Dollar Store Item: Advent Candle, Things to prepare for a visitor (Tube of Toothpaste, Towel, Extra Food, Tea, Coffee, Juice), How do we prepare for a guest at the Lord’s Table? How do we make one feel welcome? Letters, Greeting Cards (for all the kids).
The Take Away: Teaching the 2nd candle of the Advent Wreath means, “Peace.” How do we prepare for a visitor to come? How might we prepare for Jesus?
Video:
Narrative Lectionary
Text: Joel 2:12-13, 28-29
Dollar Store Item: Piece of String, “All” of something – Congregation
Text: Jeremiah 33:14-16, 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13, Luke 21:25-36
Dollar Store Item: Church Directory, Alarm Clock, Advent Candles, Christmas Lights
The Take Away: We see all the ways that we know Christmas is coming, and Jesus reminds us to be awake and alert to the ways Jesus comes to us. We help Jesus be seen in this world with how we love one another, and the world. Church Directory for the 2nd Reading, and how we give thanks for all those who bring us joy!
Video:
Bonus Video:
Narrative Lectionary – Daniel’s Hope in God
Text: Daniel 6:6-27
Dollar Store Item: First Advent Candle
The Take Away: We light the First Advent Candle which is “Hope.” Daniel hoped in God’s deliverance, and we have hope in our God for the coming of Jesus.
Dollar Store Item: A gift from a good friend, a sibling of choice.
The Take Away: We will talk about Kin-dom, vs. Kingdom. About how we are called as siblings in Christ, part of the larger Kin-Dom, living out the love and reign of Christ.
Video:
Narrative Lectionary
Text: Jeremiah 36:1-8, 21-23, 27-28; then 31:31-34
Dollar Store Item: Frixon Pen, Frozen Ice Pack, Wash Cloth.
The Take Away: We are called to tell God’s story again and again, even when loving is hard.
Sunday: All Saints Sunday or 24 Sunday after Pentecost
Revised Common Lectionary – Year B
Text: John 11:32-44, Mark 12:28-34
Dollar Store Item: Paper Towel Roll, Fan, Jumprope, Papercups and String.
The Take Away: Jesus calls first, the Spirit blows on all of us! Two commandments sum up the law and help us hear and see God in this world.
Video:
(I mentioned a DSCS using a paper bag magic trick… I looked and couldn’t find it… so here is a response to someone (Thanks, Josh) that asked about it:
Hey Josh! Took me a while to find it, but here is the link that shows you how to make the bag…
But I can’t find the sermon for All Saints Sunday that I used it with. So I will briefly go over it now.
First the link to the making the bag (if you have questions about it, ask me please):
So, after you make the bag…. Inside the main compartment, you have slips of paper that you have printed a star on each slip (folded up into quarters)… but every single one of them has a star on it, and are folded up and put in the main compartment. You do not show the kids the inside of the bag.
You have outside of the bag in a little bowl other slips of paper that are blank… except for one. You show the one that has the star… fold that into quarters, and put it in the main compartment. You then show that the others are blank. You put these into the hidden compartment (which will make sense when you watch the video).
So you have essentially taken all the blank slips of paper out of play.
You then say, “For this, I am going to need the help of one special person… and you are going to reach in and grab a slip of paper. You are not going to look at it yet.”
Everyone takes a slip of paper.
“Now you are going to look at your paper secretly, and you aren’t going to say whether your paper has a star on it or not…”. (Every single one has a star on it).
“Ok, on the count of three, the person that has the star is going to put their hand in the air and say, “It’s ME!!!!”
Dollar Store Children Sermons 