SESSION 6 - MOSES TALKED TO GOD. BIBLE PASSAGE: Exodus 3:1 4:17. CHRIST FOCUS: Jesus prayed to God, and I can pray to Him, too.

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1 UNIT 1. MAKING CONNECTIONS / PRESCHOOL WORSHIP O Lord, you ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (ESV) My oie You sall ear. Psalm 5:3 (NKJV) SESSION 6 - MOSES TALKED TO GOD BIBLE PASSAGE: Exodus 3:1 4:17 LIFE POINT: I an lisen and alk o God wen I ray. CHRIST FOCUS: Jesus rayed o God, and I an ray o Him, oo. BIBLE VERSE: God ears me wen I alk o Him. Psalm 5:3 (Pararase) You ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (HCSB) My oie sal ou ear. Psalm 5:3 (KJV) Lord, you ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (NIV) Produion Noes From simle o inoled, you an ailor Worsi for Life o your kids and leaders: Sor on sulies and leaders? For an easy re, enlis a os, a musi leader, and reare e Conneion Poin game. Ten sow e ideos for e worsi songs and oer segmens. Tis symbol denoes a e segmen or song is aailable on ideo. Tis symbol indiaes ros a will be needed for oday s session. Do you ae musiians wo would like o lead worsi songs? Cek ou e lead sees on e DVD-ROM or subsiue your songs! 1

2 Sedule and Pros Tis symbol indiaes a a ideo is roided. Tis symbol indiaes a e aiiy is os or leader-led. Tere is no a ideo for is aiiy. Huddle Us (Oional) Peole: Small Grou Leaders Sulies: Tae, balloon, Moses Talked o God Coloring See (DVD-ROM), rayons or wasable markers Baksage Inro 1-2 minues Peole: Sage Manager Pros: Cliboard, eadse (doesn ae o work; ide end of ord in oke) Coundown and Welome 1-5 minues Peole: Hos Worsi Song 3 minues Peole: Worsi Leader and/or Worsi Team Conneion Poin Game 5-10 minues Peole: Hos, 6 kids, 1 adul Pros: Life Poin rase, 2 aer us, ae, sring Worsi Song 3 minues Peole: Worsi Leader and/or Worsi Team Hos Se-u, Brianna and Friends Video 2 minues Peole: Hos Closing 2 minues Peole: Hos Baksage Ouro 1-2 minues Peole: Sage Manager Pros: Cliboard, eadse Huddle Us (Oional) Peole: Small Grou Leaders Pros: Paer, rayons Bible Sory 5-6 minues Peole: Soryeller Pros: Bible, ell one 2

3 TECH Video and/or audio aabiliies Miroones for singers Ligs (oional) Oional sound effes aailable (see sound effes file) m musi Here wi Me Lie o Worsi You Lord of All (Higes Heigs) Follow e Leader Always Good Ten Commandmens 3

4 HUDDLE UPS (OPTIONAL) Oional uddle us are for ures a ae a dro-off ime before e session begins. Tere are mulile ideas for ineraion during is ime, su as simle games a resoolers an lay on e floor or wiin waeer arrangemens you gaer your kids. Tis ime an oninue for a few seonds een afer e sage manager addresses e rowd. (Prin e following for your small grou leaders.) Today, kids will learn abou e imorane of rayer and a God wans em o send ime wi Him. Play a game o enourage kids o ink abou ings or eole ey an ray for. Tae a boundary line aross e ener of e laying area. Diide kids ino wo eams and assign ea eam a side of e area. Proide an inflaed balloon for game lay. Insru e eams o ba e balloon bak and for aross e line wiou leing i i e ground. If a eam allows e balloon o e i e ground, lay mus so unil a eam an name someing or someone for wom ey an ray. Color Moses Talked o God Coloring Sees Talk wi e resoolers abou rayer. Ask kids o ell e ings a ey ray for. Tell resoolers a Moses alked o God anyime and anywere. Proide oloring sulies and oloring sees o e resoolers. Allow em o olor on eir ages wile ey wai for e session o begin. If e kids refer o use blank aer, ey an olor on e bak of e age. 4

