 Good morning and welcome to our class on children's ministry So last class on Monday we looked at You know how to Write a lesson plan, but before that we looked at the important things that we need to keep in mind when we are preparing a curriculum How to choose topics? So I just ran you through topics for a curriculum for Ages five to seven and then we looked at after choosing the topics for the curriculum we looked at how to begin writing a lesson plan and Another thing to keep in mind while you know Preparing the curriculum is when you choose the topics right out the learning objectives And once you have the learning objectives, then you know You can choose the specific Narratives that would fit in well for that learning objective that can communicate that Specific topic that you want to teach and once you have all of that in place then we looked at the importance of Writing out a lesson plan how it's important for us to prepare well why it is important for us to prepare well Looking at how to write a lesson plan We looked at the main truth You know that we need to keep in mind that has to run through the the lesson the main truth or the central point I gave you a Couple of examples and then we looked at the next thing in the when writing a lesson plan is recap How you can write a recap you can either do a recap with a quick quiz or a puzzle Or you know fill in the blanks or whatever just for to reiterate what was taught and Also ask the kids the memory verse in a very creative way You can do that and also how they have applied what they have learnt and then we came to The introduction which is the next point in the lesson Plan next section in the lesson plan and we talked about how important is this to begin our lesson? Well, if you begin our lesson well, you know half the work is done But it's also important for us when we begin with a good lesson to keep You know that interest of the children throughout the lesson how to capture their interest how to keep their Excitement high even as you have just finished your introduction which is very good But keep the interest level the curiosity level the attention level high By doing various things in the less of the lesson and how you're going to communicate The truth and we said that in the introduction. It's important to establish a point of contact to connect Where you know connect with what children are going through their Experiencing just arouse their curiosity something that they can identify with So that you know They're able to listen to you. They're interested. They would want to learn They would want to know and the last thing we said is you know Keep the lesson introduction short and brief because you have an entire lesson to teach and also don't give away You know details like what you are going to teach them which story you're going to tell them All of those things because they will be totally Disinterested if you're telling them we're talking about sin salvation repentance obedience Who's nobody wants to hear that children are not excited? And don't tell them the story because if they know the story then they won't listen to you. So it's important that we Keep the introduction short sweet, but you know really juicy spicy Exciting so that they are connected and they are listening to us Before we move on to the next point so the next sections in the lesson plan We'll just pause for a word of prayer. So can one of you please lead us in prayer. See that. Can you lead us in practice? Thank you He meant Thank You Siddharth Did the other students here his plan, okay, I because somebody says I amen, okay Okay, so we're going to look at the next section in the lesson plan That is you can after the introduction you can do an attention getter now We can begin the lesson or you can even use the attention getter as an introduction to your whole lesson basically The attention getter the word itself is to get children's attention It's to build up their interest. It's a starting point You know what to what you want to teach them and how you want to introduce the Topic so all of these can be included in the attention getter Basically, it is to get the attention of children build their interest You know, it's a starting point to what you are going to teach them or how you're going to introduce the Topic so you could use various objects as an in an attention getter You can also use games. You can use a skit You can use a discussion activity You can use various things as an attention getter Okay, so I'm just going to share a few attention getters that will just Get you to think I'm sure you most of you are creative and you can think more those of you are working with children now For example, I have this Tray here with me. So on this tray, you know, I have placed a newspaper Okay, and you can see this is my mobile phone Okay, and this is an Envelope, okay, it's an envelope here. Okay, so I place these three on this tray and This is my attention getter for my class just for example. So you can say you can show this to the children. So children learn by seeing Okay, some children also learn by Hatching so some children are they want to do their tactile learners That means they want to learn by doing so you can give the child who loves to Learn by doing or you know the interpersonal Learners you can give them then they can take it and show it around to all the children And those who learn by touch they will touch the mobile or they will take it or those who learn by smell They can smell the paper of this more newspaper, you know, so whatever, okay? So you you you tell them you showed this to the kids and you can ask them, okay, what do you think? You know the items on this