📖 Unit 2: Spreading the Flame
A 6-week Acts curriculum for elementary kids covering Philip in Samaria and Ethiopia, Saul's conversion, Aeneas and Dorcas, Cornelius, the Antioch church, and Peter's prison break.
Philip in Samaria and the Ethiopian
Acts 8:4-40
Philip preaches in Samaria with signs and miracles, then an angel redirects him to a desert road where he meets an Ethiopian court official reading Isaiah. Philip explains the passage, the man believes and is baptized, and Philip is instantly transported to Azotus to keep preaching.
View LessonSaul's Road to Damascus
Acts 9:1-31
Saul is traveling to Damascus to arrest Christians when a blinding light knocks him to the ground and Jesus speaks to him directly. Saul is led blind into the city, fasts for three days, and is transformed into the most passionate missionary the church has ever known.
View LessonAeneas Healed and Dorcas Raised
Acts 9:32-43
Peter heals a man named Aeneas who has been paralyzed for eight years with a single sentence, and then raises a beloved woman named Dorcas from the dead in Joppa. Both miracles cause many in the region to believe, showing kids that Jesus's resurrection power is still at work through his people.
View LessonPeter's Vision and Cornelius
Acts 10:1-48
God gives Peter a vision of unclean animals and tells him three times not to call unclean what God has made clean, then sends him to the house of Cornelius, a Roman centurion. The Holy Spirit falls on Cornelius and his household before they are even baptized, proving that the gospel is for every nation.
View LessonThe Church in Antioch
Acts 11:1-30
Believers scattered by persecution begin preaching to Greeks in Antioch, and a great number believe. Barnabas goes to encourage them, brings Saul from Tarsus, and for an entire year they teach together, giving birth to the church where followers of Jesus are first called Christians.
View LessonPeter's Miraculous Prison Break
Acts 12:1-25
King Herod imprisons Peter intending to execute him after Passover, but the night before his trial an angel wakes Peter, the chains fall off, the iron gate opens by itself, and Peter walks free while the church is praying for him. Herod is struck down by God shortly after, but the word of God keeps spreading.
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