Mid-week 1/29/2025

THEME: DRESS LIKE A SHEPHERD (and earn extra MX bucks!)

Bible Focus: 1 Samuel 16

• Samuel anoints King Saul’s successor. It’s a young lad from Bethlehem. And God orchestrates this young lad into the king’s service.

Older Kids (2nd-5th grade):

• Memory verses:

  • 1 Samuel 15:22, “And Samuel said, ‘Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.’”

  • 1 Samuel 16:7, “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.’”

  • 1 Samuel 17:37, “And David said, ‘The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.’ And Saul said to David, ‘Go, and the Lord be with you!’”

Younger Kids (Kindergarten-1st grade):

• Memory verse:

  • 1 Samuel 16:7, “…the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”