AUGUST MEMORY VERSE
“Shout triumphantly to the Lord, all the earth!” (Psalm 100:1)
Today’s Bible story is about the apostle Paul. Everywhere Paul went, he searched for opportunities
to preach and share the good news. Paul’s news was not always welcome, however. During Paul’s conversion experience, God told Ananias that Paul would have to suffer. And sometimes Paul did. In this week’s Bible story, we read about one of the multiple times Paul was put in prison.
Paul was thrown into prison for healing a woman who was a slave. While healing a woman sounds like a good thing to do, the woman’s owners were not pleased. Once the slave woman was healed, they were no longer able to use the woman as a fortune-teller to make money for them.
The experience of Paul and Silas in prison illustrates Paul’s zealousness in spreading the good news. While Paul and Silas were in prison, they passed their time by singing songs and praising God. There was an earthquake which opened the prison doors and broke their chains. Presented with an opportunity to escape, Paul and Silas stayed instead and told the jailer about Jesus.
It might be tempting to applaud Paul’s efforts and then sit back and assume that the work of spreading the good news is done. However, there are still people today who need to hear this good news—the news that Jesus is alive and that God loves them.
Explain that Paul and Silas were not singing and praising God because they were in jail, but because they believed God was with them in jail. They believed that God was with them in good times and bad times. We believe that God is with us in good and bad times also. It is OK to praise God in the hard times as well as the good.
Paul and Silas could see only a part of what God was doing in their situation. They chose to praise God anyway, with surprising results. We, too, can choose to praise God in our dark moments.
What difficulty do you face? Pray that God will help you sing praise in difficult times.
Watch this week’s Deep Blue Adventure video by clicking HERE.
DEEP BLUE ADVENTURES APP
While I was looking for all the new material to share with you about our new unit, I stumbled across this app. I downloaded it for free, and it has all the videos to go along with the Bible story each week. There is a trivia game, a fun scripture game and another maze game that reinforced the verse of the month. It isn’t anything fancy, but I thought I would share if you were looking for new ways to engage your kids with our weekly Bible stories at home. GET IT HERE
Please join our Chapel Hill Kids Facebook Group for prerecorded and “Godly Play LIVE” Sunday School lessons. We will post favorite songs with actions each week as well as lesson plan demonstrations, and much more!
If your child did not receive a “Flat Jesus” in the mail this week, here is a digital download for you to print at home. We want the kids to remember that, even though we cannot meet together at church right now, that Jesus is always with them! Have your child color, cut out, and laminate his/her “Flat Jesus” then take him with you on your summer trips and outings. Snap a picture of “Flat Jesus” and post on our Chapel Hill Kids Facebook Group to see where CH Kids are taking Him this Summer.
During the month of August, we will continue to post lesson plans and videos on our Chapel Hill Kids Facebook Group. On the last Sunday of the month, we will do a Zoom meeting to show off the memory verse, sing and dance together, and to check in before school starts. Our return date to the church has not been decided at this point.
Topic: August CH Kids Sunday School Zoom Meeting
Time: Aug 30, 2020 10:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 728 4235 0946. |. Passcode: CHKIDS2020