5 BACKSTAGE INTRO Esimaed ime: 1-2 minues Te: Video oion aailable; Moses Talked o God slide Peole: Sage Manager (olds liboard; wears a eadse) Pros: Cliboard, eadse (doesn ae o work; ide end of ord in oke) (Sow ideo or a ou e following.) STAGE MANAGER (Sow Moses Talked o God slide.) (Sene begins wi sage manager looking offsage and yelling loudly.) WHAT? I CAN T HEAR YOU! (sakes ead; exaseraed) Hey, kids. Boy, am I glad you re ere. We e go a roblem a big one. My eadse isn working a all! Nobody an ear me I an ear em I s a ommuniaion risis around ere! (yells offsage again) WHAT? NO, NO! NOT PLAY! I SAID I NEED YOU TO STAY! (enuniaing say ) I e ried eerying. Te walkie alkies ad oo mu sai and wen I ried o fix em, ey sared laying e loal radio saion. Wen a didn work, I ried selling e words by waing my arms REALLY big (demonsraes), bu eeryone jus oug I was o and rying o fan myself. (yells offsage again) NO! NOT A TRAY! I SAID FOR YOU TO STAY! (enuniaing say ) I don know wa we re going o do. We an do e sow unless we an ommuniae wi one anoer, and (yells offsage again) I SAID STAY! STAY! NOT PRAY! CAN YOU HEAR ME? Like I said, we ae o ommuniae so we an do e sow. Firs ey oug I was elling em o lay, and en ey ried o bring me a ray, now ey re elling me o ray Wai. Pray! Maybe a s e answer! (bows ead) God, we e go a real mess. I m sorry a I didn ink o ray firs. We ould really use your el. Amen. (looks u from rayer and begins aing on er eadse) Wai! Audio! Is a YOU? I s working! Eeryone, i s working! Take your laes! We ae a sow o sar! (exiedly begins o run offsage and sos, looks u) Tank You, God. (runs offsage) 5

6 Coundown AND WELCOME Esimaed ime: 1-5 minues Te: Coundown ideo, Life Poin slide, Bible Verse slide Peole: Hos Pros: None HOST (Play Coundown ideo. Hos walks ou a around 30 seonds.) OK, guys, le s sand u and oun down! (Sar a 10.) 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! I m always so exied wen e oundown sars! Tanks for making i awesome eery week! I an beliee we are already o our las week of learning abou Moses, an you? Do you know a we e been learning abou im for e las fie weeks? Tis is week six! Today, we re going o be alking abou ow Moses alked o God. (Sow Life Poin slide.) Did you know a wen we ray we re alking o God? You an alk o God wen you ray, oo! Le s say a ogeer. I an alk o God wen I ray. Say a wi me again. (Reea wi slide) I an alk o God wen I ray. (Sow Bible Verse slide referred ersion.) Our erse for oday is Psalm 5:3. God ears me wen I alk o Him. Aren you glad a wen you alk o God by raying, He HEARS you? Le s say a erse again ogeer. God ears me wen I alk o Him. Psalm 5:3 God ears me wen I alk o Him. Psalm 5:3 (Pararase) You ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (HCSB) My oie sal ou ear. Psalm 5:3(KJV) Lord, you ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (NIV) O Lord, you ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (ESV) My oie You sall ear. Psalm 5:3 (NKJV) Le s sand and sing and remember a jus like rayer, worsi is alking o God and elling Him a we loe Him. 6

7 WORSHIP SONG m Esimaed ime: 3 minues Te: Musi or lyri ideo, mis for singers, ligs (oional) Musi: Here wi Me (lead see aailable on DVD-ROM) or worsi song of your oie Peole: Worsi Leader and/or Worsi Team Pros: None WORSHIP LEADER I m so glad a we an alk o God abou anying. God loes us and is wi us. Le s sing o Him! (Sow e musi or lyri ideo.) (Lead kids o si as song ends.) Now, le s ge ready for Conneion Poin! 7

8 CONNECTION POINT GAME Esimaed ime: 5-10 minues Te: Conneion Poin slide, Conneion Poin eme musi Peole: Hos, 6 kids, 1 adul Pros: Life Poin rase, 2 aer us, sring, ae Game Insruions for Pone a Friend : Prior o e session, use ae o seure a sring igly beween wo aer us. Enlis 6 kids o lay e game Pone a Friend. Hae 2 kids a a ime sand aross from ea oer olding e aer u one. Hae em sand far enoug aar a e sring is au. Enlis one adul o sand on e oer side. Wiser ino one ild s ear e Life Poin rase and ask em o seak i ino e u. Te ild on e oer side sould be olding e u o eir ear o ear wa eir friend is saying. Hae a ild ell e adul wa e eard and en ae e adul relay o all e kids e message a was assed. Comare wa e ild eard o e message a was originally sen. HOST (Play Conneion Poin eme musi and sow Conneion Poin slide.) Hey guys, welome o Conneion Poin e game of alking, alking and more alking! Today, we are going o lay a game alled Pone a Friend. I need six friends o join me u on sage and one adul. (Inrodue kids reaiely.) Someone is going o wiser a rase I gie em ino is u. And someone else will sand on e oer side and ry o lisen o wa ey say roug e oer u. Ten our leader will on a side of e room will ell us wa was eard. Sound fun? OK, i s ime o lay! We need eeryone o be ery quie! (Wiser I an lisen and alk o God wen I ray, ino e firs ild s ear. Tell em o quiely seak i ino eir u. Hae e ild on e oer side old eir u u o eir ear. Hae e adul leader assis if needed.) Alrig, wa did you ear down ere! Le s omare a o our Life Poin oday. I an lisen and alk o God wen I ray. Did ey ge i lose? Good job, guys! (Coninue e same game for e nex wo airs.) Wow! You guys did a grea job alking and lisening! Isn i grea a we an use our mous and our ears wen we alk o God? Today you will learn abou a ime wen Moses and God alked o ea oer. (Teme musi/slide o ransiion. Hos leads ino nex segmen.) 8

