sunday school, week [4]

lesson learned from week four of teaching sunday school:

• notice that it's not lessons, but lesson. there is a lesson i learned this week that is as vibrant as an oklahoma sunset:

a bible treasure hunt is the best idea. ever.

yes, indeed.

i spent all week researching, preparing, and making notecards.

i went up to the church saturday night to set up and get everything ready.

here's how a bible treasure hunt works:

the kids are given a card with a clue (bible verse) on it. 

after looking up the verse, they must figure out what the clue is referring to.  

the answer directs them to another object/place where they will find another card with a verse to direct them to the next.

this continues until the last card directs you to the treasure.

to unlock the treasure, you have to take your clue cards and put the words together that are written on the back. 

[since this is a bible treasure hunt, they put the words from their memory verse in order]

example:

- matthew 7:7. ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened for you. okay, knock... door... the next clue is on a door. 

- john 15:5. I am the vine; you are the braches. if you remain in Me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from Me, you can do nothing. okay, the next clue is on a vine or branch. [outside to the trees we go!]

- 2 corinthians 3:3. you show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. letter. we get letters in the mail. [mailbox]

i was able to come up with 13 bible verse clues.

this week's memory verse is:

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. [matthew 6:21]

where we put our focus and our time, or our treasure, is where our hearts are.

when we put our time and focus on God, we get great rewards (better than any treasure) in return.

the kids liked the treasure hunt.

they were anxious to get to the next clue, sometimes running ahead when they figured it out.

one of the boys told me that it was really fun. totally made it all worth it!

of course, there had to be a treasure at the end of a treasure hunt.