Week 7

Challenge for the week:

Use the camel shape at the end of this pack to draw round. Add googly eyes, and perhaps draw on a little coat. Then cut it out and take two wooden clothes pegs to form the camel’s legs.

Or you can be creative and make your own version of a camel! Camels were really important in Jesus day, for carrying people and things. They live well in dry hot countries. What else do you know about camels?

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Read the story from Matthew 19:16-26 or the comics on the next page:

16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”18 “Which ones?” he inquired.Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother,’[c] and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’[d]”20 “All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”Why did young man come to Jesus? What did he want?_________________________________________________________________________________________What is your favourite law from the list Jesus gave?_________________________________________________________________________________________Which one might you find difficult to do?_________________________________________________________________________________________Which one do you think is the most important?_________________________________________________________________________________________Why did the young man go away sad?_________________________________________________________________________________________What do you think, what did the young man love more: money or God?_________________________________________________________________________________________Do you think you love anything more then God?_________________________________________________________________________________________

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Game: Bring Me

Choose a leader for the game and they should stand away from everyone else. The leader reads out some of the following statements and the group must bring that item to the leader. Only one person, unless otherwise instructed, should bring the item to the leader.

Something with the Queen’s head on it A pair of socks tied together A shoe (no longer attached to the person’s foot!) The smallest person in your groupThe tallest person in your group The person in your group whose birthday isn’t nearest to today A piece of paper with all the team’s names on it

Chat afterwards about how in today’s story Jesus asked the man to bring him something? What was that?

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Why was that so difficult for him?

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Craft:

To make your own piggy bank you will need:

A plastic pop bottle, vegetable juice bottle, or similar plastic container egg carton cups small amount of craft paint, in white and black, and small paint brush small scrap of paper, thin card, or felt for the ears and tail glue or sticky tape craft knife or sharp manicure scissors

Instructions: Wash, rinse and dry the bottle and replace the cap.Cut the Slot (Please note:  only adults should do this step as it involves a knife or scissors, and requires applying pressure to an unstable object.  Please exercise caution).

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Turn the bottle sideways and cut a slot midway down of an appropriate size for the coins in your country. This can be a bit tricky, as some bottle plastics are brittle and prone to cracking.  It sometimes helps to warm the bottle a little bit with a hair dryer first, before attempting to cut, as this makes the plastic more pliable and less liable to crack or split as you work. If you want your piggy bank not to be transparent – you can color it in any color you like.Give your bottle piggy bank some legs by cutting four sections from an egg carton and either gluing or taping them in place.Cut two triangular shapes from paper, card, felt or craft foam.  Color these pink, if you wish, for the pig’s ears.  Glue them in place, as shown, at the top of the pig’s head.Cut a circular spiral from paper, card, felt or craft foam and pull it out to make a corkscrew type of tail.  Glue the tail to the bottom of the bottle.Now paint two small white circles for the pig’s eyes and let the paint dry.  Add a dot of black paint or black marker to make eye’s pupils. Paint two white ovals on the bottle lid to make the pig’s snout and let dry.You can collect money in your piggy bank and use them to help somebody in need or donate them to any local charity or organisation that you would want to support.WikiHow under Creative Commons    License.)

Fill in the blanks activity sheet: Word Bank: Everything, rich, follow, yourself, respect, impossible, kingdom, poor, wealth, murder

1. One day, a _______________ young man went to talk to Jesus. 2. Jesus told him, ‘If you want to live forever, you have to ________________ God’s

laws.’ 3. “Do not ______________________, “Jesus told him. 4. ‘ ___________________ your father and mother. Love others as you love

____________________.’ 5. ‘Go sell ______________________ you have and give the money to the

_________________.’ 6. The rich young man left because he didn’t want to give all his _________________

away. 7. Jesus said it’s hard for rich people to get into God’s __________________. 8. ‘How can people ever do it?’ the disciples asked him. Jesus said, ‘With God, noth-

ing is _______________________________.’

Prayer:

Color in and write inside on this heart what are the things that you love in your life. Pray as you color for you to love God more then other things you can gain.

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Prayer for the family: Pray for the World • Equipment A map or globe, stickers or Post-it notes (heart shaped if you’ve got them) • Set upYou can do this at a table or on the floor • InstructionsLook at the map or globe. Who do you know who lives in a different place or community? Can you find a place or country that you have heard about on the news recently? Which country would you like to pray for today? Place a sticker or a Post-it onto the globe or map and pray for God’s peace and healing.

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