Ling Siew Woei’s Journey

This Sunday teaching is about the Bible verse ” I am the light of the world.”

In fact, being the light of the world also means being a peacemaker for all the people around you.

OK back to the activities. I think it was by God’s will that the activities turned out like last Sunday. Also this idea comes along when I think of Daniel’s birthday-exactly on the Sunday itself.

1. circle time-sung God is Good and the song I wrote myself Jesus and I

2. Gave each child a candle biscuit and sung This little light of mine. of course, go along with the actions.

3. Celebrate Daniel’s birthday. Emphasised on the candle.

4. Gave each child a cupcake with candle on it. Get them to sing the song again and blow the candle. Get them to move around too.

5. Group them together and get them to pray to transform them to Jesus’s lamb and become the light of the world

6. light the special candle on a cupcake

7. get them to blow the magic candle and witness how the candles are light again automatically (they had real fun!)

8. when the candle goes off, said a prayer “Jesus, make me the light of the world’

9. allow the children to eat the cupcake and summarise and give out worksheet.

I am not sure how much my children understood the activites but I think they had enjoyed themselves so much, especially trying to blow off the magic candles. Have to thank Daniel and God for giving me the idea.

I had hard time to decide whether to convey this message to the children. They are only 3 &4 years old. I was asking myself how to convey this message to them?

As usual, if I want to do it, idea would come later. The holy spirit gradually refined my ideas. This was what I did last week.

I had this song written:

Jesus and I are both good friends

I am the lamb and He is my shepherd

Jesus said to me and I must remember

I am the salt of the earth and light of the world

Steps:

Get the children to change water to Ribena again

Showed them salt and asked if anyone knows what it is, no one knows

Get them to wash their hands

gave them each a pinch of salt to taste

Everyone mimicked their face

Get them to drink their Ribena.

I told them that the food that they tasted was salt and it was salt Salt is an important ingredient for cooking. It adds flavour and bla bla bla.

Next step: Role Play

Told them I just came back from the market and brought some vege

We will be cooking vegetables

Did some action-chop vege, fry vege, put in 3 pinch of salt, food tasting-yummy

They played with the set and put in salt

I went around tasting their food and reminded them that food taste well with salt

Salt must not lose it saltiness else we don’t need it anymore

Jesus changed water into wine. To illustrate the story and to allow the children to understand the miracle, I get them to change drinking water to RIBENA. Ribena was choose because of the similarity of color and most important, every children loves Ribena. This is what I thought. I found out that Jaye does not like Ribena. Thought she changed the water to Ribena, she refused to drink it.

I finally found my e-mail address. it is as above. the 3 stands for God, Jesus and Holy Spirit-the trinity. As for the whale-I guess I like the idea of how Jonah was locked( actually trapped) inside the whale’s stomuch for three days. During the time, he realised his mistake and repented. I know we are all sinners and in one or another way alsways sin. We need this place to repent.

Hope one day, my dream would come true. pssst…I didn’t spell out my dream right? No need lah. God knows and He will do what He things is right for me.