9 BIBLE STORY Esimaed ime: 5-6 minues Te: Cris Fous, Life Poin, and Bible Sory slides; Bible Sory ideo Peole: Soryeller Pros: Bible, ell one (Play e Bible Sory ideo or ell e following Bible sory.) STORYTELLER (Sow Bible Sory slide.) Hey, eerybody! I m so exied o be ere oday and alk o you. Baksage, I suk my and in my oke and found my one (ulls ou ell one). Seeing my one reminded me of someing ery imoran! Le me exlain On is one, I an LISTEN o eole, su as my grandma and granda, wo loe me and ea me. And, on is one, I an TALK o eole, oo! I an ask my mom and dad wa o do. And, I an jus ell em a I loe em! Well, rayer is like a only wi God! Prayer is lisening and alking o God. Tese as few weeks we e been learning abou someone from e Bible wo alked wi God a lo. Do you know wo I m alking abou? (auses for answers) Ta s rig, Moses! Moses alked o God all e ime. Le s learn abou some of ose imes. Before Moses led e Israelie eole ou of Egy, before e led e Israelies o ross e Red Sea, before God gae e Ten Commandmens, and before Moses soke o families; Moses alked o God. Here is wa e Bible says: (Oen Bible o Exodus and ell e following sory.) One day Moses was ending e see of is faer-in-law. He was far away from eeryone, in e wilderness, by a mounain. Moses saw a bus a was on fire, bu e bus did no burn u! Moses ouldn beliee is! He wen loser o ge a beer look. Wen go lose, God soke o im from e bus. God alled Moses name and Moses answered. God old Moses o remoe is sandals beause is was a seial lae. Ten God old Moses abou His lans o bring e Israelie eole ou of Egy. Moses soke wi God and ried o make exuses. Bu God old Moses, You will be e one I use o do is! Afer alking wi God, Moses obeyed. One ar of rayer is alking o God. We an ank Him for someing, ell Him someing we loe abou Him, ask Him for someing we wan, ry o Him wen we re afraid or sad, and ell Him all abou someing amazing a aened. All of is is raying! 9

10 Talking o God is so imoran. Did you know a Moses alked o God all e ime? He did. And God alked o im, oo. God soke in a burning bus or in a loud on o of a mounain. One, Moses wen u ono a mounain o alk o God. Moses fae was sining wen e ame down from e mounain! WORSHIP Moses alked o God many imes. Te Bible ells us a one ime wen God was angry beause of e way e eole were beaing, Moses rayed o God. He asked God no o be angry wi e eole. And God lisened! I ink e eole were glad a Moses rayed for em. I m glad a eole wo loe me ray for me. Hae you eer rayed for someone else su as a friend or a aren or grandaren? God loes i wen His eole ray o Him. (Sow Cris Fous slide.) Wen Jesus was on e ear, He rayed o God all e ime, oo. Praying was so imoran a Jesus aug His elers, e disiles, ow o ray. Jesus aug us a we sould ank God in our rayers. We sould ask God for wa we need, and we sould ray for oers. Jesus rayed o God, and you an ray o Him, oo. Wen ings aen, alk o God abou em. Wen you are afraid, alk o God abou i. Wen you see someone wo needs el, alk o God abou i. Wen you e done someing wrong, alk o God abou i. Follow Jesus examle and alk o God abou eerying! Le s alk o God ogeer now. (Sow Life Poin slide. Play sof musi under rayer.) Dear God, ank You for Your Son, Jesus, wo aug us ow o ray. You loe us so mu. Hel us o remember o ray o You all e ime. We loe You! In Jesus name, Amen. 10

11 WORSHIP SONG m Esimaed ime: 3 minues Te: Musi or lyri ideo, mis for singers, ligs (oional) Musi: Lord of All (Higes Heigs) (lead see aailable on DVD-ROM) or worsi song of your oie Peole: Worsi Leader and/or Worsi Team Pros: None God is so good o us. Le s sing ogeer o Him. WORSHIP LEADER (Sow e musi or lyri ideo.) (Lead kids o si as song ends.) 11

