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Introduction<\/strong>
\nUse wheat kernels and a chessboard to teach the idea of a little faith growing into something very big.<\/p>\n

Materials Needed<\/strong>
\nWheat kernels. If you can’t find wheat, sunflower seeds, peas, or just about any other seeds will substitute. The volume would still be significant.
\nA checkerboard or chess board<\/p>\n

Description<\/strong>
\nSeeds and doubling or used to show how faith, though it starts out small can grow to be very large.<\/p>\n

Preparation<\/strong>
\nSet up a checker board with grains of wheat according to the story<\/p>\n

What to Do<\/strong>
\nWith the checkerboard on display ith the grains of wheat, tell the children this story:
\nSome time ago there was a display at the museum of Science and industry in Chicago. It featured a checkerboard with 1 grain of wheat on the first square, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, and 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc. A few squares down the board there were so many grains of wheat they couldn’t fit on one square. Above the display was this question: “At this rate of doubling every square, how much grain would you have on the checkerboard by the time you reached the 64th square?”<\/p>\n

Ask children how much grain they think that would be?<\/p>\n

After they provide a few ideas, give them the answer: “Enough grain to cover the entire subcontinent of
\nIndia 50 feet deep.”<\/p>\n

Application<\/strong>
\nOur faith may start out small, but as God uses it, the end result can be very large! The boy’s small lunch offered to Jesus fed a Multitude. Elijah use a small jar of flour and oil to feel a woman and her son through a famine. David, a small boy, was used by God to defeat a giant. The Bible is full of stories in which God used a little faith in Him to do great things!<\/p>\n

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