A Peek Inside The Sunday School Curriculum

In Sunday School this week, we’ll be helping the kids link Jesus’ ideas and examples that we’ve already discussed, namely: healing, loving (specifically: loving enemies), peace-making, and giving to Jesus’ idea and example of sacrificing. All of these words describe what the kids are doing through the Pennies For Peace drive (which we’re wrapping up this Sunday, incidentally, so that we can announce our total haul at the Kids Lead next Sunday, March 29). We will write out these words for the kids on the easel and review them all and their connection to the Pennies For Peace drive before then introducing them to the idea of “sacrifice.”

After that we will tell them the story of the widow who gives a couple of copper coins or pennies (“all that she had”) for the sake of the poor in Mark 12: 41-44. And then to further illustrate the idea of sacrifice and tie it to Pennies For Peac, we could ask them what else they might have spent the money on that they’re giving to Pennies For Peace–a toy? clothes? candy? Then we can emphasize that whatever else they might have spent that money on has been sacrificed for the sake of helping build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan.