 Okay so welcome back after the break. Just before we went for a break we were looking at one of the methods we need to use as messengers to effectively communicate the gospel to children. So we said the first thing is to have a good curriculum to have choose the relevant topics based on the developmental needs or the spiritual messages that we need to communicate the needs of children in that specific age group and then based on each topic we have the lesson objectives and once those lesson objectives are neatly spelt out or written out then we can choose the narratives that best you know fit into or cater to the lesson objectives and once you have all of them in place it's important to write out all the topics the lesson objectives for each topic and then choose the narratives and then you can kind of play around move around which you think best suits you know like for prodigal son you can have that for couple of topics but bear with it best fit or just likewise for the other narratives as well okay. Once you have all that in place it's important that you prepare well by writing out a lesson plan. There is no substitute for a well prepared teacher classroom control can improve significantly in most of your classes when you are prepared well and you know your teaching is very me interesting and effective so if you're spending adequate time preparing for your class it means that you are going to be utilizing the time that you are spending in teaching the children more productively okay so the more time you spend the adequate time you spend preparing for your class it means that the time that you're going to utilize in teaching them is going to be more productive because children will enjoy your class they will learn they will receive and they will soak in most of what you are teaching them and they will be motivated to learn okay now a good thumb rule is to spend no less than four times the length of your teaching time in preparation so for example if you have a 30 minute teaching time or your class is basically you're given 30 minutes to each then you should spend no less than what is four times of 30 two hours of preparation you might be thinking excuse me two hours to prepare for a 30 minute class to each children ages five to seven five to seven yes you know because you know you will run through the lesson plan what are the components for a lesson plan and you'll know that you will need more than even just two hours okay now the topic is difficult you'll need more than two hours because it needs more detailed explanation you need more thought process think more time you spend and how you're going to really communicate those concepts and those students another important to keep in important thing to keep in mind is that if you're teaching this Sunday now suppose this Sunday I'm going to be teaching at Children's Church then I don't prepare on Saturday afternoon Saturday evening or Saturday night it's not going to really help me you know so if you are teaching this Sunday it's good to start preparing from the previous Friday or maybe the Monday that means you should have started yesterday or on Friday of the last week should have started preparing so you prepare one week in advance now why am I saying you need to prepare one week in advance so that you know when you come across when you're thinking about the lesson then you can think about your personal life events and say hey I can talk this to the children so what are the aspects I can share with them that will they will understand or if you read a story or an incident or you listen to something that happened in somebody's life you can use that as a real life testimony a real-life example if you read something in the newspaper see something the news you can share that as well you can think of an object lesson you can think about a creative activity of an attention-getter so all this is basically going to help you to think through in the week and how you can put things together and then by Friday you will have you know can you can have everything written out sorted out and you have more clarity on what you are going to teach and also you can pray and ask the Holy Spirit to help you to give you ideas okay preparing for your class a day or two prior may not be effective helpful or beneficial I think most of us do that but it's not going to be helpful beneficial or effective okay and an important thing to keep in mind is when you when you're preparing for a lesson is to write down all that you are going to say okay even as I'm going to keep sharing a lot of things you will realize why I'm saying that it's important to write down all that you are going to say so some of the things what I would like to mention now why it is important for us to write down all that we say can somebody help me give some voices at least that was my monotonous voice why is it important to write down your entire lesson what you're going to say it gives clarity of thought yes thank you Divya gives you clarity of thought so that you can teach children with much more clarity yes what else why is it important so that you can miss out on the details sometimes like when we have subdivisions in the curriculum we focus more on some things and we can't just be there you have to cover the case so you don't miss out on the details and also there's a flow in the class you exactly know what's next you're going to speak you're not struck anywhere and the children's know the teachers even I think the children's also notice whether the teachers are prepared out here they're just coming and just saying yeah yes very good you said first one was you didn't you don't miss out on the details very important yes and then there is a flow yes even as a little he says it helps you to have a good flow of the lesson systematic flow in the lesson yes