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Photini at the Well Each day in your classroom, we ask you to follow the structure below. This is the format that the Teacher’s Manuel and Student Workbooks have been written in to establish consistency throughout the week of Youth Camp.

1.

Read Daily Lesson from Scripture

2.

Introduce Daily Icon

3.

Answer: Who, What, Where, When, & Why?

4.

Daily Activities

5.

Daily Memory Verse

The learning continues…

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Photini at the Well READ:

Daily Lesson from Scripture

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John 4: 1-30

Photini at the Well WHO:

Photini, Christ, the Disciples

(Identify people in icon)

Photini was a Samaritan woman and Jesus was a Jew. During those times, these people were enemies. When Jesus spoke to Photini, it was practically forbidden in society. His words and actions towards her teach us about God’s love for races and genders.

Samaritans were a mixed race and traditional enemies with the Jews. The Samaritans worshipped the God of Israel and were awaiting a redeemer, they accepted only the first 5 books of the Old Testament (The Pentateuch) as their Scriptures. The Samaritans built their own temple on Mt Gerizim, which the Jews destroyed in 128 BC.

WHAT: WHAT

The Lord is thirsty from His journey, which shows He was fully human like us, and He stops at a well for a drink. There He meets Photini and through a conversation, He reveals to her that He can offer Her living water that will prevent her from being thirsty ever again. She doesn’t understand at first but she says to Jesus that she knows the Messiah, who is called Christ, is coming. Jesus says to her, “I who speak to you am He.” Photini became the first evangelist to proclaim to the Samaritans that Jesus was the Christ!

WHERE:

A well in Samaria, the region to the North, between Judea and Galilee. This well was located at the foot of Mount Gerizim, and is still a place today where pilgrims can drink. Often known as Jacob's Well in Sychar.

WHEN:

This happened at the 6th hour, or noon. The Church remembers St Photini on March 20.

WHY: WHY

Jesus shows us that He is God God takes our ordinary thinking and helps us to understand who He is God revealed His identity to a woman. God’s use of women to share His good news God revealed His identity to a different race. God has come to save everyone

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John 4: 1-30

Photini at the Well SONG: SONG:

I am the Resurrection (clap) and the Life, (clap) (clap) (clap) he who believes in me will never die. I am the Resurrection (clap) and the Life, (clap) (clap) (clap) he who believes shall live a new life

(Pre-K – 4th) (2nd – Teens)

ACTIVITY: ACTIVITY

Icon Coloring Word Scramble

GAME:

“Go Tell it to the World”

Example Phrases:

(Pre-K) “I know the Messiah is coming.” “I who speak to you am He.”

(Pre-K – 4th) Play “Telephone,” and see if the message of Christ can make it to the last person without being distorted! Have candy to reward the kids for spreading the message accurately.

(2nd-5th) “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst” (Teens) “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth” (2nd-Teens) “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

CRAFT:

Painting Clay Water Pots, glue the icon of St Photini

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Photini at the Well EXTRA :

The Martyrdom of St Photini According to tradition, after the Resurrection, the Samaritan woman was baptized and given the name Photini, which means “the enlightened one.” The Church also honors her with the title “Equal to the Apostles.”

Along with her two sons, Victor and Josiah, and five sisters who were called Anatolia, Phota, Photida, Paraskeva and Kyriake she then came to belief in His Gospel, she went to Carthage to spread the gospel. There they were arrested, taken to Rome under Nero, imprisoned and later martyred for Christ by being thrown into a well.

The Church remembers her on March 20.

QUIZ:

Ask the questions below to recap

1. What does the name “Photini” mean? 2. How many children did Photini have? 3. Why did they go to Carthage, Africa? 4. What happened in Rome? 5. How did they become martyrs? 6. When do we celebrate her life?

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Photini at the Well MEMORY VERSE:

“I know that the Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When He comes He will tell us all things… Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am He.” John 4:25-26

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