 Shalom. Peace and Lord. Good morning everyone. Welcome to class. We'll begin. Can one of you please lead us in prayer please? Anyone can lead us in prayer? Can I ask Paul to lead us in prayer please? Let us pray. Father Almighty God, we thank you this morning. We thank you for yet another day. You have made us to see light today. As we come to class, Lord, call upon your Holy Spirit to come and guide us, to come and move with us to give us understanding of everything that we're going to learn and we commit everything that we're going to learn, that when we learn them, we practice them and we'll bear fruits in the life of especially the young children. We pray and declare all this in Jesus' question and we'll pray it. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much Paul. So last class, we were basically looking at the Howard Godness theory of multiple intelligences. We looked at seven multiple intelligences. Though there are eight, we didn't focus on the eight one too much and then we looked at how we can incorporate this multiple intelligences when we are teaching children in class. So we basically took up two narratives from the Bible. One was David and Goliath and the other was Zacchaeus. And we looked at how we can incorporate these multiple intelligences when we were narrating or when we were going to narrate David and Goliath or Zacchaeus' story. So we looked at we looked at linguistic intelligence. We also looked at logical and mathematical intelligence, how we can incorporate that in David and Goliath and Zacchaeus' story. We also looked at musical intelligence. Did we do musical intelligence? I don't think we did musical intelligence. We did. Okay. So now we move on to spatial or spatial intelligence. So how can we incorporate spatial or spatial intelligence when narrating David and Goliath or Zacchaeus' story? So basically what spatial intelligence is all about is on the screen, the PowerPoint presentation. So you can look at it and think and you can suggest how we can cater to this kind of intelligence. Any thoughts? Yeah, maybe I'll start. I think I already said this example somewhere, like the in-acting part of David and Goliath. We can also use some props for it, like have a team like David and have a team for Goliath and I think that will do a lot of things. And now recently I saw like 3D story books where we can create, like it's a book and when we open things just pop up and which was nice for the teaching and I think I mean I'm planning to use it in someday in my teaching and I think even that we can do it was it was really nice like to make big trees, big David, big Goliath and when you open the book it all like they're standing and the scenes keep shifting. Some of the things we can use it for spatial intelligence. Nice, thank you, Jacinta. Anyone else? Lubega were you seeing something? We can't hear you. Anyone else? So we can use creative methods to educate the children to enact or to make them understand the real story. I'm assuming like a puppet show or kind of a picture board kind of initiative to narrate the story, make them more and make the event more realistic and to make them understand the stories, the Bible stories better so that it stays with their mind. Yes, thank you, Lyndon. You can use visual aids like pictures, posters, you can use flannel board with flannel pictures depicting the various scenes of these two narratives and also like Jeffina said you can get the children to enact and you can use simple costumes and props which will be very exciting and then they can also you know so linguistic learners will enjoy this because they'll you know have to say some dialogues then there'll be broadly kind of intelligence will also enjoy it, interpersonal will also enjoy it because they're working along with others, the musical intelligence will also enjoy it because they can make some sound in the background and how David comes or the war cry or the war noise that happens in the war blowing of the trumpet and all of that so that could be you know enacting the whole scene can be really nice which will allow children to basically you know physically embody the characters and their actions okay. So let's move on to the next one, bodily kinesthetic intelligence so how can we incorporate this in these two narratives for the bodily kinesthetic intelligence and Jeffina next slide please okay how do we incorporate the bodily kinesthetic intelligence any thoughts so it's on your screen what about this intelligence and how we can help these kind of people who have this intelligence so what can we do for this narrative for these two narratives can we say the body sign language can sign language be yes sign language is good like you're saying like the dance and dance in the church you can use a sign language to pass across the them a message okay yes but basically since we don't have deaf and dumb children because yes special children they need special skills for teaching and learning but yeah you can incorporate bodily gestures and movements while narrating the story and also you can encourage children to you know act out and do certain actions and mimic the character movements okay so they can be like Goliath who comes and stands and David you know with the sling and the small boy but very confident so they can act out all of those gestures and those movements yes anything else thank you success anything else for bodily kinesthetic intelligence I think we can also do a dance a dance kind of thing for the slingshot and all this there are various songs so many songs these days like negative channel where you find David and Goliath can have some music some dance and just help them to get the listeners okay yes you can those who are you know would love to do all the choreography and actions and all you can get them to yes anything else you can also organize games where children can you know re-enact you know David and David slingshot throw