Pool of Bethesda Craft
Items Needed
- Blue paper plate
- gray card stock or construction paper
- ribbon
- printed scripture
- hole punch
- glue and scissors
Directions
- Punch a hole at the top of the paper plate and thread the ribbon through the hole. Tie the ribbon leaving a loop.
- Cut the gray cardstock into small ovals to make the stones
- Glue the stones onto rim of the paper plate
- Glue the scripture onto the bottom of the “pool”
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“So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.”
Luke 5:11 NIV
Today’s Crafts
Supplies
- Sponge
- Popsicle Stick
- Square Foam – White
- Foam Rectangles with Sticky Backs
Instructions
- Cut slit into sponge
- Press stick into sponge
- Slip white foam square onto stick through pre-cut slits
- Stick foam rectangles onto white foam in strips
Supplies
- XL Paper Clip
- 1 Small Wiggly Eye
- Small Sticky Back Square Foam Pieces
- Toilet Paper Roll
- Construction Paper
- Tape
- Scissors
- Luke 5:11 Printed on White Cardstock
Instructions
- Wrap construction paper strip around toilet paper roll and tape in place
- Cut toilet paper roll into fish shape
- Glue fin to back of fish
- Decorate with square foam pieces
- Glue eye one fish
- Slide paper clip onto the back of fish
- Secure scripture to the fish with paperclip
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Would you like to pick up the craft supplies Heather talks about in the video?
Use the form below and we will put together a craft bag for your kids. The bags can be picked up Monday through Thursday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.
For those who are not attending our in-person children’s church, we are now offering a pick up service for the lesson’s craft.
How it will work:
- Heather Swift, our Children’s Church Director, will set aside the craft materials and instructions for those who were unable to make it to our in-person children’s church.
- Beginning September 8th, you can pick up a bag with the children’s church craft from Sunday, September 6th. Pick up times are Monday through Thursday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
- The following week, you will return the bag while picking up the next craft.
- If you prefer contact-free pickup, please call the office ahead of time and you can drive up to the front door. Michelle will deliver it to your car.
- The craft instructions and materials needed will also be posted on our website, should you prefer to purchase your own supplies.
If you are wanting to participate in this program, we ask that you sign your children up below so we can make sure there are adequate materials to go around.
Luke 4:14-30 NIV
“Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him. He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’ ” “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.” All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.”
Scroll Craft
Supplies:
- Brown Paper (provided) or butcher paper
- cardstock (provided) or paper towel rolls
- Pre-Cut Scripture Words (provided)
- Tape/Glue
- String (provided)
Instructions:
- Roll cardstock and tape each end to secure the roll
- Center the ends of the paper on each roll of cardstock.
- Tape the paper to the cardstock
- Roll two times and tape again.
- Glue the cut out words provided to the inside of the scroll. If you are printing your own, the scripture is Luke 4:18a
- “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted.”
- Roll the scroll a couple of times on each end until the scroll meets in the middle
- Tie with ribbon or provided string
Request and pick up a craft bag for your child.
If you are unable to attend children’s church, we don’t want you to miss out on the fun. Use the form below to request a craft bag. You can pick it up Monday through Friday from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm.
If you are looking to submit your memory verse video, you can do so here.
John 4:46-54, NKJV
So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.”
So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”
Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household. This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.”
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This week’s activity is a word search puzzle which highlights ten elements associated with the miracle Jesus performed when He healed the nobleman’s son.
Matthew 21:12-17 NKJV
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”
And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read,
‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have perfected praise’?”
17 Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.
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