LEADERS HUB
Year 1, Term 2, Week 8: Ideas for Middle Group
Week 9: Obeying God - No matter what His plan is!
Lesson Objective:
Some of the things God asked Joshua to do seemed a bit strange. Joshua trusted and followed God and God helped him enter Jericho!
Bible Passage:
Joshua 6: 1-16, 20, 27
Memory Verse:
Joshua 1:9- I have commanded you to be strong and brave. Don’t ever be afraid or discouraged! I am the Lord your God and I will be there to help you wherever you go!
Story Idea: Charades & Watch It!
Charades:
- Split the kids into teams or play as one group
- Give one kid from each team a word related to the story (eg. trumpet, wall, fall, follow etc.)
- The kid should attempt to mime the word to the team or group so that they can guess the word - first to guess wins!
- Ask if the kids have any idea what the story is about based on the words used
Quiz Questions:
1. Where was Joshua helping take God's people? The promised land
2. Which city were they going to move into in the promised land? Jericho
3. Why couldn't they get in? The city was shut and had high walls
4. How many days did the people need to march around Jericho? Seven days
5. What did the people do on their seventh lap on the seventh day? Blow the trumpets and shout
6. Do you think this seems like a strange way to invade a city? Yes
7. Might it have been easier for Joshua to ignore God's plan and invade the city his own way? Yes
8. Did Joshua trust God's plan? Yes
9. What happened when they all shouted? The walls fell
10. Can we trust God's plan too? Yes
11. How do we know we can trust God's plan? He created us, He knows what's best, He knows everything, He has shown us over and over again in the Bible that we can trust Him
Game Idea: The walls are falling!
- Have the kids walk around in a circle and play some music
- When the music stops, all of the kids should fall to the ground, like the walls of Jericho falling!
- The last kid on the ground is out and can sit to the side
Activity Idea: Memory Verse Hunt
- Before the lesson, print the Joshua 1:9 verse grid on sheets of coloured paper (one colour per team)
- Cut out the memory verse sections and hide the pieces around the room
- Split the kids into teams and give each team a colour and a Bible
- Teams should race to find all of the pieces of the verse in their colour and arrange them to make the memory verse (using the Bible to look at the verse if needed)
- The first team to arrange the verse correctly wins!
Craft Idea: Joshua Trumpet
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Before the lesson:
- Download and print the trumpet cone on coloured paper and cut out (one per child)
- Cut a bunch the same coloured paper into half (one half per child) to be rolled for the barrel
- Cut short strips of the same coloured paper for the handle
- Gather things to decorate from the cupboard (ribbon, scissors, sequins, buttons, pencils, cut circles and glue)
Have the kids:
- Decorate their trumpet cone and barrel
- Glue the cone together using the tab strip on one end
- Glue the barrel together
- Tape the cone and handle to the barrel (younger kids will need help)
- Remind the kids that Joshua and God's people trusted God's plan, when they blew their trumpets the walls of Jericho fell!
