{ "programName": "Some Assembly Required", "studyName": "Week 3", "lessonName": "Noah", "lessonImage": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/graphic_design_content/everythingisawesomeboxmain.jpg", "name": "Large Group K 2nd", "lessonDescription": "As humans, we aren’t always great at finishing what we started. Some people will let you down by not doing what they promised, or quitting on you part way through. But God is always faithful.", "sections": [ { "name": "Intro Countdown and Ice Breaker", "actions": [ { "actionType": "play", "content": "Title Slide", "files": [ { "name": "Title Slide", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/graphic_design_content/everything_is_awesome.jpg" } ] }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "Countdown", "files": [ { "name": "Countdown Video", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/video_content/5_min_countdown.mp4", "thumbnail": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/video_content/5_min_countdown_thumbnail.png" } ] }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "Welcome Video", "files": [ { "name": "Welcome Video", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/video_content/welcome_motion.mp4", "thumbnail": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/graphic_design_content/everyting_is_awesome_welcome.jpg", "loop": true, "seconds": null } ], "role": "" }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "Icebreaker Slide", "files": [ { "name": "Icebreaker Slide", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/series_graphics/icebreaker_ws.jpg" } ] }, { "actionType": "note", "content": "**Items Needed:**\n\nA big pile of LEGO bricks or Duplo blocks", "role": "" }, { "actionType": "do", "content": "**Instructions:**\n\nPut the LEGO bricks in the center of your classroom space and have kids circle around. Give them 60 seconds to sort the LEGO bricks into groups. You can do this activity multiple times. Sort by color, sort by size, etc. As an alternative, instead of giving 60 seconds, use a stopwatch to see how long it takes them to complete the sorting." }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "Ice Breaker Game", "files": [ { "name": "LunchBox Shuffle", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/game_videos/lunchbox_shuffle.mp4", "thumbnail": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/game_videos/lunchbox_shuffle.png" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Worship", "actions": [ { "actionType": "play", "content": "Worship Slide", "files": [ { "name": "Worship", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/series_graphics/worship_ws.jpg" } ] }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "Jesus Loves Me", "files": [ { "name": "Jesus Loves Me", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/worship_videos/jesus_loves_me.mp4", "thumbnail": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/worship_videos/jesus_loves_me.png" } ] }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "I've Got The Joy", "files": [ { "name": "I've Got The Joy", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/worship_videos/i_ve_got_the_joy.mp4", "thumbnail": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/worship_videos/i_ve_got_the_joy.png" } ] }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus", "files": [ { "name": "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/worship_videos/i_have_decided_to_follow_jesus.mp4", "thumbnail": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/worship_videos/i_have_decided_to_follow_jesus.png" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Memory Verse Activity", "actions": [ { "actionType": "play", "content": "Memory Verse", "files": [ { "name": "Memory Verse", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/memory_verse_graphics/memory_verse_wide_niv.jpg" } ] }, { "actionType": "do", "content": "Have the kids read the verse together. Read it normally, then in a whisper, then really, really loud!\n\n“For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.” -Hebrews\n\n3:4 (NIV)" } ] }, { "name": "OBJECT LESSON", "actions": [ { "actionType": "play", "content": "Object Lesson", "files": [ { "name": "Object Lesson", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/series_graphics/objectlesson_ws.jpg" } ] }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "Lesson 3 Noah", "files": [ { "name": "Lesson 3 Noah", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/bible_story_videos/lesson_3_-_noah.mp4", "thumbnail": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/bible_story_videos/lesson_3_-_noah.png" } ] }, { "actionType": "note", "content": "**Items Needed:** \n\nPeanut butter and jelly sandwiches with no top slice of bread" }, { "actionType": "do", "content": "Is anyone a little hungry this morning? I brought a few snacks if anyone needs one. Anyone want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? \n\nActually… does anyone notice anything wrong with these sandwiches? \n\nA sandwich isn’t a sandwich with just one slice of bread, is it? We’ve got the bottom slice, peanut butter, and jelly, but we stopped before the job was finished. \n\nSo many dreams go unfulfilled because people leave them half done. They start projects and then they abandon them, leaving the world filled with half-written songs, half-written books, half-painted rooms, half-finished furniture, and so on. \n\nPull out some bread and finish the sandwiches. \n\nWhen God does something, he finishes it. He sees his work through to the end. And the Bible tells us that Jesus is working in us; that He is working in our lives and through our experiences, to help us become mature and complete! The Bible also promises that Jesus will finish this work. God always finishes what He starts!\n\n\n\n" } ] }, { "name": "LARGE GROUP GAME", "actions": [ { "actionType": "play", "content": "Game Time Slide", "files": [ { "name": "Game Time Slide", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/series_graphics/gametime_ws.jpg" } ] }, { "actionType": "do", "content": "### **PUZZLE RACE!**\n\n### **Items Needed:**\n\nTwo 24 to 48 piece puzzles that are made for preschoolers.\n\n### **Instructions:**\n\nRemove one piece from each puzzle (not an edge piece) and hide them in your pocket.\n\nChoose two players to race each other, and see who can put their puzzle together the fastest. \n\nWhen the competition draws to an end, the students will obviously notice that a piece is missing from each puzzle. They may frantically look for the missing piece, or complain. Allow a little bit of frustration to unfold.\n\n\n\n### **Variation:**\n\nAlternatively, you could have just one volunteer, and time them to see how fast they can put a puzzle together.\n\n### **What’s The Point?**\n\nGod will bless us when we live life by following his directions." } ] }, { "name": "Large Group Lesson ", "actions": [ { "actionType": "play", "content": "Lesson Time Slide", "files": [ { "name": "Lesson Time Slide", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/series_graphics/lessontime_ws.jpg" } ] }, { "actionType": "say", "content": "**BOTTOM LINE:** \n\nGod finishes what he starts in our lives.\n\n**OUR OBJECTIVE:** \n\nKids will learn that God is faithful to finish the work he is doing in our lives.\n\n KEY SCRIPTURE: \n\nGenesis 6:9-7:5, 8:1 & 15-17\n\nNoah's Ark\n\n**INTRO**\n\nHave you ever started something that you didn’t finish? Why did you leave that project unfinished? Were you missing some pieces? Did you get discouraged because you couldn’t find the right piece? Did Mom and Dad tell you it was time for bed, and you just forgot to finish what you started? What caused you to walk away from that project and without finishing it? \n\nIf you ever left something unfinished, for example, a LEGO build, don’t feel bad. It’s not the end of the world. LEGO bricks were made to be built, torn down, and rebuilt. Despite what some collectors (and adults) may tell you, they were never meant to be permanent structures. \n\nThere are other, more important things in this life that we need to see through to the end, though. Things like homework, your dinner, or keeping promises. History is full of plans and projects that could have been great, but for some reason they were abandoned. There are unfinished songs, books, works of art, experiments, and even huge building projects that have gone unfinished. For example, about 100 years ago, they started building a subway system underneath the city of Cincinnati. They made extensive plans, dug massive tunnels, put up huge steel reinforcements, poured tons of cement, and then one day, they just quit. To this day, there are still over two miles of unfinished subway underneath the city. \n\nBut God has done far greater things than subways, and he has always finished what he started. Let’s name some incredible things that God has done. Can you think of any? (Allow some answers)\n\n**READ GENESIS 6:9-7:5, 7:12, & 7:24**\n\nMAIN POINT\n\nWhat would have happened if the story stopped right there? What if the story went like this? Noah obeyed God, the rain fell, the earth flooded… The end. Where would that have left Noah, his family and all the animals?\n\nBut Noah’s story doesn’t stop there. Let’s read on…\n\n**READ GENESIS 8:1 & 15-17**\n\nDRIVE IT HOME\n\nNoah’s story didn’t end until God finished what he started. God remembered Noah, and didn’t leave him floating around in a giant boat with a bunch of stinky animals. God brought Noah, his family, and all the animals back to safe, dry ground. Because that is what God is like. He is faithful, and he finishes what he starts.