good thank you anyone else anyone else it also helps you to know exactly the important points you need to say what is necessary and what you does not is important but it's not important for this age group to be set now and what you should you know say in that 13 minutes okay otherwise we can end up saying talking from Genesis to Revelation but you know we can just keep things exactly to the important points remember children have very less attention span even we have very little attention spans everything that we learn a 40 here in a 40 minute sermon a one-hour sermon it goes out of our head only few things remain so it's important to keep the main you know write down so that you are sticking on to the important points also when you write down you're ensuring whether you're keeping to the main truth of the lesson and the main truth of the lesson is running throughout the lesson from the introduction to the conclusion and the application so the main truth is running throughout the lesson okay you're not digressing you're not jumping from one truth to another truth but just one truth you're holding on to and you're just running through with the entire lesson also that your objectives are being met again and also that you can choose relevant activities object lessons and know how to cater to the different styles learning styles and the different intelligences well missed out that you know so how with all the activities what am I going to do to cater to the different style learning styles and the different intelligences okay another reason why it's important for you to write down everything that you're going to say is then you realize that hey there's so much of content along you know and how where am I going to fit in time for the activity the discussions the skit or a craft that I have the coloring page hey I don't even have time for me to teach them the memory verse so where am I going to fit all of this so then you will decide and you say hey you know I will remove this activity because I'm going to do this object lesson think this is object lesson is better I'll have this few discussion questions because it's important to learn this learning style you know whether this activity this discussion is catering to all the learning styles the intelligences or should I incorporate something else and you know where can I break this lesson into two okay so where can I break this lesson into two so that you know I will bring the first part of the lesson to a good conclusion and what will be the application and then where I can continue from this point onwards to in the next class or if I'm not teaching the next teacher so where can there be a continuity a flow otherwise you will abruptly stop and then you know you will not be able to do any application no conclusion and you would not be able to do the activities teach them the memory verse so it's important to write down because then you'll know hey this is going to take more than 30 minutes I won't have time for this this this and so you can you know have it all neatly written down now once is everything is written down you'll be more confident to teach and handle the class there will be no waste of time there'll be no confusion and like like you said you know there'll be a good flow in your class okay now when you begin writing your lesson plan what are the things you need to keep in mind the first thing when you're writing the lesson plan is apart from the topic you'll have the lesson objectives when you're writing the lesson objectives you need to ensure that the main lesson objective which is the main truth or the central point should be reiterated throughout the lesson whether you're doing object lesson attention-getter discussion you know telling the story whatever introduction the central truth the main truth should be reiterated throughout the lesson don't deviate from the main truth okay the narrative the bible narrative the object lessons attention-getters activities should all reiterate the main truth or the central point okay now for example you're talking about you're chosen Zacchus's story okay now you're talking about Zacchus's story and your topic is you know that God loves everyone okay or God you know knows our sin okay sin and salvation God sees our sin or if you're talking about God loves yeah God loves everyone now what is the when you're and you choose you're chosen Zacchus's story as the narrative now what is now Zacchus's story can be used for various to illustrate various truths what are some of the truths that Zacchus's story can be used to illustrate no Zacchus's story as a story Zacchus's story what truths can be illustrated through that what can we use Zacchus's story to teach children we can teach them to be as fair as possible in our dealings okay thank you Lubega yes being fair God forgives God forgives okay what else your special to God that he looked at Zacchus when he was on the tree yes your special to God God knows you he wants to encounter you okay wants to change you what else then he was very eager to see Jesus okay is he going to see Jesus some of the truths that we can talk about when you're talking about greed dishonesty lying sin you know you can use or what is true repentance you can use Zacchus's story but when you're when you're using Zacchus's story to illustrate the point about God's love it's important that you keep the main truth of God's love running throughout the story for Zacchus yes all these truths can be used but then children will get confused if you talk about everything of course you talk about his nature you talk about everything but you can also talk about it in the sense of connecting it to God's truth so you can say nobody loves Zacchus okay nobody maybe even invited him for their parties in the you know birthday parties or wedding you know because