Which meal is supper? --1)When you first wake up, 2)in the middle of the day or 3)at the end of the day?
What kinds of things do you have for supper at your house?
(lots of answers!!!..mac&cheese, “sketty”, chickennuggets)
Jesus loved his friends very much and wanted to share a special supper with them. Now before they ate, he wanted them to know how much he loved them. One way people in Bible times showed that they loved someone was to wash their feet. (ewww, stinky feet!) Are your feet ticklish? :0) Do you know what kind of shoes people wore back then? --Tennis shoes? Light up shoes? No, they wore sandals. Have you ever worn sandals to the park? When you wear sandals to the park, your feet get very sandy! (EWWW) In Bible times, EVERYONE had sandy feet, so to have them washed felt veeeery nice (Ahhh) and made them feel veeeery loved. (Give yourself a hug.)
Then, it was time to eat.
Jesus wanted his friends to remember Him after He was gone, so he said, “Eat this bread and remember me”. When we eat, we grow bigger and stronger, right?! Jesus wants us to grow up bigger and stronger with Him.
Let’s pray and thank Jesus for loving us. Let’s say it all together: Thank you Jesus for loving me. (1,2,3...) Then they ate the bread together.
(while they’re eating)
Jesus also wanted all of us to know that He died for our sins. He knows that we sometimes make mistakes and make the wrong choices, but He died on the cross for us so that we can be forgiven and go to heaven someday to be with Jesus. So we drink our juice and we thank Jesus for forgiving us. Let’s pray together and say, “thank you, Jesus for forgiving me.” Then they drank the juice together. (“Don’t forget: no squeezing the boxes!”) :)
Then after they ate, the Bible says they sang together. Let’s sing “Jesus Loves Me”.
This was a sweet day in RiverTown.
