Grade 1 - Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States

Sunday School Curriculum Grade 1
Week 4 - Love for the Church
Objective:
Encouraging the child to go to church
Memory Verse:
“I will come into Your house in the multitude of your mercy” (Psalm 5:7)
References:
1 Samuel 3:10, I Kings 8, Luke 2:46
Introduction:
Review the previous lesson and verse
Ask the children if they like to come to church or not?
This lesson will depend on practical acting on how to enter and get out of the church and how
to behave when we are in the altar waiting to receive communion
A picture of Prophet Samuel.
Lesson Outlines:
When the Lord Christ saw some people in the temple selling and buying things without
showing respect for the House of God, He drove them out.
The Lord becomes pleased with you and gives you what you need when you show respect for
the church.
Items that should be dealt with:
Kneeling down before the sanctuary (study the verse)
The holiness of the place and showing respect for it (take of your shoes before you enter
the sanctuary and keep calm and silent).
Almsgiving (in secret).
Receiving benediction (water, Eulogia, kissing the cross).
Behaving well on feast days, wedding parties, etc., according to what is fit within the
Christian atmosphere. Try to change the bad customs spread among the children when
they are in the church such as:
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