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SOURCE: SDC Sunday Liturgy Resources
Children’s Messages
SOURCE: Ministry to Children
Healing
OBJECTS: None
Have you ever been very sick? Even if it doesn’t happen very often, most everyone gets sick sooner or later.
There’s nothing much worse than being sick – but some illnesses are much better to have than others. Certain things can make you feel awfully bad – and yet if you take the right medicine you can feel much better very quickly. They have a terrific healing power.
This week’s gospel story is about a sick girl that Jesus makes well. Just like last week he performs a miracle and heals her from a terrible illness.
SOURCE: Sermon Writer
The Touch of Faith
OBJECT: See examples in text of lesson
You are blessed with five senses. You gather information by seeing with your eyes, by hearing with your ears, by tasting with your tongue and mouth, by smelling with your nose, and by using your hands to touch things.
Today let’s talk about our sense of touch. We learn a lot by touching things. Close your eyes and feel the object I put into your hands. Tell me what you know about the object without looking at it. (Use various children to demonstrate the idea.)
- A piece of satin cloth or binding – This object feels soft and smooth.
- A pencil – This object is long and thin, sharp at one end, an eraser at the other end.
- An apple – This object is hard and round. It has a stem.
- An ice cube – This object is cold and wet.
- A thistle – Be careful – this object is sharp and hurtful.
SOURCE: Sermon Writer
Children’s Book of the Week
Word of the Week
HOPE
The Survivor Tree
Hope is absolutely the dominant theme of the Survivor Tree. This story takes the reader on a journey of hope and healing that parallels our own nation’s journey following the events of September 11, 2001. For one month, a 20 year old pear tree lay underneath the smoking rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center. Scarred, broken, and burnt, it was rescued by site workers and taken to a nursery to be nurtured back to health. As it slowly heals, the tree recalls its previous life in New York City, noting the people and events it experienced. Finally, in December 2010, the tree, known as the Survivor Tree, is replanted at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza, where its presence is a symbol of hope and resilience.
Activity: Tree of Hope
Step One: On a bulletin board or one of the classroom walls, construct a tree trunk and branches using brown construction paper or foam board. Make sure the tree has no leaves as the students will be given green construction paper leaves to place on the tree.
Step Two: Provide the students with two or more leaves on which they will write one hope for themselves and one or more hopes that they have for the world.
Step Three: Design a prayer service during which students can place their leaves on the tree. Each day, you may wish to focus on one of the hopes in the class’s daily prayer.