nobody wanted even get space for Zacchus to see Jesus you know so that's why he had to find another way where he ran away from everybody and maybe climbed up the tree and he sat down there because he wanted to see Jesus and he didn't want anyone to notice him because they would make fun of him laugh at him they would tell Jesus what a cheater he is I mean all these points are not there in the story we're kind of you know reading into it but there is a possibility so you can say nobody loved Zacchus but Jesus loved Zacchus see so even if you're using his greed is on dishonesty is lying nature everything is sinful nature you're talking about how nobody loved him but how Jesus noticed him how Jesus loved him how Jesus went to a sinner's house so maybe all the people were talking and saying what's wrong with Jesus you know why does he have to go to Zacchus's house can't he go to this man's house can't he go to Peter's house can't he go to James's house there's such lovely people such nice people such godly people why does Zacchus's house you know because Jesus loved Zacchus and in talking about God's love you can say you know when Jesus went to Zacchus's house did Jesus ever say hey Zacchus I know all the bad things that you're doing or was he waiting for Zacchus to say all the wrong things he was doing and when when Zacchus said you know Jesus I'm cheating people Zacchus Jesus said I was waiting Zacchus all this time for you to tell me that you were cheating people I know you're cheating people but you know what does God do he doesn't say a word you know he's very quiet he's just listening and so you can say what caused that kind of change in Zacchus's life it was the love of God you know the love of God that changed him so you know if you're choosing love you know that's the main truth and that's the central point and you need to talk and emphasize and reiterate that throughout the lesson without digressing without going over here there you can have so many sermon points in that Zacchus story but point is love keep love throughout running as a main truth as a central point to teach in that lesson or that story okay so you can think about ways and how you can run the main truth throughout the story okay so that is the first point is the learning objective the second one in your lesson plan is recap begin with the recap what was taught last week so just write down a few things and the recap should not just be about children narrating the story because you all know the story but the truths that you have communicated should be the recap and also do a recap of how how they applied what they looked after recap the next point in your lesson plan is introduction okay now it's important to begin your lesson well you know a lesson that's begun well is half done your your job is already half done if you begin the lesson well because introduction is the place where you capture the attention and the interest of the children and it's also the worst place you can lose it once you've lost their excitement their interest you can't gain it again so it's this is the best place to capture their attention and their interest and also the worst place to lose it and if you don't have the children's attention you cannot teach them anything so try to establish how do you make the introduction interesting try to establish a point of contact with the children talk of something which is within their experience something which will arouse their curiosity something which they can identify okay so it's very important that you connect this whole introduction to what they are going through their experience so will arouse their curiosity say hey i'm going through this i'm feeling this i'm experiencing this and something they can identify and they would listen to you and they would pay attention now beginning the beginning or the introduction of the lesson should also have a clear link to what follows next it's pointless to have an outstanding introduction but if it does not lead into the rest of the lesson it's pointless and baseless and you will need to succeed in keeping the attention of the children throughout the lesson even as you have a good introduction you know sometimes you can have a great introduction and the rest of the lesson can be boring and you lose the attention of the children so make the introduction or the beginning a stepping stone to the rest of the lesson but it's important to keep the introduction or the beginning brief remember you have the main body of the lesson that has to follow you know be careful not to give away the secret of the lesson in the introduction or in the beginning for example don't start your introduction by saying hey children today we are going to learn here about a man called Jonah who was was swallowed by a big fish now if you say that as in your introduction it's like you've completed the entire lesson that you want to teach in half an hour you've told that story in just 17 words and I will have all the children say ma'am I know Jonah's story and I've seen it in the cartoon I've seen it here I've heard it here and all that and you will just and they'll say oh I already know so why should I listen okay so don't you know begin your introduction in that way also avoid introductions like now sit up fold your hands I'm going to teach you about the need to repent they'll say oh god no you know or uh uh that you know your sin takes you away from god or that we are all sinners or we need to obey god or god loves everybody they'll say oh we all know this you know then and they are people are telling us the same thing tell us something new so don't give away what your topic is what you're teaching them or maybe that is what you're going to teach them about the need to repent but you must first of all get the young ones attention so try to get