Chichewa Healing a Hurting Heart Malawi post traumatic stress childrens curriculum lesson for children experiencing Coronavirus crisis Lesson 4

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Heal a Hurting Heart - Phunziro #4

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By the end of this lesson the child should be able to:

• Sympathise with Joseph’s father who grieved the death of his son. Genesis 37: 31 – 36
• Relate to Joseph's fear, anxiety, betrayal and bewilderment.
• Realize that connecting with others helps them to overcome fear and loneliness
• Realize that God never abandons us even if everyone else does
• Know it is ok to feel bad
• Realize God has a plan for their lives.
• Understand that children need to be protected but this does not always happen

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AS KIDS ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON (10 minutes) ACTIVITY
(Hand sanitization for each child, please ensure masks are worn, and the children have individual crayons for arts and crafts)

Get a child to colour the Bible Verse Visual Aid before class begins.

HAPPY FEEL GOOD WORDS !
Get the children to sit in a circle (3-6 foot apart) talking about things that make you “feel happy or good”!
Start off with what makes you happy ---and then take turns calling out things such as: Sunny days make me happy; Mbatata, Mandasi etc.

When done in a light-hearted manner, the children will join in and share!

Supplies needed:

• Beans.
• FEAR written on a rock.
• Chalk, Crayons. Small pieces of paper, pencils.
• Balloons and marking pen.
• Print the review colouring page.
• Print out musical lyrics.
• A multi-couloured piece of cloth torn up and dipped in red paint for dramatized Bible Verse.
• Print the road map.
• Print the 'Bible Verse Visual Aid' and get a child to colour it prior to the class.
• Print the English 'Activity Book'
• Print the 'Take Home Bible Memory Verse'
• Print Chapter #4 'And Puppy' one for each child.
• Print ‘Kuthandiza Ana Kuchita ndi Kutayika kwa Petakondedwa’ Adult Educational Handout
• Create a ‘Heaven Corner’ with a gold cloth on a chair with Jesus’ crown, a wooden cross, covered with a red cloth representing His blood.

1. GAMES: (10 minutes)

FEAR HOPSCOTCH: Draw two hopscotch games on the floor or parking lot. FEAR can be written on a rock and then tossed to a square on the hopscotch for children to play the game. Children are not allowed to hop on the square where the FEAR ROCK had landed. If the number of children is too many for one game, another hopscotch drawing could be made, side by side.

(Ensure social distancing)

2. TEAM GAMES: (10 minutes)
Divide the children into two groups, boys and girls. Blow up balloons and write various emotions on each balloon, Fear, Anxiety, Bewildered, Grieving, Betrayal etc the children pass the balloons from one to the other until they find a balloon that best describes how they may have felt or are feeling the first team to identify the various emotions is the winner.

3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS: (10 minutes)
Optional: Download 'Hakuna Mungu Kama Wewe' video

4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (5 minutes)
Optional: Download 'Mwayenera' video

5. TEACHING:
a. Review (5 minutes)

Remember Joseph had a terrible experience at the hands of his brothers he probable felt all these emotions.

When was Joseph happy? (When his father gave him a coat of many colours.)
When was Joseph sad (When his brothers threw him in the pit)
When was Joseph scared (When he was sold into slavery)
When was Joseph mad (When he realized he was no longer free)
When was Joseph proud (When he had the dreams of his family bowing down to him)

Optional: Download ‘Nkhani ya Yosefe Gawo #2' video

Bible Reading: Genesis 37:31-35

b. Learn a Bible Verse (5minutes)
Ndipo ana aamuna ake onse ndi ana aakazi onse anauka kuti amtonthoze: koma anakana kutonthozedwa; ndipo anati, Pakuti ndidzatsikira kumanda kwa mwana wanga, ndilinkulirabe. Atate wake ndipo anamlirira.

