Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not
depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
Such words
of wisdom from the Bible inspire me to teach Sunday School kids during my “single”
days aside from the benefit I personally and spiritually gained from
teaching. I enjoyed teaching that I
totally miss it when I stop to tend to my first born child.
Then just
recently I am challenge once again to teach and get involve in the ministry. We
only have one Sunday school teacher in our mission church and I have to step in
every time she is not able to teach. I never realize how I have missed teaching
until I was once again in front of the children.
More so I am
challenge because I can see that there are a lot of things to be done in the
children’s ministry. I am challenge when I saw that we lack lot of materials
for activities and crafts. I am challenge that their classroom needed a makeover.
And I am challenge to make a difference in the lives of these kids. I believe
in a good foundation so it is but right to teach children the ways of God as
young as they are.
I am grateful that brethren in our
mother church are more than willing to give some materials for the Sunday school
so we can have something to use. I also scoured some of my materials which I
used and keep not so long ago (at this moment I thank God that I am quite such
a hoarder) =) at least we have something to use and I don’t need to buy much.
My journey
once again as a Sunday school teacher began, this time it is more challenging
and quite difficult because I have with me my one year old son as I taught. Just
blessed that he is not so hard to handle during class time (though there are
times =)
Last Sunday
I taught them about Jonah, his disobedience to God and him learning that
Salvation is of the Lord. The kids are excited to learn, I can see that but
they are more than excited during crafts/activity time. I can tell that they
enjoy doing their crafts so much. Below is the picture of the craft they made
to go along with the lesson on Jonah and the Whale.
We made a
boat and put some people on it. Use a popsicle stick to stand the sail. And
write their memory verse on the sail. The kids then paste their boat on a piece
of construction paper (some on bond paper), draw some waves and a whale. You
can never tell how creative kids can be when it comes to arts and crafts, so
just let them bring out their creativity. Some of them make a little Jonah in
front of an open-mouthed whale as if ready to swallow.
If you are
wondering how we made the boat, check this out:
There goes
our Sunday, how about you? If you are a Sunday school teacher too, you can use
the crafts we had made. I forgot to take a picture of the crafts we made when
we had our fruit of the spirit lesson. But I made the kids draw nine fruits of
their choice, colored it and write the fruits of the spirit on each fruit they
made. Never forget to tell them to write their memory verse on their crafts/activity
so that they will not forget it. I made them bring home whatever crafts they
made to show to their parents.
If you used this craft, don't forget to leave a comment and maybe some pointers too=)
Happy
crafting! =) God Bless!
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