or a zack yes climbing up the tree you know or you can even have arts and craft I remember when you know I think it is way in in the 90s when I was teaching in in Children's Church there's a very beautiful craft that was for I was teaching the kindergarten children I remember and you had to just actually punch out this whole craft that was given in each book each child has a craft book and you just had to punch it out on the sides and you'll have the craft ready and you'll just have to you know tie a thread behind zack yes and you know you just have to you know connect that to the tree the picture of the tree on the craft poster and you know you can you say you know zack is went up this tree and you can pull this string from behind and you know zack is comes right up the tree and then when Jesus comes there so you have Jesus you know walk his picture there you can you can put Jesus's picture there and Jesus looking up and say zack yes come down and then you put the string down from the back again and then you know zackie just comes down the tree so there's a very very interesting very creative craft so you can use all of these you can you find so many available on the internet and this can be very very exciting for children you know I have not forgotten it it's almost you know almost 20 25 years since I used it but yeah very very interesting so you can use a craft which is the bodily kinesthetic intelligence will be very excited you can also you know get them to play a game based on this one on the narratives which is basically incorporating a physical movements okay we'll move on to the next one which is the interpersonal intelligence so what do you think we can do or incorporate in our lesson to cater to the interpersonal intelligence any thoughts ideas so on the screen so you can read up what about this interpersonal intelligence and you can uh think about how we can incorporate this in your narrative or in your lesson plan I think I can get some kids to to act out roles for instance I can not not necessarily looking at this test but I can get out one who is not who is not gifted in height and I make him to pray like exactly so I take them outside and he climbs the tree when he has grasped out what it just did say and the same would apply to David and Goryus I can get out the one who I can refer to as a shorty doll who is somehow young and elongated to act as Goryus and then play out the uh an act in a fun we're not really with the stones but we think that cannot hurt each other so that I can we can try to mimic how to the real scene that happened when others are there they be sold somewhere the camp of the Egyptian this side and the camp of the those Palestinians the other side I think in so doing they can all remember what really happened but I make sure that we keep the real words in the story in the play so that they can really grasp the story thank you ma'am thank you Loubega yes you can assign roles to different children and get them to narrate so instead of you narrating the whole story you can get the children to be part of it maybe you can tell them uh the previous week or you can call them up and tell them you know and just what's up the the lines they have to say or you can tell them the the previous Sunday you can just give them small cheats of people what you know they have to speak and they'll be quite excited you can involve even the linguistic intelligence you can involve the um a special intelligence you can involve the bodily kinesthetic intelligence as well and um so you know uh just assigning different roles to narrate different parts of the story and acting out specific characters yes what else we can do what do you think we can we we can do for older preteens and teens who don't really like enacting and all of those things what best can we do to cater to them with this kind of intelligence i'm just thinking like uh we can have some quiz uh like a competition thing or something but but that too in a creative way i think we can do it more like not like examples or something but a little more exciting with some crafts and with some something more exciting i think last time uh once i went with the board gave to my class like the and every answer has makes them to move ahead in the game like seven steps or five steps and they were so excited like who's going first and they were listening to all their details so i think that's also one of the things even the silent ones like through the interpersonal like they were with uh active uh in those things the in the same track yes yes thank you uh jeffina anyone else yeah board games will be very nice for preteens and teens because they like to you know be uh competitive games chess and you know uh you know games that will get them to think uh you know they uh they would like that what else can we do for preteens and teens it's already there on the screen so you can the answer is already there you can have debates and discussions just throw questions at them how do you think david felt when facing goliath you know um why did he use the name of god um you know you know how you can talk about the arrogance of um of goliath you know uh because many preteens and teens as they're growing up to be very independent and try to be confident you know they're being very arrogant so you can also talk about that and you know connect it with their own lives um how he was so over confident um he was so independent he tried to do everything by himself he thought he can do it he can fight the war he doesn't even need a soldiers so you can talk about various um and connect various issues uh to their felt need and you can get them to discuss and when they discuss and talk about it it will you know uh it'll connect to their own lives and they can learn so much even about zakias you know how zakias um uh you know how sin separates us from god sin separates us from people the wrong choices that we make so preteens and teens