11- Jesus Cares and Loves All Children

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God, Amen

Lesson No. ( 11 )

Jesus' Love for Children

References

Matthew 19:13-15.

Notes for Servants

«        Jesus loves the little children, He has different opinion about childhood than ours.  He knows that the child is a pure heart, sincere, humble, obedient, that is why he said, "For of such is the Kingdom of heaven."

«        God helps us to be like them, to take their blessings and be careful for not to offend them by any means.

Objectives

General: Jesus loves all of us especially little children.

Specific:

The children will be able to ...

1. Understand that Jesus was born and grew up like any one of them.
2. Feel the love of God through your service.
3. Know that as God loves us, we should love one another.

Bible Verse

"Suffer little children, and forbid them not to come unto me." Matthew 19:14

Teaching Aids

(1) Picture for Jesus with the children.

(2) Felt figures and flannel board.

Introduction

(1) Review last week's lesson.

(2) Remind the children about the church occasions for the coming week.

(3) Ask the children how much they think their parents love them?  How their relatives love them?  Then, ask them if there is anybody loves them more than parents and relatives?

(4) Show them pictures of Jesus with the children and ask them, what do they see and how to walk with Jesus (disciples - people -children)

Story Time

Once upon the time, Jesus was visiting a small town, the little children knew that Jesus coming to visit their town.  They were very happy, they loved so much to see Jesus and talk to him.  They started to prepare every thing for this great guest.

 +  Guess what did they do?

 +  What would you do if Jesus is coming to visit you?

They cleaned the streets, made decorations, they put on their best clothes, put flowers everywhere.  They were waiting but they could not wait to see Jesus and take blessings from Him when He put His hand on top of their heads.

How can we reach Jesus?  They asked themselves and they decided to go in between the people.  When Jesus arrived, all the sick people crowded around Him, they wanted Him to heal them, and they thanked Him and felt happy.  The children gathered together to see Jesus and some climbed trees and some went up on high buildings and some went in between people's legs to see Jesus.

Discussion

1 - Follow up the story by talking about it with the children.

2 - Continue the discussion while they do the activity.

Learning Activities

Colouring picture.