Morning mixer

First week, Old Testament 2026–27

Five mornings. A real grabber each day. Teach is honest: not ready as a factory.

1. Monday · Learn names

   1. 1 · Grabber

      Name tents

      6–8 minutes. A folded desk card: name facing the room, a hope and an “ask me about” line facing you. You learn the class while you walk, without a share circle that eats the hour.

      Open this grabber

   2. 2 · Teach

      Orientation or Moses 1 — you choose

      Teach is not ready as a factory

      Teach is not a lesson-plan factory on this site. Open your seminary manual and teach the passage you already planned. We will not invent a full plan or paste Come, Follow Me.

   3. 3 · Wrap

      One word for the year

      Name plus one word. Write four of the words on the board and leave them up.

   4. 4 · Invite

      Bring scriptures Tuesday

      Sit with someone new. Name tents stay on the desks all week.

2. Tuesday · Hear another name

   1. 1 · Grabber

      Partner echo

      8 minutes. Ninety seconds with a partner. Then you only introduce them — never yourself. Someone in the room has to be able to say each name.

      Open this grabber

   2. 2 · Teach

      Moses 1, if that is where you are

      Teach is not ready as a factory

      Teach is not a lesson-plan factory on this site. Open your seminary manual and teach the passage you already planned. We will not invent a full plan or paste Come, Follow Me. If you reach Moses 1:39 this week, the third prompt (“one question about the Old Testament”) is enough of a bridge. Do not stretch the grabber into a fake lesson.

   3. 3 · Wrap

      Repeat two names

      Ask two students to introduce their partner again. That is the wrap.

   4. 4 · Invite

      Say one name at home

      Tell someone at home one classmate’s name and one hope you heard.

3. Wednesday · How this class learns

   1. 1 · Grabber

      Corner compass

      7–10 minutes. Four walls, four ways of learning: talk it out, write it down, try it, listen first. Students find their wall, meet two people, and tell you how to teach them.

      Open this grabber

   2. 2 · Teach

      You teach the passage you planned

      Teach is not ready as a factory

      Teach is not a lesson-plan factory on this site. Open your seminary manual and teach the passage you already planned. We will not invent a full plan or paste Come, Follow Me.

   3. 3 · Wrap

      Four answers on the board

      Keep the four “teach me this way” lines visible. Use one of them tomorrow on purpose.

   4. 4 · Invite

      Try a different wall

      Tomorrow, sit nearer someone who chose a different corner.

4. Thursday · A verse in their hands

   1. 1 · Grabber

      Scripture Builder printouts

      8–12 minutes. Cut-out phrase tiles or first-letter hints for any doctrinal-mastery verse. Same Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced chunks as the app.

      Open printouts

   2. 2 · Teach

      Moses 1:39 when you get there

      Teach is not ready as a factory

      Teach is not a lesson-plan factory on this site. Open your seminary manual and teach the passage you already planned. We will not invent a full plan or paste Come, Follow Me. The printout library includes Moses 1:39 because it is in the app bank — not because we wrote a Thursday lesson around it. Pick the verse you are actually teaching.

   3. 3 · Wrap

      Read it once, together

      After the tiles or hints, read the verse aloud once. No quiz. No scoreboard.

   4. 4 · Invite

      Keep one phrase

      Send them out with one phrase from the verse, not a worksheet.

5. Friday · The empty chair

   1. 1 · Grabber

      Welcome seat

      5 minutes. Someone is not in the room yet. Each student writes two lines for that empty chair. You keep the stack. When they arrive, the welcome is already written.

      Open this grabber

   2. 2 · Teach

      You close the week from your manual

      Teach is not ready as a factory

      Teach is not a lesson-plan factory on this site. Open your seminary manual and teach the passage you already planned. We will not invent a full plan or paste Come, Follow Me. If you have four extra minutes, run Four beats pass after the notes so the class can name the morning shape.

   3. 3 · Wrap

      Four beats pass, if you have time

      Grabber / Teach / Wrap / Invite — one sentence each. Optional. The welcome notes already did the invite.

   4. 4 · Invite

      Keep the stack

      Do not read the notes today. Hand one to the next student who walks in late.