A Year in His Presence

By Audrey D. McCoy

The purpose of writing this children's biblical training manual is twofold. First, to make available at an affordable price (for teacher and learner) a year of compiled foundational Christian character training information. Second, to simplify instruction for non-professional teachers (church school, Christian school, parents, home sch

• Language: English
• Publisher: Go To Publish
• Release date: Sep 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781647491994

Audrey D. McCoy

Audrey is an experienced teacher in both public and Christian education and also is the founder, administrator, and teacher in New Generation Training for Adults, Youths, and Children (NGT-AYC), a training school for children, and weekly training sessions for youths and adults. Her experiences in teaching and ministering to the body of Christ spans over forty years. She has a passion for training people in Christlike character, Christian family building (focusing on marriage, the home and raising children), and maturing the body of Christ to be able to do the work of the ministry.

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A Year in His Presence

Copyright © 2020 by Audrey D. McCoy

Educational

ISBN: 978-1-64749-198-7

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A Year in

His

Presence

"And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

Audrey D. McCoy

Scriptures used are taken from King James Version (KJV)

Copyright 2007 By B.B. Kirkbride Bible Company, Inc. Used by permission and Living Bible (LB)

Copyright 1971 used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Wheaton, Illinois 60189

Contents

Part 1 The Story of Me

Week 1: All About Me

Week 2: My Family

Week 3: My Pet(s)

Week 4: Foods I Like

Week 5: My Favorite Toy

Week 6: My Friends

Week 7 – My Feelings

Week 8 – Things I like to Do

Week 9 – My Home

Week 10 – My Neighbors

Week 11 – My Church

Week 12 – I Like the Me God Made

Part 2 God Made the World

Week 13 –Creation, Day 1 and 2

Week 14 – Creation, day 3 and 4

Week 15 – Creation, Day 5 and 6

Week 16 – Creation, Day 7

Week 17 – How God made Man, birds, and animals

Week 18 – Man’s Special Job

Week 19 – The Making of Adam’s Wife

Part 3 God Made Us All

Week 20 – Children Are God’s Gift

Week 21 – God Made Different People

Week 22 – Beginning of God’s Family

Week 23 – People Living in God’s World

Week 24 – Duty of Children

Part 4 Sin

Week 25 – Adam and Eve sin

Week 26 – A World of Sinners

Week 26 – We were born in Sin

Week 28 – Understanding the Sin in Me

Week 29 – Jesus, God’s cure for Sin

Week 30 – The Holy Spirit My Helper

Part 5 Getting to know the One True God

Week 31 – The One True God

Week 32 – God the Father

Week 33 – God the Son

Week 34 – God the Holy Spirit

Introduction

About the lessons

This manual is for Christian Bible Study for children in primary grades (Kindergarten-3rd grade). Each bible truth is in weekly increments.

Day One is Instruction. The Objective spans one week of teaching, which is logical to a child. The Set is the lesson’s beginning, which is a relevant and exciting way to get the child’s attention.

Day Two is Application. Scripture memorization is a useful tool in enhancing bible truths.

Day Three is Review. A second chance to hear Bible truths allow the children to participate in the lesson by sharing personal life experiences.

Day Four is Activation. Workbook activities reinforce learning and show the relationship between the bible truth and the world of a child.

Day Five is Reflection. The week’s learning culminates in self-discovery.

Needed Supplies

For Teachers:

Pens, Pencils, Markers

Display boards

Erasable boards

Attendance Sheets, Award charts (for scripture memorization)

Stickers (student rewards)

Magazine with a variety of pictures

Songbook: Sing Unto the Lord! Hymns and Choruses ages 5-12. (Abeka Book, a Christian Textbook Ministry, affiliated with Pensacola Christian College) Abeka Book also carries music CDs of the same title.

Visuals:

Part One – Pictures of school-age children, families, pets, toys, houses, churches, Pastors, church workers (mission workers, evangelist), food groups

Part Two – Seven Days of Creation

Part Three – Variety of people from around the world

Part Four – Pictures of people doing wrong, hurtful, destructive things, etc.

Part Five – Fruit that has skin, flesh, and seed within, Pictures of mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters in various roles

For Children:

Pencils, crayons, markers, modeling clay

Magazines with a variety of pictures in them

Paste or glue sticks

Blank page storybooks, plain paper (These will be the children’s workbooks.)

