March 6, 2011
Hit Me With Your Best Shot Virtue: Courage—being brave enough to do what you should do even when you’re
afraid.
Memory Verse: “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Psalm 56:3, NIV
Bible Story: Hit Me With Your Best Shot (David and Goliath) • 1 Samuel 17:1-50
Bottom Line: When you’re afraid, remember God is with you
9:45 - 9:50 / 11:30 – 11:40 - Classroom Opening Activity “Fear This”
9:50 – 9:55 / 11:40 – 11:45 – Countdown
9:55 – 10:00 / 11:45 – 11:50 Welcome/Prayer/Rule
10:00 – 10:10 / 11:50 – 12:00 Worship:
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10:10 – 10:15 / 12:00 – 12:05 Memory Verse Activity – “Knock Done”
10:15 – 10:25 / 12:05 – 12:15 Video Lesson – “David and Goliath”
10:25– 10:35 / 12:15 – 12:20 – Object Lesson – “Courage Challenge”
10:35 – 10:45 / 12:20 – 12:30 – Small Group Time – “Rock On”
March 6, 2011
Hit Me With Your Best Shot Virtue: Courage—being brave enough to do what you should do even when you’re
afraid.
Memory Verse: “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Psalm 56:3, NIV
Bible Story: Hit Me With Your Best Shot (David and Goliath) • 1 Samuel 17:1-50
Bottom Line: When you’re afraid, remember God is with you
Classroom Opening Activity – “Fear This”
Fear This
SUPPLIES: timer, stopwatch, or watch with second hand.
Divide kids into two teams. Teams will take turns sending a player to the front of
the group for the player to act out something people are usually afraid of. If team
members guess correctly within one minute, that team earns two points. If they
do not, the other team can guess and earn one point. Let teams take turns acting
as time allows. In case kids run out of ideas, be prepared to suggest things
people are afraid of, such as: spiders, the dark, fireworks, being alone, bears,
dogs, heights, bridges, roller coasters, clowns.
When done share with the kids how this month we will learn about COURAGE
and trusting in God even when we are afraid. Lead your group to the large group
area.
March 6, 2011
Hit Me With Your Best Shot Virtue: Courage—being brave enough to do what you should do even when you’re
afraid.
Memory Verse: “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Psalm 56:3, NIV
Bible Story: Hit Me With Your Best Shot (David and Goliath) • 1 Samuel 17:1-50
Bottom Line: When you’re afraid, remember God is with you
Memory Verse Activity – “Knock Down” Game
Supplies – Two sets of five tin cans with the words of the verse and points
divided on them and gross squishy balls
Presentation – Divide the kids into two teams. Show the months memory verse
on the screen and then put one can up at a time. Have the kids all say the words
on each can as you put them on the tables. – have a player from each side come
up and each have 3 balls to try to hit their can down from across the room while
the other kids cheer them on – the team that does it first get’s points. Choose 2
new contestants for the next can and continue until all five cans are gone. When
done have the kids all say the verse and quickly share how it applies to our
everyday lives
March 6, 2011
Hit Me With Your Best Shot Virtue: Courage—being brave enough to do what you should do even when you’re
afraid.
Memory Verse: “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Psalm 56:3, NIV
Bible Story: Hit Me With Your Best Shot (David and Goliath) • 1 Samuel 17:1-50
Bottom Line: When you’re afraid, remember God is with you
Large Group Object Lesson – “Courage Challenge”
Supplies - Cooked spaghetti, jello with gummy worms, canned beans in
separate big buckets, 5 stones in each bucket, 3 buckets with water, 3 blindfolds,
wipes and towels
Presentation –
“I’m so excited to see you guys this morning because we have an awesome test of
courage we are about to witness. It will be exciting, terrifying, amazing … and pretty
messy! How many of you kids would be scared to stick your hand in a bucket of some
slimy unknown substance while blindfolded? That’s right, you can’t even see what you’re
putting your hand into! I have here three containers filled with icky, muddy soil, slippery
slime, and spaghetti that feels just like worms! (Shiver dramatically.) Our contestants,
who are backstage getting blindfolded, have no idea what they’ll be getting into—literally!
But they are going to face their fears as they take on our Courage Challenge! How about
some applause for our brave contestants?
“Here we go, guys. Your challenge is to find five stones buried in the scary, unknown
muck in the bucket. Drop your stones in your pail of water as you find them. Okay,
begin! (Challenge continues until winner gets five stones.) Awesome! We have a winner!
Man, that was really courageous, sticking your hand in the muck like that. These guys
weren’t afraid, not even a little bit. Now THAT’S courage.”
Point Share how this game was funny BUT there are times in life where we may have to face
REAL fears, just like David did in our story. He knew that God would give Him the
courage to face this giant and defeat him. God helps us face giants in our lives and
defeat them too – in this gross game the contestants pulled out rocks just like david used
against goliath – at the end of your small group time today you are all going to get a rock
to take home as a reminder of what God did through David – he can give you the
courage to face even your biggest fears. Chose to trust Him guys and He will help you
fight any battle you ever face in life.
March 6, 2011
Hit Me With Your Best Shot Virtue: Courage—being brave enough to do what you should do even when you’re
afraid.
Memory Verse: “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Psalm 56:3, NIV
Bible Story: Hit Me With Your Best Shot (David and Goliath) • 1 Samuel 17:1-50
Bottom Line: When you’re afraid, remember God is with you
SMALL GROUP TIME: Rock On
SUPPLIES: Rocks with words COURAGE on them
PRESENTATION:
Give each kid a rock. Tell kids you want them to think of one hard or scary thing they
are facing that they need God’s help to do. Then tell them that you’ll lead the group in
prayer and encourage them that God know’s what they are thinking about, hold the rock
while you pray and believe that the same God who gave David courage to face Goliath
can give them courage today. After the prayer, tell kids to take the rocks home as a
reminder to pray each day that God would help them to remember that He is with them,
even when they are afraid. Follow this guideline below if you are unsure of what to say
or pray:
LEADER: “God made these rocks, and God made you. These rocks can remind you that
God is with you. God is your Rock; He is unchanging and steady. Knowing He is with
you can give you courage to do hard or scary things. [Apply] What hard or scary thing
do you need God’s help to do? You can tell Him about it when I pause as I lead us
in prayer right now.
SUGGESTED DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
If you want to talk about what they learned in large group time here are some
suggested questions:
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Why is it so hard to remember that God is with us when we are in a scary
situation?
Have you ever faced a situation that you thought you couldn’t handle? What
happened?
How can we remind ourselves that God is with us even when we are afraid?
What are some situations you are afraid of now? Or think might happen one day?
WHEN FINISHED IF THERE IS TIME remind the kids how if they say the verse at the
end of the month they will get a COURAGE prize. Then have kids find a partner and
take some time to play Rock, Paper, Scissors with each other – they can switch partners
if they want. Play for as long as time allows