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Philemon 1:11

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: An item from a Scout uniform. Lesson: Children can be helpful. Can you see the Scouts who are here at church today? I’m going to ask them to stand so we can see them. What is one way you can tell if a youngster is a Scout? They have on special clothes. Those clothes Scouts wear are called uniforms. Today is Scout Sunday and that’s why the Scouts are wearing their uniforms. Would you bo...

2. A Song for Easter

Matthew 28:1-10

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: An Easter lily, a tape recorder, and on tape the song, "This Is the Happiest Day of Spring," from "Songs of Early Childhood at Church and Home," Westminster Press, p. 71. (Another appropriate song could be substituted.) Lesson: Easter is a happy, special day for Christians. Today is Easter. Easter is a special day for Christians. For Easter we have a special flower. Do you know what this...

3. A Valentine For You

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A valentine for each child made from red construction paper cut into hearts, with a slightly smaller white paper heart on top of the red one. The white heart has written on it "God loves you." Lesson: We give valentines to show people that we like them. Today is the first Sunday of February. We have a very special day coming soon in February and you may already be thinking about what to ...

4. At All Times

Proverbs 17:17

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A Bible. Lesson: Friends love each other no matter what happens. Here in the Bible, it says that "a friend loves at all times." What is a friend? (Let them answer.) A friend is someone to play with. Someone to talk to. Someone to get mad at. Someone to stop being mad at. Have you sometimes said to a friend, "I’m not going to play with you anymore"? If you ever said, "I won’t play with y...

5. Big Light, Little Light

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A lantern flashlight and a little flashlight. Lesson: God made the sun and the stars. In the Bible there’s a story about God. It tells about a time many millions of years ago when God made everything. When he started making everything, there was only darkness. What is darkness? It is a time when the light is all gone or when night comes or when we can’t see anything. Since everything was...

6. Candy Bars

Hebrews 13:16

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A woman’s purse, a pen, paper, a comb, a brush, keys, a billfold, a five-dollar bill, and a Bible. Lesson: Even though sharing may be difficult at times, it’s important to do it. This is a woman’s purse. Do any of you girls have purses? What do women keep in their purses? Now I’ll show you what things are in this purse. Here’s a pen, some paper, a comb, a brush, keys, a billfold, and mon...

7. Cheerful, Not Grumbling

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: Christmas wrapping paper; a Bible. Lesson: Doing housekeeping jobs cheerfully is a Christmas gift children can give. Maybe you think the only kind of Christmas presents to give your mom or dad are things that are wrapped up in pretty Christmas wrapping paper, like this. I’m thinking of some presents you can give that you don’t wrap. Can you guess what I’m thinking of? Helping with housek...

8. Differences

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: 3-inch by 5-inch cards and pencils in a shallow box. Lesson: God planned for us to be different from one another. Today I want you to take a card and a pencil as they are passed around. When everyone has a card and a pencil, I’ll tell you what to do with them. I want you to draw a picture of anything on your card. You can draw a boat, a fish, a flower, a circle, a square, or whatever el...

9. Everyone Does It!

Psalm 27:14

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A clock. Lesson: We need to learn to wait with patience. You’ve been waiting to come up here for your time to talk with me, haven’t you? Lots of times we need to wait. I have a clock here in my hand. When we have to wait the minutes seem to go by slowly, don’t they! Maybe sometimes we’ve had to wait to eat even though we were very hungry. We’ve had to wait because the food wasn’t cooked...

10. Eyes and Umbrellas

Colossians 3:12-14

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: An umbrella. Lesson: When we are accidentally hurt by others, we can forgive them and remain their friend. What do people sometimes use to keep dry when they go out in the rain? I was thinking of an umbrella. I brought one with me today. Let’s pretend that it’s raining in here, so I need to put up my umbrella. It’s important to be careful when I put up my umbrella. Do you see these litt...

11. Feeling Good

Philippians 4:2-9

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Theme: Filling our minds with things that are good can help us forget those things that are not so good. Props: A sheet of paper on a clipboard and a felt-tip marking pen. I have a piece of paper and a marking pen that I’m going to use while we talk today. We’re going to think about some good things and some not-so-good things. In the Bible it says, "... fill your minds with those things that ar...

12. Fifty Dollars

Matthew 25:14-30

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: Fifty one-dollar bills, a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter, a child’s sweater, an offering envelope, an offering plate. Lesson: How we spend our money is important. I have $50 here in my hand. If I gave you this $50 and told you I wanted you to do something good with it, what would you do? (Let them offer answers.) One good thing to do is buy food. You could buy peanut butter and b...

13. Fighting and Loving

Romans 13:8-14

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A valentine. Lesson: It’s important to love brothers, sisters, and best friends. Today [this week] is Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day we give valentine cards, such as this one, to tell our friends and family that we love them. Is it sometimes hard for you to love your brother or sister or your best friend? Do you ever fight with your brother or sister or your best friend? Do you li...

