Paying homage
Children's Activity
Teachers or Parents: Respect is not a high priority today. Paying homage to anyone is simply un--American! But respect and paying homage are important.
*Demonstrate the various postures of prayer: eyes closed, hands folded, hands uplifted, head bowed, kneeling, or standing. All are positions of homage and respect for the Lord.
*If your church is a liturgical church, show how the various portions of the liturgy call for positions of homage and respect for the Lord ---- such as kneeling or standing for prayer, standing for the reading of the Gospel, and so forth.
*Demonstrate how the respect we pay to God carries over and shows itself in the respect we pay to others.
Parents: If you are not already doing so, encourage your children to assume a prayer position for mealtime prayers and nighttime prayers.
Sunday school assembly opening:
On this first Epiphany Sunday, many Christmas carols fit: "Angels From The Realms Of Glory," "The First Noel," "What Child Is This?"
*Epiphany hymns: "Bright And Glorious Is The Sky," "Brightest And Best," "Songs Of Thankfulness And Praise" (v. 1). "We Three Kings Of Orient Are" is most appropriate today.
*Try to explain the word "Epiphany" (meaning "revelation") and how, like a pebble thrown in a pond, the news of Jesus' birth spread from Bethlehem to Jerusalem to the wise men from the East to the whole world.
Looking ahead:
If you have baptisms next Sunday and plan to invite the children of the congregation to gather around the baptismal font to observe what is happening, be sure to secure permission from those being baptized. Publicize what you are doing as well. Involve the children in the baptism.
*Demonstrate the various postures of prayer: eyes closed, hands folded, hands uplifted, head bowed, kneeling, or standing. All are positions of homage and respect for the Lord.
*If your church is a liturgical church, show how the various portions of the liturgy call for positions of homage and respect for the Lord ---- such as kneeling or standing for prayer, standing for the reading of the Gospel, and so forth.
*Demonstrate how the respect we pay to God carries over and shows itself in the respect we pay to others.
Parents: If you are not already doing so, encourage your children to assume a prayer position for mealtime prayers and nighttime prayers.
Sunday school assembly opening:
On this first Epiphany Sunday, many Christmas carols fit: "Angels From The Realms Of Glory," "The First Noel," "What Child Is This?"
*Epiphany hymns: "Bright And Glorious Is The Sky," "Brightest And Best," "Songs Of Thankfulness And Praise" (v. 1). "We Three Kings Of Orient Are" is most appropriate today.
*Try to explain the word "Epiphany" (meaning "revelation") and how, like a pebble thrown in a pond, the news of Jesus' birth spread from Bethlehem to Jerusalem to the wise men from the East to the whole world.
Looking ahead:
If you have baptisms next Sunday and plan to invite the children of the congregation to gather around the baptismal font to observe what is happening, be sure to secure permission from those being baptized. Publicize what you are doing as well. Involve the children in the baptism.
