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I Spy GI Series 2 Group 2
I Spy GI Series 2 Group 2
I Spy GI Series 2 Group 2
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I Spy GI Series 2 Group 2

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We all want to see our children succeed in life.
The God Investigator Series (I Spy GI) has 100 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 2, Group 2 includes: Coming Again and other stories about heaven: I Spy GI Case 1: How to get to heaven (Rich man and Lazarus); I Spy GI Case 2: Coming again (Prophecy about the return of Jesus); I Spy GI Case 3: A peep into heaven (Heaven in Revelation); I Spy GI Case 4: Get ready! (Wise and foolish virgins). Promises other stories about Abraham and Isaac: I Spy GI Case 5: Promises (Gods promises to Abraham); I Spy GI Case 6: A Lot of trouble (Trouble with Lot); I Spy GI Case 7: Testing time (Abraham’s test with Isaac); I Spy GI Case 8: Find a wife (A wife for Isaac). Stairway to heaven and other stories about Jacob: I Spy GI Case 9: Family Feud (Jacob and Esau); I Spy GI Case 10: Stairway to heaven (Jacob’s ladder); I Spy GI Case 11: Tricked! (Jacob is tricked); I Spy GI Case 12: Together again (Jacob and Esau make up).
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.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherDi Allen
Release dateDec 6, 2013
ISBN9781311108975
I Spy GI Series 2 Group 2
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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

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    I Spy GI Series 2 Group 2 - Di Allen

    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

    How to get to heaven

    Think spot

    Are you any good at directions? Do you know the way to some places? What’s the most distant place you know how to get to?

    The Evidence

    Before you begin, if you are reading this to others, you might like to use two bags as props. In one bag, have lots of play money. In the other bag, have a small Bible.

    You can read this evidence in a Bible. Look in John chapter 16 verses 5-7, John chapter 14 verses 1-6, Luke chapter 16 verses 19 to 31 and 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 13 to 18.

    Most people like to have some idea about what will happen in the future. Some people do strange things to try to work it out. Some try to read tea leaves. Some read magic cards. Some make messages by the star signs. Others try to talk to dead people. They try all sorts of things.

    God doesn’t want his people to do any of those things. We don’t need to. Why? Because God has already given us all the information we need. It’s in the Bible.

    There are lots of exciting things to look forward to, and maybe some hard times as well. But the good thing is that, when the hard times come, we have all the help we need to get through them.

    Hold on to your seats, investigators, what will you discover? I think this could be the most exciting set of investigations yet.

    The first thing we’ll investigate is what Jesus said about how to get to heaven. I think that’s a very good place to start.

    If you’ve done the I Spy GI cases from the book ‘Do you love me?’ you might remember what the friends of Jesus were told, when they saw him go up into the clouds. The two men in white, who were suddenly standing there with them, (do you think they were angels?) told them that Jesus would one day come back, the same way they’d seen him go. That was the promise.

    Jesus had gone back to heaven to be with God. Will he really come back one day?

    Don’t worry

    Can you imagine what it would be like to travel for three years with Jesus? You could watch him heal lots of people, and bring dead people back to life. You could see him walk on water, and calm storms, and feed thousands of people with a tiny bit of food. And he would personally teach you everything you needed to know about God, and his kingdom. What could be better than that?

    Jesus told his friends, the disciples, that he would be leaving them sometime. But he said it would be even better for them, when he went away. Why? Because when he got back to heaven, he said he’d send the Holy Spirit, to help them. When Jesus was

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