Activities About Children Helping Others to Know About Jesus

The Good Samaritan

Utilizing Luke 10:25-27, your activity can focus on teaching children that one of the best ways to help others know about Jesus is meeting their physical needs first. An exercise could involve giving each student a piece of candy, but telling them to wait to eat it until you are done talking. Tell them a 10-minute story. After finishing, have them eat their candy, then have them summarize the story. It is likely that your students will not be able to listen very well because they will be focused on the candy. You can then teach them how their physical need made it hard for them to hear. Then, show them how this relates to the passage. The man robbed and beaten couldn't hear about Jesus' message very closely because of his physical needs.

In this passage from Luke 16, focus the lesson on verse 31, "He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'" The lesson should center on the necessity of the Bible, both the Old and the New Testament, in the helping others know about Jesus. For an activity, you can have each student write a short paragraph about themselves. Then, after they have finished writing, have each person's neighbor try to describe the first without reading what the first has written about herself. This will likely not be as clear and descriptive as what the person wrote about themselves. You can then relate this to helping others know about Jesus by showing that the best way a child can help another know about Jesus is by teaching someone the Bible.

Tell the parable of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15:11-32. Focus your teaching on God's desire to fellowship with his children regardless of how they are acting currently. You can emphasize how God in the parable ran to meet his lost son. For your activity you can split your group up into threes and have each group act out the parable. One of the children can be the older son, another can be the younger son and the final one can be the father. You can make the activity fun because the parable has several interesting elements like eating the food of the pigs, the father running to greet the wayward son and the older brother being disappointed. You can relate this acting out of the parable to how they should "run" after their friends who don't know Jesus.

Write down each word from John 3:16 on a separate sheet of paper. To make the lesson memorable, add bright colors to each of the words to make each one stand out. If possible you can even add a picture to the word. Hand each person in your group one word. Have the children assemble themselves so that the verse is properly ordered. Have each person recite her word in sequence so that the verse can be heard in order. After this, teach your children that this verse instructs us that God wants the whole world to know and him and those who are like his son, his followers, have the responsibility to help God save the world.