This week our UNDERCOVER HEROES Priscilla and Aquila are tentmakers who meet the Apostle Paul, learn about God, and share what they know. They are willing to learn and share the knowledge they receive. Just like us!

Listen to this video to hear about Priscilla and Aquila. Grab your Bibles and read the story or scroll down to read from the NRSV Bible.

Priscilla and Aquila (Circa 49-54 A.D.) God gave Priscilla and Aquila many ways to serve Him. In Corinth, they served God by helping Paul. They made tents with him, gave him a place to stay, and traveled with him to Ephesus. Another way Priscilla and Aquila served God was by helping Paul in his ministry.

How did they help Paul in Corinth? (They worked together making tents for a living. Paul stayed in their home.) What did God tell Paul to do? (To keep on speaking about Jesus.) God knew Paul needed friends to help him. If you were Paul’s friend, how would you have helped him be brave and keep telling people about Jesus? (Children respond.) How long did Paul stay in Corinth with Priscilla and Aquila? (One and a half years.) Paul was a missionary spreading the word about Jesus. How can you help a missionary? (Children respond.) God gave Priscilla and Aquila a new opportunity to go and serve him. They sailed with Paul to Ephesus. When Paul left Ephesus they stayed there to help the people follow Jesus. Apollos knew God’s Word very well, but did not fully understand baptism. God blessed Apollos with friends like Priscilla and Aquila who helped him in his ministry by showing him even more about God’s ways.

Do you have a friend or family member who talks with you about God? (Children discuss their friendships)

God blessed Paul by giving him Priscilla and Aquila as friends. A church met in their home. By working with Paul and teaching Apollos, Priscilla and Aquila helped many people to follow Jesus. By having church in their home, they helped many worship and follow Jesus.

Where would be a good place for you and your friends to worship and learn about God? (Children respond.) How can you and your friends work together to serve God? Discuss service projects the children can do or brainstorm a fun, new project for serving others.

Create a picture of Paul, Priscilla and Aquila making tents together.

NRSV) After this Paul[a] left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul[b] went to see them, 3 and, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together—by trade they were tentmakers. 4 Every sabbath he would argue in the synagogue and would try to convince Jews and Greeks. 5 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with proclaiming the word,[c] testifying to the Jews that the Messiah[d] was Jesus. 6 When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes[e] and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”7 Then he left the synagogue[f] and went to the house of a man named Titius[g] Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the official of the synagogue, became a believer in the Lord, together with all his household; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul became believers and were baptized. 9 One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent; 10 for I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to harm you, for there are many in this city who are my people.”11 He stayed there a year 18 After staying there for a considerable time, Paul said farewell to the believers[a] and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had his hair cut, for he was under a vow.

26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the Way of God to him more accurately.