\["Sunday school group teaching for children aged 5-11","Overflow equips leaders to explore compassion and justice with kids","A fun, structured way to teach biblical values and inspire action"\]

Engage 5–11-year-olds with Overflow, a 10-session resource filled with Bible stories, games, and activities to explore God's heart for the vulnerable!

Names of the sessions:

Week 1: Favour and Biscuits

Week 2: Friendhip and Tape measures

Week 3: Healing and Bananas

Week 4:Mercy and Toilet Rolls

Week 5: Compassion and Shoes

Week 6: Generosity and Crisps

Week 7: Kindness and Ice Cube

Week 8: Anger and Toothpaste

Week 9: Justice and Balls

Week 10: Welcome and Keys

Extra Materials: handouts and instruction video for leaders

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Overflow is our 10 sessions resource unpacking God’s heart for the vulnerable. It's designed for those working with 5 - 11 years olds. Each session covers one topic — favour, friendship, healing, mercy, compassion, generosity, kindness, anger, justice, and welcome — with one key point.

Each session includes a Bible story, games, interviews and the ‘overflow experiment’ that gets bigger each week!

The lesson focuses on God's favour, highlighting how He shows special care for those overlooked or broken. Activities include balancing coins on biscuits and decorating broken biscuits to illustrate choosing differently and valuing all people. The session emphasises that Jesus’ actions, such as dining with tax collectors, reflect God’s favour and inspire us to extend that same care to others.

Week 1. Favour and Biscuits.

Week 1

The lesson focuses on understanding and experiencing God’s unexpected friendship, emphasising that God seeks connection with those who might be overlooked or considered different. Through activities, stories, and prayer, we’re invited to reflect on how Jesus' actions—such as welcoming children and befriending the unvalued—demonstrate God’s deep and unconditional friendship.


Week  2. Friendship and Tape Measures 

Week 2 

The lesson focuses on understanding and sharing God's healing on the inside, illustrating that God mends our broken hearts and helps us feel valued and loved. Activities include games with bananas to symbolise the challenges of helping those who are hurting, interactive discussions of a Bible story about Jesus healing the bleeding woman, and crafting "banana telephones" to practise listening and support.


Week 3. Healing and Bananas

Week 3. Video

The lesson emphasises that God delights in showing mercy, and we should strive to do the same by extending love and kindness to others, even when they don’t deserve it.
Through activities, stories, and prayer, and films  we’re invited to look at how Jesus extends radical kindness and forgiveness. 


Week 4. Mercy and Toilet Rolls 

Week 4. Video 

The lesson teaches that God’s compassion is profound, showing how He steps into our suffering and understands us fully. Activities include games such as swapping shoes to symbolise empathy and a craft to create shoelace tags as reminders of compassion. The session emphasises that Jesus’ actions, especially at the cross, demonstrate God’s care and desire for us to extend that compassion to others.

Week 5. Compassion and Shoes 

Week 5. Video 

The lesson focuses on God's generosity and how we can reflect that in our actions. It encourages creating a list of blessings to appreciate daily and emphasises sharing resources with those in need. The session suggests acts of giving more than asked and learning about those less fortunate to foster empathy and generosity.


Week 6. Generosity and Crisps

Week 6. Video

The lesson teaches that God's kindness is both felt and shown through actions. Activities include melting ice cubes and breaking ice blocks to symbolise how kindness can be gentle or powerful. The session highlights Jesus' compassionate treatment of Blind Bartimaeus and emphasises that we should also act with kindness to those around us

Week 7. Kindness and Ice Cubes

Week 7. Video

The lesson discusses how God's anger is protective and directed against harm and suffering. It encourages thoughtful reflection on anger, using the metaphor of toothpaste to illustrate how it can be controlled and helpful or messy and harmful. Activities include praying for those facing challenges and recognising righteous anger in response to injustice.



Week 8. Anger and Toothpaste

Week 8. Video 

The lesson teaches children that God's justice involves putting right what is wrong. It emphasises the importance of not being bystanders but stepping in to help others, inspired by Jesus clearing the temple. Activities, prayers, and crafts help children understand and grapple with the concept of justice in their daily lives.

Week 9. Justice and Balls 

Week 9. Video

The lesson teaches that God’s welcome is open to everyone, regardless of who they are. It highlights Jesus' actions of welcoming various people and emphasises that we, too, can show this kind of unconditional welcome. Activities and discussions are designed to help children understand and reflect this inclusivity in their lives.

Week 10. Welcome and Keys 

Week 10. Video

Training for Leaders 

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