family service in the sanctuary this week, and the children performed their nativity play, 'No Room in the Inn'.

No Sunday School now until 4th January 2015.