\n\nAnd here’s something really awesome! God invites people like us to join him in his work. He did this time after time, throughout the whole Bible, and he still does it today. What if God wanted to save Noah and his family without Noah’s help? Could God have just made the ark himself, gathered the animals into it, and zapped Noah and his family into the ark when the rain started? Of course he could have! God can do whatever he wants! But when God noticed that Noah was righteous, he decided to partner with Noah to do something great. And let’s notice how Noah responded. When God told Noah what to do, how did Noah react?\n\n**READ GENESIS 6:7 AGAIN**\n\nNoah did everything that God told him to do. Everything! Start to finish. Noah must have really trusted God! And he could trust God, because God is faithful.\n\nWe are so blessed to have a Creator God who has gifted us with different talents and abilities, and who wants to partner with us to do amazing things. So if God calls on us to join his work by befriending the friendless, sharing our faith in Jesus, inviting someone to church, praying for someone every day, serving another person, or showing kindness to our enemies, can we see those things through to the end?\n\nAnd once we’ve started, will God just leave us “floating” around to figure things out for ourselves? No. Because God finishes what he starts. God promised to save Noah and he did. God promised to send a Savior and he sent Jesus. Jesus promised to one day return and he will. God always finishes what he starts.\n\nPhilippians 1:6 says, “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” That means that Jesus is with us, and working through us to complete great things.\n\n**LARGE GROUP MEMORY VERSE ACTIVITY:** \n\nWrite each word of the verse on a poster board. Bring enough kids on stage so each kid can hold one of the words. Then have the kids unscramble the words and put them in order on stage so the audience can read it. \n\n“For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.” -Hebrews 3:4 (NIV)\n\n**CLOSE WITH A SIMPLE PRAYER**\n\nDear God, \n\nThank you for calling on us to partner with you, and for letting us in on the awesome things that you do. Please help us to always trust you to stay with us to the end, because you always start what you finish.\n\nIn Jesus’ name, \n\nAmen" } ] }, { "name": "Small Group Discussion", "actions": [ { "actionType": "play", "content": "Offering Slide", "files": [ { "name": "Offering Slide", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/series_graphics/offering_ws.jpg" } ] }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "Small Group Slide", "files": [ { "name": "Small Group Slide", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/series_graphics/smallgroups_ws.jpg" } ], "role": "" }, { "actionType": "say", "content": "**Icebreaker:**\n\nDo you have any projects that you’ve started at home and not finished? \n\n**Memory Verse Activity:**\n\nHebrews 3:4\n\nPlay the telephone game with the memory verse. \n\n**Small Group/Game Activity:**\n\nPlay a game of musical chairs. Keep going until there’s a winner. Don’t quit! \n\n**Discussion Questions:**\n\nReview first part Noah’s story together, or read Genesis 6:9-7:5\n\nWhat did God tell Elijah to do?\n\n- What do you think Noah was like? \n- What things did God instruct Noah to do? \n- If you were Noah, what would have been the hardest instructions to obey?\n- How did God finish what He started?\n- How do you think Noah felt when he got off the ark?\n- What is something that you would like to see Jesus do in your life?\n- How can you trust God like Noah did?\n\n**Simple Prayer:**\n\nDear God,\n\nThank you for creating us the way you did. Show us the way to live so we can fulfill the plans you have for us.\n\nIn Jesus’ name,\n\nAmen" } ] }, { "name": "CRAFT ACTIVITY", "actions": [ { "actionType": "do", "content": "**CRAFT ACTIVITY**\n\nFinish the LEGO Person\n\nITEMS NEEDED: \n\nLEGO Figure Template\n\nWhite Paper\n\nCrayons\n\n**INSTRUCTIONS:** \n\nCopy LEGO Figure Template before class. You will need one for each child. Pass out supplies.\n\nExplain that the picture was started but not finished. What does this LEGO person look like?\n\nHave kids finish the picture by creating whatever kind of LEGO person they would like.\n\nRemind them that God invites us to join his work, and he is faithful to finish what he starts. " }, { "actionType": "play", "content": "See You next Week!", "files": [ { "name": "See You next Week", "url": "https://files.churchpdf.com/Lift/leader_resources/series_graphics/seeyounextweek_ws.jpg" } ] } ] } ] }