Adventist Adventurer Awards and Answers/Bible Friends

Bible Friends
Little Lamb

Listen to a book about Bible friends.

Bible friends include: Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, Daniel and his three friends, Jesus & His disciples, Paul and Barnabas, Paul and Silas, Paul and Luke/Timothy.

My Bible Friends by Etta Degering, these books are great Bible stories and good for all ages of Adventurers. The Noah story, "When God Washed the World" is in book 4, chapter 3.

MULTI LINGUAL RESOURCE Bible App for Kids App / Book is a ministry of Youversion Bible Inc. and provides nearly 100 interactive Bible stories for kids. There is an animated storybook app with vivid illustrations and sound as well as interactive touch screen interactions. The games and activities help kids remember what they learn. The navigation is simple for kids and there are no in-app purchases. There is also a printed Bible that has the same stories and graphics. See your device’s app store.

Stories about Friends:

• Wherever You Go - Ruth
• Through the Roof - Miracle of the man lowered through the roof by his friends
• A Goodbye Meal - Jesus celebrates a last meal with his friend

MULTI LINGUAL RESOURCE Bibleforchildren.org has illustrated and color pages for sixty different Bible stories available for download and printing in 132 different languages. There are 18 stories about Jesus (including Powerpoint, coloring pages, and storybook pages) http://bibleforchildren.org/ or your device’s App store.

Stories about Friends:

• Ruth - A Love Story
• The Men Who Would Not Bend - Daniel 3
• Jesus and Lazarus

DLTK Resource: I found this story in DLTK's webpage and it is very appropriate for pre-schoolers Ruth and Naomi

In a place called Moab there lived a nice family. Elimelech, his wife Naomi and their two sons moved there because there was more food there than where they used to live. After a while, Elimelech died but Naomi wasn't alone she still had two sons.

Her sons got married but after about ten years they died too. At least Naomi still had her sons wives to keep her company, their names were Orpah and Ruth.

Naomi called her sons wives and told them, "I am going to go back to where I used to live and I would like you also to go back to your family where you used to live. May God show you kindness as you have shown me." All the women cried and hugged each other because they were such good friends.

Orpah didn't want to leave Naomi but Naomi told her not to worry, she would be fine. So Orpah left to go back to her family. But no matter what Naomi said to Ruth, Ruth would not leave. "Don't ask me to leave. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your friends will be my friends and your God will be my God."

So Ruth and Naomi returned to Bethlehem together. It was a good thing Ruth went with Naomi because Bethlehem was very far away and Naomi couldn't have traveled all that way by herself. Notice that Ruth never complains but is a good friend to Naomi. She wasn't expecting anything in return, she just wanted to help.

When they got there Ruth decided that she should do some kind of work. It was harvest time, so she worked in the fields following behind the harvesters and picked up any barley that they had dropped.

The owner of the field came by to greet the harvesters and noticed Ruth in the field. He asked one of the harvesters who she was. "She came back from Moab with Naomi, that's all I know." Lucky for Ruth the owner of the field was Boaz, he was a kind man who believed in God. He had also been related to Elimelech (Naomi's husband that died).

Boaz went to go talk to Ruth, he said to her, "Don't go work in any other field but stay here with the other servant girls. I will make sure you are safe and whenever you are thirsty go and get a drink from the water jars." When Ruth heard this she bowed down to Boaz and asked, "Why are you being so nice to me, I'm not even from here."

Boaz replied, "I know what you've done for Naomi, you left your family and moved to a place you've never been. May the Lord reward you for your kindness."

Ruth thanked Boaz and continued with her work in the hot sun. Boaz even ordered his workers to drop extra barley so Ruth could have more for herself.

Ruth took all the barley home and shared what she had with Naomi. And eventually Ruth married Boaz and everyone was very happy!

Being a good friend takes a long time to learn. A good friend is loyal, which means you keep your promises and sometimes when you don't feel like being a friend you are anyway. Sometimes our friends aren't perfect and they make mistakes but we make mistakes too, and we don't want our friends to leave us when that happens.

