This is part 1 of our series of complete Sunday school lessons for advent and Christmas Day.
First advent Sunday – Zechariah meets the angel Gabriel who tells him that he and his wife Elisabeth are going to have a child, John.
Second advent Sunday – Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel who tells her that she will become pregnant and bear a child, who will be called the Son of God.
Third advent Sunday – Mary goes to visit Elisabeth.
Fourth advent Sunday – The birth of John the Baptist and the song of Zechariah.
Christmas Day – The birth of Jesus
The Sunday School lesson consists of the following ideas:
What number did you throw? - a Bible game / Icebreaker
YouTube video and discussion – One Day
Experiment – The Impossible Sum
No nice gift for Zachariah? - a creative activity
Who is the angel Gabriel? - a creative activity
Who can you trust? - a creative activity
What did you say? - a Bible game
I think God is really special, because... - a Bible game
Keep that straw under your nose! - a fun Bible game
Download the PDF booklet with all these ideas:
We have created an illustrated PDF booklet containing these creative ideas. Using this PDF booklet you can print all these ideas at home at your leisure: see below.
You can download the PDF here: Zechariah_meets_the_angel_Gabriel_-_Sunday_school_lesson.pdf