Children's Teacher: October- December 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. It follows the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outline from the National Council of Churches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781681679655

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CHILDREN’S TEACHER

FOURTH QUARTER 2022

VOL. 39 • NO. 4

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

JOANN GRANT is a native of Memphis, Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she met her husband, the Rev. Walter L. Grant. He is the pastor of Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Cottontown, Tennessee, where she is active in several ministries. Formerly, Mrs. Grant was a computer skills instructor at the Nashville Adult Learning Center, and a technologies specialist for several firms where she was an educational curriculum and technical manual writer. The Grants currently reside in Nashville, Tennessee and have two children: Bryan David and Noria Danielle.

Lesson material is based on the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outlines, copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and is used by permission.

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 4

FOURTH QUARTER 2022 CHILDREN’S TEACHER

UNIT 1 — OCTOBER

MOVING TO A NEW PLACE

UNIT 2 — NOVEMBER

WE ARE GOD’S ARTWORK

UNIT 3 — DECEMBER

GOD PREPARES THE WAY FOR JESUS

This Quarter, Your Children Will Study...

The fourth quarter traces the arc of salvation history from Abraham to Jesus and on to the early church. We will journey through Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, and 1 Samuel showing the move to nationhood. Then we will explore the theme of being chosen through the perspective of the book of Ephesians. This quarter continues the theme Chosen, Not Choice and the peculiarity of God’s calling, which is rooted in grace rather than in humankind’s merit.

UNIT 1— MOVING TO A NEW PLACE

This quarter has five sessions that explore the call of Israel’s family out of Egypt to become a nation. Lesson 1, from Exodus, highlights the birth of Moses, the women who preserved his life, and his call to lead the people out of Egypt. Lesson 2, from Deuteronomy, tells part of the salvation story of the people of Israel so they might remember and be thankful. Lesson 3, from Judges, lifts up the period of Israel’s history when it was governed by judges, particularly telling the story of Gideon. Lesson 4, from I Samuel, chronicles the transition in Israel’s history from the governance of judges to the selection of Saul as Israel’s first king. Lesson 5 tells of the anointing of David as Saul’s successor to the throne.

Unit Points of Emphasis: ___________________________________

UNIT 2—WE ARE GOD’S ARTWORK

This quarter is a four–lesson study of Ephesians. The unit title comes from Ephesians 2:10. In several translations of Ephesians 2:10, the Greek phrase reads we are [God’s] workmanship (e.g., ESV, NASB, NET); but The New Jerusalem Bible begins verse 10, We are God’s work of art. It draws out a unique perspective on the way God has created us. Lesson 6 explores the beginning of the first chapter of Ephesians and the understanding that we are chosen and adopted as children by God through the redemption of Christ. Lesson 7 completes a study of Ephesians chapter 1, with Paul’s prayer that the believers in the Ephesian church might fully understand and access the power and blessings at their disposal because of God’s adoption of them through the saving work of Christ. Lesson 8 shows how Paul reminds the Ephesians that, because of their adoption and God’s love and mercy, they are made alive through the saving power of Christ for the purpose of good works. Lesson 9 is based on the last chapter of Ephesians where Paul encourages the believers in Ephesus to use the spiritual resources, which they have access to because of their relationship to God through Christ, in order to persevere and stand against the evil forces of the world so that they might be Christ’s ambassadors.

Unit Points of Emphasis: ___________________________________

UNIT 3—GOD PREPARES THE WAY FOR JESUS

This quarter begins with two lessons on Zechariah from the opening chapters of Luke’s Gospel. Disappointment and doubt cloud Zechariah’s perspective until the promise of a son becomes reality. This extraordinary experience is the backdrop for Lesson 12—the entrance of John the Baptist, God’s chosen voice to prepare the way for the Messiah. Lesson 13 on Christmas Day celebrates Advent with Mary’s song as she rejoices in the news that God has chosen the humble.

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 (Song to Be Selected)

4. Scripture Reading: Psalms 124 (KJV)

Director: If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

School: If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Director: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

School: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Director: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

School: Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Director: Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

ALL: Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Recitation in Concert:

1 Thessalonians 4:4–9 (KJV)

4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Closing Work

1. Singing

2. Opening Sentences: Deuteronomy 10:17–21 (KJV)

17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.