tray or if you keep it on the table, what do they have in common? What do these three have in common? Any idea anyone newspaper phone and envelope a Letter and envelope. What is it in common? Writing okay, okay to a paper, but what is a mobile phone? Okay, they carry news Reading material, okay So basically when you are writing reading What is what what is happening? Communication right Okay, so all you can see all these things that are displayed on the table or on this in this tray I used to communicate with each other, okay? Newspaper communicates to us news from around the world. I use the mobile phone to communicate with the people and I use this letter in this envelope Envelope to communicate my there's my thoughts to whoever I am writing, okay, so you can use objects as an attention getter another attention getter you can use is like a You know a discussion an activity so you could you know pair the children in twos You can tell them to sit in twos and you can say hey just chat with your partner whoever is your partner, okay? Just share Something about yourself Also, each of you share with each other what you know about something about yourself something You don't know about yourself or something exciting that happened during the week But just tell them about what you like what you don't like so just give them you know two two minutes So one child take two minutes and they say okay now the next partner will share okay, so once you Do this activity You can ask them, you know, did you learn something about the other person? They say yes, how did what how did you learn? You know because that person shared it to me So what did you learn about so you can ask Asha? What did you learn about kong so says okay? I learned this about kong which I never knew before how did you know Asha is because you know kong told me this Okay, then I ask kong and kong says okay. This is what I learned about Asha So, you know, how did you know about Asha because she shared it with me? So how did you both get to know each other is because we both shared About ourselves with each other and I said, okay, did you only share what else did you do? What else did they do? They communicate? Yes, communicate it. What did you say? Okay, communicate it to each other. What happened in the communication where you're just talking We're just sharing where you're just interacting. What were you doing? We're doing all the both of you talking at the same time No, you were talking when one was talking. How did you get to know you were? listening Okay, so how did communication happen? You spoke and you also Listen, how did you know about Asha kong because I listened to her Asha, how did you know about kong because I stopped talking and I had to listen to kong So we're both of you doing the talking at the same time No, so, you know to these two Examples one that I showed you about this objects the newspaper son just this whole lesson the topic is prayer Okay, so God uses various means to communicate to us Okay, so we can get communication to the newspaper To mobile phone to letters so God uses various ways to communicate so you can ask the kids How does God communicate to us and say to the pastor the teacher how else To his word the Bible and true prayer. Okay, so yes Like Prabhakar says there's two way of communication now if you're using this this example of discussion Then you can say hey this, you know, how did communication happen? Did you do all the talking? No, you also had to listen. Okay, so he says, you know You can ask them when what do we call talking and listening to God as There yes, thank you see that so talking and listening to God is prayer, but oftentimes what do we do in prayer? We only talk but we don't listen but in this activity if you had to do all the listening would you have known the other person? No, what do you have to do? You have to talk you have to keep quiet and you have to listen So sometimes we don't know anything God is not telling us or giving us an answer or helping us is because we are not Willing to listen so then you say prayer is not just talking talking talking, but it's also listening. Okay another Activity that you can do for prayer, you know, is you can get two children to act So here you can have children will learn by doing tactile learners or interpersonal learners who love talking moving around You can get them both to come up in front place two chairs, you know The backs facing each other so one child is facing this side of the wall that other child is facing that other side of the wall and Just give them, you know, they're there What they have to speak in a piece of paper Okay, or before class starts you can give them the sheets of paper and you can say I want you to act You be willing you just have to read one sentence and you have to wait for the other child to read Also, the other child reads the sentence you read the second sentence and so on and so forth, okay So you have them To seat it both facing you know The opposite side of the wall and so one child says just say Tom. Okay, Tom says dear god Thank you for my mom dad grandma grandpa Auntie and uncle. Okay, so that is Tom's prayer and Annie says dear god, I love you. Please help me with my exams. Please give me good marks Tom Thank you for my bed. Thank you for my toys. Thank you for my cycle Now, this is basically for small children. If you have older children, you have to put in age-related things, okay? And Annie says please help me to play good Good badminton or run the race tomorrow. Well, please help me to run or you know run like Who's the famous runner? Hussein Bolt Hussein Bolt Tomorrow and please help me to win the race. Okay, and Tom