14. Full Stomach, Empty Stomach

Acts 2:42-47

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A tray, a knife, a fork, a spoon, an empty plate, an empty bowl, a napkin, a piece of bread on a plate, a bowl of watery soup with a few pieces of vegetables in it, One Great Hour of Sharing coin boxes, a large box decorated with brochures telling about the One Great Hour of Sharing. Lesson: We can give money to help hungry children have food. Here’s a tray on which I’ve put a knife, a f...

15. God’s Plan for Leaves

Ezekiel 17:1-24

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: Leaves. Lesson: God’s plan for leaves shows us he cares about us. What’s the color you see the most as you look around this park? Green is the color I was thinking about, especially the green leaves on the trees. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a leaf on a tree? Well, let’s think about it for a minute. First, of all, you’d be up in the air a long way, like being ...

16. Gretchen Felt Sad

Luke 18:15-17

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: None Lesson: Children feel sad sometimes. Once a minister knew a five-year-old girl named Gretchen. They had been good friends ever since Gretchen was a baby. One day the minister needed to talk to Gretchen’s mother, so he went to Gretchen’s house and rang the doorbell. Gretchen’s mother came to the door and invited the minister into the house. He saw Gretchen standing in the living roo...

17. Growing Like Jesus

Luke 2:41-52

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A Christmas card picture of Jesus as a baby and a picture of Jesus as a man. Lesson: Jesus grew, just as children do today. Have you started to attend school yet? Do you have to wait until next year to go to school? When you go to school, you may find that your teacher will want you to do something that you’ve never done before. Would you please tell me one thing that you’ve done at sch...

18. Hands On

Luke 18:15-17

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: None Lesson: Jesus loved children and wanted them to be near him. Why do we think about Jesus at Christmastime? Because that’s when he was born. Did he grow up to be a man? When he was a man, did he love children? One time Jesus’ friends told some mothers to take their children away so they wouldn’t bother Jesus. Did Jesus tell the children to go away? Jesus told the children to come ...

19. Happy Birthday, Dear Church

Acts 2:1-13

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A radish, an apple, a red rose, a picture of a fire engine, and the red cloth on the communion table. Lesson: Pentecost is the birthday of the church. This is a radish I grew in my garden. What color is it? Red. Here is an apple I bought at the store. What color is it? Red. This is a rose I grew in my yard. What color is it? Red. Here’s a picture of a fire engine. What color is it? Red. ...

20. He Came Back

Luke 24:36-49

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: Tissues Lesson: Jesus’ friends were happy when he came back from the dead. Does your mom or your dad ever go away, out of town, for two or three days? I have some friends who go away for a couple of days sometimes. Maybe you have some friends who go away for a while and then you can’t play with them, as you usually do. At those times you may feel a little sad because they’re gone. When ...

21. How Tall Are You?

Ephesians 4:1-16

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A piece of cardboard about six feet tall, a felt-tip marker, and a ruler. Lesson: Children grow at different rates, but no matter what their size, God loves them. We all grow differently, when we’re children. Some grow faster than others. That doesn’t mean that fast growers are better or that slow growers are better. It just means that children grow differently. To show you that childre...

22. I Love You

Proverbs 31:10-31, Psalm 139:1-24, Ephesians 6:1-4

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: None or have a small gift each child can take back to their mom. Mother’s Day is a time to say, "I love you." What special day is today? Yes, it’s Mother’s Day. We started having a special day for mothers many years ago. Even when I was a boy your age, which was a long time ago, we celebrated Mother’s Day. On that day, people would pin a flower, called a carnation, on their suit coats o...

23. In Everything We Do

Romans 5:1-11

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: Pictures from newspapers of people having fun and of people in accidents or fires. I have some pictures that I cut out of the newspaper. Here’s a picture of a girl teaching her dog to climb up the steps of a slide at a park. Here’s the dog going down the slide. Do you think God cares about that girl playing with her dog? This is a picture of a car accident. A young woman is in the car ho...

24. It Felt Good

Matthew 21:12-17

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: None Expressing anger in non-destructive ways can help us feel better. One day a mom and a dad were planning to take their four children to the zoo to see the monkeys and the elephants. When the day came to go to the zoo, it was raining hard, so the mom and dad told the children, "We can’t go to the zoo today, as we were planning to, because of the rain." What do you think the children ...

25. Jesus and Zacchaeus

Luke 19:1-10

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A Bible. Lesson: Jesus wants to hear whatever we want to tell him. Do you know anyone named John? Do you know anyone named Jean? Do you know anyone named Zacchaeus? Zacchaeus is the name of a man in the Bible. This book I’m holding is the Bible. In the Bible we find out that Zacchaeus wanted to see Jesus, but he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to because a lot of other people wanted to s...

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