Healed
WELCOME TO WEEK 1
It’s never fun to be sick. Who takes care of you when you are feeling ill? Who cares for you when you are sad? This week we will see how Jesus cared for the people around him by healing them from their sicknesses. Jesus wants to take care of us too!.
BIBLE STORY
We all get hurt sometimes and need to see a doctor or a parent to help us feel better. Sometimes our cuts and bruises are small and only need a small bandaid or brace. Then there are other times when our entire body may feel broken. We are going to play a game. We will race to see who can bandage up a person the fastest using this roll of toilet paper. Wrap your patient completely up in this toilet paper in order to win. Alternately if you don’t have enough people, you can use similar objects or large stuffed animals.
This week we will see that Jesus began to heal those who were sick and word spread through the whole town what Jesus was able to do. Jesus is still working with us today healing the sick and demon possessed. Sometimes he works through doctors and sometimes we can see a miracle of healing that doctors can not explain. We may not always see Jesus’ healing right away, but His healing may have to wait until Heaven. We can still be sure that Jesus is able to heal and wants to bring healing to the sick.
Materials: roll of toilet paper
Read or listen to the Bible verse for this week: Mark 1:29-39
Whose mother was sick lying in bed? (Peter’s mother-in law)
What did Jesus do for Peter’s mother-in-law? (He took her by the hand and raised her up and her fever left)
Who came to the house for healing from Jesus? (Those who were sick and demon possessed)
Why didn’t Jesus allow the demons to speak? (Because they knew him)
Where did Jesus decide to go next? (The neighboring town of Galilee)
What did Jesus say was the reason why he had come? (To preach)
BIBLE STORY ACTIVITY
Jesus was with God because He is God, and He was able to reveal to us who God is. Jesus became flesh and demonstrated God’s love to us. Through Jesus we can know God because they are one.
Activity
Jesus takes care of each of us and provides for our needs, but He can use us to provide for others’ needs as well. Use the following activity page to make the blank person look like you. Then, write ways you can use your body parts (hands and feet) to serve others and care for them.
Materials: printed activity sheet, pencil
Alternate
Jesus takes care of us not just with our physical needs but with our emotional needs as well. Jesus provides from us in many different ways and takes care of us in many ways. Use this activity sheet to write down the ways the Bible says God takes care of us. Read the following scriptures and write how this verse describes how Jesus takes care of you.
Materials: printed activity sheet, pencil, device or bible to read scriptures
Create activity:
Create a Jesus Cares for Me collage. Using pictures from magazines, paste pictures that describe how Jesus cares for you. Jesus can use people in your life, community helpers and even objects to take care of you. Think of all of the ways He cares for you and illustrate them with pictures. Alternatively, if you don’t have magazines to cut, draw pictures on your collage.
Materials: old magazines, glue, scissors, construction paper
ARTS & CAFTS
CRAFT 1
Bandaid art. Use bandaids to create a picture or picture scene. Using the bandaids to create flower, butterfly or any other image. Then use crayons or markers to add details to the image and then create a background scenery to go with your image. See this website for example bandaid art.
Materials: construction paper, coloring utensils, bandaids
Craft 2
Coloring page
Materials: printed coloring sheet, crayons
FOLLOW-UP
Who did the people crowd in the house to see?
How did Jesus take care of the people who were sick?
How does Jesus care for each of us?
In what ways do you care for other people.
Practical Application at Home
Jesus took care of the people who came to the house to be healed. He knew the things they needed and the sicknesses they had and he healed them. They no longer needed to worry about the things that had ailed them for so long. Jesus still tells us today to no worry because He will take care of us. We may not know what will happen in the future, but we can know that God will be there with us through it.
Read Matthew 6:25-33
Jesus said that He clothes the lilies of the field and knows when even one sparrow falls from the sky, therefore he knows us and cares for us even more. We were made in the image of God, we are special to Him and He will continue to care for us.
Draw the following picture to remind yourself that God has promised to care for the flowers, he will care for us even more. Using a white sheet of paper, dip your finger in paint, ink pad, or color the tip of your pointer finger and then stamp in a circle in the center of the paper. These will be the pedals of the flower. Color the center of the flower yellow (or desired color) using paints or crayons. Then decorate the rest of the flower using crayons or markers with the stem, leaves and buds. At the top or bottom of the page write “Do not worry, but seek first His kingdom”.
Materials: white drawing paper, paint, (Alt: ink pad) markers or crayons
Additional Resources
Outings to Reinforce Lesson
Donate to a local food shelter or toy drive this Christmas season. As a family, volunteer together or pick out toys you think another child your age might enjoy.