their attention in various ways so how do you get their attention your introduction in your introduction you can use attention getters uh now begin with an attention getter you know that will build their interest it's a starting point to what you're going to teach them how you're going to introduce this uh topic so for example I'm going to teach them about prayer which is a topic which most children will not like so how will I uh introduce my topic for prayer okay so I just have a tray here I don't I don't know if you can see it can you see it no okay I'll just do this yeah uh are you able to see now so I have a phone here I'll just show this to the children you know I have a cover here with a letter inside and then I have a newspaper here okay so I will ask those who are interpersonal those are bodily kinesthetic to take this around because they like by doing you know children who learn by doing so they would take it around now some of them would like to smell they can smell the newspaper you know those who like to learn by touch they can just you know pick up whatever they want and you can say okay what is you know you can ask them all the things displayed on the items on this tray you know what do they have in common okay what is the answer all of these items the newspaper the cover the letter and this phone okay what do they have in common means of communication yes thank you uh Divya they are all means to communicate with each other okay so then you can uh you can say okay so all this means to communicate with man how do we communicate with God okay so just a simple attention gather okay also another way you can use is you can get children to make in twos okay choose tell them to choose a partner they don't know well and for the next two or three minutes you can get to know each other okay and try to get as much information about your partner so give them two or three minutes and then you know after two three minutes you can ask them how did you did you get to know the other person so they'll say yes then you can say how did you get to know the other person so what would be some of your answers if you were in my class how did you get to know each other you spend time with them okay jeffina says spend time with them how did you get to know each other in this activity by asking questions yes thank you you ask questions you ask questions you got to know more about your partner what else hello class what else what are you all doing now to me with me you're listening to me right it's not just important to ask the questions and what if you just ask the questions and you just tell your partner hey wait i'll go but i'm not interested in listening to you and you go away all you need had to do was you had to wait and listen okay so you say the same it's true when we communicate with god so in communication what are the things that are important you need to listen you need to speak and you also have to uh uh reiterate what you have heard is right by saying talking by repeating what the person has said okay so the same is true about you know communication with god and you can say what do we call communication with god as what do we call it as prayer okay and then you can keep going on in your lesson okay so what do we call talking and listening to god as prayer or you can do a skit okay you can have two actors basically you can give them the dialogues beforehand or you can tell them one week in advance so you can just call them during the week so you can have two children you know both of them facing their backs to each other and you know kneeling down in a chair and praying so when one finishes one sentence the other can say another sentence okay so you just have the dialogues so they can just follow and read it from the paper so one child is basically saying thank you prayers and the other child is basically um uh you know praying give me prayers okay so for example child one says dear god thank you for my mom dad grandma grandpa auntie uncle and the other child says dear god i love you please help me with my exam please help me get get me help me get good marks then child one again says thank you for my bed thank you for my cricket bat my football thank you for my cycle and child two says please help me to play good cricket tomorrow god please help me to play like Sachin Tendulkar Sachin Tendulkar is a famous batsman in India and please let my team win and you know the child continues to say the first child says thank you for my food though i'm very tired of eating uh you know uh rice and dal which is staple food here in India i would rather have some pizzas or uh you know burgers for lunch thank you for my books thank you for my friends child two says please give me a new jacket and a new shoes um and a nice new mobile so you know the dialogues can go on and then you can ask children what kind of prayers these children or these boys or girls were praying so it was basically what kind of prayers child one was basically praying what kind of prayers thank you prayers okay and child two was praying give me prayers and help me prayers okay so then you can ask children have you prayed like these children and uh you know um so basically our prayers are all about god thank you and god give me and god help me um but is prayer all about this uh then you can tell them you know actually jesus knew that we will we would really not know how to pray and he gave us a pattern for prayer would you like to know about this pattern for prayer because you're basically teaching them in the prayer you're teaching them about the lord's prayer and so you can you know um you can teach them say how many of you find it difficult to pray how many of you don't like to pray so you're actually connecting with children's felt needs okay how many of you feel that prayer is boring why do