JOY

Keeping to the structure of Sunday School, this lesson includes praise and worship, a lesson video, a teacher's sharing, and activity instructions and resources. Please pray with your child/ren before you start and follow the progression of the lesson by watching and engaging with the resources sequentially.

KEY PASSAGE

Genesis 45:1-8

Joseph Makes Himself Known

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. 2 And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.

4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! 5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. 6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. 7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.

Genesis 47:12

Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.

Genesis 50:20

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.


SCRIPTURE READING

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

MEMORY VERSE

A joyful heart is good medicine.

Proverbs 17:22

PRAISE AND WORSHIP

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LESSON VIDEO

Age 3-7

TEACHER'S SHARING

ACTIVITY + RESOURCES (below)

Age 3 - 6:

  • Activity: Colour in 'Joy'

    • Colour in the sheet

    • Stick in your fridge/bathroom mirror/somewhere that you visit often to remind you and your family to always be filled with joy.

Joy-craft2.pdf
Joy.pdf

Age 7 - 13:

  • Activity: Joy accordian

    • Print this out, colour it and fold along the lines to create your own joy accordian


Joy-craft3.pdf

PRAYER POINTS

  • Praise God that we can be back at school!

  • For God to be our only source of joy, comfort, and peace during this time

  • Protection for our more vulnerable, elderly brothers and sisters at Church

  • For brothers and sisters who may have lost jobs recently

If you have any other prayer points, please fill in this Google form and we will keep you in our prayers.

SHOW US YOUR WORK

All of the teachers really miss all of the children of our CCCC Sunday School. If you completed any of the work from today's lesson, we would love to see it! Take a photo of it and upload it into our Google drive. (Must be logged into gmail account to upload).