Exegetical Aim: The best leadership seeks to help people not burden them to point of despair.

Key verses: 4 and 11.

Props: One small bag of dried uncooked noodles—bow tie pasta works best. Hide the bag of candy.

Lesson: What is today? (Halloween) What do we do on Halloween? (response) I happen to have something for you. Reach in and get a prize but you only get one. Allow each child to reach in the bag and pull out a noodle. As they are getting the noodles affirm the “prizes.” That looks good! Wow, another dried noodle. Don’t you like dried pasta? Crunchy! (response) What did everybody get? You don’t look very excited. (…