CHRISTMAS PROJECT

Welcome to the UMN Christmas project.

This project is designed for children and teenagers aged between 6-15 years old. The project is designed for a Sunday school setting.

The purpose of the series is to bring missions closer to your church. It will help your church and children get a broader view of what is happening in other parts of the world allowing you to become involved in mission without the need to travel to a new country and learn a new language.

The whole project will take 13 meetings to complete. During the last meeting you can prepare together with the group for a church presentation. All the materials developed through the course can be used as part of this presentation.

During the project the group will learn about Nepal and get opportunities to pray for and perhaps raise money for UMN's work in Nepal with a special focus on UMN's work concerning children. Ideas how to do this are given within the lesson plans.

The UMN Christmas project consists of :

• A series of Sunday school lessons called 'Nepal, the bible and us'.
  These 13 lessons are meant for Sunday school groups with children between the ages of 6 till 15 years old. You can also adjust the lessons to make them more suitable for younger and older children. Each lesson can take between 30 min. and 1 hour of teaching time. You are encouraged to adjust it to the needs of your Sunday school class.
• A relevant Bible passage that can be read/ told and discussed with the children.
• Additional information about different subjects concerning Nepal to support the Sunday School teacher as they deliver the lessons.
• Additional links to websites that can be utilized.
• Ideas for fund raising embedded in the lessons.

If you have other ideas, please feel free to implement them and share your experience with us. This is the first time we have produced resources for Sunday Schools in recent years and we welcome you insights and experiences.

The sequence of the lessons is as follows:

Lesson 1: Nepal and its Geographical location and uniqueness.
Lesson 2: Nepal and it poverty
Lesson 3: What is the United Mission to Nepal and what are they doing in Nepal?
Lesson 4: Why do children need help in Nepal?
Lesson 5: Interesting facts about Nepal's religions
Lesson 6: Interesting facts about Nepal's Festivals and Culture
Lesson 7: Child rehabilitation stories
Lesson 8: Interesting facts about School aged children in Nepal.
Lesson 9: School stories from Nepal.
Lesson 10: People groups in Nepal.
Lesson 11: Interesting facts about eating Nepali style
Lesson 12: How to get from one place to another in Nepal?
Lesson 13: Wrap up and prepare for the final presentation

These resources are available to download from our website.

It is best to glance through the whole series before teaching and decide whether the order fits with your time schedule. Feel free to change the order in which the lessons are used.

As this is the first time we have developed resources for Sunday Schools in a few years we would like you to register before you can download the lesson plans. This information will be used to help us develop better resources in the future and we may also email you to get your feedback about the resources.

Click here to register and download the complete set of lesson plans.

You can also request a CD of the lesson plans if you prefer to receive the resources by post.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing your experiences of using the materials.