says thank you God for my food Thank you Even though I'm very tired of rice and dial or very tired of you know Whatever is your staple diet in your own country or food? I would rather have pizza or burger But thank you for my books Thank you for my friends and then Annie says God. Thank you for the new jacket And the new shoes that I got today. Thank you very much Okay, and then you can have the kids go back and sit in their place and You know, you can say, okay, what kind of prayers did these Children pray what kind of prayer did Tom and Annie pray? What kind of prayer did they pray? Yes Okay Okay, so the prayer they prayed was Asha says is thank you prayer. Help me prayer complaining prayer. Okay Help me prayer as well. Okay. Yes prayer of asking and receiving So then you can ask these children. Have you prayed these kind of prayers? Okay, and they'll say yes because most often children pray like this So you can ask them, you know, you think this is a pattern of prayer that Jesus wants us to Pray, how do you think Jesus wants us to pray? Now your whole lesson is the Lord's prayer Okay So you're keeping that in the back of your mind and so you're telling them you're introducing it to them To this attention get us. So what do you think? How do you think Jesus wants us to praise is the way? He wants us to pray did he give us a pattern of praying a way of praying so they'll think about and say yes, you know, actually Jesus did give us a pattern of prayer and Let me show you and then you can you know, take them to the bike Okay. Now Another thing you can do is you can have, you know Age couple of books that are age related and among that book you can have a Bible as well So you can have these books just give it to the children. So those children will love by touch seeing Feeling sensing, you know Discussing They will just look at the books and then you can you can ask them some can be a one can be a science textbook Other can be a math textbook an English textbook. You can have a magazine You can have a Bible as well. Okay, and then you can ask them to just flip through the pages and then you can ask them You know, are these books different from each other? They say yes. How is it different? One is a science textbook math, you know, so on And one is a Bible. So you can ask them. How is the Bible different from other books? here And why do you think the Bible is different? Okay, and then you can begin talking about the Bible is God's word And that's the words in the Bible is actually called scripture. So words of God. It's actually God's message to Man, okay It's got communicating himself to man and it's different from other books So you're basically giving them this whole idea this knowledge that Bible is different And how is it different? It is unique and special because it is God speaking to man is God's words to man So just a simple way a method, but something that we catch there Attention, or you can just have a quiz for them as an attention getter. How many books are there in the Bible? 66 books, okay The the Bible is divided into two parts Old Testament and New Testament, how many books in the Old Testament? 39 And you all of us back to Sunday school, please how many how many books in the New Testament? Nobody from the online students are responding to the quiz. How many books in the New Testament? 27 Sorry, Prabhakar 27 faster. Yeah, thank you. Okay. How many different people wrote the books in the Bible? Approx 40. 40. You're right. Thank you, Savani Thank you, Kennedy. How many years was the Bible written? 1500 years close Actually over 1,600 years. Okay, so good So you can either you can start with then, you know attention getter like this like a quiz or You could even play games with them, you know Like, you know, if you're teaching them about blind man Barthimus, you can have the blind man buff So you can have that cloth tight around that child's Eyes and get the child to catch the others be very exciting for them or you know put a Shawl or a cloth around their eyes and place objects and they should not step on the objects But you know So you can play that and then you can ask them how easy difficult it was and how many of you like to play blind man's buff For two hours, some children are very naughty and excited. They'll put up their hand How many of you like to play blind man's buff for half a day with your hand with your eyes blinded? See that is putting up his hand, you know, some of them will put up their hand How many of you like to play the whole day there was some children would be very excited They will still put up their hand for a week. We'll have some of them for a month But you know, some of them would not put up their hand So why wouldn't you have something tied around your eyes for a whole month or a half a day or a few hours? Why because you can't see you trip your fall you want to enjoy And move around so you can say, you know There was a man who could not see who was playing blind man's buff For so many years of his life. Actually, he did not have a clock tied around his eyes, but he was actually Blind, but did he remain blind? Okay, let us let me tell you this story. Okay, so then you see it's a very interesting way of catching that attention and Playing the game as well and they'll be interested in listening. Okay, or you can use object lessons to actually communicate You know as an introduction I'll just Present that Have to open it Just let me give me a second. Please. I'll just send the Okay, I don't able to see the Presentation, okay Okay, so what is an object lesson? I've been talking a lot about object lesson and it's time for Me to help you understand an object lesson is basically