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Omi Jara - Igba #3

This week's destination: You can run from God but you cannot hide from Him.

MATERIALS: Print Bible Memory Verse visual aids, print YES and NO signs, crayons. A blue tarp; tuna fish in a plastic container with a lid; a spray bottle filled with water.

AS KIDS ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON:

Welcome Teacher, Trainers and students. As the children arrive get them to colour the colouring pages and visual aids that will be used during the session.

Download Yoruba Visual Aids

Optional: Download English Visual Aids

DOWNLOAD Session #3 Teaching

1. WELCOME GAME: (10 minutes) - HIDE AND GO SEEK:

Play this game like the normal Hide and Go Seek game. After the game is over, explain to the children that they cannot hide from God. He always knows where we are and what we are doing.

2. GROUP ACTIVITY: (10 minutes)

Print the Jonah puzzles, colour them and stick together

Print as many that each group of four children each have a big whale.

Dress one boy up like Jonah and get the whales to try and catch him

Optional: Download 'Jonah Puzzle'

3. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS:
(10 minutes)

Optional: Download 'Jonah song' English Praise Music Video

4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (5 minutes)

5. TEACHING: a. Review:

Last session we learnt that sin separates us from God



 
 

Download 'Adam and Eve' Yoruba review colouring page

Optional: Download 'Adam and Eve' English review colouring page

Review: What is SIN?

Sin is anything we think, say, do, or don't do that displeases God. That is a big problem but in this session we will learn how God solved that problem by sending His Son Jesus, who was God here on earth, Jesus lived a perfect and powerful life.

Noah Review:

Download 'Noah' Yoruba review colouring page

Optional: DOWNLOAD English Noah review colouring page

 

b. Yoruba Sword Play
Ready…Swords up…Jona 1:17… CHARGE

(Jona 1:17)

Download Yoruba Bible Memory Verse

b. Engish Sword Play
Ready…Swords up…Jonah 1:17… CHARGE

Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

(Jonah 1:17)

Optional: Download English Bible Memory Verse

c. Teach the Lesson

Optional: Download 'Jonah and the BIG fish' Colouring pages puzzzel

Have any of you heard about a man named Jonah? (Let the children respond.)

Jonah was a prophet of God; he would listen to God and tell the people what God said. One day, God said to Jonah, "Go to the city of Nineveh and tell the people who live there that they are a very wicked people and that they need to change their ways."

Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh.

(Invite the children to respond with a "NO!")

Optional: Download Jonah English video

Download Yoruba NO poster

He didn't like the people in that city, and maybe he was afraid of them. So Jonah decided to run away and hide from God.

Optional: Download English NO poster

(Have kids pat their legs quickly to make a fast running sound.)

He caught the first ship out of town and headed in the opposite direction from where God told him to go. (Have kids pretend to row.)

Jonah learned a very important lesson that day. He learned that you might run from God, but you cannot hide. Jonah got on that ship and hid way down deep inside. "Surely God won't find me here," Jonah thought. (Invite children to curl up in a ball and try to hide.)  

But God sent a big storm and tossed that boat around so much that the other sailors thought they were going to drown. (Lightly spray children with water.)

Optional: Download Jonah English teaching videos

You might run from God, but you cannot hide.

Download 'Jonah and the BIG fish' Yoruba PowerPoint for the children of Nigeria.

Sourced from Bible for Children.

Download 'Jonah and the BIG fish' Yoruba Bible for Children Bible Verse Colouring Page PowerPoint for the children of Nigeria.

Adapted from Bible for Children.

Optional: Download 'Jonah and the BIG fish' English PowerPoint, Colouring pages and Tracks.

Sourced from Bible for Children.

They found Jonah in the bottom of the ship and asked him, "Who are you and what are you doing here?" 

Jonah answered, "I am a worshiper of the God of heaven, who made the land and the sea." Jonah told the sailors that he was running from God because he didn't want to go to Nineveh as God had told him to do.

When the sailors learned that Jonah was running from God, they were even more afraid. "What should we do to stop this terrible storm?" the sailors asked.

