We Can Celebrate Jesus’ Birth!
Hey families! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 🎄🎄🎄
Welcome to Church at Home! Follow through the instructions, videos, and activities below to create a Mission Kids CHRISTMAS experience right in your living room!! We are so glad you’re here!
You can also head to missionventura.online.church at 11:35 each Sunday for Elementary Live! It’s all the same great content PLUS some fun in the chat!
Love, Mission Kids
This Sunday, we’re discovering…
Main Point: We Can Celebrate Jesus’ Birth!
Bible Story: Jesus is Born (Luke 2:1-7)
WHAT YOU DO
Watch the video! Sing and dance along to the worship songs, watch the Bible story, and connect the big idea to real life!
Talk about each of the questions to keep the conversation going
Do the activity together to have some fun and reinforce the big idea!
Question of the day! (all ages!)
Go around the room and ask the question: “Would you rather live in a giant gingerbread house, or have a red-nose like Rudolph?”
Questions for 1st-3rd Graders
Why did Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem?
Why was Jesus placed in a manger?
“Hope” means to confidently wait/expect something to come or happen. What are some things you hope for?
How does Jesus give us hope?
Questions for 4th-5th Graders
Did anything surprise you about the story of Jesus’ birth?
Read Isaiah 9:6.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Has Jesus ever been any of these things for you? When?
“Hope” means to confidently wait/expect something to come or happen. What are some things you hope for?
How does Jesus give us hope?
3. ACTIVITY
To have HOPE means “to expect with confidence!”
How does Jesus give us hope in our lives?
Use the half sheet in your Christmas kit (or view/print below!) to write (or draw) some ways that Jesus gives you hope in your life!
Hang it somewhere you can see it everyday and be reminded of all the ways that Jesus gives us hope!
YOU DID IT!
We’ve loved celebrating Christmas with you!! We’re wishing your whole family a very merry Christmas — be on the lookout for ways that God gives us hope!
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See you next week at Mission Kids Church at Home!