Deep Blue September Family Devotional the earth (genesis : 1-19): september 6–12 september story sunday: Read the following story together as a family
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Deep Blue September Family Devotional THE EARTH (GENESIS 1:1-19): SEPTEMBER 6–12 SEPTEMBER 6 STORY SUNDAY: Read the following story together as a family. In the beginning, there was nothing, but God was there. God spoke, “Let there be light,” and light shined in the darkness. God separated light from dark. God called light Day, and dark Night. God saw that they were good. God said, “Let there be sky,” and a beautiful sky appeared. God saw that the sky was good. God said, “Let there be water and dry land.” God saw that the seas and the earth were good. God said, “Let there be plants and trees.” God saw that the plants and trees were good. God said, “Let there be a sun and a moon, and stars.” God placed the sun in the day sky, and the moon and stars in the night sky. God saw that the sun, the moon, and the stars were good.
care for it the way you care for us. Amen. SEPTEMBER 7 MOVEMENT MONDAY: Light-in-the-Darkness Tag Supplies: flashlights • Everyone gets a flashlight. Turn the lights off in the house or go outside. • Choose someone to be it and to turn on his or her flashlight. This person will tag someone by shining his or her flashlight at someone else. • The tagged person is now it. The original tagger will shut off his or her flashlight, and the new tagger will turn on his or her flashlight and tag another. • Keep playing until everyone has been it, or until everyone is tired. PRAY: Creator, thank you for the light and for the dark. Help us to seek you in the times of light and dark. Amen. SEPTEMBER 8 CREATE TOGETHER TUESDAY: Painting With Creation Supplies: construction paper; a few colors of paint; plates; flower, stick, or something else from nature to paint with • As a family go on a nature walk through your neighborhood. Everyone will need to find something to paint with while they are walking. • Once you are home, give everyone a piece of paper and paints on the plates. Encourage everyone to paint a picture of God’s world using his or her nature item.
all around us. Your creations are incredible! Amen. SEPTEMBER 9 WONDER WEDNESDAY ASK: What existed in the very beginning? (nothing but God) What did God say about all that was created? (It’s good!) What is your favorite creation? (Let everyone answer.) God is so awesomely creative! PRAY: Wonderful God, thank you for the world you created. Help us to create solutions for a better world. Amen. SEPTEMBER 10 THURSDAY LAB: Leaf Prints Supplies: fallen leaves in different shapes and sizes, white printer paper, crayons with papers removed, table • Take a walk outside and invite everyone to choose a few fallen leaves to make their pictures, then return home. • Encourage each person to lay the leaves on the table in front of his or her seat. Invite each person to lay a sheet of white paper over the leaves. • Invite everyone to turn their crayons (with papers removed) on their sides and color over the leaves on the white paper. The leaf shapes will appear on the white paper. • Encourage everyone to outline his or her leaf prints with crayons.
flowers, sand, dirt, lakes, and oceans! Amen. SEPTEMBER 11 FAMILY FRIDAY • Watch this week’s Deep Blue Bible Adventures video in your Deep Blue App. • Sing this month’s song. Watch the music video in your App. PRAY: God, thank you for time together as a family to learn more about you and our world. Amen. SEPTEMBER 12 SERVING SATURDAY: Caring for the Earth Supplies: trash bags, work gloves or latex gloves, hand sanitizer, picnic • Together as a family choose an area park to clean up. • Encourage everyone to gather as much trash as they can. Throw away or recycle the things your family gathers. • Wash hands and share a picnic at the newly cleaned park.
the land, the plants, and all of the animals. How can you help God’s creations? (Give the children time to answer.)
each other and of the earth. Amen. Family Devotional DeepBlueKids.com 5 Permission is granted to duplicate this page for local church use only. c 2015 Abingdon Press. LIVING THINGS (GENESIS 1:20-25): SEPTEMBER 13–19 SEPTEMBER 13 STORY SUNDAY: Read the following story together as a family. After God created light, day, night, sky, earth, seas, and plant life of every kind, God saw that it was good. God spoke, “Let the waters swarm with living things, and let birds fly above the earth.” The waters filled with all kinds of sea animals and the sky filled with all kinds of birds. God saw how good it all was. Then God blessed the animals, telling them to reproduce and fill the seas and the sky. Then God said, “Let the earth produce all living things— wildlife of all kind, all of the livestock animals, and all of the crawling animals.” God saw that it was good.