"Throw me overboard into the sea," Jonah answered, "and the sea will become calm." The sailors picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea and the storm stopped at once. (Lightly spray children with water.) 

Did Jonah drown in the sea? No! God sent a great fish to swallow Jonah, and he was inside the fish for three days and three nights. (Gather children underneath a large blue tarp. Open the tuna fish and pass it around so kids can smell it.) 

Spending all that time inside the great fish gave Jonah plenty of time to think. He prayed to the Lord from inside the fish. He confessed that he had been wrong to run from the Lord and promised to fulfill his promises to God.

God caused the fish to spit Jonah out onto the shore. (Have kids help throw the blue tarp backward off of them.) Then the Lord spoke to Jonah again and said, "Get up and go to Nineveh and deliver the message that I have given you."

This time Jonah obeyed the Lord's command and went to Nineveh. (Invite kids to respond with a "YES SIR!"

Download YES Yoruba poster

This time Jonah obeyed the Lord's command and went to Nineveh. (Invite kids to respond with a "YES SIR!"

Optional: Download YES English poster

6. APPLICATION / ENCOUNTERING GOD:

Just as God had something for Jonah to do, he has a plan for you and me. I hope we will learn a lesson from Jonah. When it comes to doing what God wants us to do, we might run, but we cannot hide from God!

Encourage the children to quietly sit with the whale posters all around them and reflect on times they maybe said "NO' to their parents or guardians and ask God to forgive them. Encourage them to think about all the things they said 'YES ' to that maybe they should have said 'NO'

Prayer: Heavenly Father, we know we can't hide from You. You know what we do and what we think. Give us the strength and courage to do all the things that You want us to do. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Jonah Runs from God Children's Sermon | Sermons4Kids

YORUBA TAKE HOME BIBLE VERSE:

Print the Take Home Bible Verse one for each child

DOWNLOAD Yoruba Take Home Bible Verse Visual Aid

ENGLISH TAKE HOME BIBLE VERSE:

Optional: DOWNLOAD English Take Home Bible Verse Visual Aid

Optional: DOWNLOAD 'Jonah and the BIG fish' English Take Home Track one for each child if possible.

Sourced from Bible for Children.

 

ENGLISH TAKE HOME ACTIVITIES:

Optional: DOWNLOAD Jonah English Take Home Activities

Crossword

Wordsearch

Multiple choice

Sourced from Sermons 4 Kids

Optional: DOWNLOAD 'Jonah and the BIG fish' English Take Home Booklet one for each child if possible. Or cut in half and share between the children.

Sourced from Sermons 4 Kids

 

NEXT WEEK: We will continue with the ‘Water Series’. We have learnt that we have a problem - SIN which separates us from God, we will learn that God solved that problem by sending His Son Jesus.

We will learn that although Jesus never sinned, He saw it fit to follow God’s plan for man by being baptized in water so that He could be an example to man

How does the BioSand Filter Work?

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Optional: Download English 'How does a BSF work?' PowerPoint

Optional: Download CAWST English Video #3 'How does the BSF work'

HANDOUT:

Optional: Download English 'How does a BSF work' Handout #2

HANDOUT:

Optional: Download English 'How does a BSF work' Handout #2

View on YouTube CAWST English Video #4 'How to use the BSF'

Visit English Drop of Hope website - How does the BSF work?

What Kind of Water Can I Use?

Clear water - The filter will work well. You will not have to clean the top of the sand very often.

Dirty water - After a few weeks, the filter will start to flow slowly. You will have to clean the top of the sand sometimes to make it flow faster.

Very dirty water - The filter will quickly start to flow too slowly. You will have to clean the top of the sand often to make it flow faster.

If the water is very dirty, settle the dirt out of the water by letting it sit in the bucket for a few hours, do not use the dregs from the bottom of the bucket.

Always use the same water source in the filter

How the BioSand Filter Operates

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Optional: Download English BioSand Filter PowerPoint 3 - 'BioSand Filter Operations'

HANDOUT:

Optional: Download English 'How the BioSand Filter Operates' Handout #3

Visit English Drop of Hope website - How the BioSand Filter Operates

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