God gives us friends when we need them, and we should treat them like a gift from God. Just like in the story, Naomi could've insisted the women come with her, but she unselfish and wanted them to be free to go home to be with their families. And Ruth had such a good attitude and wanted to help, she moved away from everyone she knew and went to work to help Naomi. She didn't tell everyone what a good friend she was, she knew that she should be a friend like God wanted her to be.

Alternate Story Options My Bible Friends (Mis Amigos De La Biblia) by Etta Degering. Could read the books or play Joseph and His Brothers Vol 1, Story 4 on YouTube, or Baby Jesus Vol 1, Story 2 on YouTube. Could listen to these online as an option for this requirement.

Sing a song about Bible friends.

Also from DLTK's webpage Learning our Names Song

Learning our Names Song

(sing to the tune of "Did You Ever See a Lassie"/"The more we sing together")

This is a great song to sing with a preschool or kindergarten class. As each child's name is said they should stand up.

Thank-you God for (name)

For (name), for (name)

Thank-you God for (name)

We're glad (s)he is here

for example:

Thank-you God for Tasha,

For Tasha, for Tasha,

Thank-you God for Tasha,

We're glad she is here!

Thank-you God for Justin,

For Justin, for Justin,

Thank-you God for Justin,

We're glad he is here!

Some other song ideas: Jonah and the Whale Only a Boy Named David Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

Play a game about Bible friends.

Lazarus Race Form four teams. Have each team of children stand in a circle and pick one person to be Lazarus. The Lazarus stands in the middle of the circle.

On "go," have each team use one roll of toilet paper to wrap Lazarus. The first team to finish wrapping up the Lazarus with the entire roll wins round one. Now have each Lazarus stand still until all four wrapped Lazarus players are wrapped up.

The leader than calls out, "Lazarus, come forth!" The first Lazarus to free him- or herself of all the toilet paper is the winner of round two.

Play until you run out of toilet paper or time.

Make a Bible friend craft.

Lazarus Craft Ideas

Ruth TP Roll Crafts For templates go to: Ruth TP Roll Crafts

This simple colour, cut and paste paper craft uses a toilet paper roll as a base to give it a three dimensional effect.

Materials:

• toilet paper tube,
• printer,
• piece of paper,
• some crayons,
• scissors, and
• glue (or tape)

Instructions:

• Print out the template of choice.
• Color (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces.
• Glue the large rectangular piece on first to cover the tube.
• Glue the thin rectangular piece around the center of the tube as a belt
• Glue on the head and arms.
• Glue the feet to the bottom of the tp roll, using the tabs to make a 3D effect if desired.
• Glue the basket of wheat into Ruth's arms.

Another Bible Friend - Noah

• Tell the story of Noah I used Grace links Story of Noah
• Suggested Songs

“Arky, Arky” (Little Voices Praise Him, No. 212) “Come Praise the Lord” (Little Voices Praise Him, No. 211) “My God Is So Great” (Little Voices Praise Him, No. 112) “Jesus Cares for Me” (Little Voices Praise Him, No. 100) “Noah Built a Great Big Boat” (Little Voices Praise Him, No. 58) “Who Made the Rainbow?” (Little Voices Praise Him, No. 60)

• Make a Rainbow

If you have access to a prism, bring it to Little Lambs and place it in a sunny window. Let the children examine the rainbow it makes. Options: hang a sun catcher glass in the window; spray a fine mist of water in the sun and look at the rainbow it makes; blow bubbles in the light and look for the rainbows; make rainbow sticks by hot gluing colored ribbons to a dowel stick; make a rainbow collage by gluing pictures of things God has made in color bands.

• Act out:

Make an Adult "Noah" and call all the animals (child/ren) upon the Ark. You can use dressups and children make the sounds of the animals.

Jewish bible for life btw.

External Resources

Danielle's Place- Games and Activities for Noah's Ark Theme

Story of Noah

Teaching Noah