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Elisha and the Shunammite’s Son2 Kings 4:18-37March 8, 2015The children will understand:The story of Elisha restoring life to the Shunammite woman’s son.Elisha had compassion forthe determined Shunammite woman.That weshould be compassionate people whodo what we canto help others.GameSupplies:empty 2-literbottles You will need 5empty 2-liter bottles. Lay these on their sides at one end of the room and position one child by each bottle. Divide all the other kids evenly into 5teams and place them at the other end of the room. (Feel free to change the numberaccording to how manykids you have.) Each team is assigned a bottle.At the signal, one person from each team will run to their bottle and stomp on it, right in the middleacross the label, and then return to their team. (Do NOT stomp the length of the bottle, but go across it sideways.) The bottle will collapse under the stomp. The kid stationed at the bottle will bend over and blow into the bottle to re-inflate it while the player returns to their team. That player will tag the next team member who will run to the bottle and stomp on it. As soon as the bottle collapses, that team member will return to the team while the kid stationed at the bottle re-inflates it, again. Continue doing this until all the kids have had a turn (or as many turns as you like). Make sure that the same kid is re-inflating each bottle.That was a lot of work to blow life backinto those bottles. Today, we’re going to learn about a man named Elisha, and how God used Elisha to breathe life back into a boy from Shunem. Let’s listen, I believe I hear Elisha coming... (Elisha enters the room.)Bible AccountSupplies:biblical costumestaffThe actor portraying Elisha will be dressed in biblical attireand will be holding a staff. He’ll enter andbeginspeaking to the children.The Elisha actor will tell this story in first person.Oh, hello there, boys and girls. My name is Elisha, and I’m a prophet of God.Being a prophet means that God gives me messages to give to His people. I was just thinkingaboutan amazing
time in my life when God used me to heal a Shunammite’s son. Oh, I see the question marks on your faces ... what’s a Shunammite? A Shunammite is someone who came from Shunem, which is the name of a small town. Avery special familyto melived in Shunem. Whenever I visited that little town, this family gaveme and my servant food and shelter.(He smiles as he thinks about them.) They even built a room on the roof of their house for me! Isn’t that incredible! They wanted me to feel so at home when I was with them that they built me my very own room. This man and woman were so unbelievably generous and kind. There was one thing, though, that brought sadness intotheir lives. They had no children, and they were getting up in years—the grey hair was showing, if you know what I mean. The Lord told me—His prophet—to tell them that they would soon have a son of their own. Oh my goodness, they were thrilled. Sure enough, about a year after I told them God’s good news, the woman gave birth to a son. That’s only the beginning of the miraculousstory, though; it gets even better. Listen to this!When the boy was young, he wasoutin the field with his father. All of a sudden,his head started hurting terribly! He had such a monstrous headache that the boy’s father had a servant CARRYhim back home to his mother. The mother held her hurting childjust like any mom would do with a sick child. But this time, it was different. She held him and rocked him ...until he died in her lap!She was absolutely devastated!How horrible for her!The mother immediately wanted to come to visit me. That was the first thing she thought of when her little boy died in her arms. I was in a nearby town at the time, but she believed that I was a prophet of God—the one true God! She laid her son on the bed in my guest roomat their house, and asked her husband for a donkey to ride to the town that I was in. She didn’t tell anyone about theboy’s death.No one!She was determined to see meand she didn’t want anyone to stop her!I saw the Shunammite woman coming from a distance and sent my servant to her. She didn’t stop to explain the situation to him, but ran straight to me and fell at myfeet. I could tell something was terribly wrong, but for some reason God hadn’t revealed it to me yet. My servant tried to push the woman off of my feet, but I could see she was extremelyupset, so I asked her if something was wrong with her husband or her son. She told me that her son had died.(Show children a staff.) I immediately gave my servant my staff and instructed him to go to the boy and lay the staff on his face. My servant did as I said, but the boy didn’t wake up.So I went to Shunem. I wentalone to the boy. Hewas lying in my bed in the guest room. He was surely dead, so I went in and prayed to the Lord to help me know what to do.This is when it got really strange! I felt God giving me some rather unique instructions. I got on the bed and laid my body on top ofthe lifeless body of the boy. Let me show you here on the floor.(Lay on your stomach on the floor.) I placed my mouth over his mouth. I placed my eyes over his eyes. I placed my hands over his hands. The most amazing thing started to happen. I could feel his bodygetting warm.(stand) I turned away and began walking back and forth in the room. Then, I laid on the boy a second time. The boy sneezed... yes, he sneezed ...7times and opened his eyes. He was alive! It was truly a miracle of God!