A-52 God’s Faithful Prophets

(1) Wild Vision of God’s Glory

Theme: Ezekiel has to describe something he has never seen before

Supplies: 2-3 mystery objects hidden inside individual bags (make them unusual—like a pinecone glued to a toy wheel or a small dinosaur figure stuck halfway into a kitchen sponge, etc).

Instructions:

• Kids take turns sticking their hand in the bag and feeling the object without seeing it.
• They must describe what they think it is—out loud.
• Have the rest of the class try to guess what they are feeling.
• After 4–5 guesses, reveal the strange object.

Discussion:

• Ask: "Do we have anything in the world like what Ezekiel saw in his vision in Ezekiel 1?"
• Ask: "How hard is it to describe something that you don't have anything you can reference to explain what it is."
• Say: "Ezekiel saw God's throne, which is so amazing that his human words struggled to explain it."

(2) Valley of Dry Bones

Theme: Ezekiel sees God change a field of dry bones into a strong army.

Supplies: Two duplicate copies of paper bones (from a template), tape.

Instructions:

• Scatter paper “bones” around the room.
• Divide the class into two teams. 
• On “go,” kids race to gather bones and assemble a skeleton on the wall or floor.

Discussion:

• Say: "Imagine God telling bones much bigger than these to come alive!”
• Say: "This is exactly what God wants to do in your life. He wants to take your dead broken promises, goals, and dreams, and make them alive!"