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Their Future Love Story
Ask kids to draw a picture of their future husband/wife.
Ask:
What kind of person do you want to marry?
What kind of person do you want to marry?
What will he or she look like?
What will they like to do?
What characteristics will they have?
Students using D6 curriculum learned about God's providence—His loving guidance in leading Jacob to his wife, Rachel. (If you want to read Jacob's love story, read it in Genesis 29:1-20.) Ask your kids to tell you the story.
God promised to guide Jacob and He did. God wants to guide you in finding a good husband or wife.
Say a prayer for your kids' future mates. Pray for them to learn to obey their parents and God. Pray for them to love God with all their hearts and stay away from sin.
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Guidance
Items needed: blindfolds (one for each pair of kids)
Ask kids to pair up and blindfold one of each pair. Set up a short obstacle course. Instruct the kids without the blindfold to lead their partner from one side of the room to the other just by telling them the way to go. (No touching their blindfolded partners; just use words to help them reach the other side.)
After each blindfolded one has finished the course, have them remove the blindfolds and give them to the other person. Quickly make new obstacles and instruct the seeing partners to guide their blindfolded partners through the new obstacles. After both have had a turn, move the furniture back, sit down and talk about it.
Ask:
What did you have to do to make it through the obstacle course? (Listen to my partner; follow his instructions on what to do)
What did you have to do to make it through the obstacle course? (Listen to my partner; follow his instructions on what to do)
Why is it important to listen and follow instructions? What do you think would have happened if you just walked through the course without someone guiding you? (You would have bumped into things, knocked things over)
Why do we need God’s help and guidance to go the right way? (We don’t always know the right thing to do, we can’t see what’s ahead like God can, we need someone to walk beside us and guide us when we make a mistake)
How does God guide us? (Through the Bible, through prayer, through other godly people)
God guided Jacob in finding a wife. He helped Jacob know how to increase his flocks of sheep and goats. God also guided Jacob when it was time to leave and go back to his homeland. God did His part, but Jacob had to listen to God so he could know the right way to go.
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We Trust, He Directs
Students are learning Proverbs 3:5-6—a great verse to remind us that God will guide us when we trust Him.
Write the Bible verse in large letters on a piece of paper. Read it aloud. Cut the verse into four parts and pass them out to the kids. Have the kids read their part and then line up in the correct order with each one saying their part aloud. Collect the pieces and shuffle them. Allow the kids to pick another part of the verse; read it and line up in the correct order.
What are we supposed to do? (Trust, don't rely on ourselves, submit to God)
What will God do? (Direct our path/steps/way)
Alternate idea: Make up a tune and sing the verse. Sing the different phrases of the verse in different voices (country style, opera style, cheerleader style, etc.)
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Baby Moses
Students began new lessons on the life of Moses and Israel’s deliverance from slavery.
Drag out the baby pictures and talk about each child’s birth. (A few questions to jog your memory: How did you feel when they were born? How fast did you drive getting to the hospital? What did the doctor or other people say? How long did you stay in the hospital? What did you do on the day you brought them home?)
The Pharaoh in Egypt tried to kill all the baby boys, but Moses’ mother put him in a waterproof basket and hid him, while Miriam, his sister watched close by. God cared for Moses and kept him alive, even allowing Moses’ mother to take care of him until he went to live in the palace with Pharaoh’s daughter
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Deuteronomy 7:9
Students started memorizing Deuteronomy 7:9. (Because we offer the Bible verse in several versions, ask your kids if their teachers sent home a copy of the verse; hopefully, it arrived at your house.)
Deuteronomy 7:9 has such great truths to memorize about God.
Read it aloud and ask:
What does this verse tell us about God? (He is faithful, He keeps His word, He shows mercy and kindness to those who love Him and keep His commandments)
What does it mean to be faithful? (To be devoted to, to be loyal, to be true to one’s word)
Write the words of the verse on a piece of construction paper and post it on the fridge. Divide the verse into phrases and assign each member of the family one phrase to say—one after the other—like dominoes. Say it several times until the verse is starting to sink in.
Say a prayer of thanks that God cares about every detail of our lives and faithfully watches over us, just as He did with baby Moses.
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Away in a Manger
Items needed: crèche
Straw (can be bought at craft store or could even use yarn)
God lovingly cares for and provides for each of us. One of the ways He cares for and helps us is by giving us a family who does kind things to show they love us. Moses’ family lovingly cared for him and helped save his life.
In the three weeks prior to Christmas, think of ways each family member can care for and help one another. Set up the crèche, but leave baby Jesus out of the picture. Some families make a simple manger (out of construction paper or twigs) and in the weeks before Jesus’ coming, add straw to the manger every time a good deed is done.
Brainstorm ways you can show care and help one another: do a chore together, make someone’s bed, play a game, read a book to a younger sibling, let someone else pick the TV show, help pick up toys, clear the table, etc.
Read Matthew 25:34-40 where Jesus tells us that showing kindness to others is like showing kindness to Him.
Hopefully, by Christmas morning you will have a nice pile of straw and you can add baby Jesus to the crèche.
