Object: Palm branches, one for each child

Lesson: Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name.

Good morning, boys and girls. Today is a very special day for us. We call it Palm Sunday or the Sunday of the Passion. Later on in our worship service we will hear the story of how Jesus suffered and died on the cross for us. We also remember something else that happened to Jesus not very long before he died on the cross. These palms here will help us tell that story. (Give a palm branch to each child.) Today we are going to pretend that you are the crowds of people who walked along the road wit…