“I have come that they may have life,
and have it to the full.”
Church and Society
Promoting Justice, Inclusion and Partnership
Evangelism
Teaching sessions and sample
Christian Themes
Topics covered include:
 The Peace
 Ash Wednesday
 Old and New Testament
The Plagues
 The Last Supper
Lent Promises
of ………………………
Things I am going to do for God
Things I am going to stop doing for God
Session One
Peace Tree
Songs:
Peace is flowing like a river
Prayers:
For the areas of the world where there is no peace
Activity:
Collect pictures of war and sadness. Examples:
Make Doves
Stick tissue paper on them
Hang doves on branches stuck in a pot to form a “peace tree”.
Session Two
Lent Ash Wednesday
Each person to receive a Certificate for Lent. (Template included).
Things we are going to do for God. Examples:
 Read the Bible
 Pray
 Go to Church
Things we are going to give up for God;
 Certain foods, sweets, chocolate etc.
 Coffee
Make two large posters with pictures of these things.
Session 3
The Old Testament and the New Testament
Explain that the Bible is made up of two parts. The Old Testament telling about the
things which happened before Jesus, and the New Testament telling about the things
which happened after Jesus was born.
Activity: Make workbooks (6 enclosed for your use) split into two sections and fill with
things which happened before and after the participants were born (e.g. pictures of old
cars, old fashioned ladies in one section and things they would recognise in the other
section).
Litany
Response:
We thank you God.
Thank you God, that you have been with us always.
All:
We thank you God.
We thank you God that you were with people before Jesus was born.
All:
We thank you God.
We thank you God that you are present in good times and bad times
All:
We thank you God.
We thank you God that you are God for all times and the future.
All:
We thank you God.
Session 4
The Story of the Plagues
Summarise the Old Testament story and read simply. (Exodus Ch 7 V14 - Ch 11).
Activity:
Make frogs
Pray:
For people who live under cruel leaders.
Session 5
The Passover and the Last Supper
The Passover is a Festival celebrated by the Jewish people when they remembered
something that happened many years ago.
There was a time when the people were held as slaves in Egypt. They had to work very
hard making bricks for the Pharaoh, or King of Egypt and he treated them cruelly.
Moses was the Jewish leader and he kept asking the Pharaoh to let the people go free,
until he at last agreed.
Very quickly, before the Pharaoh could change his mind, the people prepared to leave
Egypt. They had no time to make proper bread for the journey because they were in
such a hurry, so the women baked flat, thin bread which had no yeast in it.
All Jewish people celebrate the Passover by sharing a meal together with everyone in
the family taking part, and everything on the table will be there for a special reason.
There will be a plate of flat, thin bread called Matzot (could be crumbled cream
crackers) because that is the kind of bread the people made as soon as the Pharaoh said
they could go. There will be a dish of roast lamb to remind everyone how lambs were
sacrificed in Egypt so long ago. Bitter herbs (usually horseradish) will be eaten as a
reminder of all the unpleasant things that happened while they were slaves. There will
also be roasted eggs, green herbs like parsley or lettuce and a mixture of apples, nits
and wine to represent the clay used long ago in the making of bricks. Salt water will be
on the table, perhaps as a reminder of all the tears the people shed in their misery.
Then the youngest child at the meal will ask a special question: “Why is this night
different from all the other nights?” The father will give the answer: “because the
Jewish people were all once slaves in Egypt and God rescued them”. Then the father
will tell all his family the story as described above of the way God, through Moses,
persuaded the Pharaoh in Egypt to let all the Jewish slaves go free. After that they will
sing and rejoice together at this joyful time of the Passover.
Activity:
Act out the meal. Explain that the Passover was the event which Jesus was
celebrating at the Last Supper.
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Washing of feet
Let us keep the feast
The first cup to life
God bless us and share
The mother lights the candles
Eat parsley - good / and salt water - sad
Salt water reminds us of tears
Green parsley is the sign of life
The second cup to freedom
Come share our meal
Questions from the youngest child
Because we were slaves and rescued from a cruel king
Look at bone, lambs blood on doorposts, no frogs
Horseradish and apple sauce reminds them of how cruel the King was
Matzo reminds them of bread
Escape from Eqypt, no time to let bread rise
 Drink second cup
 Eat horseradish and apple sauce
 Then big dinner
 Third cup
 Hide bread for the children to find
 Fourth cup to glory
 Next year Jerusalem, like going to Wembley
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