are making a lot of choices so how choices affects their lifestyle affects their relationships and how god is interested uh you know not in what we do or who we become whether we're a tax collector we have a lot of money but he's interested in our uh you know uh the very core of our heart how we're living our lives so all these can be good fact you know points that we can engage them in thinking discussing and talking it out okay the last one is intrapersonal intelligence so how can we cater to this kind of intelligence when we are narrating these two narratives or using these two narratives in our lesson plan can we have some answers please for intrapersonal intelligence i think i'm gonna say what's on the screen as well but just the journal thing i think uh this generation actually loves journals like uh they are they're very tired of typing on the laptop now they are actually moving back to writing and i think uh we can make them write journals like if you are david and on the day you had a battle with gullite what you'll be writing on your journal at night and i think that would help them to react a lot like i i'm i'm just imagining myself if i fought with gullite that day i'd be like god thank you so much for all the strength that you gave there's power on you and i'm very happy today finally it's real as one and all this i would have wrote so i think i think that's a very creative way because uh like in journals now they use the tapes the stickers and uh some kind of arts in between some kind of quotes in between they we can make them write the memory verse in a journal and all this i i think that would be really exciting this is just a thought that came in between us we are and i'm thinking of doing it on this yeah thank you jeffina yes anyone else i would i would also tell them to like to use imaginative composition what are the reasons for david what do they think were the reasons for david winning the battle and what are the reasons against god yath losing the battle and the same would happen would apply to zakia's story and i would ask them what prompted zekias behave to behave in that way and what would they have done if they were in his shoes and so doing i'm pulling up their imaginative skills and also making them mimic the bible stories thank you mom thank you lupega yes so i think a lot of reflection that can be done with the intrapers intelligence also with others you'll get them to to introspect connect those the narratives to their own lives their felt needs what they're going through their challenges you know like for example are you facing any giant or goliath in your life you know how are you going to overcome that giant or goliath uh you know um are you like the uh the Israelites who are afraid timid anxious who did not know their god are you like goliath you know bold and strong who knows and has confidence in your god and trust him put your faith in him you know about zakias um are you living um a life that you know uh you're doing things that are wrong and you think it's okay because everybody is doing it in school everybody's copying everybody's using uh bad words everybody is cursing everybody is fighting um backbiting gossiping and are you like um zaki saying it's okay you know because everyone does it it's it's fine um you know um if it's hurting others i can't help it as far as it's benefiting me you know um you know i can be copying but it's okay if uh you know if other people are going to get upset about it but i'm going to get more grades so all of these self-reflective questions can be very very uh good uh to think about and to you know phrase those and frame those questions and ask them to think about it and write and i think that will help them in a long way especially for uh you know those who are in grade six and above okay so great job everyone thank you for all your inputs so by incorporating all of these activities the teacher can basically engage children with different intelligences just making your storytelling experience or your lesson plan or your lesson that you're teaching more interactive and inclusive basically including every child with their various learning styles and also intelligences it also allows children to connect with the bible narratives connect with god um to make it more personal uh to engage uh with um with what you're saying um uh to understand uh to put themselves in that place and to see how they can you know how it uh they can uh uh be blessed through that story or the narrative or the lesson that you're teaching and also it encourages active participation and understanding okay so that is all about uh Howard Gardner's um a theory of multiple intelligences anyone has any questions any queries anything you'd like to say any doubts okay i take the silence for no so we'll move on uh we look at the divine call and the role of a teacher okay so uh we'll look at um who a teacher is and we look at the roles and the divine call of a teacher okay so like you all do please turn to the book of lamentations all of you in your bibles can you please turn to the book of lamentations we basically we'll be looking at chapter two and chapter four so if you can open to lamentations chapter two either on your uh mobile or your bible or your laptop because we're going to be looking at a few scripture passages from there okay so the divine role and uh uh the divine call and the role of a teacher is basically to meet a spiritual uh need okay when uh the people of juda and Jerusalem were carried into captivity uh the poor i mean the very poor and those were very very poor and the you know they were and the children were left behind in uh juda and uh Jerusalem and the prophet Jeremiah was also left back behind with them and uh you know all of them were starving because there was no food there was no ways to procure food for themselves and many of the children were dying of starvation okay and there was insufficient food