I Spy GI Series 1 Group 3

By Di Allen

We all want to see our children succeed in life.
The God Investigator Series (I Spy GI) has100 Bible stories available.
Good for individual reading, family devotions, or small group ministry.
Includes stories, interviews, activities, memory verse activities, life applications, challenges, video clips, helps for small group leaders and parents.
Series 1, Group 3 includes: Get God Out! and other stories from Samuel: I Spy GI Case 1: You called? (God calls Samuel); I Spy GI Case 2: Get God out! (The Ark is captured); I Spy GI Case 3: We want a king! (The people ask for a king); I Spy GI Case 4: What do you see? (David is chosen). One small stone & other David stories: I Spy GI Case 5: One small stone (David and Goliath); I Spy GI Case 6: Best friends (David and Jonathon); I Spy GI Case 7: Let off! (David lets Saul off); I Spy GI Case 8: You are special (David and Mephibosheth). Let’s Party! and other stories Jesus told: I Spy GI Case 9: Good on you Sam (The good Samaritan); I Spy GI Case 10: Go away! (The neighbour at midnight); I Spy GI Case 11: Found! (The prodigal son); I Spy GI Case 12: Let’s party! (The wedding banquet).
I Spy GI Free Gift is available as a free download so you can see the format this and the other books take. It has four I Spy GI cases (stories) instead of the twelve in the other group books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Di Allen
• Release date: Dec 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310038495

Di Allen

Welcome to the GOD INVESTIGATOR SERIES (I Spy GI)Shh, don't tell anyone! We're spies. We're spying on God! Have you ever thought about God? What’s he like? Is he real? Don’t just go by what others have told you. Why not investigate for yourself?NEW NEW NEW Now you can enjoy all 100 stories in one book. 100 Bible Stories for Children with Interviews and Activities has just been released. Check it out.A GIFT FOR YOU: Two books 'Dead Man Lives' and 'Mary's Baby' are available FREE. I want to be a Christian - now what? is a booklet for those wanting to know a bit more about being a Christian. It's also free.There are now 100 Bible stories in the series, each with related activities.They're great for individual reading, family fun times or small group activities.All the ideas you need are provided.It's a great way to enjoy learning important life skills from God's word.Why not try them? You'll enjoy them.RECOMMENDATIONS"Another very good read, the children enjoy going through them. Well done.""I have been using the I Spy GI Series this year as part of our schooling. The stories are written for all ages, and are easily understood by even the youngest of children. We enjoy reading the stories, based on the Bible, and always have fun doing the activities. By learning one bible scripture each book, the children have found it easy to memorize each verse – and remember it! We would highly recommend this series for any family, Sunday school or children’s group as a wonderful, easy, fun and enjoyable way to learn more about Jesus and the Bible." Brisbane (Au) MumCHECK OUT THE WEBSITE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION

Book preview

Welcome. I’m glad you’re here!

This book isn’t just for reading - it’s for having fun, being part of a team, and discovering some useful things to help you be successful.

Before we start there’s something you need to know – GI stands for God Investigators. Can you remember that? Otherwise you might wonder what it’s all about when you come across I Spy GI.

We’re going to spy on some of the people in the Bible. What can we find out about God? Does it have anything to do with us today?

Check out the evidence. You might be surprised what God investigators find out!

Some of you may have heard these stories lots of times, for others, they’ll be quite new. There’s always something different and new to learn.

Meet some God investigators

Grammy: Hi, I’m the one who’s put this all together. I love kids, and I love Jesus. I hope you’ll have great fun as we work on this together. By the way, I live in Australia. If you live somewhere else in the world, a couple of words in the stories might be spelt differently, or I might say things differently, but I’m sure you’ll work it out.

Gramps: Gramps is a very wise man. That’s partly because he is nearly seventy (actually by the time you read this he might be seventy or more!). Gramps loves Jesus too – he used to be a church pastor. He has some challenges for you and our team of investigators.

EyeSpy01: EyeSpy01 is a special investigator friend of Gramps. EyeSpy01 is his code name. He’s probably just a bit older than you are. He’s quite clever and he loves Jesus. Gramps has asked him to help us with the I Spy GI Life Apps.

Other God investigators: As part of our investigations, some God investigators will be doing an I Spy GI Interview. You can look at a sample interview on Photobucket. They’re using their code names. Read on to find out more about that.

You: We need more help with our investigations. We’re hoping you’ll become one of our investigators too. Will you join the team? We need you. Maybe you’d like to choose a code name to use when you’re doing your investigations.

What exciting things are coming up? I can’t wait to find out!

Some useful things for investigators to know

The Evidence

All good investigators need to examine the evidence. What’s it all about, what happened, who was there? Think about the evidence. What does it mean?

I Spy GI Interview

We pretend to step back in time, to when the evidence took place, to look for an eye witness. You’ll find an interview with someone who might have been there - and we ask them to tell us what happened. When you take up the I Spy GI Challenge, you can choose to be the reporter or the character we’re pretending to interview.

All good investigators should look for eye witnesses, don’t you agree?

I Spy GI Life Apps

Gramps: Apps are things we use to help us. Sometimes life is easy, sometimes it’s hard. Did you know that in his Word, the Bible, God gives us lots of clues about how to be happy and successful?

