In Sunday School, we started a new project and the kids are super excited! Instead of doing a coloring page or craft each week, we are making books! The book will basically be a timeline of the main events in Scripture from creation to Christ. When we finish, I plan to hold a special ceremony and present each child with the book they have created and send it home with them.

My purpose for this project is four-fold:

11)    Review the stories! It is just one more way to review the stories we have learned. Each week we will add one page (event) to our book and review the details of that event. Each event is a story that I have taught already, but since most of the kids are hearing the stories for the first time review is always helpful…your mind can only absorb so much the first time you hear the story (esp from your teacher who has a funny accent). Also, since understanding Abraham and the nation of Israel is so key to understanding much of the Bible, I don’t think it is possible to review too much.

22)   Reinforce the big picture! Reviewing the stories gives me an opportunity to reinforce the big picture that we have been discussing of how God is working in the Bible (keeping the big picture in mind can be difficult for all of us but even more so when every story is brand new to you). 

33)    Help our transition! I decided to take a leap from the OT to the NT in our stories after we finish with Solomon and the division of Israel. While I was really looking forward to teaching on the kings, I felt that right now, I want them to keep the big picture in mind and I believe the best way for them to do that will be to give a quick overview of the kings and the exile and them jump over to the Gospels. My desire is that this weekly review will help make sense of that transition.

44)    Reiterate key terms! As we review, I hope to reiterate key terms like sin, holiness, prophet, priest, king, etc. Terms that they will need to know to understand how amazing Jesus is and what He has done for us!

Please pray for me as I teach. I can often be tempted to rely on my own strength, wisdom, training and not on the Holy Spirit. I desperately need Him to share His truth through me! And, hey, I need to learn it too! Pray that these truths will take such deep root in me as I prepare my lessons that I will not only teach them better, but my students will understand them better because they see that they are a part of my everyday life!

Pray for the students as we do this project. Pray that their minds will begin to grasp some of these truths and that their hearts will be prepared to behold Jesus as the truly amazing Person that He is and to see their personal need for Him!

*pictures coming soon**