Kids Church

Week 1 July 4, 2021 Unusual

07/04 Length
11:00A in mins PersonAudio Lighting
11:00a 10:00 Welcome Kids Music
Welcome kids, play games, encourage memory verse puzzle on whiteboard.

11:10a 1:00 Intro to Worship

Good morning, friends! Let's get started by worshiping and praising God together.

11:11a 4:00 Song 1: Waymaker Play

By: Allstars Kids Club song

11:15a 4:00 Song 2: Yes I Will Play

By: Kids Version Song

11:19a 7:00 Activity 1: Unusual Charades

"Does anyone know what 'unusual' means?"
-Let kids answer
"That's right, it means something that you might not expect, or is uncommon, or
unique. Let's play charades in an unusual way."

Instructions: Two kids come up to act at a time. One bucket has nouns and one has
action words. Each kid chooses a card so one child is acting out the noun and one
is acting out the action. The rest of the group has to put it together to figure out the
clues.
Example: one kid may be acting out shark while the other is acting out brushing
teeth so the answer is a shark brushing it's teeth.

11:26a 7:00 Activity 2: Unlikely Grocery Bag

"On the way here, I made a quick stop at the grocery store and got a few things."
--Pull out items from bag
"Wait a minute! That's not the sort of thing you would buy at a grocery story. What
on Earth! I wonder what's in the other bags!"

Instructions: The bags have unusual items in them. Pass them around one by one.
The kids can feel the object through the bag and try to guess what they object may
be.

"A word that is related to unusual is the word 'unlikely'. When something is unlikely,
it has little to no change of happening or being true.
Those were some unlikely items to find in the grocery bags! Today, we are going to
learn about an unlikely person whom God chose to do really big things!"

11:33a 5:00 Discussion 1: Unlikely Choice

"Have you ever felt not good enough? Maybe your mom thought you couldn't pour
juice without spilling it and you proved her wrong. Sometimes, people around us or
even those closest to us may not think we're the likely choice to do something, but
that doesn't mean we can't do it! Today, we're going to turn to the Bible and hear a
story about a boy who knew exactly what it felt like to have people think he wasn't
good enough."

11:38a 5:00 Big Idea: Brick Skit Abram

Brick comes in - explain he is a friend that will be joining us all month long.

*Brick skit with jar and big idea slip inside*

Big idea: God uses unlikely people!

 07/04 Length
11:00A in mins PersonAudio Lighting
11:43a 7:00 Video: Unusual Week 1 Play
Play the video Video

11:50a 5:00 Discussion 2: Underdogs

"Who knows what an underdog is?
An underdog is a character in a story or a situation who you don't expect to win.
Underdogs are all around us. We see them in our favorite movies and television
shows. We hear about them in sporting events. It's always the team or person that
has little to no chance of beating the other one.
Sometimes, we might even feel like underdogs. But that's great news because God
often uses the underdog!
David was seen as a true underdog in the eyes of his family, but he was the one
who God chose to be king because of his heart. As we stay close to God, God will
use us to do great things, too! God uses unlikely people."

11:55a 5:00 Scripture: 2Cor & Ant Discussion Ant pic

Read 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. on slide
Show picture of leafcutter ant on slideshow

"Does everyone see this little guy up here? We all know what that is, right?
Yep, it's an ant!
This kind of ant is called a leafcutter ant, and it might not look all that special, but
guess what? It's one of the strongest animals on the whole planet.
A leafcutter ant can lift twenty times its body weight! That's like a first grader picking
up an entire piano by themselves! The point is, it's really, really strong, even though
it might seem unlikely.
The Bible passage we just read says that when we are weak, then we are strong.
That makes no sense! Or does it?
When David was chosen to be king, it was God that made David strong enough to
do the task that others thought he could not do. And God is with us, too.
Aren't you glad that no matter what other people think of us, God knows that we can
do big things? I sure am.
And if that little, bitty leafcutter ant can pick up twenty times its weight, there are
endless possibilities for what God can do through unlikely people like you and me!"

12:00p 2:00 Video: Olympic Play

Play the video- Wings of an Eagle Video

"What challenges did Billy face that made him and people around him think that he
maybe shouldn't be running the race or that he wouldn't win?
What do we think it was that made it possible for Billy to win at the end?
He had a lot of heart, didn't he?"

12:02p 5:00 Memory Verse: Erase the Verse Memory

Isaiah 55:8 - "For my thoughts are not your thought, neither are your ways my Verse
ways," declares the Lord. Slide
Verse is written on whiteboard.
Everyone reads the verse together.
Erase the last word and read it again, filling in the word.
Erase the next word and continue.
Do this until the entire verse is erased.
Have slide with verse up in case kids need help remembering words.
 07/04 Length
11:00A in mins PersonAudio Lighting
12:07p 10:00 Activity 3: If I Were An Ant Music
Discuss list of things that are about 20x the average elementary school child is
weight
-Grand piano
-Polar bear
-Cow
-Horse carrying a jockey
-Giraffe
-Motorcycle
-Sailboat
-Two refrigerators

Tell the kids to choose one and get some crayons and paper and draw a picture of
themselves holding the object above their heads.

"Though it might be a silly way of showing it, this picture reminds us that with God,
we are capable of big things, no matter how unlikely . . . just like David or even a
leafcutter ant!
God uses unlikely people."

12:17p 5:00 Offering/Prayer/Requests

Collect offerings
Gather prayer requests
Close in prayer

12:22p 10:00 Post Service Hangout Music

Pass out kids kash (everybody gets $2 for coming/participating, extra $5 for bringing
Bible or friend, extra $1 if leader noticed kid exhibiting behavior that warrants it)
Reminder: shopping is last Sunday of the month and extra $5 if on the last Sunday,
memory verse is memorized

Play games until parents pick up kids

12:32p 92:00