Game / Bible / Life Connection:  In the Game Players Needed to be Ready to Go / In the Bible God through Moses told the People to be Ready to Go / In your Life You Need to Listen to God and be Ready to Go

This is Step 1

1. Divide everyone into two teams.  Each team stands shoulder-to-shoulder facing the center.
   2. Give each player a number [each group should have a one, a two, a three, making sure each child has a number].
   3. Explain that when children hear their number called they will run to the center and try to pick up the “Rock.” Place the “Rock” in the center of the playing area.
   4. [Important: explain players now you must really be ready and pay attention]. Add an extra challenge by calling two numbers, example #3 and #5 (so four players will rush in to grab the rock).

 Game / Bible / Life Connection:    In the Game Players Needed to be Ready to Go / In the Bible God through Moses told the People to be Ready to Go / In your Life You Need to Listen to God and be Ready to Go

Team Captain: The school football team was not playing well. They needed more practice.  The coach decided that this year the school team would win the inter-school competition. He selected a boy named Victor as the new captain. Victor was from another school and had learned football well.  He was talented and hard working. He was a good leader.  

After a lot of practice on the football field, and after losing many matches, the team grew stronger and more experienced. Victor kept building his team’s spirit under the guidance of their coach. They were all so happy and proud the day they won the inter-school competition!! Victor had led the team to victory! The coach was overjoyed!

Moses the Leader: Remember Moses left Egypt and travelled to Midian? One day he was resting near a well. Some bad men were teasing the daughters of a Midian priest and did not allow them to draw water. Moses stood up and began to help the girls by filling water in their pots. The girls led Moses to their father, Jethro. Jethro thanked Moses for his help. He later gave him one of his daughters name Zipporah as a wife.

The Burning Bush: Forty years went by! One day as he was watching over his flock on Mt. Sinai, Moses saw a strange thing happen. He saw a burning bush. Although he was afraid, Moses went closer. He heard a voice coming out from the burning bush, “Moses go back to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to set My people free.” Moses asked, “Who are you?” The voice declared, “Tell the people, “I AM THAT I AM. My presence will be with you and you will see the sign of miracles.”

The ten plagues: When the Pharaoh refused to let the slaves go, God was angry. He sent ten plagues one after the other upon the people of Egypt. It was terrible!! The Plague of Blood, Frogs, Gnats, Flies, Livestock, Boils, Hails, Locusts, and Darkness came upon the people. But, the Pharaoh was stubborn. He did not change his mind!

Killing of the firstborn: Moses warned the Pharaoh, and said that God will send the Tenth Plague at midnight. Before God sent the tenth plague, He asked every Israelite to paint their doorposts with lamb’s blood, so the angel of death will see the lamb’s blood on their door posts and it will pass over them, so their first born would be saved. At the midnight the angel of death passed through and the entire first born of Egyptian children and animals died. The Pharaoh asked the Israelites to leave Egypt immediately!

God has chosen each one of us to set ourselves and others free from the bondage of sin, and bear witness for Him.

Game / Bible / Life Connection:   In the Game Players Needed to be Ready to Go / In the Bible God through Moses told the People to be Ready to Go / In your Life You Need to Listen to God and be Ready to Go

Memory Verse:  “And God said ‘I will be with you.  And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you.'”  Exodus 3:12a