Check List for Teachers

3/28/2010
Attention! All teachers and assistants: I need you to follow this check list as you lead students in your small
group. This will help us to better guide our students in their Bible-based fun activities. Please check this list as you direct your
kids… Thank you in advance for your help.
All classes:
_____ Greet your students as you take attendance.
(If they are newcomers, please add them on the list.)
• As parents come in to sign them out, try to get the missing information from their parents… ^^
_____ Pray!!!
_____ Lesson 41: Standin’ Up for Jesus
Power Point: If I live for Jesus, I will face persecution.
Memory V.: “Anyone who belongs to Christ Jesus and wants to live right
will have trouble from others.” (2 Timothy 3:12)
Lesson overview
David B. Barrett, author of Today’s Martyr’s, estimates that 165,000 Christians will die for their faith this year. What a
staggering number! Though it’s easy to think that persecution only happened in the Bible times, the truth is that persecution
is still happening today. Daily, Christians are martyred in different parts of this world—but that doesn’t mean it’s always
easy living for those of us living in a free nation. Anyone may be persecuted for his faith if he chooses to take a stand and
live for Jesus.
In today’s lesson you have the opportunity to teach your kids the importance of faithfully serving Jesus, regardless of
whether they are persecuted. You know that the Christian life is not the easiest life—but it is the most fulfilling and
rewarding. Your children must understand that living a life for Christ is worth any price they may have to pay. Guide them
toward a response of prayer and forgiveness for those who persecute them, and use this lesson to assure them of God’s
unending love.
During this lesson, take the occasion to share times when you have been persecuted for your faith. Did the persecution come
because you took a stand for your benefits? Or did you follow the leading of the Holy Spirit to do something that was
unpopular? Did friends desert you because you wouldn’t follow the crowd? What did you learn during these times? How
did you feel? This is a perfect time to be very real and vulnerable with your kids—to connect with them on a personal level
that they’ll remember. You may even want to ask if any of them have been persecuted for their faith. If they have, they need
to be encouraged that they made the right choice to continue serving Jesus.
Those taking a stand for Jesus and righteous living will be persecuted. Every Christian must accept that if they live for
Jesus, they will face persecution. It won’t be a pleasant experience, but it will be worth the price.

Going Deeper
Discuss some of the ways that the kids may be persecuted for their faith: losing friends, being laughed at or picked on, not
being invited to certain events, etc. Discuss ways to prepare for these specific possibilities, and pray for those who may
have already endured them.
Small Group Check Lists
(Please put check marks on the line as you teach ^^)
____ Check attendance and circle the kids who came early.
____ Check their homework (Joobo – reading & praying daily, take-home homework)
Give out weekly check points and sign their bulletins after you check them. Encourage your
students to read Bible and obey His word daily!!! <Record them in your 2010 Diary>
____ Go over the Memory verses (we made memory verse cards for this quarter so please
pass it out to your students)
____ Have a great time with your students!!!
_____ Ask your students to fill out “Prayer Request” forms, if you don’t have their prayer
cards. (Please turn it into Miriam gsn, we’ll put the copies in your mail box in our Conference room)
____ Before ending, please pray with your students
(You can even write down their prayer requests, if time allows)
____ Sign your students out as parents come in (1st – 4th graders)
_____ Encourage your students to bring their Bible every week.
_____ Return all supplies to our Teacher Conference room 105.
 • Teachers, if you don’t come to church without any notification for two times, you
will become TA the next week.(Please notify us calling, texting, or emailing 24 hours
prior (48 hours preferred) – contact Miriam gansanim…^^
• Teachers who miss the teachers meeting won’t be able to teach the next week.
Teachers who are not worshipping with our kids won’t be able to teach small group.
• Teachers, check our http://tedholywave.posterous.com/ to get all the info. you need
for your students and yourselves… (each week’s joobo, check lists, all forms…etc)
o Teachers, please call, call, call your students who are absent!!!
o No Eating in the worship room!!!
• Snacks: they will not be passed out to classes anymore. Instead, teachers
should assign each student a day to bring snacks for the class.
3/28 (Sun) Bible Memory Verse verbal test
4/4 (Sun) Birthday party for April babies
/2nd and 4th grade Hot Dog Party
/Easter Service- Wear your best outfit!
4/17 (Sat) VBS Prep from 9am-12pm. ALL teachers should come and help out!
6/23-25 (Wed-Thurs) VBS
? (Sun) Teacher Appreciation Lunch

Teacher sign up for Sat. Prep for Month of February through June (12pm – 3):
4/10: 1st grade teachers
4/24: 6th grade teachers
5/8 : 5th grade teachers
5/22: 4th grade teachers
6/5 : 3rd grade teachers
6/19: 2nd grade teachers

NEXT WEEK:
Vision Service
*Teachers, use your small group time to play sports, games, and do something fun to build your
relationship with your students.