Hey Folks,
I'm solidifying the 120 key Scriptures for our "Bible Song Sunday School" that will be unveiled for 3-6th graders next spring. These 120 will be highlighted during the Bible Presentation Faith Stepping Stone with kids and parents together using their new Bibles. From there, they'll take 'em home for a deeper look - a verse a night for 4 months. Studies show that, if you do something for three months, it becomes a habit. We're hedging our bets and doing four months to make this "verse a night" faith practice stick.
The working draft for Bible Song will include a new tune for each of the 120, and will look like this:
Bible Song Sunday School
Young people in grades 3 – 6 gather to learn a Bible verse in song. They highlight it in their Bibles, then listen to the music, then learn sign language for the song. Next they hear the Bible story (creation, the fall, Noah’s ark, Abraham’s call, etc.) that goes along with it. As they listen to the Bible story, a picture (or painting) of the story is shown to them as a way to visualize the story and to begin thinking of art that they wish to produce. (This is where we’d love to have an original He Qi work, plus Melheimian cartoons - the first 1/3 of my sabbatical will see to that).
Next, the young people break into small groups to create their own art to help tell the Bible story. One group is assigned to draw or paint a large piece of art on newsprint paper, another group might make a cartoon, another a cloth banner, sculpture, photography, etc. These works of art could be their own original creations, or something based on what they see in your work.
Finally, all youth return to gather their art and music together for a worship experience. Their art, song, and sign language (maybe also dance) are performed for their parents and congregation as an “offering that doesn't fit in the plate.
I'd enjoy thoughts, comments, feedback, and critiques at this early stage, both on the concepts and the chosen verses. And, if you want to come to a winter FINKtank in the mountains of Colorado between Christmas and Lent, drop me a line. (ramelheim@faithink.com)
Here's the beef. (-;
Rich
Title of Song & Bible Verse
Let There Be Light
Genesis 1:1-3
Where Are You?
Genesis 3:8-9
Bow in the Clouds
Genesis 9:13-15, 7, 8:22
Look Toward the Heavens
Genesis 15:1-2, 5b-6, 17:7, 21:5-6
God Will Provide
Genesis 22:1-3a, 6-8
Jake's Dream
Genesis 28:11-14
Son of His Old Age
Genesis 37:3-4,23-24,28, 34-35, 50:20a
The Burning Bush
Exodus 3:1-2, 6-7, 11, 13
Take a Lamb
Exodus 12:3, 5a, 6b-7, 12-13
Into the Sea
Exodus 15:1-2, 6, 8-12
I Am
Exodus 20:2-3
You Shall Be Holy
Leviticus 19:2b, 10:3
The Lord Bless You
Numbers 6:24-26
Will He Not?
Numbers 23:19, Leviticus 18:2
Keep These Words
Deuteronomy 6:7-10
Be Strong & Courageous
Joshua 1:5b, 9
As for Me
Joshua 24:15
Hear, O Kings
Judges 5:3
Where You Go
Ruth 1:16
God Looks on the Heart
I Samuel 16:7
Goliath's Requiem
I Samuel 17:45-46a, 47b
David Danced
II Samuel 6:14, 22:1-20
Solomon's Prayer
I Kings 8:27, 30
I Know Your Rising
II Kings 19:27
Declare His Glory
I Chronicles 16:24, 31-34
If My People
II Chronicles 7:14
For He Is Good
Ezra 3:10-11b
Strengthen My Hands
Nehemiah 6:9c
Such a Time as This
Esther 4:14c, 8b
The Deep Things
Job 11:7-12
Sleep In Peace
Psalm 4:8
How Majestic
Psalm 8:1, 3-6
The Lord is My Shepherd
Pslam 23
Make Me to Know
Psalm 25:4-7
Taste and See
Psalm 34:1-8
Cast Down
Psalm 42:5, 1
God is our Refuge
Psalm 46:1-7
Against You
Psalm 51:3,4,6
When I Am Afraid
Psalm 56:3
As I Pay My Vows
Psalm 61:1-5, 8
A Thousand Years
Psalm 90:4-5, 9-10, 12
Who?
