Haircuts
Children's sermon
Object:
a lock of hair
Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you like to get your hair cut? (wait for a show of hands) Some of you do and some of you don't. Do you remember your first haircut when you were a little baby? (let them answer) You were probably too little to remember. But your mom or dad might have saved a little lock of your hair and put it in an envelope or maybe in a scrapbook. Do any of you have hair from your first haircut? (let them answer) Sometimes it's a different color than your hair is now. Hair sometimes changes color. Some people have curly hair when they are babies and when they get older it gets straighter. There are lots of different hairstyles and colors. Let's look around the group. (look at and comment on the different types of hair) Everyone has different kinds of hair colors and styles. Some are short and some are long. Has anyone ever had really long hair and got it cut very short? (wait for a show of hands)
Once a very sick little girl had to have an operation on her head. Before her operation she had to have her hair cut so the doctors could see to do the operation. Her hair was very long, down to her waist. She had to have it all cut off for the operation. So her mom put it in a long braid and put a rubber band around it at the top and the bottom, and then they cut the braid right off and saved it. It must have been very scary.
But what happens when you get hair cut? (let them answer) It grows back! It takes time, but it grows about one-half inch a month, about this much. (demonstrate) So the little girl's hair will keep growing and growing. We know that because everyone who gets a haircut always has to keep going back for more haircuts. If our hair didn't grow back, no one would ever want to get a haircut! But hair keeps growing, a little at a time.
Our lesson today is about dying. Everyone is usually afraid of dying at one time or another. It's not much fun to think about. It's scary; like having to get all your hair cut off. But we know some things about dying. We know Jesus died and that Jesus lived again and that we will, too. We don't know how it happens, but we know it does. Just like hair keeps growing after it's cut, we keep on living after we
Once a very sick little girl had to have an operation on her head. Before her operation she had to have her hair cut so the doctors could see to do the operation. Her hair was very long, down to her waist. She had to have it all cut off for the operation. So her mom put it in a long braid and put a rubber band around it at the top and the bottom, and then they cut the braid right off and saved it. It must have been very scary.
But what happens when you get hair cut? (let them answer) It grows back! It takes time, but it grows about one-half inch a month, about this much. (demonstrate) So the little girl's hair will keep growing and growing. We know that because everyone who gets a haircut always has to keep going back for more haircuts. If our hair didn't grow back, no one would ever want to get a haircut! But hair keeps growing, a little at a time.
Our lesson today is about dying. Everyone is usually afraid of dying at one time or another. It's not much fun to think about. It's scary; like having to get all your hair cut off. But we know some things about dying. We know Jesus died and that Jesus lived again and that we will, too. We don't know how it happens, but we know it does. Just like hair keeps growing after it's cut, we keep on living after we
