13 - Healing of ten leper men

References
Luke 17:11-19.

Notes for Servants
- Have you ever trained yourself on finding (discover)the hand of God in all your works? Have you
ever lived the life of Thanksgiving, or do you always complain?
- If you have a sick or sad friend, do you visit him/her and spend sometime with him/her praying and
meditating in the word of God to comfort him?
- Look for those who were absent,sometimes they are not physically sick but they maybe spiritually
weak and they are in need for God's word.

Objectives

General: God's power and his care for us.

Specific:
The children will be able to
A. learn that God has power to heal us, because he created us.
B. pray for healing of themselves as well as others beside going to the doctor for
medications.
C. thank God after they are healed from any illness.

Bible Verse

"Bless the Lord, O my soul and forget not all his benefits."
( Psalms 103:2 )

Teaching Aids
None.

Instruction
(1) Review last week lesson.
(2) Who remembers the verse?
(3) Remind the children about the church occasions for the coming week.
(4)ConcentrateonthatJesus Christ`our God' isthe realphysicianfor our spirits,souls and bodies.
(5) Mention about the sacrament of anointing the sick and show that when the priest pray for the
sick people, if they have faith, they will be healed.

Story Time
One day when Jesus Christ entered into a certain village, he met ten lepers men(Explain the meaning
of leper), and they where not allowed to enter the town. They stood away from Him and lifted up their
voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. Nine of them were Jewish and the tenth was a
Samaritan (stranger). Jesus knew their illness (sickness) and then told them, "Go and show yourselves to
the priests".
Are they going to heal us? What does Jesus mean? Why did he not examine our needs? All these
questions came into their minds immediately, but they obeyed Jesus's words. On their way, after a few
steps, one of them stopped and asked his friend, "are you cleansed?" Another one said, "and you?", third
one said, "and you also?" One of them cried, "I am cleansed." At that time all of them knew that a
wonderful miracle had happened, all of them were cleansed. All of them were running in a hurry to meet
the priests and also their families and friends.
Suddenly, the Samaritan one stopped running and he turned back and glorified Jesus Christ. He
knew that it was Jesus that cleansed him and did this wonderful miracle. When he found him, he bowed
and lifted up his voice and he said, "Thank you God very much, you have cleansed me, I'm a sinner and
I do not deserve this healing. You are God's holy one, youare our Saviour", and all the people heard the
man. Jesus was so happy because this man turned back and gave thanks to God and He asked him,
"where are the rest? Where are the other nine?", the man said, "they went on their way, they were very
happy but they forgot to give thanks to God. Jesus looked at the Samaritan who was still bowing down
before him and he said to him, "go, your faith has saved you."

Discussion
1 - Follow up the story by talking about it with the children.
2 - Continue the discussion while they do the activity.

Learning Activities
Activity Sheet.