March 22 - Fourth day of HOPE

Boy was today fun!

In our Cuddle Zone, the children heard the story of Jesus healing a Deaf man. We realized that Jesus will help us no matter what! We got to play with some musical instruments and had fun "helping" with the Tennis ball game!

In our Discovery Zone, we discussed a difficult topic - Heaven.

We found out that Jesus told his disciples about a house at the Last Supper. After he broke the bread and drank the wine, he told the disciples about his Father's house. When he was talking about his Father's house, he was not talking about Joseph's house that he grew up in, but he was talking about God's House. He told his disciples how God's House had many rooms and had space for everyone who believes. He also instructed his disciples that the only way to God's House was through Jesus. Finally we discussed how God is a part of Jesus and Jesus is a part of God.

After the story, we said a prayer and then played a game where we tried to jump to Heaven. Well not Heaven actually, but a picture on the floor. It was too far for anyone to jump to on one jump, but we soon found out that if we placed rocks on the way, we could get there. Those rocks (going to church, following rules, doing good things) all helped us get to Heaven. It was difficult, but then we learned that if we just ask Jesus to be our savior, then he will make a bridge for us. Just by asking, Jesus will show us the way to Heaven.

Then we moved onto the activity, and what an activity we had! We got to create our picture of Heaven and God's House on paper. We had glitter glue, markers and crayons, pieces of construction paper, foam stickers and many other items to make a spectacular picture. As we made our pictures, we talked about the items that we put on our pictures and why we choose them.

Finally our time came to an end so we blew out our candles and said goodbye until next week!