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God's Story || The words come up on the music video || Memory Verse: Psalm 67: 2-3 MayYour ways be known throughout the earth, Your saving power among people everywhere. May the nations praise You, O God, Yes, may all the nations praise You! || God Chapters and the timelines (could use the people at the bottom of the page to make people holding hands and a chart for the wall.) Cultures: needs to be rewritten: something about 6,000,000,000 people, 232? countries and 16,000 languages. I realise that 16,000 refers to ethnic groups but this is a whole concept we would need to teach here. and what is the definition of an ethnic group,- a language, customs and culture (customs, dress, food, language.) (define that to primary age children without using adult definitions!! The PP could also include the Tower of Babel story, beginning of cultures . || [] || another cool story media type="youtube" key="S3cXIb3Jntk?fs=1" height="385" width="480" straight out of the Hero stories The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Missionary Five-year-old Hudson Taylor sat at the dinner table with his family. The adults were talking about foreign countries. Hudson was fascinated. However, he dared not speak unless someone spoke to him first. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” someone finally asked. “I want to be a missionary to China,” he answered right away. His family smiled at his little-boy dreams. But Hudson was right. God did not let him forget his childhood wish. At 18, he began to study seriously to be a missionary to China He started learning Chinese. He could not afford a tutor or a Chinese dictionary, so he bought small copies of the gospels of Luke and Matthew in Chinese. By studying these, and comparing them with his English dictionary, he made his own dictionary with over 600 Chinese characters. Hudson trained himself to live very simply. He sold his soft feather mattress, and bought an old, hard, lumpy one to sleep on. He ate only a loaf of bread and a pound of apples each day. And he gave away almost everything he owned. Hudson also studied medicine in school, working as a doctor’s assistant to learn all he could. He was paid for his assistant’s job, but not very much. Most importantly, Hudson began to train himself to trust in God through prayer. He decided to always ask God and not to tell other people, when he had needs. He knew God could be trusted. One day, Hudson had only half a crown left, worth about a dollar. Hudson visited a poor part of town, where he met a worried man. His wife was very sick. He and his family had no money at all and could not even afford to eat. Would Hudsonplease come and pray for her?Hudson followed the man into his poor home.There lay the sick woman with a tiny, three-day ** Kairos ** for Kids Kairos Hero Story Script #2Kairos Hero Story Page 2-2 old baby, and several hungry children. “If only I had enough money,” thought Hudson, “I would share it with them.” When Hudson knelt to pray for the woman, something felt wrong in his heart. Did Hudson really trust God to provide for him? Then why could he not give his last coin to this family? Hudson reached into his pocket and offered the half crown to the man. Then Hudson prayed for the woman. He went home, pockets empty. The next day, Hudson received a surprise package in the mail. It had a pair of gloves and two coins worth about four dollars. It was more than enough for him to live on for several weeks. Later, he also learned that the sick womanrecovered. Hudson was learning he could alwaystrust God. He would need these lessons as amissionary, too. Fitting In with the Chinese At the age of 21, Hudson traveled from England to Shanghai, China -- a 5-month journey by boat. The city where he began his work did not feel much like home to begin with. First of all, he could hardly speak the language. How would he make friends? Hudson worked hard to learn Chinese, but he often felt lonely during his first year or two in China. The people were also very curious about Hudson’s clothes and his blond hair. So curious, in fact, that they hardly listened to what he had to say. How could he tell them about Jesus if they would not listen? Hudson had an idea. He visited a barber, who shaved off almost all of Hudson’s light colored hair. Then, he dyed the rest black and braided that together with a long, Chinese braid, reaching most of the way down his back. Hudson put on a Chinese hat, exchanged his English pants for baggy blue pantaloons, and wore a heavy silk jacket. He even wore flat Chinese shoes with toes that pointed up. Now, when Hudson walked around town in his new outfit, the people thought that he was Chinese. He learned the language much faster, practicing with real Chinese people. His missionary friends thought he was crazy. Most of them thought the Chinese should learn to dress like the English, not the other way around. But Hudson knew that dressing like a Chinese person would help him tell more people about Jesus. As he became fluent in the Chinese language, he began to travel into other cities. Many of the other missionaries only wanted to work in thecoastal cities. Hudson’s heart was to reach ALLCHINESE with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Most ofthem lived in cities far from the coast. Why did you not come sooner? One day, a Buddhist leader joined the meeting. He listened closely to Hudson, now dressed as a Chinese scholar. As he heard the story of Jesus’ death on the cross and how he forgives sins, the man knew he was hearing the truth of God. He believed in Jesus to forgive his sin and give him eternal life. Afterwards, the man came to ask a question. “How long have you known this truth in your country?” Hudson knew that English people had believed in Jesus for hundreds of years. “We have known it for a very long time,” admitted Hudson. “My father also wanted to know the truth, and he died without finding it,” said the man. “Why? Why, did you not come sooner?” Hudson felt sad for this man’s father. And he felt sad for the thousands of other Chinese people who were dying every day without hearing the truth about Jesus. On one trip back to England, Hudson was especially worried. He could see the large map of China in his mind: nine huge provinces, most of them bigger than England itself. How would all those millions of people hear about Jesus? No matter how hard he and his wife, Maria, worked, they could never reach all those people with the gospel in his lifetime. What should he do? Suddenly he had an idea. He prayed and asked God to send 24 new missionaries with him to China. But just like when Hudson was practicing to be a missionary, he did not tell anyone about his prayer. He just prayed. One. Two. Three. Four … By the time Maria and Hudson sailed back to China, they had 15 new missionaries with them. Nine more came later. This was the beginning of the China Inland Mission, now called OMF (Overseas Missionary Fellowship). As Hudson trusted God, God did even more. During Hudson Taylor’s lifetime, they senthundreds and hundreds of missionaries out to allparts of China to reach those who had neverheard of Jesus before. Ending Discussion Now it is your turn to tell me what you think. • ** Would you want to live like Hudson did? Why ** or why not? • ** How did God bless Hudson Taylor? How did ** Hudson bless others? • ** How did God use Hudson in his big story? ** • ** Invite a child to select one story from the ** Kairos Kids Bag. Read the short examplealoud. Can God work through children? Yes! ** • ** (take home, websites) || 10/40 window activity frorm Caleb project (i already own this resource as well) || []
 * || chapter One
 * Welcome (review) || world greeting activity ||
 * Song || media type="youtube" key="fYAXGvev4dM?fs=1" height="385" width="480"
 * Memory verse || Whisper, shout, in, out from Lesson One K4K
 * Game || Crazy greeting see page 1 -5 Lesson One ||
 * Lesson: Intro || three main subjects: all which need some work on them
 * Video || 10/40 window video for children, from Caleb project. I have it but it is in video format currently
 * prayer || pray for the world, pray that God would give us his heart for the world. use an inflatable world or a globe or a map ||
 * Hero Story || Hudson Taylormedia type="youtube" key="VG4on3zmkRI?fs=1" height="385" width="480"
 * What will God do through you? ** ||
 * Extra Activity

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