First Communion: Session 1

Chapter 1: God Made Everything

Introduction for parents

Key Questions

Who made you? God made me

Why did God make you? God made me to know Him, Love Him and serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in the next.

  • We are all made in the image and likeness of God

  • We are all unique and special

  • We all have individual talents which God wants us to us to share with others and show how much we love Him

  • The Creation - God created the world and all that is in it

  • God made us humans, the animals, nature, oceans, seas etc

  • God Gave us humans a soul - that makes us different from all other species on this earth

Activities for children

  • Read page 6 together–God Made Everything

  • Complete the To Do and To write activities on page 7

  • Prayer to say with family

Glory be to the Father
and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit

as it was in the beginning
is now and ever shall be
world without end

Amen

Chapter 2: We need God to Save Us

Introduction for parents

Key Questions

  • What is sin? Sin is deliberately going against what God wants us to do

  • Does God forgive sin? God always forgives anyone who says sorry

  • Can we save ourselves from sin on our own? We need God to save us with His love and His help

Let’s look at the Bible…

The Bible is made up of:

  • The Old Testament

  • The New Testament

Look at who we know in the Old Testament…

Abraham—who had a great love for God and did what God asked of Him

God made Abraham the father of a new nation—Israel

God rescued the people of Israel when they were slaves in Egypt and gave them wonderful food in the desert when they were hungry (Manna from Heaven). He gave some laws to their leader who was then Moses so that the people of Israel would know what is right and wrong. The laws that he gave to Moses are called:

The Ten Commandments

God gave the Israelites their own country to live in and sent them Kings and Prophets (other leaders) to help them keep His laws. He wanted his people to follow Him.

Some leaders and Prophets in the Old Testament:

 

Abraham

Samuel

Solomon

Moses

David

Isaiah

 

Daniel

 

Activities for children

  1. Read page 8 together: We Need God to Save Us

  2. Watch Moses and the 10 Commandments cartoon:

  3. There are further activities on page 9 (optional)