Scripture: Acts 8:1-40
Learning Objectives:
- Students will learn God opened the Church to Samaritans after the Jews.
- Students will learn God does not want us to become Christians so we can get what we want in life.
- Students will learn God wants the good news about Jesus to be told to everyone in the world.
- Students will learn how simple machines with wheels and axles work.
Guiding Question: Why does God want us to share our faith with others?
Materials: Various shapes and materials to use as wheels and axles
Procedure: Review the story of Philip and how the Ethiopian Eunuch came to be saved. Discuss how Philip shared his faith with the Eunuch and the importance of baptism in the conversion process. Explain that people called missionaries go around the world to help people and share God with them in hopes of converting them to Chrsitianity. Even if our job is not to go around the world, we can still be missionaries in our school and other places we go with people. We can share God through our words and actions. God desires that all people know about Him and become Christians.
Introduce the activity. Explain that the students are going to experiment with simple machines. Tell the students that one type of simple machine is wheels and axles (like on a chariot) Have the students experiment with various shapes and materials as wheels and axles and discuss we ended up with round wheels. How does that make the most sense?
Additional Questions: How can students work with simple machines?
Supplemental Activity: Have students use available resources to create their own kind of simple machine, naming it and explaining what its purpose is.