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COLLECTIVE WORSHIP PLANNING AUTUMN TERM 2020

THE LORD’S PRAYER – WEEK 5

Diocese of Chelmsford Autumn Term 2020

SUPPORTING INFORMATION FOR ADULTS

The Lord’s Prayer in a Bag by Elizabeth Windsor (Building Faith) is an interactive resource. It has a list of materials that you’ll need and even a lesson script. Other ideas are listed at the end of the planning sheet.

To recap so far … reminding the pupils that it’s always important to understand what they’re saying.

This prayer is helping us begin to learn how God would like us to pray. Even Jesus’ closest friends (the disciples) wanted to know how to pray. The disciples were with Jesus all of the time and saw Him pray to God, but still they weren’t sure what to do. So in the story of Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave them (and us) the Lord’s Prayer. This was Jesus’ first public sermon.

Matthew and Luke tell us about 4 things to include when we pray – praise, making a request, asking for forgiveness and asking for strength. Today’s words are in the PRAISE category.

LITURGICAL COLOUR

Week 1 What is prayer?

Week 2 Our Father in Heaven

Week 3 Hallowed be your name

Week 4 Your kingdom come

Week 5 Your will be done on earth as in heaven

Week 6 Give us today our daily bread

Week 7 Forgive us our sins

Week 8 As we forgive those who sin against us

Week 9 Lead us not into temptation

Week 10 Deliver us from evil

Week 11 For ever and ever AmenHow do we know God is listening?

THEME: Your will be done on earth as in HeavenPlease note: These are just ideas to support your own planning – please change, adapt and tweak for your school and children. They are not intended to be followed exactly as they have been written. Please ensure you watch any video clips to ensure they are suitable for your context.

Resources:Globe – if possible an inflatable one so that could be passed around easily with limited damage!Have Your will be done on earth as in Heaven on the screen at the relevant pointVideo Clip of British Sign Language Lord’s PrayerYouTube: The Lord’s Prayer/ Explaining the Lord’s Prayer – Douglas Talks (6:44) or #Lords Prayer#Fathers Day#Sharefaithkids The Lord’s Prayer for Kids – God our Father: Matthew 6(3:40)YouTube Video and Lyrics – Our God is a Great Big God (great for actions). There are various versions, so check out which one you like.5 Finger Prayer – see below. This will have to be adapted to age appropriate language.

Gather Engage Respond Send

Could have a video clip of the Lord’s Prayer in British Sign Language for the pupils to watch and join in with whilst classes gathering together or just have a version of the Lord’s Prayer on the screen with music playing.

Have displayed the Biblical context of where the Lord’s Prayer is foundMatthew 6: 9-10 and Luke 11: 2-4 – but these versions are slightly different. Highlight the words for today. Your will be done on earth as in Heaven

Also have the version the pupils say in school and their local

Get the pupils to recap over the meaning of the prayer so far…

Today we’re concentrating on the words - Your will be done on earth as in Heaven

Let’s think about where God lives, His Heavenly home – what do you think it’s like? Pupils to talk in pairs and then ask for their ideas. During this time, pass the globe to anyone offering a thought / suggestion. If using an inflatable globe I would throw it to keep the interest level up – but you know your audience!

Prompts if they dry up or a little hesitant to start …

We’re asking God how it is in Heaven and that’s what we’d like it to be on

God is OUR Father and we pray to Him. So we are His family / children and He loves us more than we love ourselves.

Song: Our God is a Great Big God – we’re singing this song as we sing the words – He knows us and He loves us since the world began. How wonderful to be a part of God’s amazing plan!

We pray in order for God to change OUR will so that we can begin to think about and act as He would want us to.

Christians pray in different ways

Use one of the YouTube clips to recap the learning today and the previous days on this prayer.

The Grace for sending…

Actions in brackets for The Grace to be said altogether.

(Either raise both hands up shoulder width apart - palms facingOr pointing fingers both hand point upwards)The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ

(Both hands on your heart) and the love of God


SUPPORTING INFORMATION FOR ADULTS

The Lord’s Prayer in a Bag by Elizabeth Windsor (Building Faith) is an interactive resource. It has a list of materials that you’ll need and even a lesson script. Other ideas are listed at the end of the planning sheet.

To recap so far … reminding the pupils that it’s always important to understand what they’re saying.

This prayer is helping us begin to learn how God would like us to pray. Even Jesus’ closest friends (the disciples) wanted to know how to pray. The disciples were with Jesus all of the time and saw Him pray to God, but still they weren’t sure what to do. So in the story of Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave them (and us) the Lord’s Prayer. This was Jesus’ first public sermon.

Matthew and Luke tell us about 4 things to include when we pray – praise, making a request, asking for forgiveness and asking for strength. Today’s words are in the PRAISE category.

church – again highlighting today’s words.

