If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Have you ever wanted to search for buried treasure? I have! Our Sunday School teacher told us this morning that we’re going to spend the next few Sundays learning about an island named Sri Lanka where they really do have […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Are you ready to hear more about Sundar Singh’s journeys? Our Sunday School teacher told us the rest of his story this morning. Sundar spent the rest of his life traveling wherever God sent him. He felt a special burden […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. I’ve been thinking about Sundar all this week, wondering how—or if—he would ever be rescued. We found out this morning in Sunday School what happened. He spent three nights at the bottom of that awful, dirty, well. Then finally, he […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Finally, it was time to find out at Sunday School what happened to the man who was caught telling people about Jesus! The religious leader ordered that his assistant be beaten very, very badly. When the men were done, they […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. This morning, our Sunday School teacher told us what happened to the man who hit Sundar in the head with a rock. Sundar knew the men thought he would be angry and wish for something bad to happen to them, […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Today in Sunday School, we learned about what happened next to Sundar Singh. God kept him safe that night in the wilderness, and the next night, and the next. Sundar kept walking and telling everyone he could about God’s love. […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Finally this morning at Sunday School our teacher told us what happened to Sundar Singh that night he lay sick from the poison. Sundar had just heard the doctor say that there was nothing else that could be done for […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Have you ever felt like you didn’t have any friends? Even though it is never true because Jesus will always be your friend, it’s easy to feel lonely when you don’t have anyone to hang out with or do things […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. I have been thinking about Sundar Singh all week and wondering who he met that could have changed his mind. Finally this morning it was time for our Sunday School teacher to tell us. Sundar stayed awake all night. He […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Do you remember last week how I started telling you the story of Sundar Singh? Things went well for him at the Christian school for several years until the worst thing Sundar could imagine happened. One day, when he was […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Have you ever walked barefoot outside? Have you ever tried to climb a mountain that way? It’s not usually a good idea to try to climb anything without the right kind of shoes. You can slip and fall and get […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. My mom is pretty cool. I don’t want to get all mushy or anything, but she’s always doing things for everyone else. Like the time there were four pieces of pie and five people sitting at the table. Guess who decided not […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. Do you like to make things with your hands? I have a friend who likes to put plastic building bricks together and make all kinds of things—airplanes, people, motorcycles, buildings. If you can think of it, he’s tried to make it. I […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Look at these fun activities we got in Sunday School this morning all about the life of Samuel Zwemer! They were so much fun that I brought home a copy to share with you. There is a fill-in and a […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. Samuel Zwemer did what God called him to do, but that didn’t mean everything went smoothly. That’s the part of Sam’s story our Sunday School teacher shared today, and that’s the part that confuses me the most. Sam knew God […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. What would it be like to take a trip when you didn’t know where you were going and you didn’t have a map to follow to get there? When your family goes on an adventure, do you take a map? […]
If you’re new to the Exploring with Jake series, be sure to read the introduction. This morning in Sunday School, our teacher told us it was time to leave India and learn more about another part of the world. Today, we started learning about a boy named Samuel Zwemer, who was a missionary to the […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. This morning, our Sunday School teacher told us this is our last day to explore India. We’re going to be learning about people in lots of other countries in the weeks coming up. So today, we visited the state of Madhya Pradesh. […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. Do you remember a few months ago when our Sunday School teacher told us all about life in the state of Bihar, India? She told us a little bit about the Yadav people then, because many of them live in Bihar. But […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. If you found a treasure map with a big X on it, you would know what that X means–buried treasure! Today in Sunday School, our teacher showed us a map of the world with a big X on the land of India. […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. This morning in Sunday School, our teacher told us we were going to learn about India in a different way than we usually do. She told us to imagine we lived far away from our families because God had told us that […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. I could hardly believe what our Sunday School teacher told us this morning. Did you know there are more than 30 different people groups who live in India whose name starts with the letter V? V is a letter you don’t see […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. Do you remember how last week our Sunday School teacher showed us what life is like in Tamil Nadu? For our next stop in India, we had to travel to the northern part of the country, to the state of Uttarakhand. Uttarakhand […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. Today in Sunday School, we imagined we got a chance to visit the state of Tamil Nadu. If I had to describe Tamil Nadu in two words, I think I’d use a lot. There were a lot of different things there. For […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. This morning our Sunday School teacher told us all about the state of Sikkim, but before I tell you what she said, I want to make sure you don’t get confused like I was. A few weeks ago, she told us about […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. Today we learned about a group of people called the Rajput that live in India. They live in many states of India including Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Back in the colonial period in India, when the country was ruled by Great Britain, […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. Guess what our next stop in India was? A palace! Our Sunday School teacher led us southeast from Punjab this morning on our imaginary trip around India to the state of Uttar Pradesh. She wanted to show us the Qaiser Bagh Palace […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. This morning our Sunday School teacher told us all about the state of Punjab. Punjab is in the northwestern part of India that sits right above Rajasthan. Pakistan borders it to the west. The land in Punjab is some of the best […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. This morning, our Sunday School teacher taught us about the most dangerous place in all of India to be a Christian—the state of Orissa. Orissa lies on the east coast of India, alongside the Bay of Bengal. It is home to more […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. This morning in Sunday School, our teacher taught us about a state of India that is a little bit further east than Meghalaya where we were last week. The state of Nagaland is in the northeastern corner of India where it borders […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. We went to the far eastern part of India today as our Sunday School teacher told us about people who live in another of India’s states. This state is called Meghalaya, and it is surrounded by the state of Assam and the […]
If you’re new to Exploring with Jake, be sure to read the introduction. Do you remember Noelle, my friend who wants to be a news reporter? This morning at Sunday School, she told me about a news story she discovered from 2006. It was Christmas Eve in the shanty town of Jalampur, in the Chhattisgarh […]
