Memory Verse:
“Serve one another.” (Galatians 5:13)
Memory Verse Activity:
Have some bite-sized pieces of food arranged on a plate, enough for each child to have a turn at serving the food to the rest of the class, eg sultanas, cheese cubes, small crackers, dried apricots, apple slices etc. Have the children sit in a circle, and take turns at walking around the inside of the circle offering the food to the others. Before each child has their turn, they repeat the memory verse.
Story:
Jesus told of some workers in a vineyard (explain ‘vineyard’). Early in the morning he sent people out to work in the vineyard, agreeing to be pay them one denarius (explain that this was how much a working man could earn in one day). Four more times through the day, the landowner sent workers out. At the end of the day they were all paid one denarius. The first workers who had worked all through the heat of the day were angry and felt that they should have been paid more than the others. The landowner told them not to be jealous but be thankful for what is theirs. Jesus’ apostles wanted to know how to have more faith.
Jesus said they only need to have faith like a mustard seed. These seeds are tiny but grow into huge trees, as does our faith.
One day Jesus took a bowl of water and washed each of His disciples’ feet. Peter thought Jesus shouldn’t do this – it was a servant’s job. But Jesus was showing them how to humbly love and serve.
Craft:
From the Sonseekers PDF, print page 53 (lesson 108)
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