use objects to illustrate a concept a point a truth a Learning or a story by combining it with an object a trick that will be a visual aid To help children remember the lesson so basically an object lesson is used to illustrate a concept a very difficult Concept which children might not be able to understand or relate to when you just tell them But just showing through that object will help So you're illustrating a concept a main truth the central through the point a truth from God's word a Learning from the story You use an object or a trick that will be like a visual aid to help children to remember the lesson It can be an object lesson can be used to introduce a story introduce a truth introduce a topic a topic or Retreat or reinforce your lesson for the day anything but in an object lesson should attract The attention of the children it just gets the attention of the children It focuses the interest of the children on the main truth that you are Teaching them and also these objects will in the future, you know serve as a reminder of something that they have Learned okay, we whenever we see people We see places we see things it always reminds us of what has happened in the past Okay Hey, this person did this to me 10 years back 15 years back when you look at you know some of them Or when you go back to the same place you can be reminded of what happened in that place or in a restaurant or In a mall something happened you're reminded of that incident some of them Don't go back to those places because they don't want to be reminded. So people places things objects always remind us So, you know, God can use a holy spirit can use that object even when they you know Grown up and become adults and they're struggling to in life God can just use that object to bring back the lesson that you have thought or truth that you have thought and God can speak In and through that okay, and that is why Jesus also used a lot of Object lessons right look at the birds of the air the lilies of the field the grass and the field You know, if you speak to this mountain, you know the sparrows The farmer the seed and all of those things he used it so that even when he was not there You know when they looked at all of these objects It would Retreat or bring back the truth or the lesson that he was trying to speak to them about faith about forgiveness About you know, what God can do etc. So When you use an object lesson or you're doing an object lesson or using an object for an object lesson What should you do basically introduce the object? The second thing is teach the basic truth Okay, you teach the basic truth and the third thing is you relate the object back to the Bible text or the Bible truth or the scripture or the The the story that you are teaching. So the first thing is introduce the object Second one is teach the basic truth and the third thing is relate the object to the Bible Text, okay, so now I'll just give you some examples of object lessons So for example, you know, I I didn't bring balloons, but you have some balloons a packet of balloons You can show it to the children and ask them now. What what is this? So the children will say these are Balloons, okay, and then you can say what is the purpose of these? balloons, so, you know Children say when you know when we blow air into it, it can be used for something Special so you say yes when we blow air into these balloons They can be they can give a very beautiful look to the room or to the place They can add a festive Touch to the space and it can also be used for a lot of fun games and Activities now you can tell them what if I decided that I'm with you know I'm having a birthday party and I go and buy this whole pack of balloons and Instead of blowing the balloons. I just throw it around the room. I just place it around the room Okay, so you take the balloons and you actually literally throw it around scattered it around the room Okay, and then you ask them Now, you know, did anyone get any joy or excitement by seeing these balloons lying on the ground? No, they would just think hey, what a waste of these nice balloons You know some of the children might take it and blow it and have fun and enjoy themselves with it Or somebody would think it just you know, it's garbage We just stamp on it or they take it and put it in the trash can okay, but you know if these if I had blown air into these balloons and I had tied it up and put it up in this room with the room have Look more festive and you know the party would have been look more colorful and exciting for children Yes, so you can tell them in the same way, you know You know this This balloon that is flat. It's like a balloon that when you know when we teach you the word of God and You just you know, just listen to it, but you don't do anything about it. It's not filling you up Okay, and when it's not filling you up. What's the use of this balloon? It's basically no use It's not it's not being beautiful. It's not giving any festive touch festive spirit It's of no use no one can enjoy it, but you know if you are like this balloon You take that another balloon you blow air into it and if you are just like this balloon You know you've blown full air. It looks very colorful and nice and pretty, you know You are listening to what the teacher is teaching you in In in children's church and Sunday school. We're learning now about the word of God You're filling yourself with the word of God. You're feeding the word of God and you're also Living the word of God you're obeying the word of God then you are like this balloon that is blown That is you know looking beautiful You're able to show Jesus to others people are going to see