Deep Down Detectives Unit 15:
God’s People Gather Together
Unit 15 Overview
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A church is God’s people gathering together. Some churches meet in special buildings. Some churches meet in homes. Some meet outside. No matter where they meet, when God’s people gather together, they are a church. When God’s people gather together as a church, they worship God. They worship Him for being the one, true God who is not like anyone else. They worship Him for saving them through Jesus. They sing songs and pray to God. They listen to the Bible and learn how to obey it. God’s people also gather together to love one another. They talk with each other, and take care of each other, and pray for each other. The Bible tells us that God’s people are to meet together often. It tells us that when they gather together, Jesus will be there with them in a special way. We can be God’s people when we turn away from our sins and trust in Jesus as our Savior. Then, we will gather together with God’s people to worship God and love one another, too!
We will learn 6 truths about what God’s people do when they gather together in this unit.
Bible Truths Included in Unit 15 Curriculum
(3 lessons available for each Bible Truth. You can choose to do 1,2 or 3 lessons.)
Why Do God’s People Go to Church? To Worship God and Love One Another…
- Bible Truth 1: By Praising God for Jesus’ Win over Death
- Bible Truth 2: By Learning from God’s Word, the Bible
- Bible Truth 3: By Caring for Each Other’s Needs
- Bible Truth 4: By Telling What God Has Done and Praying
- Bible Truth 5: By Baptizing People Who Trust in and Live for Jesus
- Bible Truth 6: By Remembering Jesus Died to Save Them
Looking just for bits and pieces of Unit 15, instead of whole curriculum downloads? Go to Bits and Pieces!
TIPS FOR USING THIS CURRICULUM:
Here are some tips that will really help you fit our curriculum to your needs.
1. This is the Works:
This section contains FULL DOWNLOADS of curriculum, just like the hard copies available through amazon.com. Looking for just a story or a particular, single resource? Go to Deep Down Detectives Bits and Pieces.
Few other churches choose to use all of the curriculum as we use it at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, because we have created enough curriculum to stretch 3 hours each Sunday (Sunday School and Church). You may feel easily overwhelmed.
2. Take the Tour:
Look at this section from the Praise Factory Curriculum Tour to get a good sense of what is offered in this curriculum and how it is structured, were you to use it as the lesson plans suggest (structure of every class is the same… learn it, once and you’ve got it down.) Deep Down Detectives Tour
3. Follow the Stars:
Also, notice that within the lesson plan, there is a simple, basic lesson mapped out for you with stars next to these key elements. Many people using the lesson plan have found the stars just what they need.
4. Use Bits and Pieces Instead:
I would strongly encourage you to choose Bits and Pieces a la carte downloads instead of these full curriculum downloads. Bits and Pieces allows you to download just what you need. If for some reason you find you want to use most of the curriculum as ordered in our lesson plan, then these full unit downloads may be useful to you. Bits and Pieces has instructions about how to helpfully choose what you need. I would suggest looking at that first. Go to Deep Down Detectives Bits and Pieces.
Unit 15 Downloads/Hard Copies
ESV Resources for Unit 15
1. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 ESV Core Curriculum
(overview, lesson plans, stories, sheet music, take-home sheets, crafts, etc.)
2. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 ESV Simple Story Scenes
(Bible truth overview sheets, set of story scenes for each Bible truth story, take-home sheets)
3. Visual Aid Packages
(Bible truth key concept signs, stories, and pictures that illustrate them)
3A. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 ESV Visual Aids with Simple Story Scenes
3B. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 ESV Visual Aids with Large Format Storyboard Pictures
(with large format storyboard pictures for boards AT LEAST 36″ x 48″)
3C. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 ESV Visual Aids with Small Format Storyboard Pictures
(with Small Format Storyboard pictures for boards 24″ x 36″ to 36″ x 48″)
4. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 ESV audio mp3’s (download only)
Core Curriculum Resources (Amazon or dowmload):
Lesson plans, stories, activities,song lyrics and sheet music for the Bible Truths.
Visual Aids Book (Amazon or dowmload): All of the colorful signs and storyboard pics used in the each of the four Bible Truths. I highly suggest you purchase these through amazon rather than downloading them. A lot of ink!
About the pdf files: Each of the pdf files are large files and are bookmarked for easy reference. However, the bookmarks will not show up until you actually download the file onto your computer. When it opens for viewing on the website, you will only see the pages to the document (no bookmarks). FORMATTED FOR DOUBLE SIDED PRINTING
Audio mp3s (Zipped files or live play from this website)
The audio mp3 files: Each audio mp3 file is a zipped file. That means you need to download it onto your computer and then unlock the file by “extracting” the individual files. This process varies with computer software, but is very simple and usually only requires a “right click” with your mouse and choose “extract all.”
NIV Resources for Unit 15
1. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 NIV Core Curriculum
(overview, lesson plans, stories, sheet music, take-home sheets, crafts, etc.)
2. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 NIV Simple Story Scenes
(Bible truth overview sheets, set of story scenes for each Bible truth story, take-home sheets)
3. Visual Aids Packages
(Bible truth key concept signs, stories, and pictures that illustrate them)
3A. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 NIV Visual Aids with Simple Story Scenes
3B. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 NIV Visual Aids with Large Format Storyboard Pictures
(with large format storyboard pictures for boards AT LEAST 36″ x 48″)
3C. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 NIV Visual Aids with Small Format Storyboard Pictures
(with Small Format Storyboard pictures for boards 24″ x 36″ to 36″ x 48″)
3. Deep Down Detectives Unit 15 NIV audio mp3’s (download only)