This week we reached the end of the Old Testament! We learned how God brought back the people from slavery (again), and how the people started to feel really sad when the law was read to them and they realised how badly they’d messed things up. Ezra reminded them of how much God loved them,…
Rocks and Topz started off with some fun Jonah and the whale games. We then heard the story and we talked about prophets and also how it’s sometimes really hard to do the right thing. We have the Holy Spirit to help us even when we are confused, angry or scared. God loves us whatever…
We had a game of sleeping lions but Judah, Lydia and Beana were just too good! Grace who was helping us, read the story of Daniel and the lions den. We talked about how we know the ending but that Daniel didn’t and how he might have felt. Daniel did lots of things right unlike…
In Rocks and Topz this week, we spent a lot of time thinking about names! We talked about what each of our names mean (some of them seem to fit better than others…) then looked at a section from Isaiah, whose name means ‘God to the rescue!’ Isaiah lived about 700 years before Jesus was…
We heard about the story of the slave girl who wanted to make sure her master Naaman was healed from leprosy. She had a forgiving heart but Naaman’s was rather proud and hard. He eventually did what had been asked of him and his skin was healed on the outside but his heart was also…
Today, Rocks and Topz heard how David was a shepherd and loved to make music. He wrote many Psalms including Psalm 23 – featured in the Jesus Storybook Bible. It tells us of Jesus the Good Shepherd. The children made some tiny figures of themselves to add to a map. This is a reminder that…
They looked at the very well-known story of David and Goliath. Even though Goliath was big and scary, David knew that God was with him. He couldn’t defeat the giant by relying on his own strength or power, but only by relying on God. They decided that even though we’re unlikely to face an actual…
Rocks and Topz was teeming with life on Sunday as they enjoyed having lots of visitors in the group to celebrate Easter! They went looking for Jesus among the tombs, but didn’t find him as he’d come back to life (one of the attached photos shows what they found instead)! They made a fun Easter egg to…
The children did a great job in hunting down some puzzle pieces to make up a picture of Samuel anointing David. We also had a choosing game to see what images we would choose and gave the reasons why. We heard the story of God choosing David – despite him being the youngest, weakest and out with…
Rocks and Topz started off with a game of ‘Jericho drop’ to get limbered up and then heard the story of Joshua and the Israelites facing Jericho. The Israelistes followed what Joshua had told them and what he in turn had heard from God. Even if it sounded really weird! Walking around the walls in…
The children looked at the next part of the Israelites’ journey – they had seen God do some amazing things to rescue them from Egypt, but they were really forgetful and started to grumble about how hard life was, even though God was still looking after them! God also gave them 10 rules that would…
This week, Rocks and Topz talked about the next step of God’s rescue plan – he’d already brought the Israelites out of Egypt, but when they were faced with the Red Sea, all the people could do was PANIC! But Moses remembered to trust God, and God rescued his people again in a really surprising way!…