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THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST   Betrayal is the act of giving out information about something or somebody to an enemy. It is an act disloyalty and unfaithfulness  THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST After the last supper, Jesus and His disciples left for the Mount  of Olives to spend the night there from where they went to the  garden of Gethsemane. Jesus prayed a prayer of agony in  the garden because of the heaviness of His heart. After some  time Judas Iscariot who was to betray Him came with a crowd  to arrest Jesus because they have promised to pay him thirty  pieces of silver if he can hand over Jesus to them. Before this  time, Judas Iscariot had given the crowd a sign to identify the  person to arrest. Judas went near Jesus and kissed Him, on  seeing this sign the crowd that came with him immediately  arrested Jesus One of the disciples of Jesus tried to defend Jesus by cutting  off the ear of one of the servant of the high p...

THE STORY OF JOSEPH (1) MEMORY VERSE: Genesis: 37:10   "What is this that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers bow down to you?” Joseph was one of the twelve Sons of Jacob. His mother's  name was Rachael and he had a younger brother called  Benjamin. He was is father's favourite son because he was an  obedient boy.   His father made a long-sleeved robe of many colours for him. Joseph had two dreams: Joseph dreamt that he and his brothers were binding sheaves in the field and his brothers' sheaves bowed down to his own. In the second dream , Joseph saw the sun, moon and eleven stars worshipping him. His brothers do not like Joseph because of the following reasons: v   Because he was his father's favourite son. v   Because of his dream of greatness   Joseph’s brothers were in Dothan looking after the flock when Jacob sent Joseph to go and give them food. When they saw him and they planned to kill him but R...

LOCALLY AND FOREIGN-MADE GOODS Trade means selling and buying.   Currency:   It is a system of money in general use in a particular country. E.g. Naira, Dollar, Euro   Export: This means goods and services taken to another country for sale.   Import:   This means goods and services brought in from abroad for sale. Revenue:   This means income accruing from taxation to a government during a specified period of time. Local Trade   The trade of locally produced goods such as yams, plantain and groundnuts between the north and south of Nigeria is a local trade. It is local because the local currency is used.   International Trade   When countries buy and sell from each other, it is called international trade. For example, Most of Nigeria's revenue comes from selling crude oil produced in the Niger Delta to companies in the United States and Europe.   Trade by Barter   This means exchanging goods for goods. For exam...

ENTRY INTO THE PROMISED LAND Memory Verse: Joshua 4:6-7   "When your children ask you in time to come, 'What do these stones mean to you?' Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan..." After Moses died, God made Joshua the new leader of the Israelites. God then told Joshua to take the people to the River Jordan .  Joshua lead the Israelites to cross the River Jordan with the priests   in front carrying the Ark of the Covenant . The feet of the priests  touched the water and God divided the river into two. The Israelites   crossed the River Jordan on dry ground and entered the Promised  Land .   THE TWELVE STONE After crossing the river, God told Joshua to select twelve men with  one man from each tribe. Each man would take a stone from the  middle of the River Jordan and each tribe would keep the stone  forever. The ston...

  PEACEMAKING Memory Verse: Matthew 5:9   “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” What is peacemaking? Peacemaking is the act of settling disputes and misunderstandings among people. A person who is always making peace by settling disputes and misunderstanding among people is called a peacemaker . THE NEEDS TO PRACTICE PEACEMAKING 1. It brings understanding between people 2. It brings peace                                                  3. It brings love        4. It brings friendship and unity 5. It brings happiness, development and prosperity Moral Lesson: Peacemaking helps to make our society a better place to live in. THE CALL OF ABRAHAM MEM...

THE STORY OF JOSEPH This is the story of a young man named Joseph.   His father's name is Jacob, and they lived in Canaan from where his grandfather was from. Joseph was seventeen and he had eleven brothers, and only had one brother younger than him.  Can you imagine having eleven brothers to play with, or fight with? Because Joseph was one of the youngest sons, his father spent more time with him, and he became very special to him.   So Jacob had a special robe made for Joseph.  (They didn't have jackets back then, so this was a very special jacket).   It was very beautiful and had every colour you could imagine in it. All of Joseph's older brothers saw this and they got very jealous.  The word jealous means that Joseph's brothers disliked him because they thought his father liked him more, and because he got the special coat.  They got so jealous they couldn't even say a kind word to him. One day Joseph had a dream, and he went to go t...

MODERN MEANS OF COMMUNICATION Today, most means of communication are fast and powered by electricity.  ELECTRONIC MEANS OF COMMUNICATION Examples: 1. Telephone Today, many people have telephone lines. The telephone helps us to communicate with people over a long distance.  Before now, the telephones are connected by cables. Later, a wireless device came called Mobile was invented. These can work in a certain range. These mobiles can be carried through in a pocket also. Today, most of us are using these telephones to communicate. 2. E-mail With the invention of the internet, people can now send e-mails. E-mail message gets delivered instantly and is free. MASS COMMUNICATION This is a means of communication where we can communicate with many people at the same time. Examples: 1. Newspapers and Magazine 2. Radio 3. Television 4. video conference 5. Billboards 6. Blogging 7. Virtual Reality

THE GROWTH OF THE CHURCH b.      The Great Commission (Matthew 28:19,20. Mark 16:15,16. Luke 24:47.       INTRODUCTION: The Church is the “Bride of Christ” through which God  reconciles man to Himself. The church is not a building, the  venue nor the structure BUT Christians – as the body of  Christ. The first missionaries that came to Nigeria were Europeans  from the Roman Catholic Church. Their initial attempt to preach the gospel to the people failed because the weather was hostile; there was the language barrier; the chiefs were hostile because they were afraid that if their indigenes become Christian, they would no longer follow their traditional religion. Some of these early missionaries were: Mary Slessor, David Hinderer, Henry Townsend, Father Coquard, Thomas Bowen, Dr Karl Kumm among others. The second attempt three hundred years later was successful because some Africans had become missionaries, who joined to preac...