He Sent His Son

The idea in the 2014 Outline for Sharing Time p. 26 for teaching "He Sent His Son," is great.  Having a group sing the question and a second group sing the answer helps child and adult understand and learn the song.  One challenge we had was when to use tell and show.

• How could the Father tell the world of love. . .
• How could the Father show the world the pathway . . .
• How could the Father tell the world of sacrifice . . .

I wrote those three words in the order we sing them on the board and pointed to each just before we sang that word.  We also worked on gradually singing louder (not shouting) as we sang the phrase, and rise with living breath.  Hold out the word breath for at least 3 counts.  I, also, like a slight break after faith and hope.  We tend to pronounce the words more distinctly if we break between those words and listeners can understand our words better.

We spent 15 minutes singing this song and the time flew by.  We divided in many ways, singing the entire song again and again in different groupings.

• one half of the room and the other half
• boys and girls
• adults and children
• four classes and the other four classes
• children with pets and children without pets

There are many ways to divide up the group.  Be creative -- the children love that.