care for it the way you care for us. Amen. SEPTEMBER 14 MOVEMENT MONDAY: Sleeping Animals • Invite everyone to lay down and pretend to fall asleep. Snoring noises are encouraged. • Ask someone to choose an animal. Everyone will “wake up” and pretend to be that animal. • After a minute, encourage everyone to “fall back to sleep.” • Choose another person to pick an animal. Keep playing until everyone has picked, or until everyone is tired. PRAY: Creator, thank you for all of the animals. Help us to care for them as you do. Amen. SEPTEMBER 15 CREATE TOGETHER TUESDAY: Paper Plate Fish Supplies: paper plates, a few colors of paint, paintbrushes, scissors, glue, wiggle eyes • Give each person two paper plates. Cut fins from one of the paper plates, then glue the fins to the second paper plate.
• Invite everyone to paint their fish however they’d like. • Encourage everyone to glue a wiggle eye to his or her fish.
all around us. Your creations are incredible! Amen. SEPTEMBER 16 WONDER WEDNESDAY ASK: What existed in the very beginning? (nothing but God) God spoke, and everything was created. What did God create in this week’s story? (sea animals, birds, land animals) What did God say about all that was created? (It’s good!) What is your favorite animal? How can we care for that animal better? (Let everyone answer.) PRAY: Wonderful God, thank you for giving us the ability to wonder about the world you created. Help us to use our minds to create solutions for a better world. Amen.
Supplies: birdseed • Take a walk outside and invite everyone to take a handful of seeds. • Encourage each person to scatter the seeds around the yard.
PRAY: Dear God, thank you for birds and seeds! Thank you for the earth! Help us to understand it so we can better care for it. Amen.
• Watch this week’s Deep Blue Bible Adventures video in your Deep Blue App. • Sing this month’s song. Watch the music video in your App.
more about you and our world. Amen. SEPTEMBER 19 SERVING SATURDAY: Help a Humane Shelter • Contact a local animal shelter and ask how your family could help. • Choose a date to go together either to buy things the shelter needs, or to care for the animals.
the animals. How can you help God’s creations? (Give the children time to answer.)
each other and of the earth. Amen. 6 Deep Blue Family Devotional Permission is granted to duplicate this page for local church use only. c 2015 Abingdon Press. IN GOD’S IMAGE (GENESIS 1:26–2:4): SEPTEMBER 20–26 SEPTEMBER 20 STORY SUNDAY: Read the following story together as a family. God had created light, day, night, sky, earth, seas, plant life of every kind, sea creatures, birds of the air, and all of the land animals, but God was not finished with Creation. God spoke again, “Let’s make humanity in our image. They will care for the fish, the birds, the animals, and all of the earth.” God created the humans and blessed them, saying, “Take care of each other, and take care of all the earth.” God saw everything that had been made and it was supremely good. Everything had been created, so God rested. God blessed this day of rest and made it holy. PRAY: Dear God, thank you for creating us in your image. Help us to care for it the way you care for us. Amen. SEPTEMBER 21 MOVEMENT MONDAY: Simon Says • Invite everyone to play. Choose someone to be “Simon.” Invite Simon to get everyone moving their bodies. Some suggested movements are: touch your toes, wiggle your fingers, nod your head, do the wave, touch the sky. Be creative as you explore the ways your bodies move. • Keep playing until everyone has been it, or until everyone is tired. SAY: God created humans in the image of God. What do you think that means? (Let everyone answer.) PRAY: Creator, thank you for creating us. Help us care for our bodies. Amen. SEPTEMBER 22 CREATE TOGETHER TUESDAY: Self-portrait Collage Supplies: construction paper, recycled magazines, scissors, glue • Encourage everyone to look through the magazines and cut out things they enjoy doing, seeing, playing, and so on. • Invite everyone to take a piece of construction paper. Encourage everyone to glue the things they cut out onto their papers. Hang the collages on your fridge. PRAY: God of the universe, thank you for creating each of us to be unique! Amen. SEPTEMBER 23 WONDER WEDNESDAY ASK: What existed in the very beginning? (nothing but God) God spoke, and everything was created. What did God create in this week’s story? (humanity) What did God say about all that was created? (It’s supremely good!) When God created humanity, God blessed them and asked them to care for the earth. How can we better care for the earth? (Let everyone answer.) We are all asked to care for all of the earth. PRAY: Wonderful God, thank you for asking us to care about the world you created. Help us to use our minds to create solutions for a better world. Amen.
