Purpose: True life with God is like a great treasure.

Materials: A small chest or fancy box, and a bag of coins or play jewelry.

Lesson: Most boys and girls have imaginary adventures. Perhaps you have imagined that you were an explorer hunting for a lost treasure. How exciting it would be to dig up a container like this and open it and find a bag of money or jewels in it.

Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is like a treasure that has been hidden in a field and was found by a man. When he found it, he covered it up and then went and sold all that he had so that he could buy that field. In that way, …