Psalm 23: My Good Shepherd anoints my head with oil

1. Lesson (based on Psalm 23:5b)

• HOOK:

• How do you welcome important guests to your house? We shake their hands, greet them, introduce ourselves. (Ask the children to demonstrate with a partner the way they would welcome their guests.)  
• Do you know how people in different cultures greet each other? (Act it out and get kids to imitate) 
• Japanese:  greet each other with a bow from the waist with palms on thighs and heels together. A bow ranges from a nod to a 90-degree bend at the waist. The longer and lower you bow, the more respect shown.
• India: touch the feet of the elderly, e.g. grandparents
• Brazil: kiss two times on each cheek
• Cambodia: put two hands together in front of you. The higher the hands, the more respect shown. 
• During Jesus’ time, it was customary for the Jews to show honor and respect to their guests by anointing their head with oil, kissing them and washing their feet. When Jesus came to Simon the Pharisee’s house, he did not get any of this special treatment (Luke 7:46). But a “sinful” woman came to anoint Jesus’ feet with the most expensive perfume she had and washed his feet with her tears and hair.

 

tNCC Family Camp 2012: Count on Him Everyday

Session 3: Count on Him Everyday

1. Hook: Guess the Baby

• Get photos of the kids when they were babies, and get everybody to guess who they are today

2. Lesson:

• Everything is changing around us. The earth is turning. The seasons are changing. People say, “The only thing constant in life is change.”  
• Everybody is changing. Every second. Every day. One day we’re small, helpless little babies. Then we grow up … we become older, taller, wiser, fatter etc.  
• People around us may change. Yesterday we were best friends. Today we’re enemies. Tomorrow we’re friends again. They may fail us and disappoint us and let us down.  
• But one person doesn’t change. He never changes. He remains the same always. His name is Jesus. We can count on Him everyday – yesterday, today, forever.
• Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.