you and know Jesus. You're going to bring beauty color Excitement joy wherever you go. So instead of just telling the children hey, you know, everybody is important for you to You know To read your Bible and pray every day because when you read it and you know your Bible and obey what it's done You know, you bring a lot of life if you bring joy and happiness children are going to say How can I bring joy and happiness when I read the Bible? but just using this balloon as an example, you know can give so much of You know Insights this whole concept of what does the word of God do when we fill our lives with the word of God Which is a very important concept important truth But see how well it's communicated through these balloons, okay? Next you can use a hairdryer or you can use a phone Okay, so you say hey this phone I'm trying to you know trying to dial and trying to I know switched on but it's not working I don't know why it's working. You can can somebody help me here. Why isn't not working? Anyone can help me Okay, then some child will say maybe there is no the batteries. There's no charge in the bad thing. Oh, yeah Okay, so where is my mobile? You know charger, so I take my mobile charger Give that mobile charger, please. Yeah, okay. We take the mobile charger and say hey great. Okay. I'm going to Charge my mobile now. So Okay, so I got my mobile charger and I'm just going to plug it in here Okay, and then yeah, I've got charge it Okay, it's charging now. Hey, just let me give it a couple of seconds Okay, and now I Switch it on. Oh Wow, it's working. Yes. Now. I'm able to and now I'll be able to call my friend or I'll be Send an important message to my parents But why wasn't I able to do it? Before it was because it had no charge and it can only work when it is Plugged in when it's connected. Okay, so This mobile without any charge is you know, it's like our lives. So you're talking about this mobile Okay, and you're saying this is the object this object is like our lives, you know when When it's when it does not have any power it does not have any charge and this is not You know, it's not charged then this mobile is of no use Okay, I can't do anything with this mobile, but it can work. It can help It can help me to call people when I'm in problem can send important messages, you know when I connect this You know when I connect this mobile plug it on and it's connected to the main It's connected to the main source. Okay, it's connected to the power So otherwise this mobile is pretty worthless. It's pretty useless If it's not charged if it's not plugged on to the power, okay? So the same way you can say, you know, God wants to do amazing things in our life Okay, so he is, you know made it has given us great potential like this mobile has and do a lot of things Okay, you can do amazing things the same way just like this mobile that assembles our life God can do amazing things in our life But to do amazing things in our life. We have to be plugged Into the power. So what is the power? It's not just electricity But we need to be plugged into God's power. Okay, and what is God's power power? We need to plug into His word, yes, so God's power is his word Okay, so when we are, you know when we read God's word, it gives us life. It charges us. It gives us the strength So how can we communicate that God's word is powerful? It gives us life that you know God's power is Can be connected to the Bible to our lives. It's just by using the simple Phone or you can even use your hairdryer or you can use any Electrical appliance it doesn't work unless it's plugged in right if you use a hairdryer or use you use a Electric shaving stick or whatever it doesn't work till it's connected to the main power in the same way or TV or whatever You know, it needs to be connected to the main power and so you can say Hey, you know, how can we be connected to God's source of power and live a life of power? So let's discover together and then you can teach them about the word of God, okay? Another object lesson that you could use is, you know, you can just tell them Hey, everybody. I have two bottles here the same size, but there's a difference in these two bottles. What is different? One has a cap and one does not have a cap, okay, so just let's assume the one that has a cap is So You know is one that is filled with faith Okay, now you can't see this bottle filled with faith, but faith is actually there and it will show now I will I'll show you how this bottle is filled with faith now This bottle is empty the one that is open is empty. It has Absolute no faith now. What happens when your friend fear comes along? Okay, so what you need to do is you can have gloves and you can just you know stick Here and F E a are here. Okay, and then That's fear. What happens when fear comes along And just imagine that this two bottles is one child was filled with faith and the other child who is you know Has no faith absolutely no faith. Okay now What happens when fear comes along to this child you can name this child whatever you want to name that child What happens to this child when fear comes along so when fear comes along You know when fear just or trials or difficulties or hardships, you know, see what happens here does Fear can crush you fear can torment you here can destroy your life You know, it can you know, basically Feel you leaving Leave you feeling hopeless useless hopeless Without any life in your enthusiasm and you feel dead. Okay, this is what happens to a child who has absolutely no faith Okay, and when fear comes along, this is what fear can do can discourage you make you feel hopeless You can never come up in life never do anything because