When everyone is in, whoever is leading the gathering (pupil or adult says

The Lord be with you

The response is said by everyone else

and also with you

earth now. We don’t have to guess what God’s

WILL to be done as in Heaven, as God gave us a very special book (the Bible). We know that the Bible is actually like a special library as it is made up of 66 books! (39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament).

In the very last book in the Bible (Revelations ) written by a Christian man known as "John the Elder" who lived in a place called Ephesus wrote about the visions of Heaven in Chapter 21 verse 1.

Christians think that Heaven must be a very special as God lives there.

The Bible tell us that in Heaven there’ll be no more crying, no more hunger and no more hurt.

and for many things but by praying for God’s will to be done on earth (referred to by Christians as God’s kingdom on earth) we can also pray by using the 5 Finger Prayer (See below).

The world isn’t how it should be and the Bible tells us that better is coming. We shouldn’t be satisfied how things are now and by praying to God to help us do what HE wants us to improve our world. God, through His people, can see His will done on earth as it is in Heaven.

The Lord’s Prayer is the most common prayer used by Christians …

Say The Lord’s Prayer

(Whole school including staff holding hands – naturally at the moment with COVID-19 you will have to improvise!!)and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,

be with us all evermore

(Hands by their sides and raise them up on the Ahhhhhhhh of Amen - getting louder and louder as their arms raise above their heads for a big CLAP on the men of Amen)

Ahhhhhhhh men.


What does Your will mean?Your will is what you want to happen – this is like God’s plan. So we mean that WE want what God wants to happen. We’re asking God for His will [His plan] on earth to be as perfect as it is in Heaven. This way, we can experience the wonders of God’s world in our daily lives now.

This part of the prayer reminds us that we should be living the way God wants us to live every day of our lives. What do you think He would like us to be doing?

Again some prompts … Be like Jesus was – kind, helpful etc. Pray like Jesus – wanting God’s name

to be recognized.


Another resource that you might find useful, especially with younger pupils

The Lord's Prayer Unplugged: A Wealth of Ideas Opening Up the Prayer in Ten Sessions

Lucy MooreBible Reading Fellowship, 2012 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 128 pagesThe Lord's Prayer Unplugged provides a unique opportunity to explore the biblical breadth and depth encapsulated in Jesus' famous prayer. The material can be used as a complete teaching programme over the course of ten weeks. Alternatively, each unit stands alone so that the phrases can be studied separately and linked into the teaching of a Bible passage springing from the phrase. An index of Bible passages is included at the end of the book. Each phrase of the prayer is explored through creative ideas, offering a wealth of thematic gems for teachers to pick and choose to suit their situation.


The Lord’s Prayer in the style of Godly Play (Reflective Story Telling)

taken from The Lord’s Prayer Unplugged by Lucy Moore

When Jesus gave us the words for this prayer in Matthew 6; 9-15 it was intended to be a pattern for how we should come close to God. For this reason the following reflective version, using beautiful symbols for each section, can be very helpful in allowing the children time and space to think through what each phrase really means and how it can shape and guide all our praying. This version is the same as that published in the final chapter of Lucy Moore’s book The Lord’s Prayer Unplugged.

For this presentation you will need the following items, choosing or making 3-D objects that are both simple and attractive:

squares of felt in green, black, red, yellow, purple, grey, blue and orange;

a model hen and chicks;

a nightlight and matches or a battery operated nightlight;

four red hearts;

a bread roll;


a gold heart;

a stone;

a rainbow;

red feathers;

bubble mixture and blower.

Of course you may want to substitute your own symbols and visuals. Or you might just have different ideas that mean more to you.

Script

1 Jesus knew all about prayer… he prayed early in the morning… he prayed late into the night… he prayed for his friends… and for those who would have counted themselves his enemies… he prayed for little children … he laid his hand upon them and he blessed them… One day, when Jesus was praying, his friends came up to him and said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’ This is the prayer that Jesus taught…


Lay out the green felt to your right – i.e. the children’s left. Remember you will need enough space for seven more pieces also placed from your right to your left in a line so that the story unrolls like a scroll2 Your heavenly Father is better than the best father you could ever imagine. He cares for you so much that he wants you to call him ‘Abba, ‘Daddy’. He loves you even more than a mother hen loves her chicks.Put the hen and chicks on the green feltSo when you pray, start your prayer like this… Abba … our father in heaven…

3 Lay out the black felt and light a nightlight on itAnd remember when you pray that your heavenly father is very holy. He is all that is good… all that is light … hallowed meaning holy – be your name…

4 Lay out the red feltYour heavenly father loves you so much that he has spread his love to every part of the world… north… south … east… west…

place the four hearts on the red felt


there is no part of the world that your heavenly father doesn’t care for… there is no part of the world that he doesn’t want us to care for… your kingdom come … your will be done … on earth as it is in heaven.

