WEEK 4 - PRACTICAL LIVING � A Real Life Example of Perseverance MATERIALS: a guest speaker or a book about someone who persevered OBJECT: We want the children to get a chance to see perseverance applied in someone’s life. If they see an example of it applied, then maybe they can see how they can apply it in their own life, making this very practical for learning how we are to live! This week, find someone in your church or community who you know has had to go through something very difficult. This could be someone who has survived cancer, someone who has been in a serious accident and had to overcome or even someone who has had to endure through financial hardships. Have this person some of their feeling about the situation while they were in it and what they did to cope with their feelings. Have the person share what encouraged them during that time, so that if we know someone else who is going through a similar situation we might know a way to encourage them. Have this person share what some of the hardest parts were about the problem they had to endure. Maybe they couldn’t do something that they loved. Did they do something to try to overcome it? Have the person share what some of their greatest victories were. Did they become closer with the Lord? How was God there for them in the hard times? Allow the children to ask questions of the speaker. If the children don’t have questions, have a few that you like to ask that may get the children thinking about what they would like to ask. If you are not able to find a guest speaker, read the children a book about someone who persevered. In your local library, you can find many books on people who never gave up. Here are some people who you can look up: Joni Erickson Tada -paralyzed by a diving accident in her teens Owens -overcame crippling childhood disease Abraham Lincoln - lost many elections before he ever was elected president Jackie Robinson (in the Book of Virtues) who overcame racism to play in the major leagues
WEEK 4 - PRACTICAL LIVING � A Real Life Example of Perseverance MATERIALS: a guest speaker or a book about someone who persevered OBJECT: We want the children to get a chance to see perseverance applied in someone’s life. If they see an example of it applied, then maybe they can see how they can apply it in their own life, making this very practical for learning how we are to live! This week, find someone in your church or community who you know has had to go through something very difficult. This could be someone who has survived cancer, someone who has been in a serious accident and had to overcome or even someone who has had to endure through financial hardships. Have this person some of their feeling about the situation while they were in it and what they did to cope with their feelings. Have the person share what encouraged them during that time, so that if we know someone else who is going through a similar situation we might know a way to encourage them. Have this person share what some of the hardest parts were about the problem they had to endure. Maybe they couldn’t do something that they loved. Did they do something to try to overcome it? Have the person share what some of their greatest victories were. Did they become closer with the Lord? How was God there for them in the hard times? Allow the children to ask questions of the speaker. If the children don’t have questions, have a few that you like to ask that may get the children thinking about what they would like to ask. If you are not able to find a guest speaker, read the children a book about someone who persevered. In your local library, you can find many books on people who never gave up. Here are some people who you can look up: Joni Erickson Tada -paralyzed by a diving accident in her teens Owens -overcame crippling childhood disease Abraham Lincoln - lost many elections before he ever was elected president Jackie Robinson (in the Book of Virtues) who overcame racism to play in the major leagues
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