you find prayer difficult uh why do you find it boring why do you find it difficult to pray because children will say because we don't know what to pray all we know is this kind of prayer thank you prayer give me prayer you know please be with me prayer or help me prayer okay so then you can say okay uh i'm going to teach you how to pray and it's going to be more interesting than just these uh thank you and give me and help me prayers would you like to know what is the pattern for prayer okay so those are some of the things that you can do now for example you're teaching them about god's word a good attention get there is to have uh you know some books so you can just say hey i have some books here with me okay so you can say uh what is different um you know do you have do you like reading books at home uh do you like reading do you go to the library in school do you read books what kind of books that do you read so you can give them all some books they can just kind of you know those who are who like to learn by seeing by touching um and all of that by connecting with each other you can ask those people to children to help you distribute those books then you can distribute those books and then you can tell them you know um uh you know um ask them how each book is different from each other so one is about a dictionary you know you can say dictionary helps us at the finding out the meanings for words then there is an encyclopedia which gives us knowledge about various things a geography book is history book this is a story book and then then you have a bible as well so you you know say okay how is a bible different so the child with the bible will say how the bible is uh different okay so then you can start your lesson you're saying you know a bible is god's book and uh you know it's different why is it different because it's god speaking to man okay or you can start your attention getter with um a quiz you can ask them hey how many books are there in the bible okay all of you are children in my class attending my class how many books are there in the bible children just joking how many books are there in the bible i'm asking y'all uh 66 okay uh then you can say the bible is divided into two parts all of you in class yes no okay what jeffina thank you linden okay okay so the bible is divided into two parts so what are the names of each section new and old testament how many books are there in the new testament how many books are there in the old testament and you can ask how many authors wrote the bible so all those who are logical mathematical they will think they will reason you know they will try to find out 66 books so they will count whether it's 39 plus 27 69 or you know 66 or what and how many years was the bible written okay so you can start off with a quiz or you can use a game you know to start with your attention as an attention getter but teaching about faith you can have you know you can blindfold a child and you can say i'm going to give you directions and i want you to go to that place i don't want anyone to help them i don't want to use your hands and then you can say okay you give them directions and then they have to go and they have to sit in a chair which you have placed in a certain part the certain part of a room okay and then and you tell them okay um they're still blindfolded you can say now i want you to sit down so they will be a little scared because they don't know where they are sitting but um you know they shouldn't use their hands or legs and when they sit down just ensure that you make sure that they're sitting on the chair just push the chair towards them so then you can talk about you know this is faith faith is you can't see but yet you believe the uh you know someone or something and you hope that what is going to come about what you are hoping for is is good okay so you can use that as an attention data okay or you can also use object lessons as as the can you show the slides object lesson as an introduction to your class now basically object lessons are very creative ways to introduce a topic to reiterate difficult concepts and truths uh to children um you know um and also it is something that will get their attention and attract their attention okay so the object lesson is basically used to illustrate a concept uh a point of truth uh a learning um or a story by combining that with an object or a trick that will uh be like a visual aid that will help children uh remember the lesson it's not there object lessons no okay don't worry okay uh so object lesson is basically used to illustrate a concept a point um a truth a learning um or a story by combining an object um or a trick um with the you know that will be a visual aid that will help children remember the lesson so the object lesson can be used to introduce a topic or it can also be used later on in the lesson or towards the conclusion towards the end uh to you know reinforce your lesson for the day okay the object lesson will basically attract the attention of the children and focus the interest of the children on the main truth that you are teaching okay and object lessons also will serve to remind children again and again of the main truth of the concept of the lesson as they see the object they have you have used the object lesson you know later on in their life or in their daily life for example if you teach them about some object you know later on a god can use that same object many years later or maybe a few months down the line to reiterate the truth that you have taught them and god the holy spirit can use that uh to get them back or to help them to a difficult challenge or a difficulty okay so we know that jesus when he thought he used a lot of objects in his lesson right look at the birds of the air the lily's a field the grass in the field uh the