Genesis 37: 35

DOWNLOAD Chichewa Bible Verse Visual Aid

Dramatize this Bible Verse with the children playing the sons and daughters, someone being Israel (Joseph’s dad) and an old coat dipped in red paint.

c. Teach the Lesson (15 minutes)
Introduction:

Optional: Download ‘Nkhani ya Yosefe' PowerPoint
Slide #14 - #18

Optional: Download ‘Nkhani ya Yosefe Gawo #3' video
Bible Reading: Genesis 37:31-35

31Ndipo anatenga malaya ake a Yosefe, napha tonde, naviika malaya m'mwazi wake: 32natumiza malaya amwinjiro, nadza nao kwa atate ao: ndipo anati, Siwa tawatola; muzindikire tsono ngati ndi malaya a mwana wanu, kapena ndi ena. 33Ndipo anazindikira nati, Ndiwo malaya a mwana wanga: wajiwa ndi chilombo: Yosefe wakadzulidwa ndithu. 34Yakobo ndipo anang'amba malaya ake, na vala chiguduli m'chuuno mwake namlirira mwana wake masiku ambiri. 35Ndipo ana aamuna ake onse ndi ana aakazi onse anauka kuti amtonthoze: koma anakana kutonthozedwa; ndipo anati, Pakuti ndidzatsikira kumanda kwa mwana wanga, ndilinkulirabe. Atate wake ndipo anamlirira.

Optional: Download English 'Joseph the beloved son’ video

( For English speaking children )

Many men in the Bible showed their emotions and wept. Mighty Kings in the Old Testament wept.

Ndipo Davide ndi anthu amene anali naye anakweza mau ao, nalira misozi, kufikira analibe mphamvu yakuliranso.
(1 Samuele 30:4)
Ndipo pocheuka Yuda, taonani, nkhondo inayambana nao kumaso ndi kumbuyo; nafuulira iwo kwa Yehova. (2 Mbiri 13:14)
Ndipo m'mene anayandikira, anaona mzindawo naulirira (Luka 19:41)

Optional: Download Colouring page

People are going to fail you, disappoint you, leave you hanging out to dry. Let that drive you to God.

Notice that through all of Joseph's troubles, God remained with him.

Paul told the church in Rome

"Nasi twajua ya kuwa katika mambo yote Mungu hufanya kazi pamoja na wale wampendao katika kuwapatia mema"

Warumi 8:28

All things, even the bad things we face, will be made to work for the good of God's children.

Joseph's loyalty to God was tested by his troubles and Joseph passed the test. Even though everything appeared to go wrong for thirteen years, Joseph managed to hold on to his faith. However, also notice that Joseph was being trained during this time to run a nation by first running a household and then a prison.

This is not the end of the story of Joseph and his brothers. There is a happy ending when Joseph is reunited with his father and brothers. But for today, we learn the lesson of the terrible things that happen because of the sin of jealousy and hatred.

DOWNLOAD Chichewa Lesson #4 Visual Aids

ENGLISH STORY TIME:

The Story Teller and 'Scruffy' the sock puppet read "And Puppy' Chapter 4 The Hospital

Download English Chapter 4 of ‘And Puppy’

Optional:Download English 'And Puppy' Bible Verses

ENGLISH CORONA CRISIS INFORMATION:

Optional: Download English ‘What is Coronavirus?’ and ‘How your Immune system works’ and ‘Explaining Social Distances’

Optional: Download English ‘How to Wash Your Hands’ video

Optional: Download English 'Hand washing' poster.

English Art Therapy:

Optional: Download English Art therapy ‘How to save the earth’ video, color ‘Coronavirus’ poster.

6. APPLICATION / ENCOUNTERING GOD:
Have the children write down times when they have felt afraid, sad and grieving. Create a ‘Heaven Corner’ with a gold cloth on a chair with Jesus’ crown and a wooden cross covered with a red cross to represent His blood. Get them to come and place it the papers at the foot of the cross.

CLOSING PRAYER:
Lord I place my life in your hands. I want to serve you and do what you want me to do. Lead me in the right path and remind me you are always there. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

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