We finished up our talk on Daniel today. The kids helped go back the last 6 weeks and retell parts of Daniel. To start off class today I asked the kids to share with me a story about a time when they needed help. I had a couple examples myself of times when I ran out of gas and had to have the kids school bus pick me up and when I was in high school and we got out early because of an ice storm, a friend of mine and I decided to go out on a back road and slide around on the ice which resulted with my car being at the bottom of a very steep ditch.
For an opening game we played limbo, Anna can practically bend in half!
Starting into the lesson we had a couple of the kids help out with a skit, about trying to get a stain out of a dress and how some times people allow stains, or sin, into their lives and how they try to hide it but the only way to get rid of it is through Jesus.
We had an object lesson this week with a bowl of water and as the kids listed off some sins we dripped in food coloring which turned the water all blue. Sin can dirty our lives, the only way to clean it back up is to ask for Jesus' forgiveness, by pouring in some bleach, all our sins disappeared.
We talked about Daniel chapter 9 where Daniel prayed for the people of Jerusalem, who had sinned and how he pleaded with God to bring about the promised return of his people to their land.
We ended our day with a parachute game, they even cheered enough at the end that they got Pastor Tanya under the parachute to be Daniel while her husband Chris was the lion trying to capture her. Were all the cheers worth the bruised knees? Of course!
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