fear torments you and has gripped you now. What happens to this child, you know is full of Faith that's why bottle is closed full of faith. What happens when fear comes along. Let's see There's trials there is a lot of hardships a lot of difficulties But what happens, you know fear is not able to destroy discouraged You know put down But this child was filled with faith is able to you know, the Their faith is able to strengthen them build them Help them to fight against fear and all the discursive courage made and hopelessness that comes for even if I keep pressing Water it's nothing happens. Okay, so this is a very difficult concept for children to understand about faith and fear and what fear can Do and our faith is important, you know So you can just say then, you know, you've introduced what the objects you have kind of connected it with your you know What you're trying to resemble these objects to then you're teaching the basic truth And then now you relate it back to the Bible text and say today We're going to look at you know Somebody who did not give in to fear but held on to faith and because of that person's faith You know, let's see what was the consequences whether they were able to overcome You know what happened in their life. So it's David and Goliath story. You can use this fear and faith Okay. Now another object lesson is you know, you can just go to each one child and say make sure that child does not Have a guitar at home or doesn't have a mobile Thousand rupees notes. So you can ask the child. Hey, give me thousand rupees and the child says We'll just smile at you. Yeah, I want thousand rupees. Can you give me the child says I don't have Yeah, yeah, you can't give me thousand rupees because you don't have so you go to another child and say give me a guitar Says the child says I don't have a guitar because I'm not learning to play a guitar Or you can ask another child to give you a mobile and the child says I don't have a Mobile so then you can ask the children, you know, why could all of these children not give me what I Asked it's because basically they don't have it. Okay. So when they're talking about God is a healer He's not the author of sickness and disease then you can say, you know Just like like we have been learning that God is not that's not give us sickness and disease because he does Not have it in the same way just like these children Now they don't have a thousand rupees or a guitar or mobile and hence they can't give it to me the same way There is no sickness. There's no disease. There's no pain and suffering in heaven. God does not have it Hence he cannot give it to me. So a difficult concept for children to understand but just made very easy Through this. So if you want to talk about You know how Satan tempts us how Satan destroys us You know, you can use this object lesson Where you can use an egg? So you can say hey, what is this and everyone says it's an egg Okay, and it's what happens if I take this egg and hit it on the ground So the children will say the egg will break. What if I throw it on the wall? It will break Okay now This egg resembles us, you know, just like this egg is very delicate We two are very delicate. Anyone hits us throws us off from You know Second floor or third floor we can die. We can hurt ourselves You know, you know, we have an enemy who Satan was always wanting to steal kill and destroy Destroy our life steal our peace our joy our happiness So just one if I just you know, take the spawn and if I just hit this egg, what will happen? It'll break because this is so delicate. So this spoon is like Satan is all like temptation and you know Satan or temptations always there around us waiting to destroy us and you know, destroy our lives Okay, now what happens if you know, I trust in Jesus. I have faith in him this vessel here is No, it's God. He's put or it's Jesus is or it's protection Okay, what if I keep this egg under this vessel and now if I hit this vessel will the egg break No, right Okay, I think it doesn't break why because it is Because this vessel is protecting the Egg in the same way, you know, when we trust in God when we put our faith in God, you know He protects us and even when Satan comes around to destroy our lives or put temptation, you know God can help us to overcome that temptation He will help us to overcome everything that is wrong and Satan will have no power and authority over our Lives, but what if we say, you know, Jesus, I don't need you. I want to do what I want to I I don't want to obey you. I don't want to obey my parents We're just so open to the attack of the enemy. The enemy can attack us anytime and can destroy our Lives, okay So just another example that you could use as another object lesson So you have introduced the object you've connected it to what you are talking about in the story And then you go on to talk about, you know, sin salvation temptation Temptation of Jesus how he overcame it and how he can help us to overcome things in our Life so you can use various things like this, you know Another last thing that I will use is talk about greed, you know When we're talking about Elisha servant Gehazi was very greedy and we say that greed destroys our life And children will wonder how can we destroy our life so you can say hey, I have this tissue paper here Okay, so just imagine this tissue paper is It's like any one of us, okay, and we all like, you know to have things in our life, okay So it's okay to have a little thing So just you know, you can you can just say this water resembles various things in our life Okay, so I like to have a new shoe and I like to have a new pencil box a bag You know a new dress. It's