Book of Hope
From SPARK
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Age-level booklets offer children the Christian message.
Description
The Book of Hope is available in four versions. Each version offers the Christian message of hope and salvation for a special age group. The different versions all use the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) to tell the story of the life of Jesus.
Lower Primary Edition (ages 6-10)
The booklet for lower primary students would do well as a flash card presentation. It uses the same five colors as the Wordless Book. The colors are gold, black, red, white and green. There are pages of explanations and suggested activities for each color. Gold is for God. (3 pages)
- Who is God?
- What did God make?
- What is God like?
- Where does God live?
The dark color (black) is for sin. (3 pages)
- Has there always been sin?
- How did sin come to the earth?
- Who can fix it?
Red is for Jesus. (9 pages)
- Who is Jesus?
- Jesus' first birthday
- What was Jesus like as a child?
- What did Jesus do when he grew up?
- Why did Jesus get baptized?
- Did Satan ever bother Jesus?
- Did Jesus have helpers?
- What did Jesus teach?
- Jesus loves Zacchaeus.
- Mary listens to Jesus.
- What things did Jesus do while on the earth?
- Jesus teaches on the mountain.
- Here are some of the things he taught.
- Jesus takes time for the children.
- Jesus teaches his disciples to talk to God.
- The amazing things that Jesus does!
- Jesus feeds over 5,000 people.
- Jesus stops a terrible storm.
- A lame man walks.
- A blind man sees.
- A mother's son lives again.
- A girl gets better.
- What did people think of Jesus?
- Did Jesus become king?
- What happened to Jesus?
- God's special plan
- Where was Jesus buried?
- Is Jesus still in the cave?
- What did Jesus do after he came back to life?
- Where is Jesus today?
- Can I be a follower of Jesus?
- What happens when you do not believe in Jesus?
Clean (white) is for Jesus getting rid of the bad. (1 page)
- A gift for you
Green is for growing. (1 page)
- Prayer
- The Bible
- Church
Animation Edition (Upper Primary) (ages 11-14)
This edition of the Book of Hope begins with an introduction to Tye, the twelve year old boy who serves as guide in the booklet. The topics for each chapter are from Scripture. Colored slides from a filmstrip called The God Man are also included. The chapter titles are:
- Self-Esteem: Feeling good about yourself.
- The story of Creation
- The first sin
- Think it through activities.
Family: Growing strong.
- Angels appear to the parents of Jesus.
- Jesus is born.
- The boy Jesus at the temple
- Think it through activities.
Achievement: Doing things well.
- The baptism of Jesus
- The temptation of Jesus
- Think it through activities.
Friendships: Making true friends.
- Jesus heals the sick.
- Nicodemus
- Jesus teaches about character (Sermon on the Mount).
- Jesus heals a crippled man.
- Think it through activities.
Acceptance: Finding where you belong.
- The plot against Jesus
- Jesus is arrested
- Jesus is nailed to a cross.
- The death of Jesus
- Think it through activities.
Security: Dealing with the good and the bad.
- The burial of Jesus
- Jesus is alive!
- Jesus appears to his disciples.
- The Great Commission
- Jesus returns to heaven.
- Think it through activities.
The Next Step
- The sinners prayer.
- What to do as a new believer.
Considerations
- These booklets have been given free, to more than 180 million children
around the world.
- In 1986 the nation of El Salvador (Central America) asked for the Scriptures
for every school child.
- In many countries, Book of Hope is taken into public school classrooms and
and given to each child.
- The pictures show children from different ethnic groups. They are dressed
in western-style clothing in the English language edition.
- Some of the activities are not culturally appropriate in some language
groups.
- The maze activity is impossible to complete and is useless!
- The game would be useable and fun in any language group.
- The colors may not be culturally useable for some language groups.
- Some of the illustrations show only portions of bodies.
- Some pictures show things in an unusual manner. An example: Seeing
something the way a bird in flight would see it.
- Some of the filmstrip pictures only represent an object or person and may be
difficult for children to understand.
- Some of the activity questions relate only to western children. They will be
meaningless in some language groups unless they are changed to fit the culture.
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Copyright date 1995 Book of Hope International If you are interested in translating these booklets for a minority language, contact Book of Hope International. Working together, you will make a Creative Commons License agreement.
Since first published, these booklets have been given free of charge to many children around the world.
