1 Samuel 3

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The Lord calls Samuel (1 Samuel 3:1-10​, 11-20)

Samuel was about 9 years old when God called him by name one night. He kept thinking his friend Eli was calling him but on the fourth time realised it was God and, as Eli suggested to him, he answered saying ‘Speak Lord, I am listening’. God can use any of us. God loves all of us, no one is too young!

Read the Story

Bob Hartman is a creative storyteller, and has produced a range of great books and poetry to retell this story of Samuel. Some of our favourites include: 

• Bob Hartman's Rhyming Bible ​(Somebody's calling my name, p49-52)
• My Epic Doodletastic Bible Storybook and The Link-it-up Bible, by Bob Harman (A Very Interruptive God, p.94-97)
• Act-Along Bible, by Bob Hartman (Samuel, p.39-41)

Intergenerational Worship

Written and compiled by Melissa Neumann from the Uniting Church of Australia, for Intergen Australia. View Here

Icebreaker games

Play a listening game as part of an introduction to the story today. The aim is to help children recognise that they have to listen well to find out what is happening. 

• Assemble a range of items or instruments that make a noise, and hide them behind a piece of fabric, or in a box. One by one make noise and get the children to guess what the noise was
• Whisper challenge. Sit the children in a circle and tell the first child a word to remember, and pass on. Once it has reached the end of the line, check to see if it is the same word as the beginning. 
• The above whispering challenge can be adapted to become a running relay game

Seven Minute Sermon

​A Seven Minute Sermon from Rev. George Penk. God spoke to Samuel in the Temple, and to Martin Luther King in his kitchen. How will we respond if the Lord calls us? ​

Activities

• ​Snack Idea (Kid Frugal)
• Cup Phone (There's Just One Mommy)
• Samuel Hears from God Craft (Emma Tovey)
• 3D Printable Craft (My Little House - below)
• Listening to God Game (Children's Ministry)
• Printable Samuel Craft (Sabbath School Crafts)
• Headband Listening Ears (Mrs Jones Creation Station)

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