God's Special love For Us - A lost Coin and A Lost Sheep

Circle Time

            Opening prayer

            Hello song.

Introduction to Bible Lesson

Each one of us is very special to God. We have learned that God gave us wonderful gifts – the world, Jesus, special abilities and families. God loves us so much. And He wants us to know that we are very, very special to him.

Today we are going to hear 2 stories about how special we are to God. Jesus told both of these stories to the people that were with him. Our stories today are both written in Luke 14.

Bible Lesson

Story 1 :

A woman was working in her house. As she was baking some bread she noticed that one of the beautiful silver coins on her necklace were gone. She saw only nine of the coins. The tenth one was missing.

She became upset and worried. These were very special coins given to her by her husband. One for every year they were married. She did not want to lose any of them as they meant a lot to her. She called her friends to see if they had seen it but they had not.

She turned on all of the lamps in her home and picked up her broom. Carefully she swept the floor, moving all of the furniture. There in between the couch and the wall she found the lost coin. Right away she was so happy and excited. 

She called all of her friends to let them know she had found her lost coin.

Story 2:

A shepherd was watching over his sheep. He had 100 of them and loved them all very much.  One night as he was putting them into their pen, he counted only 99 of them. He was missing one. He checked with his friends and neighbours but they had not seen it.

He was worried. He knew that a lost sheep would be in a lot of danger during the night. The sheep could fall off a steep cliff or it could get taken by wolves.

The shepherd left his 99 sheep and went looking for the one sheep that was lost. He searched and searched. Finally he found it caught in a bush. He picked it up and carried it home. Then he called his friends and neighbours to celebrate because he found the lost sheep that he was missing.

Jesus says that we are like the lost coin and the lost sheep. God loves us so much and we are so special to God.  God will keep calling us until we come to him and know that we are special to him.  Jesus says that when we decide to follow God and do what God asks of us, all of heaven rejoices.

Crafts

1.      Coin Necklace

Materials: string, large craft beads, 1 silver washer

Have children thread beads and washer onto the string. Tie the string to form a necklace.

2.      Sheep Magnet

Materials: cardboard sheep cutout, glue, cotton balls, google eye

Have children glue cotton balls onto sheep and glue the eye onto the sheep. Use double sided tape to put on magnet.

Snack Time

Circle Time

            Song 1 – Theme song “God Made Me Special”

            Song 2 – God made me

God Made Me Special Activities

1.      Ribbon Craft

Materials: 1 inch – 2 inch wide ribbon. Circles precut spelling the name of the child, crayons

Children color the circles with the letter on it. Then they glue the circles in order to the ribbon.

Closing

                        Closing prayer

Virtue to work on: Obeying our parents.