It's my turn to teach tomorrow - my once a year. "How Can Young Women and Young Men Work Together to Help Build God's Kingdom?" I found the parables and the topic to be a little tricky to pull together and make engaging. So I decided to focus solely on the Parable of the Sower.
I have some artistic girls, and thought they might enjoy drawing this parable out as a comic strip. But it's also simple enough that all skills can draw it. I am not artistic that way - so I made an example...digitally. I'm printing a larger scale to put on the chalk board while we discuss it. And the girls will each get a blank comic strip to fill out and color during class.
I plan to go through this parable from the 2 Gospels and dive into this one only (instead of the others). I'm also preparing some quotes from this talk:
After discussing the parable, we will go into what WE can do to prepare the soil for the Word of God. I plan to bring different soils to show what good rich soil looks like compared to rocky soil (mostly rocks). If I taught the younger class I would have them plant something. And might still run that by my 15 yr old and see if she thinks it's too young.
Me - I LOVE to plant and grow things. We will definitely talk about the joy of sharing the gospel and watching someone else's testimony grow and how that impacts us - and what we can do to prepare the soil of others, so it's ready for the seed. While emphasizing that in this parable the seed is the WORD, not our testimonies. That's why I'm not doing the mustard seed parable. It's most often references in conjunction with faith. The lesson is about what we can do to to help Build the Kingdom - prepare the soil.
You can download the comic strips and the big prints below.
COMIC STRIPS
BIG PRINT
*Note, the big prints will take a little cut and tape because some images are bigger than a page. Print on cardstock.
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