Materials
Jelly Beans of each color below: Yellow, Black, Red, White, Green. You can choose to place all of one color together inside a plastic Easter egg, or place one of each color inside an egg.
Gospel According to Jelly Beans: The meaning and explanation for each color is as follows:
Yellow Jelly Bean
The yellow Jelly bean reminds us …
“Then the woman left her water jar and went back into the city. She told the people, ‘Come with me, and meet a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could he be the Messiah?’ ”
-John 4:28,29
“Don’t miss the drama of the moment. Look at her eyes, wide with amazement. Listen to her as she struggles for …
Materials
1. Bingo cards for each participant. Make Bingo cards using a grid of squares (5X5) and placing Easter related items in each square. Make each card different in the choice of items on it and the placement of the items. (Bingo cards are typically unique for each individual. There are also usually more items than spaces on the bingo …
Materials
Obtain a raw egg for each student and one for yourself. Bring crackers and egg salad or another snack in which eggs are the major ingredient.
Activity
As students enter the classroom, give each an egg and ask youth how an egg is similar to life.
2. “Eggs”identally drop your egg so that is breaks. (clean your mess up …
* Don’t let worry kill you. Let the Church help.
* Thursday night-Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow.
* Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community.
* For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
* The rosebud on the altar this morning is to …
Materials
Plastic Easter Eggs with 1 item inside each.
* Gray fleece or a tiny donkey (Matthew 21:2-5)
* Palm branch or a doll’s coat (Matthew 21:8-11)
* A vial of perfume (Matthew 26:7-13)
* A lock of hair (Matthew 26:7-13)
* 30 silver coins or 3 10-cent coins (Matthew 26:14-15)
* A strip of terry cloth fabric or towel …
“Cheese” is a metaphor for what we want in life. We each define our own cheese, and pursue it because we believe it will make us happy. When we do find it, we often become attached to it and complacent.
Once, long ago, there lived 4 little characters who ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them and …
Blessed are the Meek
Matthew 5:5
Preached by Ken Sapp
January 16, 2000
Introduction: “The Sermon on the Mount Today”
Then Jesus took his disciples up the mountain and gathering them around him And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn:
Materials
You’ll need three or four blindfolds and several objects to set up a small obstacle course.
Preparation
Ask one or two adult assistants to help you set up the course. Alternatively, blindfold everyone and lead them about the church. As you begin your message, have your assistants set up an obstacle course in front of the area where the …
Materials
Tape, glue, stapler, and a bolt.
Activity
I would like for you to discover what this tape, glue, stapler, and bolt have in common. Think about it.
(Allow them to answer.)
That’s right! They are all used to hold things together. Most of you probably have tape and glue in your desk at school or in your room. You …