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 Do you remember a few weeks ago we heard a story about a man who prayed to God every day even when the King said he was not allowed to? Can you remember his name? Daniel. And do you remember what happened to Daniel when he kept on praying to God? That's right, he was thrown into the lions den. Did the lions hurt him ? No! Because God kept him safe. Daniel was very brave. He was a good man who usually did what the King asked. But when the King asked him to stop praying he knew he couldnt do that because God wanted him to pray and what God wants is always more important than what anyone else wants. Even Kings. Today we are going to hear about a brave girl who was married to a King. She did something brave too. Her name was Esther. Watch   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPDRmkh7J9c Esther was one of God's people but she was married to a King who didnt know God. She lived in the palace with her uncle Mordecai and lots of other people who looked after her and the King. They ...

 Watch  https://youtu.be/P13uIsFW7OA?feature=shared Talk about Samuel hearing God's voice and tell the children that God still speaks to people today. Do you remember when we talked about Jesus being our shepherd? We are like the sheep and the sheep (that's us) know the voice of the shepherd (that's Jesus) At first Samuel heard a voice but didn't know it was God.  He had to practice listening.  And he had to ask an older person, Eli, for help. Just like Samuel we can hear God speak.  God has given us the Bible which is where His words are written down. This is why it's important for us to read and know the Bible.  What time of day did God speak to Samuel?  At night time.  God still speaks to people at night time, sometimes in a dream. Can you think of someone in the Bible who heard God in a dream ? (Joseph in O.T. re brothers Joseph in NT re flight to Egypt) Let's see how good we are at listening ( animal sounds quiz) https://youtu.be/Z-2LjBgEEhE?...

We can watch the story here  https://youtu.be/WcTgzQAeuZo  Chat time. Who likes getting their hair cut?   Maybe some of the girls have never had their hair cut but most of the boys will have.  Can you tell me what happens at the hairdressers?   What would happen if you never got your hair cut at all?  How long do you think it would grow? The person with the longest hair in the world has hair this long.  Measure out 18 .5 feet with a tape measure.   Thats really  really long hair!  How long do you think it would take to wash that much hair!! Today we are going to hear about someone in the Bible who had very long hair. But it wasnt because he wanted to look super cool or anything, it was because God told him not to cut his hair.  His name was Samson and he lived a very long time ago.  God said that if Samson never cut his hair then God would make him really really strong.   So Samson grew his hair and nev...

 Watch the story  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDmjO7X8ELI Using the puppets act out the story again asking  the children if they can remember who is who and what happened Talkabout friendship.  Why was Ruth a good friend to Naomi. How can we be good friends. Show pictures of famous 'friends'   from stories (eg Anna and Elsa,  Pooh and Piglet, etc) and get the kids to match the right friends together. Talk about how Ruth helped Naomi by getting food for her.  How can we be helpful?  Mention that Ruth worked hard all day to get food because she loved her mother-in-law and wanted to do her very best for her.  Show that because Ruth was kind to Naomi God made sure that Boa was kind to Ruth, Sequencing  colour cut and stick Craft = make a friendship bracelet to give to a friend Play at gathering the wheat into buckets and play with the tractors and animals at being farmers Pocket prayer Bunnies Bye

 Talk : Who is a boy (hands up) Who is a girl?  Who is better, boys or girls? (make a joke of this as they will all say their own gender is best) Well guess what? God made boys AND girls and He says that both are super important.  Boys and girls can do different things but we need each other. We need friends who are boys and girls.  In the Bible God used boys and girls to do amazing things. Today we are going to be hearing about a girl who did something really brave . Lets pray and thank God for making boys and girls. Pray. Lesson:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFTpEdvsK1c&t=111s  watch the story of Rahab Joshua was a soldier who loved God.  God told Joshua to go to a big city called Jericho and take it away from the people who didnt love God so that Joshua and Gods people could live there and teach the people about God.   Joshua asked two of his friends to sneak into the city to see how many soldiers there were.  They had t...

 Talk time :  How strong are you?  Whats the strongest thing you can do? Who can pick me up off the floor? Im stronger than you- I can pick you up. Look!!!  Today we are going to learn about someone in the Bible who was not very strong by himself, but was super-strong with God.  We can be strong with God too.  Lets ask God to make us all strong.  Pray. Lesson.  Read the story of Joshua or watch  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk443nfosw God told Joshua to march round the walls.  How many times? What else did the army have to do? Could the army have knocked down the wall by themselves? ( Show them a real trumpet if possible -  Rory has one he could lend us! )We are going to see if we can knock down a wall by ourselves. (I have a large piece of board painted like bricks. Get a couple of adults to stand behind it so kids cant push it over. Get them to try for a while then go and make trumpets. After they have made them get them to ma...

  Talk time: Who here has brothers? Who has sisters? Who has no brothers or sisters? Do you like your siblings? Whats the best things about them? Any downsides? If we dont have brothers and sisters we can have friends instead.  God says He will always give us people who love us and look out for us. Lets say thank you to God for our brothers and sisters and our friends. (write down the names of all siblings so we can name them all - I think nearly all our kids have at least one) Lesson: Today we are going to learn about someone in the Bible who had LOTS of brothers. Lets have a listen to his story.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnlqKPIZQzI  This is a 3 minute video telling the story up to Joseph being sold. You can stop at the end and talk about how mean the brothers were and how Joseph felt - the video which follows on is another 3mins talking about Joseph in Egypt. It would be good to watch both if possible. If they cant concentrate for 6 mins this is only ...