Children's Teacher: July- September 2022

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

Children’s Teacher is a teacher’s quarterly for children 11 and under. In addition to the exposition of the printed text, each of the thirteen lessons includes the purpose of the lesson, extensive teaching plans, lesson introduction, background of the lesson, meaningful insights, and related activities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Jun 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781681679549

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Third Quarter 2022 Vol. 39 • No. 3

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CHILDREN’S TEACHER

THIRD QUARTER 2022

VOL. 39 • NO. 3

Teaching Companion to Growing with Jesus, Young Learners, and Adventurers with Jesus

Children’s Teacher is a teacher’s Sunday school quarterly designed to be used as a companion teaching tool to Growing with Jesus, Young Learners, and Adventurers with Jesus. In addition to the exposition of the printed text, all lessons include the purpose of the lesson, extensive teaching plans, lesson introduction, background of the lesson, meaningful insights, and related activities.

MEET YOUR WRITER

TERESA DOUTHITT GOINS was introduced to Jesus in a small country church in Kentucky and has served God for 45 years, currently, at Southern Star Missionary Baptist Church, Louisville, as pianist, youth choir director, and Sunday School teacher. She also writes for the American Baptist Newspaper (KY) and serves as a board member of PLC Global Initiative, which provides for disadvantaged children in Nigeria. Teresa has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Kentucky State University and is a retiree from Kentucky State Government. She attributes her love for the church to her parents and is today fiercely devoted to her beloved son Geoffrey and granddaughter Madison.

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Scriptures taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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CONTENTS

VOLUME 39 • NUMBER 3

THIRD QUARTER 2022

CHILDREN’S TEACHER

This Quarter, Your Children Will Study...

Members of Christ’s body have the grand opportunity to be co-laborers with the ever-abiding Spirit of God in reconciling, re-creating, and rightly restoring all things in the eternal reign of God. This summer quarter considers ways in which believers are partners with God in creation.

UNIT 1— AN AGENT OF CREATION

Unit I, An Agent of Creation, has five lessons taken from John’s Gospel. The lessons stress how the Creating Word, at work in and with humanity, became flesh, healed the sick, saved the lost, resurrected the dead and granted—through the Holy Spirit—peace.

Unit Points of Emphasis: _________________________________________________

UNIT 2—THE GREAT HOPE OF THE SAINTS

Unit II, The Great Hope of the Saints, is a four-lesson study drawn from Revelation. The study helps learners envision the new home and city God has prepared for the redeemed. In this new heavenly environment, the saints will enjoy the new water of eternal life.

Unit Points of Emphasis: _________________________________________________

UNIT 3—GOD CALLS ABRAHAM’S FAMILY

Unit III, God Calls Abraham’s Family, has four lessons from Genesis. Lesson 1 examines the call of Abraham, who was then known as Abram. Lesson 2 reveals how God chose the younger of Isaac’s sons instead of the older, which would have been expected. Lesson 3 shows how Jacob received the name Israel–the same name that would later be associated with the nation that grew from Abraham’s descendants. Lesson 4 offers yet another example of God’s choosing apart from cultural norms when Judah, Jacob’s fourth son, is called to head the family from which the Messiah would one day be born.

Unit Points of Emphasis: _________________________________________________

SEEKING GOD’S GUIDANCE

Suggested Opening Exercises

1.Usual Signal for Beginning

2.Prayer (Closing with the Lord’s Prayer)

3.Singing (Songs to be Selected)

4.Scripture Reading: 1 Chronicles 16:8–15 (KJV)

Director: Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.

School: Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.

Director: Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

School: Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.

Director: Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

School: O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Director: He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

All: Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

Recitation in Concert:

Philippians 1:2–8 (KJV)

2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Closing Work

1.Singing

2.Opening Sentences: Proverbs 3:3–10 (KJV)

3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

3.Dismissal with Prayer

Lesson 1 for Week of July 3, 2022

IN THE BEGINNING

Background Passage: John 1:1–14

Lesson Passage: John 1:1–14

UNIFYING TOPIC

The Creating Word Becomes Flesh

LESSON SECTIONS

I. Jesus, the Word and the Light (John 1:1–5)

II. John the Baptist’s Witness (John 1:6–9)

III. We Can Become God’s Children! (John 1:10–14)

KEY VERSE

The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14, NRSV)

BIBLICAL EMPHASES

1. Jesus was with God since the beginning of time.

2. Jesus is the Light in a dark and sinful world.

3. Jesus was rejected by many of His own people, the Jews.

UNIFYING PRINCIPLE

People are often curious about how things began. How do we understand the origins of life? John begins by explaining that Jesus, the Word, was God’s creating and redeeming agent in the world.

LESSON EMPHASES

• Jesus is the Word (logos), who came to earth to communicate God’s love to all people.

• Those who accept Jesus will be saved from their sin.

Target Emphases

PRESCHOOLERS: Preschoolers may be afraid of the dark.

YOUNGER CHILDREN: Younger children understand the difference between darkness and light.

OLDER CHILDREN: Older children can comprehend that darkness represents sin and that Jesus came to be the Light in the darkness.

Materials Needed to Teach

For further reference, see today’s lesson from Boyd’s Commentary, New National Baptist Hymnal, 21st Century Edition.

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Suggested Teaching Plan

GROWING WITH JESUS

MATERIALS NEEDED: A small electric lamp; and one small note each for the children, on which is written, Jesus is the Light.

GETTING STARTED: Begin class with prayer. Ask God to open the children’s minds to accept Jesus as the Light in the darkness.

A GREAT BEGINNING: Ask the children if they have ever been afraid of the dark. Let them talk about their experiences. Are they afraid when they lie down at night, when it is dark outside?

AN IMPORTANT LESSON: Tell the children that they do not have to be afraid because Jesus is our Light in the darkness. To demonstrate, turn off all the lights in the room; then, turn on the electric lamp. Assure the children that Jesus is our Light when everything else around us is dark.