birds of the air and the mountain the fig tree so all of that he used because of the coin all that he uses because he knows that when you know he's going to go away in just three years this ministry is going to go away but these objects will reiterate the important kingdom truths that he has uh taught them or left them with so in in an object lesson you basically introduce the objects what you're using then you teach the basic truth and you relate the objects back to the uh to the text bible text or to the bible truth okay now i'll just give you some examples you can use even object lessons when you're preaching because i know i i get a lot of object lessons for my lessons when i'm writing uh from a preacher who basically uses it during his sermons on a sunday service at a church and he has some really interesting ones okay um so if you're talking about how god's word can influence us and shape our lives you basically the topic is god's word and you're using how god's word talking about how god's word can influence and shape our lives now you know this very difficult concept but you can use an object lesson uh you can take a few large balloons to class and you can ask the children what are these so you can hold the balloons and say what is this and then they'll say these are balloons you can ask them what is the purpose of this balloon and they'll say it's it's to you know blow air into it um you know and it's used for special occasions to make it more the the you know to lighten up the occasion or to make the room look bright and special okay um so you can say like something like this you know it basically adds a beautiful festive touch to a space and it can also be used for children to play around with and for fun games as well okay now you can ask them what if I decided to have a birthday party with lots of balloons and you know so I went to the shop and I purchased a pack of balloons and uh you know just to have it all ready to blow it up and put it up so children can enjoy the birthday party of my daughter or my son okay now you say well you know on the day of the birthday party you know um I was so busy that I didn't have time to blow the balloon so what I did was I just took those balloons instead of blowing them I just put it you know in various places in the room so you just take the balloons and just drop them in various uh places in around the room then you can ask them would anyone enjoy or get any joy out of seeing them lying on the ground deflated with all those balloons blown the children will say no you know you can say the same way in our lives you know uh you can pick up an empty balloon and say you know we are like these empty balloons so this empty balloon basically represents us so basically you're introducing the object you're connecting that with you know what it represents so you're saying our lives are this empty balloon you know but when we receive the word of God you know it'll have effect in our lives when we read God's word when we listen to God's word uh when we memorize when you memorize your memory verses you know why I keep giving you memory verses and you keep blowing air into the balloon when you come to children's church and listen to the word of God you blow the balloon when you go back on uh on Monday you're reading the word you blow little air Tuesday you read God's word you blow little air so you know the balloon is uh you know is is is coming into a shape and then you can say just like the what the air does the balloon it gives it you know a shape and it now when I put it up you know people are able to enjoy the colors able to bring joy the same way in our lives you know when God's word fills us you know our life brings joy not only to us but also to others okay so just a simple object but we'll teach them how the word of God influences and basically shapes our lives okay um now for example you can uh you're teaching a lesson on um god wants to do amazing things in and through our lives okay or you're talking about the power of God's word or you're talking about the power of prayer or you're talking about the power of the holy spirit so um you can have you know use this hair dryer you can say have your parents ever used this before or um you know have you used this and then you can ask the children what do you use this for okay so what do you use this for to dry your hair okay so you can say hey actually my hair is a little wet now can you know wet your hair and you can say I want to dry it okay so uh I'm going to dry my hair okay so can you just give me a couple of seconds when I dry my hair children and they will all say okay anyone wants to help me and so you know uh you can maybe not now so you can start and you can you know put your you know move it up to point one or point two and say hey I don't know why it's not working it was working just fine yesterday uh why do you think this is not working yes because I've not connected the children say ma'am auntie or you know teacher you've not connected this to the plug point oh yes I've forgotten to connect this to the plug point okay so then you can connect it to the plug point and then use it and so you say you know the same way in our lives you know sometimes we feel we don't have the power to overcome sin and then you can start teaching and because you know we don't have the power of god and you can talk about the bible and the prayer it's the power of god okay um now another object lesson that you can use you can say is hey everyone how many of you are thirsty and all hands will go up so you can say I have some glasses here okay and you can say I have some nice lemonade or an orange juice here how many of you would like to drink it okay so we'll have all the hands go up and you know so you can say okay I'll pour out some and I want one child to come and