Week 787 · about 45 minutes
Jeremiah 6
Jeremiah 6 · Memory verse Jeremiah 6:3
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Jeremiah 6), the matching word search and answer key (Jeremiah 6 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a folded cloth
Hold a folded cloth. Read Jeremiah 6 in about four minutes, stopping at Jeremiah 6:3: “Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Jeremiah 6?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Jeremiah 6 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” Jeremiah 6 opens with these words: ““Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth…” The line to keep is Jeremiah 6:3: “Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”” Carry the word “shepherds” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Jeremiah 6:3: “Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Jeremiah 6? Then try this: Read “Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Jeremiah 6. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Jeremiah 6:3. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Jeremiah 6 and write Jeremiah 6:3 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Jeremiah 6:3
“Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.””
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Jeremiah 6. Help us remember Jeremiah 6:3 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.