Templates:

All About Me

Name:

Birthdate: Age:

Boy or Girl Nationality:

Hair color: Eye color:

Height: Weight:

Address:

Family Profile for

Father:

Mother:

Sister(s):

Brother(s):

Grandparents (Father’s parents):

Grandparents (Mother’s parents):

Aunt(s);

Uncle(s):

Cousins:

ME, MYSELF AND I

PART 1 – THE STORY OF ME

Week 1 All About Me

Week 2 My Family

Week 3 My Pet(s)

Week 4 Foods I like

Week 5 My Favorite Toy

Week 6 My Friend(s)

Week 7 Feelings

Week 8 Things I like to do

Week 9 My Home

Week 10 My Neighbors

Week 11 My Church

Week 12 I like the Me God Made

Part 1 The Story of Me

Part 1- The Story of Me

Weeks 1-12

Five - day lesson Plan

Day 1 – Instruction

Lesson background (scriptures for teacher preparation)

Objective: the goal of the lesson

Set: The restating of the lesson objective in relevant story form to spark the child’s attention.

Lesson: Bible scripture explanation or story

Day 2 –Application: Memory verse recitation

Day 3 – Review

Day 4 –Activation: Work in activity books

Day 5 – Reflection: Think about the truths learned from this week. Students should be able to restate in their own words. Do it!

Daily lesson outline (25 minutes)

Worship songs (5 minutes)

Prayer (2-3 minutes)

Memory verse recitation (5 minutes)

Instruction, Application, Review, Activation, and Reflection (10-15 minutes)

Closing Prayer (2-3 minutes)

Scripture background and Objective for

Lessons 1-12

Scripture background: Psalms 139:14-16

Objective: Through guided discussion of God-given physical attributes and other things that make up a child’s life, the children will dictate one or two sentences and draw an illustration of their physical characteristics and unique elements that make up their lives.

Week 1: All About Me

Worship songs: Jesus Loves Me; God Made Me; The B-I-B-L-E

Use this pattern of prayer at the beginning of each session, or you can use the one included in the day one outline of each week.

Prayer – Pray a short prayer, in which you thank God for this day, the children, and this training session. Ask God for his grace and mercy to be extended to the children as they learn and to you, the teacher, as you teach in simplicity. Thank him for the moms and dads who lovingly bring their children here to learn about Jesus. Bless each child (call them by name, if you can), and if you know of any personal needs concerning the children, include these at this time. In Jesus name, Amen

Memory Verse recitation: This will begin on day 2 of this week.

Instruction: (Ps. 139:14-16)

Set: Each one of us, we’re made to be like God. We are all to love one another, help one another, be kind, share, pray for one another, etc. We will spend some time talking about you. You get to tell me your story. Let’s begin your account by talking about a few things that describe how you look.

Discussion:

How do you look? Color of your skin, eyes, hair

What else is unique about how you look?

What is your name? What name does your family use when

they want to get your attention?

How old are you? When is your birthday?

Looking at the children here, are you taller or shorter

than they are?

Are you a boy or a girl?

Note to teacher: Using the template provided, allow each child to answer as you fill in the information on their All About Me profile sheets. Include data from files or parents to expedite time. You can have children bring in a picture for their workbooks (or they can draw a picture of themselves) for use on day 4.

Closing Prayer: (Use this pattern of prayer at the end of every session)

The teacher should pray, giving thanks for the meeting and the student’s participation. Ask for the Father’s protection over them and their families. Pray blessings over them for the rest of the day. We pray in Jesus, Amen.

Day 2 – Application

Scripture background: Psalms 139:14-16

Objective: The student will be able to repeat orally (without aide from the teacher) a portion of the memory verse.

See day one and repeat the format for worship, prayer

Set: How many of you know how to put on your clothes by yourself? Feed yourself? Wash up? We should learn God’s word so we can live for him and grow up to do things as Jesus did. We will start with a verse from the bible, which is all about you, God’s best work.

Read verses to children (Ps. 139:14-16)

Verse explanation: God is the creator. God as Creator means He is the one who makes things without the help of anyone else. The bible says he made the world and everything in it. God made each of us. He is awesome! This verse tells us that God-shaped us in our mother’s stomach. He knows what he put on the inside (heart, lungs, kidney, stomach, liver, bones, blood, etc.) and what he put on the outside of us (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, legs, arms, etc.). He knows all about us because he made us. We should not be sad or unhappy because of how we look. We should be thankful.

Have children repeat the first portion of the verse until they can say without help.

Psalms 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Explanation: fearfully and wonderfully = God took care (he made no mistakes) and did his very best job making us.

Note to teacher: Complete the All About Me profile sheet for new students or those you were unable to complete yesterday. Remind children to bring a picture of him or her.

Closing Prayer (see the example on day 1)

Day 3 – Review

Worship, prayer, and instruction see and follow the same procedure on Day