One Great Hour of Sharing Resources Curriculum

Children's Lessons/Activities

Lesson Objectives: Helping/welcoming others

1. Children/families will explore what it means to be connected through assembling a puzzle together.
2. Children/families will explore Matthew 25:35–36, learn how we are called to help meet each other’s needs and how responding to this call connects us to God and one another.
3. Children/families will color (and/or create) a banner for their learning space so all people know they are welcome.

Be sure to download these supplemental resources:

• Resource Lists
• Welcome Banner
• Welcome Coloring Sheet

Prepared by Natarsha Prince Sanders, a DEdMin student at Columbia Theological Seminary and writing fellow at Collegeville Institute, Collegeville, MN. She is the Executive Director of Centering the Sacred, a ministry that focuses on spiritual development and growth for people of all ages. 

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