Supplies: stamp pads, paper, magnifying glass • Invite everyone to use a stamp pad to stamp his or her fingerprints onto a piece of paper. • Using a magnifying glass, encourage everyone to explore the patterns of everyone’s fingerprints. SAY: Are the fingerprints the same? God created each of us with some of the same things—hearts, lungs, brains—but we are not exactly the same. How would the world be if each of us was exactly the same? Even the tiniest details show us that we are each created specially. What do you think that means about God? PRAY: Dear God, thank you for all people! Help us to understand each other’s differences. Amen. SEPTEMBER 25 FAMILY FRIDAY • Watch this week’s Deep Blue Bible Adventures video in your Deep Blue App. • Sing this month’s song. Watch the music video in your App. ASK: What did Asia, Edgar, and Kat learn today? PRAY: God, thank you for time together as a family to learn more about you and our world. Amen. SEPTEMBER 26 SERVING SATURDAY: Caring for Humanity Supplies: frozen cookie dough, oven, baking sheet • Together as a family, think of a neighbor who could use some cheering up. • Encourage everyone to work together to bake cookies for that neighbor. • Deliver the cookies to your neighbor and say a prayer for them.
SAY: We are supposed to do our best to care for all of the earth, including other humans. How can we continue to help our neighbors? (Give the children time to answer.)
each other and of the earth. Amen. Family Devotional DeepBlueKids.com 7 Permission is granted to duplicate this page for local church use only. c 2015 Abingdon Press. ADAM AND EVE (GENESIS 2:10–3:24): SEPTEMBER 27–OCTOBER 3 SEPTEMBER 27 STORY SUNDAY: Read the following story together as a family. God placed Adam in the garden of Eden to take care of it. God told Adam to eat from any of the trees, except the tree of good and evil because if he ate from it, he would die. God didn’t want Adam to be alone, so God created all of the animals. God brought each animal to Adam to name, but none of the animals was the perfect friend for Adam. So God put Adam into a deep sleep and took one of Adam’s ribs. From the rib, God created a woman. Adam was glad that the woman, Eve, was like him. The smartest animal God made was the snake. The snake tempted Eve with the fruit from the forbidden tree. The snake told Eve that she could eat from the tree and she would not die. She took a bite and gave it to Adam to take a bite. They were ashamed and hid from each other and from God. God was unhappy they had disobeyed. God told Adam and Eve, “Because you have made these choices, you will have to leave the garden.” Even though they had disobeyed God, God continued to take care of Adam and Eve.
loving us anyway. Amen. SEPTEMBER 28 MOVEMENT MONDAY: Act It Out • Choose someone to be each of the characters in the Bible story. You will need an Adam, Eve, snake, and God. Invite everyone to act out the story. ASK: Adam and Eve did not make good choices. What could they have done differently? (Let everyone answer.) PRAY: Creator, making choices can be hard. Help us to think them through and make the best ones we can. Amen. SEPTEMBER 29 CREATE TOGETHER TUESDAY: Good Choices Supplies: markers, craft sticks, jar SAY: When we are bored or have lots of time, it’s easier to make bad choices. Together we are going to think of goodchoice activities we can do when we have extra time or are bored.
• Encourage everyone to think about what activities can be done when your family has extra time. Some suggestions are: reading, cleaning your room, helping a sibling, drawing a picture, and playing a card game. What else can you think of? • Invite everyone to write his or her ideas onto craft sticks. • Encourage everyone to place the craft sticks into the jar and place the jar where everyone can get to it. PRAY: God of the universe, help us make good choices! Amen. SEPTEMBER 30 WONDER WEDNESDAY ASK: The snake tempted Adam and Eve with fruit that God told them not to eat. Plus, this fruit was very special; it would make them see clearly like God. But when they ate it, they were ashamed of what they saw and hid from God. Have you ever felt ashamed? What did you do? We each have choices to make—some big, some small, some easy, and some hard. The great thing is that God will always be with each of us through it. PRAY: Wonderful God, be with us as we make choices. Help us know what is best. Amen. Yüklə 50,85 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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