Paul's Shipwreck Sunday School Lesson for Kids
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson teach students about God’s protection.
Needed: Bibles, wads of paper, index cards with the names of various animals written on them
Lesson
Tell students, Remember that in the Bible times and in other countries still today, it was against the law to believe in Jesus. It was against the law to be a Christian. And that’s why many Christians were arrested and put in jail and sometimes even killed. One time when Paul was arrested—and it was actually the last time he was arrested before he died—they had to take him on a ship to Rome so that he could go to court and be judged by the Emperor, the King of Rome.(Read Acts 27:9-20.)
Game: Bailing Out the Boat
Make an outline of a boat on the floor. Crumple a lot of paper. Divide students into two teams and set a timer for 3 minutes.
One team stands inside the boat outline. The other team is the storm. They pick up the crumpled papers and try to throw them into the boat outline. The team inside tries to bail out their boat by removing the papers.
After 3 minutes, tell everyone to stop and count how many wads of paper are inside the boat versus outside. The team with the lowest number of paper wads in their area wins.
Switch roles and play again.
Lesson continues...
Read Acts 27:21-28:1.
If you were out on the ocean and your boat got stuck, and you didn’t have any food or water, what would you do?
What if your boat started breaking apart? Would that be scary?
All of the men with Paul were very scared because they thought they might drown, but God helped them all get to the beach.
Why do you think God kept Paul from drowning in the storm? (God wanted Paul to go to court and see the Emperor so that he could tell the Emperor about Jesus.)
Do you think God wants you to tell people about Jesus too? (Yes.)
God wants us all to tell people about Jesus so that they can believe in Jesus and go to Heaven when they die.
(Read Acts 28:2-6.)
Why do you think Paul didn’t die when the snake bit him? (God protected him.)
Do you think God could protect you like He protected Paul from dying in the storm and from dying from the snake bite? (Yes.)
God can always protect us. But we have to remember that God doesn’t always protect us. People do get hurt, and people do die. God can protect us, but sometimes, He won’t decide to.
Game: Picking Up the Snake
Write the names of various animals on index cards and mix all the cards up facedown. When you say, “Go!” all the students pick up one of the cards and flips it over. Everyone chases the student with the snake card. Once someone tags them, mix up the cards and play again.(Read Acts 28:7-10.)
How do you think Paul was able to heal the man who was sick? (God gave Paul the power to heal him.)
Do you think God can give you that kind of power? (Yes.)
But again, we have to remember that God doesn’t always give us that kind of power. Sometimes, He doesn’t want us to be healers like Paul was. Sometimes, God simply wants us to believe in Him and do the right things in our life without doing any miracles like that. It’s up to God if He gives us the power to heal or not, but He always gives us the power to resist the devil’s temptations and to do what is right.
Game: Doctor, Doctor!
In this game of Freeze Tag, students will go to “Paul” for “healing” to get back in the game.
First, divide students into two teams. One team starts as It, chasing the other. Choose someone to be “Paul” on the team that is being chased. They can’t be tagged.
Set a timer for 5 minutes. When a student is tagged, they have to pretend they’re sick or injured and hop on one foot to where “Paul” is or wait for “Paul” to come to them. If they make it to “Paul” before they’re tagged again, they are “healed” and continue as a normal player. If they get tagged before they can reach “Paul,” they’re out.
The round is over when your timer goes off or when the It team tags all the members of the opposite team before they can hop over to “Paul” for healing. Have the teams switch roles and play again.
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