Friendship—Week 4

Key Question: How can you be a friend this week? At some point in a person’s life, he or she is going to need someone they can trust to help them through it. Kids know what’s happening in their friends’ lives. However, they don’t always know how to help. Through the discussion this week, we hope to help kids come up with simple ideas they can put into practice to encourage those friends no matter what they’re going through.
  
We close out the month with something Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 5:11, "So encourage each other and build each other up. Just as you are already doing" (NLT). When Job experienced trial after trial, his friends decided to help. They didn’t bring meals or tell jokes. Rather, they came along side and grieved with Job. Now, we find out they didn’t always get it right, but for that first week, they let Job know that they were there for him. 　
  
Bottom Line: Friends encourage one another. Kids might not always know what to say or do when it comes to helping cheer up their friends. We pray they discover that they can encourage each other even if it simply means being a shoulder to lean on.
 
Memory Verse: So encourage each other and build each other up. Just as you are already doing.  1 Thessalonians 5:11. NLT
 
Have a blessed week!
 
The Reign Forest Team