May 1st Lessons

9:00am DiscipleLand

1st-2nd grade 
The Bible Tells Me So Lesson 6--—#5  Honor Your Parents

Joseph Honors Jacob –Genesis 47-48
The LORD God commands believers to treat parents with great respect.

Verse: 

“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land theLord your God is giving you."—Exodus 20:12

Focus:

~God commands children to obey and respect their parents.
~Joseph continued to honor his father even when he's grown older.

~Honoring parents makes our lives better.

Missionary Biography 2: Adoniram and Ann Judson—Saying Goodbye

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9:00am DiscipleLand

3rd-4th grade 

Valiant Voyagers Lesson 6&7—Conspiracy/Clear Conscience

Acts 22-24

 The Holy Spirit protects and helps believers defend their faith in actions.

Verse Review: 

Acts 18:9; Galatians 5:1; Psalm 31:3; Acts 22:15; Acts 24:16

Focus:

~The Sanhedrin was divided after hearing Paul's speech.

~The Lord assured Paul that he would testify in Rome and would be protected.

~Paul's nephew thwardted over 40 men's plot of killing Paul.
~The Jews falsely accused Paul.
~Paul was a man of honor and integrity while Felix was a dishonorable man.

Missionary Biography: George Mueller—The Mission Field of Bristol, The Orphan Home Opens

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10:45am TRU

1st-4th grade

Main Focus: God Redeems 

Parable of the Lost Sheep, Coin and Son

(Luke 15:1-32)

Anticipate: Find the Sheep

To God the sheep in the story are also all equally precious, just like we are to Him. He knows each star by name and He knows each of us by name too.

Worship with Singing: led by Youth Band

Hide and Seek Connect Question

Memory Verse: 

"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him."--1 John 4:9

In today’s part of The Big God Story, Jesus tells three parables about a sheep, a coin and son, all of which were lost and then found. Today we will look for our own flocks of sheep. God knows us by name even as a Good Shepherd would know all his sheep. It doesn’t matter how we get lost: by mistake, by choice, by circumstance. Jesus wants to redeem all of us because each and every one of us are precious and valuable to Him.

Respond: Fishers of Men

Jesus told his disciples that they, as fishermen, could serve God by becoming Fishers-Of- Men instead. In this way they would be helping to find the lost and bring them home.  Bringing people to Jesus can be easy or hard but keeping them with Him (in the net) is harder. We need both
people who are willing to go out and be fishers-of- men AND some too stay at the net and tend to the ones already caught.

Bless:
Philippians 4:4–5:
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near."

May our children have God’s heart for the lost. May they remember that God loves them and redeems them!  May our children bring the good news of God's redemption to their own community so that all will know that they are precious to the Lord.