God's Special Love For us - Story of Abram and Lot

Circle Time

            Opening prayer

            Hello song.

Introduction to Bible Lesson

Each one of us is very special to God. We heard all about this wonderful world God created for us – Earth. We also heard about God’s wonderful gift he gave us – Jesus. Last week we started to learn about God’s great love for the people that obey him and that he gives us special abilities to do what he asks.  This week we are going to learn about another gift God gives us because he loves us. The gift of family.

Our Bible story starts long, long ago in the book of Genesis chapter 12.

Bible Lesson

There was a man named Abram who loved God very much. One day God told him to leave his dad’s house and leave his country and go to a special country that God would show him. He told Abram that he would give him many children, so many that the whole country would be filled up.

Abram did what God asked and left his dad’s house and country. He brought his wife Sarai with him.  Abram’s nephew named Lot also came with him.

God lead them to a land called Caanan and told Abram that this was where God wanted him to live. They made a home and started to live on the land.

Abram and Lot were shepherds and had many, many sheep. So many that there was not enough room for them all. Abram and Lot’s workers fought all the time about grass and about water.

Because Abram and Lot were family, they did not want to fight.  They decided to split the land. Abram loved his nephew and told him to pick which side of the river he wanted. Lot, being a man who wanted only the best, decided to pick the side with the greenest and longest grass and left Abram the side with only a little grass. Abram didn’t complain because he knew that God would take care of him.

Some time later, there was a king who went out for a ride. He all of Lot’s wonderful things and wanted it for himself. So the king made war and took Lot’s sheep and workers. He made Lot, Lot’s wife and his children were made into slaves.

Abram heard the bad news. He took all 318 of his men and went after the king. The king gave up and gave Lot and all of Lot’s things to Abram. With God’s help Abram rescued Lot, Lot’s family, his workers and his sheep and brought them all back to the Land that Lot had chosen.

God gave us the gift of family to show his love for us. God put each one of us in a special family. Each family is different.  God loves every person in our family and helps us to take care of each one. God helped Abram take care of Lot. He asks us to love and to take care of each other.

Crafts

1.      Abram Puppet

Materials: foam man, bits of fabric, yarn, google eyes, craft stick, crayons, glue, tape.

Have children make the face of the man and glue on bits of fabric for clothes. Children glue on yarn for hair and google eyes. Tape craft stick to back of man..

Snack Time

Circle Time

            Song 1 – Theme song “God Made Me Special”

            Song 2 – God made me

            Book “Me Too”

God Made Me Special Activities

1.      Helping hands cloth

Materials: white wash cloth for each child, acrylic paint, pie tin, fabric marker

Make sure kids are wearing paint shirts. Pour a small amount of paint into pie tin and get children to lightly cover their hands with the paint. Have them press their hands on the cloth. Let them dry. Write on the top: n_______,  I am a helper. And write Colossians 3:23 underneath. Outline hand print with fabric marker.

Closing

                        Closing prayer

Virtue to work on: Using our talents to help with family. Playing nice with our brothers and sisters, doing something nice for our mom or dad , doing something nice for someone in our extended family: cousins, uncles, aunts.