Activity sheet
Hope: stay awake for God’s light Mark 13:24–37; Isaiah 64:1–9
Find the words
The words go across and down. Check off each word you find.
- ADVENT
- AWAKE
- CANDLE
- CLAY
- DOORKEEPER
- HOPE
- LIGHT
- MIDNIGHT
- POTTER
- ROOSTER
- WATCH
- WREATH
Hope: stay awake for God’s light Mark 13:24–37; Isaiah 64:1–9
The words go across and down. Check off each word you find.
Hope: stay awake for God’s light Mark 13:24–37; Isaiah 64:1–9
Word bank: ADVENTAWAKECANDLECLAYDOORKEEPERHOPELIGHTROOSTERWATCHWREATH
Circle the right answer.
1. What does the word Advent mean?
2. When would the man come home?
3. What one word did Jesus say to everyone?
Hope: stay awake for God’s light Mark 13:24–37; Isaiah 64:1–9
Watch, keep alert, and pray.
Mark 13:33
Hope: stay awake for God’s light Mark 13:24–37; Isaiah 64:1–9
Color the Advent wreath. The first candle is the candle of hope. Something good is coming!
Hope: the first Advent candle:PDFPNG
Hope: stay awake for God’s light Mark 13:24–37; Isaiah 64:1–9
Today was the first Sunday of Advent, the four weeks when the church gets ready for Christmas. Your child heard Jesus’s short story about a doorkeeper who stayed awake, watching for the owner of the house to come home (Mark 13:24–37). We lit the first candle on the Advent wreath, the candle of hope. Hope means we know something good is coming, even before we can see it.
Put the paper Advent wreath your child made on the table. Each Sunday of Advent, take one flame out of the envelope and glue it on the next candle: hope, peace, joy, and love. If you light real candles at home, let a grown-up do the lighting.
Dear God, thank you for the gift of hope. Help us watch for your light this Advent, and help us share it with others. Come, Lord Jesus! Amen.
Memory verse
“Watch, keep alert, and pray.” (Mark 13:33)
Hope: stay awake for God’s light Mark 13:24–37; Isaiah 64:1–9
