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SESSION GOAL:
Students will examine their own faith story as a story of either waiting for deliverance, experiencing deliverance, or entering into the Promised Land. They will also consider an appropriate response to God for God’s deliverance.
SESSION OBJECTIVES:
1 - Students will be able to choose which part of the story to identify with: Slavery, Israel’s experience in crossing the Red Sea, The first attempt to enter the promised land at Kadesh-barnea, Finally crossing the Jordan River into the Promised Land.
2 - Students will consider responses to God for all that God has done for them.
MATERIALS NEEDED AND ADVANCE PREPARATION:
Set up your classroom as the “Promised Land,” with a table of tantalizing food. Be prepared to share your faith story and where you have felt you were enslaved and waiting for deliverance, experiencing deliverance, or entering the Promised Land. Optional—prepare your own poster illustration of your story, similar to what the students will be creating.
1 - Pencils and several blank sheets of paper for each student.
2 - Copies of “Hymnal, A Worship Book” or another contemporary Christian songbook
3 - Tablecloth, paper plates and cups, food, soft drinks or punch
4 - Large poster paper, one for each student.
5 - A food item, such as candy, that can be glued to the poster.
6 - Markers, glue, grass or sand (to represent the wilderness), rubber bands
7 - A basket
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