and there was no way to procure it no way to secure it and look at what Jeremiah does he cries out look at what his cry is in lamentations chapter two verses 11 to 12 can somebody read that please it's on the screen as well lamentations chapter two verses 11 and 12 anyone can read that it's on the screen lamentations too much yes go ahead Rosalind 11 and 12 my eyes fail from weeping i am in torment within my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed because children and infants faint in the streets of the city so what is uh thank you Rosalind what is um you know uh Jeremiah doing here he's basically is weeping is pouring out his heart he's broken you know uh he's pleading with the lord uh you know for the for his people he's weeping and he's praying and he's just basically uh you know worried because the children the infants i'm fainting in the streets they're dying on the streets because there is no food and look at what he pleads with the lord's people okay what he tells the the people who are left back in the city of Jerusalem and Judah what he's telling them and look at lamentations chapter two verse 19 go so in one of you read that please lamentations chapter two verse 19 let tears run down like a river by day and night give thyself no rest arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the lord amen thank you linden uh the rest of the you know two lines are cut off from there lift up their hands towards him for the life of the young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street okay so basically he's pleading with the the people here and he's saying you know cry out you know weep moan cry out you know to the lord lift your faces to the lord cry out so that he can have mercy on you you know and have mercy on the life of your young children who are fainting for hunger in the top of every street and then we see that you know Jeremiah is so upset with the people because they're not doing basically not doing anything about the situation that they are in and he accuses them basically of being cruel so let's look at what he says in lamentations chapter four verses three and four lamentations chapter four was three and four i think you can read it from your bible because there's only half worse that this year uh can somebody read from lamentations chapter four verses three and four please even the jackals present their breasts to nurse their young but the daughter of my people is cruel like ostrich in the wilderness the tongue of the infant clings to the roof of its mouth for thirst the young children ask for bread but no one breaks it for them man and thank you subashish so here we see that you know Jeremiah is accusing the people of being cruel and he's saying you know the the children are thirsty but you know the parents are doing nothing about you know catering to their thirst giving them water to drink the children are asking for bread but there is no one to give them okay so the condition of the children in Jerusalem is i can say very typical to the spiritual needs of children in certain parts of our world today because the children in Jerusalem basically were starving for physical food they had no physical food but the children today are starving for spiritual food okay and children know about God they know yes there is a God you know but they don't have a personal relationship with him you know children also have a form of godliness okay they do everything with a ritual so that they don't incur the wrath of God or the curse of God or the punishment from God but they deny his power okay so there is a tremendous need that needs to be met just like Jeremiah is telling the people hey there is a tremendous need but you you know parents are not doing anything about it you know at your children are just fainting they're dying on the streets you know but you're not giving them water to drink and you are not giving them any food to eat so you know there is a tremendous need that can be met you know if God's people you know pray like Jeremiah did and meet the existing need okay yes in Judah and Jerusalem there was a need for physical food but you know there is need today for spiritual food and we have the bread of life okay we have the bread of life but who you know will take it to the perishing millions so there is a great need you know especially in the day and age that we are living today you know children are growing faster than their age they know so much even in the kindergarten class they know so much you know I'm one of my friends who teaches the kindergarten she's she's so shocked that some of the things that children say she said you know the children come and say you are my boyfriend you're my girlfriend I love you and they want you know the boy wants to kiss the girl and all of those things and they are the teachers are so shocked because you know in our day and age we would not even you know think of all of these things till we come to a certain age level but now even in kindergarten they know everything because they're so exposed to movies they're so exposed to media to everything that is happening around them you know and so you know children need spiritual food and we have the bread of life that is the word of God but who will take it to the perishing millions okay so there is a great need out there and you know we need to minister to the young ones and you know at a very early stage I think it's even in kindergarten nowadays we just have to speak so much of the word of God into their lives into their hearts into their minds because satan is taking them so young satan is destroying their minds you know taking their thoughts captive but we need to replace all of those lives with the truth of God's word okay so to give this bread of life to children you know there are two important things one is a messenger and the other is method okay so we need messengers and methods okay now messengers and methods play crucial role in