EMMANUEL Children’s Church Program
EMMANUEL – GOD WITH US E - Eminent and immanent M – Moving the king’s residence M - My home is your home A – Always and forever N – Near and far U – Us E - ETERNITY L – Let’s Celebrate
WEEK 3 M – MY HOME IS YOUR HOME
WEEK 3 M - My home is your home If Jesus came to your house Talk to the children about their week and pray about any concerns. Take up offerings Where does God live? Talk about God walking with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Moses and the burning bush The Israelites time in the wilderness – the fiery cloud pillar, the Tent for God Talk about the Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) when the Jews build booths and remember God’s care of them in the wilderness The Building of Solomon’s temple Beautiful churches around the world But is God only in the churches? No So why do we go to church? – so we can gather together to praise God He wants a temple not built with hands He wants His Holy Spirit to live in people’s lives Jesus says “Behold I stand at the door and knock If any man hears me and opens the door I will come in and dine with him and he with me Remember last week we said about the royal standard being flown to show that the king is in residence. How do we know if Jesus is living with us? The evidence of our lives love joy etc Read the Poem and discuss it with the children. What would they do if Jesus came to their home? Do the colouring/craft activities Make a circle and pray for the week ahead
Joy is the Flag Joy is the flag flown high From the castle of my heart From the castle of my heart From the castle of my heart Joy is the flag flown high From the castle of my heart When the King is in residence there (So) let it fly in the sky Let the whole world know Let the whole world know Let the whole world know (So) let it fly in the sky Let the whole world know That the King is in residence there.
22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'