April 29th 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 7—Clear Conscience

Acts 22-24

 The Holy Spirit 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 Orphan Home Opens

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10:45am TRU 1st-4th grade 

Main Focus: Remember and Celebrate God's Faithfulness

The Feast of the Trumpets

Anticipate: Building God's Kingdom Together

God wanted His people to remember His faithfulness through the help of feasts and festivals.  The Feast of Trumpets consists of a time of rest, an offering made by fire and blowing of trumpets.  The blowing of trumpets starts off the 10 days of repentance in order for the Israelites to be prepared for the Day of Atonement.  The festival reminds believers that we are God's covenant people and it gives God's people time to remember what God had done for them and to focus on obeying and loving God, who had been so faithful to them.   

Worship with Singing: led by Youth Band
Game with Youth: 4 Corners

Memory Verse:

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.  The life I now life in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." --Galatians 2:20

Every quarter, our TRU children participate in the review game of ZONK! to help them remember what they've discovered during the past several weeks in the Big God Story.

Review Previous Lessons:

• God's Plan Is Best (Calling of Peter)
• God Knows Everything (Woman at the Well)
• Jesus Seeks and Saves (Zacchaeus)
• Jesus Is Deliverer  (Last Supper)
• Jesus Is the Way, the Truth and the Life (Jesus Rises)
• Jesus Is Alive (Jesus Appears to His Disciples)
• Jesus Redeems (Jesus Reinstates Peter)