Sunday's Activities {4/28/13}

*** Thursday Bible Trivia***

1. How many books are in the Bible? Old Testament? New Testament?
66 books in total, 39 in the Old, 27 in the New

2. What are the first five books of the Bible called?
The Law Books

3. Who wrote the Law Books?
Moses

5. What are the first four books of the New Testament called?
The Gospels

6. Who wrote the Gospel books?
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

7. Who wrote the book of Psalm?
David

8. What does the word Genesis mean?
Beginning

9. What does Exodus mean?
Exit; the Hebrew people left slavery from under the rule of the Egyptians

10.  What two birds did Noah send out of the ark?
Raven and Dove

11. What bird brought food to Elijah while he was in hiding?
Raven

12. Name the sons of Adam and Eve.
Cain and Abel

13. What is the first murder in the bible?
Cain killed Abel

14. The Old Testament is divided into 5 part. Name them.
Law, History, Poetry, Major Prophets, Minor Prophets

15. The rainbow is symbolic of?
The promise God made to never destroy the Earth by water

16. What does the word disciple mean?
Follower

17. This man prayed to god for wisdom.
Solomon

18. How many were present in the upper room?
120 

19. What was Paul's name at first?
Saul 

20. Paul lost one of his senses during his trip to Damascus?
Eye sight

21. What is the definition of Revelation?
To reveal, make known 

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***Announcement***

Hey Everybody,
     Children's Church will start rehearsing for our next performance starting Thursday, April 25th. If you wish for your child(ren) to participate, please bring them this Thursday. To participate in the performance the child needs to make at least 3-4 rehearsals.

See any of the Children's Church Staff for additional information.

Dorcas and Peter are Helpers

Scripture:

"He who lends to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will reward him for what he has done"

-Proverbs 19:17

Key Word(s):

Widow: A woman that has lost her husband by death and has not remarried.

Attention Grabber:
Allow the children to pick a partner. The sit down with their backs towards each other. Have the partners link arms. When you say start have them try to stand up together faster than any other team.

Objective: To realize that working as a team will have you be successful. 

Lesson:

• Dorcas cared for the widows in Joppa 
• If a woman's husband died, then the wife had no way to support herself
• *Unless the the wife's oldest son would take care of her
• *The oldest son would get the father's property
• *If the wife did not have a son she would lose the property unless she married a relative of the husband
• Dorcas made coats for the widows 
• One day Dorcas got sick and died
• Dorcas' friend had heard about Peter (a disciple of God that was healing the sick. Although Peter had never raised anyone from the dead Dorcas' friends believed that Peter could bring their friend back to life)
• When Peter arrived he told everybody to leave the room
• Peter begin to pray to God to bring Dorcas back to life
• Dorcas was brought back to life

Key Points

*Helping people that are in need

*We now have the power to heal the sick and raise the dead in Jesus' name

Questions:
1. Who is Dorcas? Answer: A woman that helped widows in Joppa
2. What is a widow? Answer: A widow is a woman that has lost her husband by death
3. What happened to a woman that had no sons and her husband died? Answer: The woman would loss her property and would have to find someone to take care of her
4. Who prayed that Dorcas would be raised from the dead? Answer: Peter

Sunday's Activities {4/21/13}

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