proclaiming the message but you know we know that we are the messengers okay all of you who teach children are the messengers and we also have to employ creative methods that will cater to the children in this day and age and also we can you know even as we the methods and messengers play a crucial role in proclaiming the good news of salvation the good news of the gospel but true effectiveness comes only through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit okay we can do it only through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit so that is why Jeremiah was saying you know telling them hey you know your older people parents you know we cry moan lift your faces up to God and know so that he will hear you he'll have mercy on you so yes we can employ the best methods we can be a great teacher but you know truth effectiveness comes only through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit so the question here we can ask is why are Sunday school teachers so why are children's church teachers in such an important position can you have some answers please why are children's church ministers or children's church teachers or Sunday school ministers or teachers in such an important position i think we we are in such an important position because we are given the task of inculcating skills knowledge attitude and values to the next generation thank you mom thank you lubega yes we are in we are all in an important position because we are here to instill godly values godly standards you know their god given identity at a very young age anything else i think we are laying a foundation uh at a young age uh because i think whatever i heard in my child but i still remember sometimes it affects me whether it's in the head to work positive uh it has that influence even as after i grew up so if we have these godly influences at a young age when they grow up it's really gonna help yes you're building on the foundation you know and the foundation is so important you know um and we know that you know any building any structure people um uh you know look into the specific and details of the foundation a lot of money is also and time is spent on the foundation because if the foundation is not good and solid then you know it will not withstand uh you know any uh pressure or any uh difficulties that will come it's uh weight yes anything else i one time i attended a philosophy school like 20 years ago and they were saying that little kids are like new slates that their brains are so receptive at that age so whatever we write on their minds between one between zero to seven years we'll stick there for a lifetime so i think as teachers teaching those little ones at that very age we must be mindful of what we are writing on to their brains because it might stick for the next 90 if not a hundred years thank you ma'am yes thank you lubega uh yes that's so true you know just being it'll just be imprinted on their hearts and their minds yes and also what you know we teach these young children you know uh profoundly just impacts their minds and also it shapes their thoughts it shapes their emotions their behaviors it influences how children think feel and act so imagine you know uh you're just teaching them you're just imparting to them uh you're just telling them it can just be a story from the bible you know but it's going to leave a lasting impression uh upon how they think feel and act for the rest of their lives and it's also going to continue to shape their thoughts emotions and behaviors okay so as adults you know if you look at your own lives most of your thinking patterns what what you how you think whether it's positive negative where you're very critical you're very analytical you're you know uh you're very uh negative uh or you're very positive uh you know you have confidence or you lack confidence you think that you can't do it it's all based on your upbringing how your parents taught you how your parents what they spoke about you what they said about you how they treated you how they um how they uh your parents uh relationships the way they spoke to each other how they speak to you even the tone of voice um you know even the way we the way we say things the way we act all is you know um actually picked up or received into our senses from our home you know so you can uh I'm saying this and I'm stressing on it because I want you all to know that as children's church ministers I don't call them teachers or volunteers I call them ministers because they're in such an important position they're there like teachers they're teaching the word of god they are like you know like a pastor who's preaching a sermon from the pulpit so I call them I call our children's church ministers teachers who teach in children's church I call them as children's church ministers because I want them to see it's not just a voluntary job but they are ministers they're ministering they're ministering the word of god they're teaching the word of god and the importance of what they are doing and the importance of how they need to prepare because if you're a minister of god and you're going to preach um from the pulpit you won't take it lightly right you're going to spend time uh to prepare your message you see there's a flow to see that and you know you have app illustrations and everything you go well prepared uh so also when you come to teach children you don't um take them for granted you don't take them or they're just children I can I know the story I can just go and tell them about you know how god divided the red sea or you know how god provided mana and quail if that is what your lesson plan is all about but you're going to look at you know hey this is a narrative this is just a story but what truths am I going to bring out that is going to impact their lives it's going to impact how they think feel and act so I want you all to see the importance of ministering to children not that