The Early Church - MSSS Bible Lesson

The Early Church/The Holy Spirit

Scripture Reference: The Book of Acts

Illustrating the Story

Use MSSS Bible Character Crafts to create characters for story-telling.
Childrensministry.com Invisible but Real - an object lesson about the Holy Spirit
Educational Patterns for Children's Ministries (Bible Mat and Action Figure)
- God Sends the Holy Spirit
Eldrbarry's VBS Curriculum God's People and Me includes pentecost, the early church sharing resources and Simon the sorcerer - Acts 1-12.
F.K.O.
- "Pentecost Sunday"
Group Publishing Love in Any Language
Group Publishing Interactive Stories (see Introduction for tips for telling story) Pentecost: A New Helper Comes
Mission Arlington (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
- Survey - Acts to Revelation
  - Lesson 2: Many People Believe
  - Lesson 12: The Church Grew
  - Lesson 20: Search the Scriptures
- Life of Christ 2002
  - Who is the Holy Spirit?
  - People Search the Bible
  - What New Christians Did
NAD Kindergarten/Primary SS Program Helps
- Many People Learn to Love Jesus
- Jesus Special Gift Arrives
- A Broken Promise and a Lie (Ananias and Sapphira)
- Locked Doors Opened Without a Key
- A Brave Deacon Dies for Jesus
- Good News in a Chariot
Sunday School Sources
- Waiting for the Holy Spirit
- The Holy Spirit Arrives
- Trading Cards of the people, places and events of the Early Church
- See New Testament Lessons for more worksheets on this story.
WoRM (The Official Site of the Workshop Rotation Model) Lesson and Ideas Exchange

Don't forget to check out MSSS Bible Craft and Activities for Any Story for more ideas.

Colouring Pages/Activity Sheets

Abda Acts Colouring "The Holy Spirit"
All God's Children Bible Coloring Page - Day of Pentecost
Bible Activity Worksheets The Gift From God
From Calvary Chapel New Testament (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Christian Fish
Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles has a puzzle of some sort for almost every chapter in the book of Acts (too many for me to provide a link to every one of them) - make sure you check it out!
Garden of Praise (Worksheet) Tongues of Fire - Pentecost

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Crafts

Covenant People Resource Cards (no longer available - but idea left here to help out!)
- yarn outline dove with ideas for also using this to create Pentecost flames.
The Day of Pentecost
DLTK-Kids
- Dove Paper Craft

Songs

I Am A C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N
Maynard's Groovy Bible Tunes "John 14:16" and "Oh Holy Spirit" (Click on Juke Box and scroll through the songs - use the other scroll bars to discover links to sheet music and midi files.)

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