Session Notes, Saturday, March 22, 2008, 3:00 p.m., Hong Kong
Last week, we made crowns. Before we made the crowns we recited numerous scriptures (about 14 different scriptures) that talked about types of crowns and how they were received by Jesus. So we made the crowns last week, and this week they were still laid on the window-sill in the worship room and they were all dried, so we put velcro on the backs of the finished crowns and everyone got their crown and put it on. We had already been listening quietly in our worship room, to the song entitled “We Fall Down” and part of the song cries “Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb!” just like what the four living creatures were doing at the throne. So we put the cross at the front of the room, and streamed various colored river banners from the cross and everyone was quietly sitting on the floor in front of the cross while listening to the song and then we recited more of the crown scriptures and I asked the children to make sure they heard what the crowns were all about. I asked some questions, 1) What were the 24 elders doing at the throne? 2) What did they do with their crowns? 3) What does it mean to “cast down your crown?” 4) What color were their crowns? 5) What did they say to Jesus at the throne? etc. Then we recited about 10 different scriptures. Then we put the song on and everybody lined up in the back of the room. Then I demonstrated and went first, as the song was playing, I walked slowly up to the cross, took the crown off my head, and laid it at the foot of the cross, and then they were instructed to do what the 24 elders were doing. They were on their face before the Lord, kneeling before his throne. So this is what we did for about 10 minutes. Everybody one by one brought their crowns and laid them at the foot of the cross and then just got on their knees and put their faces to the floor and worshiped while the song “We Fall Down” was playing in the background.
The next project for the day was to pray for Israel. Before the class, I drew a map of Israel on a flat bedsheet and put the major cities in Israel on the map in approximate locations. Then around the outside of the country, I put which seas and countries were bordering Israel. Then on the rest of the outside of the map on the sheet, I drew what looked like bricks to depict the western wall or the “wailing wall” in Jerusalem. So when we taped the map up to the wall, it looked like the wailing wall with the map of Israel right in the middle of it. The children and mothers and all the helpers, gathered around the map and each child prayed whatever the Lord put on their heart to pray for the nation of Israel. I had also described what the significance of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is. Then we declared some scriptures out of Isaiah 60 and 52 about the nation of Israel.
Last week, we made crowns. Before we made the crowns we recited numerous scriptures (about 14 different scriptures) that talked about types of crowns and how they were received by Jesus. So we made the crowns last week, and this week they were still laid on the window-sill in the worship room and they were all dried, so we put velcro on the backs of the finished crowns and everyone got their crown and put it on. We had already been listening quietly in our worship room, to the song entitled “We Fall Down” and part of the song cries “Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb!” just like what the four living creatures were doing at the throne. So we put the cross at the front of the room, and streamed various colored river banners from the cross and everyone was quietly sitting on the floor in front of the cross while listening to the song and then we recited more of the crown scriptures and I asked the children to make sure they heard what the crowns were all about. I asked some questions, 1) What were the 24 elders doing at the throne? 2) What did they do with their crowns? 3) What does it mean to “cast down your crown?” 4) What color were their crowns? 5) What did they say to Jesus at the throne? etc. Then we recited about 10 different scriptures. Then we put the song on and everybody lined up in the back of the room. Then I demonstrated and went first, as the song was playing, I walked slowly up to the cross, took the crown off my head, and laid it at the foot of the cross, and then they were instructed to do what the 24 elders were doing. They were on their face before the Lord, kneeling before his throne. So this is what we did for about 10 minutes. Everybody one by one brought their crowns and laid them at the foot of the cross and then just got on their knees and put their faces to the floor and worshiped while the song “We Fall Down” was playing in the background.
The next project for the day was to pray for Israel. Before the class, I drew a map of Israel on a flat bedsheet and put the major cities in Israel on the map in approximate locations. Then around the outside of the country, I put which seas and countries were bordering Israel. Then on the rest of the outside of the map on the sheet, I drew what looked like bricks to depict the western wall or the “wailing wall” in Jerusalem. So when we taped the map up to the wall, it looked like the wailing wall with the map of Israel right in the middle of it. The children and mothers and all the helpers, gathered around the map and each child prayed whatever the Lord put on their heart to pray for the nation of Israel. I had also described what the significance of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is. Then we declared some scriptures out of Isaiah 60 and 52 about the nation of Israel.
The next project was to learn the movements to a new song called “Our Heart.” It is a song that talks about getting all of the nations of the world to worship the Lord and a song of intercession to those ends. The children caught on to the actions very quickly. We decided who was going to represent various nations because as we do the song, we intercede for whatever nation we wear that costume for.