12 HOST SET-UP, BRIANNA AND FRIENDS VIDEO Esimaed ime: 2 minues Te: Brianna and Friends ideo Peole: Hos Pros: None HOST Prayer is alking and lisening o God. You an alk o God wen you ray. He ears your rayers! Le s see wa our friend, Brianna, as o say abou raying and alking o God. Lisen arefully and remember, wen se asks you a quesion, be sure o say your answers aloud! (Play ideo.) 12

13 CLOSING Esimaed ime: 2 minues Te: Moses Talked o God slide, Bible Verse slide Peole: Hos Pros: None HOST (Sow Moses Talked o God slide.) Today, we eard a you an alk o God wen you ray. Le s say is ogeer: I an alk o God wen I ray. We saw a Moses alked o God. We een eard abou is sining fae afer e d been wi God! Tis week, wen you ge u ea day, alk o God. Ten, alk o Him all day! You an alk o Him silenly jus by inking abou Him and alking o Him in your mind, and you an also alk o Him ou loud! He will ear you. Oional Giing Segmen: One of e ings a we an alk o God abou is ow He would like us o gie bak o Him. God as gien us so mu and oug we an eer gie Him bak ALL a He s gien us, we CAN gie someing. Talk o God and ask Him wa He mig like you o gie. He will guide you wen you ake e ime o ask Him and lisen. If you d like o gie oday, (Gie your own direions for ow e kids an gie an offering. Peras you ae bukes in e bak of e room, a reasure es u fron, or a baske a ea small grou leader asses.) (Sow Bible Verse slide sele referred ersion.) Remember our Bible erse? God ears me wen I alk o Him. Psalm 5:3 (Pararase) You ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (HCSB) My oie sal ou ear. Psalm 5:3 (KJV) Lord, you ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (NIV) O Lord, you ear my oie. Psalm 5:3 (ESV) My oie You sall ear. Psalm 5:3 (NKJV) Le s say our Bible erse ogeer. (Reea wi slide.) I s been grea o learn abou Moses wi you! Hae a grea week! 13

14 BACKSTAGE OUTRO Esimaed ime: 1-2 minues Te: Video oion aailable, Moses Talked o God slide Peole: Sage Manager Pros: Headse (doesn ae o work; ide end of ord in oke) (Sow ideo or a ou e following.) STAGE MANAGER (Sow Moses Talked o God slide.) (seaking ino eadse and laing) Good job! Ta s a wra, eam! Oer and ou! Wow! Today we learned a lo abou ommuniaion wi ea oer, and wi God! Wen my eadse wasn working roerly, eerying was a mess! I needed my eadse so our eam ould work ogeer and know wa needed o be done. You know, rayer is kind of e same way. Prayer is our way o alk o God and o send ime wi Him. Wen we ray, God els us o undersand His lan for our life. And e grea ing is a we neer ae o worry abou a ommuniaion risis wi God. He will always lisen o our rayers. Remember o ake ome your One Conersaion ages oday. Maybe ask your arens if your family an ray for one anoer before bedime onig, or een in e ar on your way ome. Remember, you an ray anywere and abou anying! I m glad we go o learn ogeer oday. I ll be raying for you unil I see you nex ime! 14

15 HUDDLE UPS (OPTIONAL) Tis ime is designed for ures a ae a ik-u ime from a large room as arens arrie. I s a grea ime for follow-u onersaions and quesions from small grou leaders abou e session s onen. Games an also be used. (Prin e following for your small grou leaders.) Remind kids abou e work e Parra family is doing in Sain. Engage kids in alking abou ings ey ae in ommon wi e Parras (su as aing a baby broer, laying soer, seaking Sanis). Disuss ow kids mig ray for e Parras. Inie e ildren o ink of a way o ray for e Parras using e firs leer of eir name. (Examles: Soia may ray for e soer asor or for Sain ; Jose may ray for eole o know Jesus ; Anna may ray for e aiiies e Parras lan; Daniel may ray for Daid Parra ) Lead a rayer for e Parra family. Proide aer and rayons for kids. Wrie ea ild s name aross e middle of e aer. Hel em o illusrae eir name in a reaie way by using fun leers, brig olors, e. Tell e kids o le eir names sere as a reminder o ray for e Parra family. Missions Sory: Te Parra Family Mee e Parra family. Cesar (e dad) and Mary (e mom) are missionaries in Sain. Teir kids are Rebea, Daid, and Samuel. Tey are a missionary family liing in Sain so a ey an ell eole abou eernal life wi Jesus. Te Parras use eery ar of eir daily liing as a way o sare Jesus. Cesar uses is soer skills o mee eole and build relaionsis. Peole all im e asor wo lays soer. Mary leads musi a eir ur. Rebea, Daid, and Samuel Parra are jus regular kids, like you. Te Parras oe eir friends in Sain will oose o follow Jesus. 15