• Know that God watches over his children • Realize that even though they face some difficult times they should not be afraid. • God knows everything that we go through. • Understand that God knows/God cares.

AS KIDS ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON (10 minutes) ACTIVITY

DOWNLOAD English version of the 'Yoruba Eko # 15' to teach the lesson

1. GAMES: (10 minutes) BIRD HUNT: Before class starts the teacher hides 8 printed pictures or shapes of birds around the room. (These may have been coloured by the children before class starts) Let the children go on a 'bird hunt'. Bring all the "birds" back to the classroom and start writing the Bible Verse on each bird.

1. Ológose´ méjì ko´ ni à n
2. tà ní owó ide we´we´ kan?
3. Síbe` kò sí `okan nínú won tí
4. yóò subú lu il`e le´yìn Baba yin.
5. Nítorí náà, e má se fòyà;
6. `yin ní iye lórí ju `op`o ológose´ lo.
7 . Matiu 10:29, 31

2. TEAM GAMES: (10 minutes)

3. ACTIVE ENGLISH PRAISE CHORUS: (10minutes) Optional: Download English 'Praise music videos' 4. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (5 minutes) Optional: Download 'Yoruba Hymns- B‘oruk? Jesu ti dun to'

5. TEACHING:
a. Review (5 minutes)

MORINGA REVIEW: Options: Download English Moringa video

b. Learn a Bible Verse (5minutes) Ológose´ méjì ko´ ni à n tà ní owó ide we´we´ kan? Síb`e kò sí `okan nínú won tí yóò subú lu il`e le´yìn Baba yin. Nítorí náà, e má se fòyà; `yin ní iye lórí ju `op`o ológose´ lo. Matiu 10:29, 31 Download Ese Bibeli Yoruba Iranlowo Wiwo Use the birds from the Bird Hunt game with the parts of the Bible Verse written on them. Cut them out, muddle them up and get the children to take turns to put them in the correct order.

c. Teach the Lesson (15 minutes)

DOWNLOAD Yoruba Eko #15 awon aranran wiwo

DOWNLOAD English version of the 'Yoruba Eko # 15' to continue teaching the lesson

Optional: Download English 'His eye is on the sparrow' video Optional: Download English 'His eye is on the sparrow' lyrics'

sermons4kids.com/his_eye_is_on_the_sparrow.htm

6. APPLICATION / ENCOUNTERING GOD:

This is our last session in this series. We invite the children to come and spend quiet time with God. Thank God for all the good things in our life, especially our new friend "Puppy" Optional: DOWNLOAD Colouring page visual aid

CLOSING PRAYER: "Father, as we come to the end of this Series we want to thank you for the teachers that have taken time to teach us these truths. Thank you for the healing that is taking place, for the friendships that have developed. Thank you for never leaving us or forsaking us and for building character just like Joseph and Puppy. Amen"

NEXT WEEK: We will be starting a new curriculum, teacher will let you know all about it!

By the end of this curriculum the children should be able to:

• Know that they are important to God.
• Learn that sometimes bad things happen to good people, no discipline seems pleasant at the time.
• Know they can talk about their pain
• Know that they need to take care of their hearts when they are wounded
• Be able to express their pain through drawings
• Realize that connecting with others helps them to overcome fear and loneliness
• Realize that God never abandons them even if everyone else does
• Trust that God has a plan for their lives
• Realize that connecting with others helps them to overcome fear and loneliness
• Know they should be careful about whom they trust
• Understand that grieving takes time.
• Accept their sadness and anger if they have loss someone who was important to them
• Experience that God loves them regardless of what may have happened
• Have opportunity to ask Jesus to be their friend and forgive their sins
• Have opportunity to ask Jesus to heal their pain
• Understand why it’s important to forgive
• Have started to forgive people who have hurt them
• Know ways of facing trouble in the future
• Begin to learn how to deal with negative thoughts.
• Don’t get even get over it!
• Be encouraged by thinking about good things.
• Know how to grow as a Christian
• Have Joseph as their role model
• Learn that God knows everything they go through.
• Experience His Peace and know that the Holy Spirit will guide them and calms their fears.
• Begin to learn that God cares and watches over them even in times of disaster and distress
• Understand that God watches over his children
• Realize that even though we face some difficult times we should not be afraid.
• God knows everything that we go through.
• God knows/God cares..

Heal a Hurting Heart Curriculum

The total number of coronavirus cases in Nigeria have risen to 36,663, bringing the death toll in the country to 789, according to figures from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) at the end of July.

The hardest-hit states are the commercial capital Lagos with 13,438 infections, the capital Abuja with 3,027 infections, and Oyo with 2,167 infections. CLICK on the picture link to view our Yoruba COVID 19 children's curriculum.

HEAL A HURTING HEART - NATURAL DISASTER

HEAL A HURTING HEART - CORONA CRISIS

A DROP OF HOPE

GROW AND GO CURRICULUM

ENGLISH/YORUBA

ENGLISH

ENGLISH/EFIK

ENGLISH/SHONA

CHICHEWA

ENGLISH/NUER

SWAHILI

DUTCH

PORTUGUESE

FRENCH/LINGALA

FRENCH/HAITIAN