just you can say anything and everything or you know they're just they're not going to give you any feedback on how well you preached or how well you prepared your sermon or they're not going to find out whether you did your homework and you came but you know the importance that hey I'm here having you know whether it's one child or three children but I'm having these children here uh you know the things that I'm going to speak into their lives or teach them is going to really uh you know impact their young minds is going to actually shape them it's going to shape and mold their thoughts their emotions their behaviors the way they think they feel and act and when you think about the bigger picture of what you are going to you know what you're doing or what you know the the position that God has called you into the ministry that God has called you into and also as parents also as as whether you're teaching in the school or you know if you have young ones in your home whether you're an uncle and an aunt or a niece or you have your niece nephews you know the importance of how you behave the importance of what you're saying to them what you're imparting to them is actually going to influence and shape their minds for the rest of their life so you know it's so important that we give thought to the way that we live the things that we say the way that we engage with the husband and wife the children are watching us you know and also as adults in church how we how we dress how we act how we talk how we walk is knows all going to is all impacting our young ones okay so children's church ministers are in such an important position and I want us to see the important position that we are in that goddess places and to take that very very seriously okay now what could cause a teacher to have such an impact on a young person's life what do you think would cause a children's church minister or a teacher to have such an impact on a young person's life or what do you think you need to do as a children's church minister or a teacher to impact a young person's life any thoughts I think prayer is one of the most important thing that we should do and our motives are not about teaching and it's not a job it's not a volunteering as he said when we even look at the ministers in the Bible we should have that heart for them for them to grow in Christ and one of the thing I think the most powerful thing that it's to pray for them is to literally intercede for them for their protection for their guidance and also to be well prepared I think that's one of the thing we seen throughout the classes that sometimes people are very lethargic when it comes to children's states like I'm just gonna say a story and it's gonna keep them engaged but I think it's more it's definitely not think I'm very convinced that it's more than that it's it's it's a ministry where we are dedicated we have given all our efforts all our time all our thinking all our passion and desire and so that they will be brought up because whenever I go and teach I look at some of sometimes I remember my younger self and then I wonder what if I had all this teachings I would have been so blessed I would have got saved very early in my life would have grown so strong in Christ and I mean that kind of heart should be there that whenever we see them they are going to be the next generation bringing up the world of God and it's amazing when when you are Christ at a young age I always I got saved when I was 16 and the very first thought that came was oh I wish I got saved early wish I got saved I would have made better decisions would have would have had a beautiful like satisfied times in the preteens of my life so I think this should be the motive and the prayer and our heart should be in a in a right question so that we can be effective and also to be well prepared really take it as a work that we are doing for God. Thank you Jeffina yes to be well prepared to pray anything else what would cause a teacher or a children's church minister to have such an impact on person's life yes Divya yeah I was just thinking about kids maybe who are in there you know eight seven to seven eight seven and up those kids especially look at our lives right how we react how we respond so I believe our dependence on the Holy Spirit you know even even during those very dear teaching maybe there could be situations where we can get so annoyed or we can get so impatient but how we handle those situations that can make an impact so I have heard someone saying this like it's it's not in a children's church context but like you know work atmosphere right some people don't like remember what work we did but they remember how we made them feel or how we treated them so maybe they are not like even for kids they are not they may not say the words or they may not understand everything that has been taught but I feel to have that lasting impact on them is how we treat them or how we respond to them and sometimes we can get so caught up in teaching them and forget that you know the simple things to that can make an impact so I feel rather than doing a lot of talking maybe in in throughout deeds they see I feel they don't because as I see my children whatever I would say or if I give them a long lecture nothing gets into their head but if they see me doing something for example if I do quiet time they will do quiet time even without me telling them so I see that doing is much important than you know doing a lot of talking yeah very true thank you so much Divya yes that's so important being who you know being Christ like in front of them with the empowering of the Holy Spirit you know just through our actions what we say to them how we react is more important than basically what we teach yes so we'll go for a break and we'll come back and look at four things that would cause a teacher or a children's church minister to have impact on a young person's life thank you everyone