I Spy GI Life Apps will help us uncover those clues. After each piece of evidence, I ask special investigator EyeSpy01 to report to me on the things he thinks we can learn from this. I hope it will help you.

Think about the evidence yourself. You can probably come up with your own good ideas as well. There’s a lot to learn!

I Spy GI Challenge

Do you like a challenge? Gramps has some challenges for you and the team.

Gramps: OK everyone, are you ready? In each I Spy GI Case there’s a challenge for you. Good luck.

There are three levels of challenge. Which one are you up to?

Challenge Level 1: Act out the I Spy GI Interview

Find someone who’ll act out the I Spy GI Interview with you. It might be a friend, or a brother or sister, or even your mum or dad. You can be the reporter, or the character being interviewed. You can do it, it’s fun!

The scripts are repeated at the end of the book to make them easier to print if you want to use them.

Challenge Level 2: Write your own I Spy GI Interview

This is a tough one, only the most serious investigators will tackle this one. If that’s not you, skip to Challenge Level 3, that’s the fun one.

Read the evidence. Can you think of someone who might have been there when the evidence happened? You can make them up; they don’t have to be real.

Think of some questions you could ask that character about what happened. Write out your story like an interview, with one person asking questions and your made up character answering them.

Because you’re using your imagination, it could be anyone, or anything (even a mouse!). Write out a script using your questions and answers. You might even have better ideas than the ones we used - I wouldn’t be surprised!

Then, find someone near you who’ll do the interviews with you.

If you take up this challenge, we’d love to see your interview. If you want to, you can email it to us - see the contact information at the end of the book.

Challenge Level 3: Make a video clip

The real fun bit, for those who like this sort of thing, is to get someone to make a video clip of you acting out a script. You can use our script or your own script.

You can record the clip using a camera, video recorder, webcam, iPod or phone – anything that can make video clips.

You can see a sample video clip on Photobucket. We’ll tell you how to find it in the contact information at the end of the book.

When you’ve made your video clip, you can upload yours to Photobucket too - if you’re allowed to.

Activ8

Activ8 is a fun activity for you. Sometimes you can do it by yourself, other times you might need a friend or two.

BTG

BTG is our code name for Bible to Go. If we can get God’s word into our mind, we can take it wherever we go. As spies we need to get the advantage over the enemy. BTG will help you do just that. Be like Jesus, he used God’s Word, the Bible, to defeat the enemy. A little training now will last you a lifetime.

Don’t miss it, it’s fun too!

I Spy GI Case Report

At the end of each case you get the chance to report on what you discovered. Did you learn anything new? Were you reminded of something? Did you enjoy an activity? All good investigators report in with their findings.

I Spy GI Club

Do you have a bunch of friends you can get together to have fun with?

You could start an I Spy GI Club of your own.

Read the evidence. Enjoy the activities.

Make scripts and videos. Even upload them to Photobucket.

All the ideas you need are supplied in each book. But let’s get on with the evidence!

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I Spy GI Case 1

You called?

Think spot

What do you do if you wake up in the middle of the night? Do you just lie there and try to go back to sleep or do you get up? Do you wake a parent?

Today’s evidence is about a boy who woke up in the night.

The Evidence

You can read this evidence in a Bible. Look in 1 Samuel chapter 1, chapter 3 and the first verse of chapter 4.

This evidence takes place in Old Testament times – way before Jesus came to the earth. At the time of our evidence Eli was in charge of Israel. He was the High Priest. If you’ve read the I Spy GI book ‘Forgiven’ you might remember hearing about Moses’ brother Aaron. Eli was Aaron’s son. But this evidence isn’t about Eli. Eli is in the evidence but it’s really about a little boy named Samuel.

Samuel’s mum was very, very sad. She had been married for quite a long time but she didn’t have any children (this was before Samuel was born of course!) Samuel’s mother’s name was Hannah. Hannah was embarrassed because she didn’t have any children. The main problem was that her husband had two wives (men had more than one wife in those days), and the other wife had children, but Hannah didn’t.

Do you know what it is like when someone teases you to make you angry? This other lady was really mean to Hannah. Year after year she teased her and teased her because Hannah didn’t have any children and she did. She teased her so much that Hannah would cry and wouldn’t eat. Hannah’s husband really loved her, and he tried to cheer her up. He told Hannah she was better than ten sons. But it was no use. Hannah was desperate to have a baby.

Each year the family went to Shiloh to offer sacrifices to God. That was where Eli the High Priest lived, at the Lord’s house there. One day Hannah was really, really upset. She was praying to God and asking him to help her. She asked God to be kind to her and let her have a baby. She told God that if he’d give her a son, she’d give him back to God and he would serve God all the days of his life.

Eli was sitting in the corner. He saw Hannah. She was talking to God in her heart - her lips were moving but no noise was coming out. Eli scolded her because he thought she was drunk. Hannah told him she wasn’t drunk at all, she was desperately praying to God. Eli asked God to give Hannah what she was asking for. Hannah went home. She stopped being unhappy. After a while Hannah and her husband had a baby boy. She named him Samuel.

Hannah did what she promised God. As soon as her boy was old enough (he might have been about three years old) Hannah took Samuel to the priest Eli. She told Eli that God had answered her prayer, and now she was bringing Samuel to live with Eli so he could to learn to serve God. Each year when the family came to Shiloh to offer their sacrifices Hannah brought Samuel a brand new