St. Timothy Lesson Plan
Craft- Timothy’s name means “honoring God”. Timothy was a loved companion of St. Paul. He was born in Lystra but traveled to many places with Paul. He traveled to Thessalonica to support them in their persecution. He traveled to Corinth to support them in their conversion. He ended up in Ephesus where he became a bishop and eventually died.
Finger paint stormy sea with rocks and a ship to help us remember how many stormy seas Timothy sailed on to spread the word of God. Put Timothy in the picture and yourself.
Make shakers with empty water bottles and beads. Decorate the outside with streamers, blue markers, etc. to remind us of stormy seas. (We will use them in music this afternoon and later this week.)
Game – Timothy was a young man when he met St. Paul. He studied his scriptures and his community respected him for his knowledge of God’s word. He was well liked and so …. Play Red rover – Send Timothy Over
Food – Timothy spent most of his life in Ephesus which is in modern day Turkey. They types of foods that are served in Turkey are varied but mostly they have limited amounts. Simit is a tradition round bread covered in sesame seeds from Turkey. Serve bagels cut in hunks. Preferably Sesame seed bagels. And Goat cheese (we can substitute cream cheese.) Olives, cucumbers, watermelon.
Craft- Timothy’s name means “honoring God”. Timothy was a loved companion of St. Paul. He was born in Lystra but traveled to many places with Paul. He traveled to Thessalonica to support them in their persecution. He traveled to Corinth to support them in their conversion. He ended up in Ephesus where he became a bishop and eventually died.
Finger paint stormy sea with rocks and a ship to help us remember how many stormy seas Timothy sailed on to spread the word of God. Put Timothy in the picture and yourself.
Make shakers with empty water bottles and beads. Decorate the outside with streamers, blue markers, etc. to remind us of stormy seas. (We will use them in music this afternoon and later this week.)
Game – Timothy was a young man when he met St. Paul. He studied his scriptures and his community respected him for his knowledge of God’s word. He was well liked and so …. Play Red rover – Send Timothy Over
Food – Timothy spent most of his life in Ephesus which is in modern day Turkey. They types of foods that are served in Turkey are varied but mostly they have limited amounts. Simit is a tradition round bread covered in sesame seeds from Turkey. Serve bagels cut in hunks. Preferably Sesame seed bagels. And Goat cheese (we can substitute cream cheese.) Olives, cucumbers, watermelon.
Feast day January 26. As a child Timothy delighted in reading the sacred books, and to his last hour he would remember the parting words of his spiritual father, "Attende lectioni - Apply thyself to reading."
May we all prepare our minds as St. Timothy, with constant study of the Holy Scriptures with the knowing that Christians must keep the faith but not among themselves.
"Go ye into the entire world, and preach the Gospel" (Mark 16:15).
Timothy traveled a good deal with Paul. He was young. Knew his scriptures from a very young age.
Augustine extols his zeal and disinterestedness in immediately forsaking his country, his house, and his parents, to follow the apostle, to share in his poverty and sufferings.[8] Timothy may have been subject to ill health or "frequent aliments" and Paul encouraged him to "use a little wine for thy stomach's sake".[5]
He became a bishop and he was stoned to death for trying to stop a procession to honor a pagan goddess Diana.
Timothy was comparatively young for the work he was doing. (“Let no one have contempt for your youth,” Paul writes in 1 Timothy 4:12a.) Several references seem to indicate that he was timid. And one of Paul’s most frequently quoted lines was addressed to him: “Stop drinking only water, but have a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses” (1 Timothy 5:23).
Over and over again he exhorts his son Timothy to ” avoid tattlers and busybodies; to give no heed to novelties; to shun profane and vain babblings; but to hold the form of sound words; to be an example in word and conversation; to attend to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.”
May we all prepare our minds as St. Timothy, with constant study of the Holy Scriptures with the knowing that Christians must keep the faith but not among themselves.
"Go ye into the entire world, and preach the Gospel" (Mark 16:15).
Timothy traveled a good deal with Paul. He was young. Knew his scriptures from a very young age.
Augustine extols his zeal and disinterestedness in immediately forsaking his country, his house, and his parents, to follow the apostle, to share in his poverty and sufferings.[8] Timothy may have been subject to ill health or "frequent aliments" and Paul encouraged him to "use a little wine for thy stomach's sake".[5]
He became a bishop and he was stoned to death for trying to stop a procession to honor a pagan goddess Diana.
Timothy was comparatively young for the work he was doing. (“Let no one have contempt for your youth,” Paul writes in 1 Timothy 4:12a.) Several references seem to indicate that he was timid. And one of Paul’s most frequently quoted lines was addressed to him: “Stop drinking only water, but have a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent illnesses” (1 Timothy 5:23).
Over and over again he exhorts his son Timothy to ” avoid tattlers and busybodies; to give no heed to novelties; to shun profane and vain babblings; but to hold the form of sound words; to be an example in word and conversation; to attend to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.”