Missouri Missions Offering

Show Me Faithful: Sending, Sharing & Starting

By Sarah Jackson
Children’s Sunday School Director, Tenth Street Baptist Church, Trenton

Preparation

Copy Preschool Picture Card page (both sides) onto cardstock and cut out the cards. Place the cards into a container, such as a bag or basket that the children cannot see into.

Make enough copies of the postcard (both sides) for every child to have their own copy.

You will also need to gather enough crayons or markers for the children to illustrate their postcards.

Bible Truth

II Corinthians 8:4 “They even asked & begged us to let them have the joy of giving their money for God’s people.”(Open your Bible to and read II Corinthians 8:4) It always makes us feel better when we give to and help others. The Missouri Missions Offering, or you may have heard it called MMO, takes up money every year in order to help others who live in Missouri.

Activity

Let children take turns pulling cards out of the bag. They will show the picture side of the card to the other children. They will ask them to try to decide what that picture clue has to do with the MMO and with helping other Missourians. After the children share their ideas, the back of the card is read by the leader. Congratulate all ideas and discuss the facts, especially if the facts are far off from what they first thought. This would be a great place to give personal examples of how the MMO has impacted your local church, community or association.

Pass out copies of the postcard and ask students to identify what a postcard is. Talk about the purposes of a postcard and read to them the right hand side; From: Me, To: Missouri. Talk about how we can be the one who sends and Missouri can be the one who gets. What can we do to help out other Missourians through the MMO? The front or picture side of the postcard displays part of the MMO theme: Sharing, Spending, and Starting. Use this image to discuss how they can help by praying for the Sending of missionaries, the Sharing of money, time and the gospel, and the Starting of churches and other mission opportunities and also how they can participate by giving to the MMO. The left-hand side of the postcard has been left open for the child to illustrate a way in which they can be apart of the MMO or about what they have learned about how the MMO helps other Missourians, just like them.

Prayer

Thank you, God, for loving us. Thank you for giving us a place to learn about you and about ways that we can tell others about you. Help us to share your love with others and to meet their needs. Amen!

Materials to help you prepare the lesson

Print-ready originals (paper originals and computer files) of the materials listed in this lesson are available in the resources booklet in the promotion packet being mailed to each Missouri Baptist Church in late June 2011. Print-ready computer files also are available as downloads on this website. Click here to visit the Downloads page.