Psalm 103:1-5
High Above the Earth
Psalm 103:11-12
Word in My Heart
Psalm 119:11,8, 105, 122:1
Where Can I Go?
Psalm 139:7-14
Trust in the Lord
Proverbs 3:4-6
Go to the Ant
Proverbs 6:6-11
My Child
Proverbs 6:20-22
Better
Proverbs 15:16-17, 23:4, 30:8b, 16:3
Train Children
Proverbs 22:6
Remember Your Creator
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Set Me as a Seal
Song of Solomon 8:6-7
Here Am I, Send Me
Isaiah 6:1-3, 8
People Who Walked in Darkness
Isaiah 9:2, 6, 7:14b
Ho, Everyone Who Thirsts
Isaiah 55:1-3
For as the Rain
Isaiah 55: 10-11
Only a Youth
Jeremiah 1:7-8
Great Is Your Faithfulness
Lamentations 3:22,23
A New Heart
Ezekiel 36:26
Deliver You
Daniel 6:16, 26b-27
Water the Earth
Hosea 6:1-3
Return to the Lord
Joel 2:12-13, 1-2
Secrets
Amos 3:8, 8:4, 6-7
Let Justice Roll
Amos 5:24
Hear This!
Amos 8:4, 6, 7, 8a, 9, 10a
The Day of the Lord
Obadiah 1:15
Jonah Prayed
Jonah 2:2
What Does the Lord Require?
Micah 6:8b
Refuge
Nahum 1:7
Keep Silence
Habakkuk 2:20
Seek the Lord
Zephaniah 2:3
Diggy Do Not Fear
Haggai 2:4-5
Brand from the Burning
Zechariah 1:3b, 2:10, 4:8b
Walk In My Ways
Zechariah 4:6b, 3:7a, 9b
Sun of Righteousness
Malachi 3:10, 4:2, 6a
Salt of the Earth (Blessed)
Matthew 5:3-10, 13a, 14, 16
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
Go Therefore
Matthew 28:19-20
Take Up Their Cross
Mark 8:34-37
Let the Little Children Come
Mark 10:14
Love the Lord
Mark 12:28-31a
Magnificat
Luke 1:47-49
Do Not Be Afraid Little Flock
Luke 12:32
The Stones Would Shout Out
Luke 19:38, 40
In the Beginning
John 1:1-5, 9-12, 14
For God So Loved
John 3:16
Indeed, God
John 3:17
Rivers of Living Water
John 4:13-15, 7:38b
Love One Another
John 15:12-13
You Will Receive Power
Acts 1:8
Acceptable to You
Romans 12:1-2
If We Live
Romans 14-7-8, I Cor. 15:51-52
Temple
I Corinthians 6:19
New Creation
II Corinthians 5:17
As Many of You
Galatians 3:27-28
For By Grace
Ephesians 2:8
Press On
Philippians 3:13b-14
Finally, Beloved
Philippians 4:8
Bear With One Another
Colossians 3:13-16
Rejoice Always
I Thessalonians 5:16
Comfort Your Hearts
II Thessalonians 2:16
Let No One Despise
I Timothy 4:12
All Scripture
II Timothy 3:16-17
He Saved Us
Titus 3:4-7
I Always Thank My God
Philemon 4
Long Ago
Hebrews 1:1-5
High Priest
Hebrews 4:15-16
Looking to Jesus
Hebrews 12:1-2
The Lord Is My Helper
Hebrews 13:6b
Father of Lights
James 1:17
He, Himself
I Peter 2:24
Attentive to Your Word
II Peter 1:19
If We Confess
I John 1:9
See What Love
I John 3:1, 18
Grace, Mercy, Peace
II John 3
No Greater Joy
III John 4
Now to Him
Jude 24
Write What You See
Revelation 1:5b-7, 10-11
Listen!
Revelation 3:20
Come to the Water
Revelation 22:17
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