5 Your heavenly father loves you so much that he wants you to have every good thing you need… he’d give those things to us anyway… but he loves us to ask for the things we need … he loves us to share our lives with him… give us this day our daily bread.Lay out the yellow felt and place the bread on itOur daily bread is not just the toast we have for breakfast … or the honey sandwich we have for tea. No, it’s everything we need … our friends … our families… our homes … clothes to keep us warm … food and love to nourish us … Give us today our daily bread…

6 Lay out the purple felt and place the gold heart on itThis part of the prayer is all about God’s love for us… but he knows that we don’t always get things right … and he has given us ten ways (the Ten Commandments) to help us live to help us know when we get things wrong … forgive us our sins…


And God wants us to love as we are loved … to forgive those who sin against us… this part of the prayer is about what we can do for others…

7 Lay out the grey felt and the stoneGod knows that there are things that make us do things we shouldn’t do… there are grey areas when we are not sure whether we are doing right or wrong … perhaps there are times when we know that we are doing wrong … but we want to do that thing all the same…

Lay out the rainbow over the stone… lead us not into temptation … but deliver us from evil … God has given us the sign of the rainbow (a special promise – as in the story of Noah) to remind us that he will never, ever turn his back on us … he will never, ever let us go…

8 This story about the rainbow and Noah you can find in your Bible, but today the end of this prayer praises God for his eternal love …Lay out the blue feltyours is the kingdom…

Lay out the orange felt


the power …

Lay out the red feathersand the glory … from the beginning of time… with us today … for ever and ever… Amen

Lay out bubble mixture and blow bubbles I wonder what you like best about this prayer?

I wonder what you think is the most important part of this prayer?

I wonder where you are in this prayer or which part of the prayer is about you?

I wonder if there is anything in this prayer we could leave out and still have all the prayer we need?

The Lord’s Prayer in Godly Prayer Style for Early Years

As the Lord’s Prayer is going to be taught over quite a few weeks it might be useful to spend the time to have a resource such as this for the children to be able to play with to remember the prayer and its meaning.

Materials that you will need:


A long strip of purple cloth / felt A laminated copy of the Lord’s Prayer 6 x heart shapes (4 red, one white and one black or grey or another dark colour). In the photos below you will see that the person here

was able to find a little red plastic heart shaped container. They put the felt heart shapes inside and then opened it and placed the hearts – north, south, east and west – but this is not necessary.

A cross A world ball or small globe A golden crown 3 x white circles of felt A night light (I’d use battery operated one so that the children can use them – not like the ones in the photo) A basket, bowl or box to store the items in.

As you tell the story lay the materials out on a long strip of purple cloth or felt. Lay out the materials in a way that gives each piece good space on your purple material and then cut your material to match the amount of space you need.


The three circles are for the Trinity being a part of the story, because even though Jesus prayed this prayer to God the Father, we also remember God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

At this point you can talk about theme of light and darkness. So the candle is used when talking about hallowed be your name to represent God’s holiness.


Your Kingdom come can be depicted by using a crown. No matter what’s going on in the world, we can remember that God is King and he WILL rule his kingdom forever!

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven - by explaining that there is no place or people on earth that God doesn’t care about. You can place the globe / earth ball and four felt hearts to show that God’s love stretches north, south, east, and west.

For the line ‘give us this day our daily bread’, a simple plastic piece of bread from a kitchen play set can be used. For this part of the story to talk about how we rely on God for His provision. He provides us with all we need, not just our daily bread. He loves it when we talk to Him about our needs and he loves to give us good things.


You can use a black / grey or dark shade heart covered by a white heart to represent - forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.

Some traditions use transgressions and some use debts when they recite the Lord’s prayer, but regardless of the word you choose to use, the point is that we stand in need of God’s forgiveness. And God’s intention is that we would then share his forgiveness with others by showing His love and grace to others.


If you are familiar with Godly Play, you will quickly make the connection to the dark places used in the Parable of the Good Shepherd story. In the parable of the Good Shepherd, we learn that God is with us in the dark places and no matter how lost we are, the Good Shepherd will come after us, searching until he finds His lost sheep.

And when the wolf comes to kill and destroy the sheep, the Good Shepherd will stand between the wolf and the sheep, even laying down His own life for the sheep. The idea of putting the cross on top of the dark places to show, deliver us from evil is a beautiful picture of the power of the cross to overcome sin and darkness.

The last symbol is a gold bracelet, but any type of circle would do. They used this to represent the eternal nature of the phrase - For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever and ever, Amen with a circle.


All the materials fit nicely into a tray, basket or pretty box. The children can get then get out the Lord’s Prayer Story basket story materials on their own during their play time.


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