okay. See I can can I use this tissue paper? Yes, I can still use this tissue paper But for some of us, you know who keep on wanting more toys, you know more clothes more shoes You know more chocolates Good food to eat and we want more and more and more even though we have so many pairs of shoes so many pairs of clothes, you know So just keep you know, you want more and more and more what happens. Can I use this tissue paper? No, let me just try. I want to wipe my nose Okay, I can't it's just tearing away. Oh Is this oh, it's not going to open so it's all just shredding off in pieces Is this tissue paper useful now? You know it has actually this water everything that I wanted has destroyed my life Okay, so you can talk tell them You know, we've just been hearing about Gehazi how greedy he has been and how his greed destroyed his life in the same way children, you know greed destroys our Life so you can use these various examples. There's so many now all of these are not from my own You know creative with creative thoughts This is all what I got from Google from the net. So there are various object lessons So if you're teaching your writing lessons, you can you know look up various object lessons and you'll find so many of them I like to just share a last one a very important concept, you know Telling children that God has given each one of us, you know Talents yeah, he's placed in each one of us specific gifts and talents Each one of us are unique in our talents and children will not believe that Because they're always Comparing themselves with others so you can give them this example of an apple because there's not able to get an apple I just put this picture up, you know, usually when we cut an apple, how do we cut it? From the center right down right from the stock that is there the stock that is there We just cut it right down in the center. So So example if I cut it right down the center like that, this is how it look it's there in your PowerPoint And what is there in the center? Seeds. Yes. Have you ever you usually cut the apple right down like this right through the center has anyone Dice the apple in the center like this Right through the center in the middle like this. Have you diced it in the middle? No, if you dice it in the middle, this is what you will see. What have you see what do you see in the middle? You see a star, right? Did you know there was a star in the apple? Okay, four of them in my class year in person students say no, okay So most children will say no, we didn't know there was a star But you can say why why did we know there was no And we didn't know that there was a star shape in that apple where the seeds was kept It's because we're constantly cutting the apple this way Okay So this did you all know that God has placed a star in each one of you now Don't go tell your mummies and daddies to take you to the hospital do a scan It's not a little Little star, but God has placed gifts a unique gift in each one of us each one of us are gifted It's not only just you know, you can name some tennis players or You know sports stars or football stars cricket stars You know movie stars and it's not them only that God has given them talent But God has given each one of you talent and some of you think you don't have a talent because you are constantly looking at Yourself in one way but look at the way God has created you he has placed a talent So some of you say hey, I don't know. What's my talent? Who do you need to ask? God because God has placed a talent in each one of you and he's placed a star in each one of you so go home get an apple cut it down that way and see a star and Also believe that God has given you a special gift You know a sputter star and you and you need to rise up to what he has given you the gifts that he has given You use it. Don't compare yourself with others Don't look at others gifts and get jealous of them But look at your own gift what God has placed and use it and you will be a star for Jesus or you'll be a Your star material or the star character. You'll be someone great in Life so just a few object lessons that you could use to teach Children, okay, so we just looked at attention get us today and a few object Lessons object lessons are powerful truths which can communicate powerfully to children. So all you need to do is introduce the objects Connect the object to you know, what you are assembling it to Teach the basic truth and relate the object back to the bible text. Okay. We just have one more minute We'll stop here. Anyone has any questions any thoughts? You could even use object lessons when you're preaching. I know a preacher I get many of object lessons from a preacher who church preaches and he uses object lessons and very powerful tool to communicate truths and concepts Okay, any questions? No questions Okay, there are no questions and next week we'll continue with the the main teaching content and then Just one or two more classes and then we'll finish children's ministry and then pastor ocean can take you through with the youth ministry Okay, okay. Thank you everyone for joining class. I hope it's okay I posted in the In the in the stream page. I didn't get any much response. So I'd like to take a minute here to discuss this Are you all okay if I can post the assessment on venus day 8th march by 6 p.m And you can submit your assessment on friday 10th march At 11 59. Is that okay everybody? Okay, ma'am Yeah Okay, okay, that's fine then We'll go with 8 march and then you can submit your Assessment, okay. Okay. Thank you everyone for joining class. Have a blessed day and the rest of the week and I'll see you on Monday. Thank you Thank you best Thank you