taste so those who learn by taste and smell they'll come running so you can pour out little lemonade or juice can give it to them okay and then you can say okay how many more want and everyone's hands will go up and so you'll say wait a minute and then you take some sand and put it into the the glass and say how many of you would like to drink this now no hands would go up okay um but you can ask the child who drank the lemonade and you can say how does it taste and uh you know it says go taste it and and I said yeah I tasted it also and say wow it tastes so good it's just so perfect you know I'm so thirsty and then you know um when you put this mud you say okay how many of you would like to drink it no hands will go up so why just the second back everybody wanted to drink why do you want don't want to drink it no it's no longer it's dirty it's because of the mud it's no longer good perfect because the mud is put into it and if we drink it we'll get sick okay so then you can talk about sin and salvation how God created everything perfect but you know when we disobeyed God how everything that was imperfect perfect became imperfect and bad and then you can talk about sin and salvation okay now the last two mentoring hours we were talking about how God is not the author of sickness and pain and suffering uh now we were teaching about this healing and deliverance to children and so we wanted to basically tell them that all God is not the author of sickness and suffering uh how do we uh and we were basically saying that you know God is not the author because he can't give us what he does not have so how do we explain this to children so I basically thought of this attention getter is an object lesson I thought I'll ask one child in a class can you give me thousand rupees the child will smile and say I don't have thousand rupees um and I'll go to another child who I know does not have a guitar and I'll ask you know uh can you give me your guitar child say no why you know because I don't have a guitar then I'll go to another child and then who I make I make sure before that they don't have a mobile and say can you give me a mobile please you know they'll say no I no I can't why because I don't have a mobile so then you can ask the children why couldn't all of these children who I asked them to give me specific things why couldn't they give me what I asked because they don't they cannot give it to me because they don't have it just in the same way God does not have sickness and disease um in heaven there's no sickness disease pain suffering in heaven and he can't just basically give it to us okay just a simple object lesson but can teach you profound truths okay so difficult concepts I'll I'll just show one last one I think that'll be the end for this class and um I just bought an egg okay it's not a boiled egg but the raw egg okay so um so you say okay what is this and they'll say it's an egg and uh you say you know uh you can show the children this egg and say what happens if I use this fork okay and beat the egg what'll happen hard what'll happen it'll break right okay so you can say uh what if I take this egg and just throw it on this wall what'll happen it'll break it'll splatter it'll make mess up the place it's thinking okay so you can say the connect this object to you know uh whoever so you can say this egg is like us we are so delicate sensitive you know so open to um uh you know if you just fall off from a tree or from the first floor you can hurt our head we can even die now this spoon resembles satan okay satan is always ready to attack us and break us he comes to steal kill and destroy okay so he's ready to break us okay and if we don't now what happens if we if I put this vessel and cover this vessel into over this egg and now I use the spoon to beat that egg inside over this vessel if I beat this vessel what will happen will the egg break no my egg is not broken see so you can say this vessel is God's protection over our life so when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior you know he protects us we're under the protection satan will come to tempt us destroy our lives steal our peace and joy but you know God will protect us from the evil one but if we choose to you know we don't choose God we want to choose the things of the world we love the world more um and all of those things then you know you can talk about the rest of your lesson how satan is all out to steal and destroy our lives but God is our protector so if your lesson is God protects us you can use this object lesson so for example there's so many object lessons like this you can use you know you can use mmms like this but there's only two colors but we have gems with multicolors and then you can talk about how all of them are different colors but what is there inside is the content inside the same yes this chocolate flavor inside you know so even if they look different colors the the the content inside is the same so God has created all of us different but each of us are unique and special so all these object lessons are not invented by me all of them i got it from the website from internet so you can also go and look and they're a very creative object lessons that you can use for teaching your children either as an introduction or to reiterate the truth or somewhere in the middle of the lesson i thought of finishing our finishing these two days my last day but i still have time because you know pastor ocean says i can take some more time so maybe i'll take next week one hour and then just finish the rest of the methods that we can use and then it'll be an end for our children's ministry class thank you everyone sorry there's no time for questions i'll take any questions or doubts that you have next week have a blessed week ahead and a day and god bless you thank you