Series 1: The Gospel According to Moses

September 4, 2022

Lesson 1.1
God Protects Moses
Exodus 2:1–10; Matthew 2:13–20

SERIES AIM
Students will explore the life of Moses and how it shows us to walk with God.

SERIES MEMORY VERSE

Exodus 4:12
“I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.”

SERIES MEMORY WORDS

God is with me and teaches me.

BIBLE LESSON VERSE

Exodus 2:10
“And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she
said, Because I drew him out of the water.”

GOD’S WORD FOR FAMILIES

Volume 2, Week 1

TRUTH ABOUT GOD

God keeps us safe.

TRUTH FOR MY LIFE

I will trust God.
TEACHER DEVOTIONAL
Read Exodus 2:1–10 in relation to Matthew 2:13–20. Prayerfully consider what these passages say:

About God
Two babies—Moses and Jesus. Two kings—Pharaoh and Herod. One mission—deliver God’s people. Preparation time—Moses
eighty years; Jesus thirty years. God plans ahead. He allows growing and preparing time for those He calls.

To You as a Teacher
The environment some children live in is overwhelming and heartbreaking. Yet the same God who placed Pharaoh’s daughter in
Moses’ path has placed you in the life of each of your students. As a teacher, you can love deeply, pray earnestly, and make your
classroom a safe place to introduce your students to the One who can protect them from the evil around them.

To Your Students
Even the youngest child knows something about babies. Often little learners like to pretend they are mommies and daddies or big
brothers and sisters taking care of a baby. God loves babies too. God made a way to keep baby Moses safe from mean Pharaoh. Tell
the story of how God used Moses’ mother and sister and Pharaoh’s daughter to help keep baby Moses safe so he could grow and learn
about God. God often protects us by placing good people in our lives. Together those people help us grow and learn about God.
SUPPLIES
Prepare the Heart
Connect
• Per student: Baby doll, blanket
• Attendance poster (RK) (DR), attendance stickers (RK) (DR)

Video
• “Dodge This!” (QL)
• “Cute Newborn Baby TikTok Compilation” (QL)

Opener
• Per student: Activity page (page 1), crayons

Toddlers
• Baby doll, blanket, music

Preschoolers
• Variety of items babies can have (e.g., bottle, rattle, teether)
• Items babies cannot have (e.g., marker, hammer, coffee)
• Baby doll, blanket, music

Instruct the Heart

Lesson Lead-In
• Fire extinguisher, fire safety protocols, building diagram with exit strategy

Bible Lesson
• Baby Moses story pictures (RK) (DR), Baby Moses pieces from the Series 1 Story pieces (RK) (DR), double-sided tape
• Bible

Connect to the Heart

Truth for My Life
• Per student: Activity page (page 2), crayons

Toddlers
• Per group: Shoebox, baby doll

Preschoolers
• Partition, 2 shoeboxes, baby doll

Prayer and Response

• No supplies necessary

Home Connection
• Series 1 Little Learners Home Connection (AP) (DR), God’s Word for Families (Vol. 2), Child Information forms (DR), MP3 (DR) and lyrics (DR)
for “Who My Victory Is”

Worship
• Series song: “Who My Victory Is” (QL)
• “Where Is Baby Moses?” (QL)
• “Big Plans” (QL)
 • “Peace like a River” (QL)

Memory Work
• Series 1 MW poster (RK), memory charts (AP)

Craft
• Per student: Baby Moses cutout (RK) (DR), half of a toilet paper tube (cut lengthwise), 2-inch blue tissue-paper squares, glue, white construction
paper, crayons

Game
• Baby doll in a basket

Snack
• Kolaches (or similar food item with a weenie baked in bread), milk or water, cups, napkins

Video Review
• “Baby Moses | A Lesson in Loving Your Family” by VeggieTales (QL)
PREPARE THE HEART

Connect: Safe
Preparation
• For each student, prepare a baby doll swaddled in a blanket.

Instruction
• As students enter, collect offering and record attendance.
• If you made changes to the classroom for the new quarter, point them out and let students investigate the new environment.
• Show students one of the swaddled baby dolls. Hand out baby dolls to students who would like to take care of one during class
time.
• Have students recite the Truth about God: “God keeps us safe.”

Application: Today we will learn how God kept a very special baby safe.

Video Introduction
• When it is time to get students’ attention, consider showing one of the following:
» Play the short video “Dodge This!” (QL).
» To introduce babies, show a video like “Cute Newborn Baby TikTok Compilation” (QL).

Opener: God Keeps Us Safe

Instruction
• Distribute activity pages and crayons.
» Ask students to identify the different people pictured and what they do.
» Then students draw a line from the kids to the different people who keep them safe.

Application: These people are keeping the children safe. Do you know who keeps us safe? . . . God keeps us safe.

Toddlers (Ages 2–3)

Instruction
• Students sit in a circle.
• Show them a baby doll. Wrap the doll safely in a blanket.
• As music plays, students gently pass around the baby doll.
• If they neglect to be gentle, remind them to slow down and pass the baby safely to the next student.
• When the music stops, whoever has the baby says, “God keeps us safe.”
Application: Just like we kept this baby safe, God keeps us safe.

Preschoolers (Ages 3–4)

Preparation
• Gather a variety of items that babies can have, such as a baby bottle, a rattle, and a teether.
• Also collect items that a baby cannot have, such as a marker, a hammer, and coffee.
Instruction
• Show students a baby doll. Wrap the doll safely in a blanket.
• Display the various items. Have students identify the items and tell which ones are safe for the baby and which are not. If
students do not know why, explain.
 • Say: Babies don’t know what can hurt them and what can’t, so God puts people in their lives who can help keep them safe from
these things.
» Ask: What are some things grown-ups won’t let you play with because they want to keep you safe? What are some things
they do to keep you safe?
• Students sit in a circle. As music plays, students gently pass around the baby doll.
» If they neglect to be gentle, remind them to slow down and pass the baby safely to the next student.
• When the music stops, whoever has the baby says, “God keeps us safe.”
Application: Just like we kept this baby safe, God keeps us safe.
INSTRUCT THE HEART
Bible Lesson Verse
“And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she
said, Because I drew him out of the water” (Exodus 2:10).

Lesson Lead-In: Staying Safe

Preparation
• Review the fire-drill safety protocols at your church.

Instruction
• Point to the fire extinguisher.
» Ask: Do you know what this is for? . . . It puts out fires. We hope we never have to use it, but it is in our classroom to keep us
safe.
» Show the building diagram with the exit strategy if there were a fire.
» Ask: Do you know what this is for? . . . It shows us where we should go to be safe if there were a fire.

Application: Our church provides these plans and this equipment to keep us safe if there were a fire. In our Bible story, we will learn
about a mommy who did something special to keep her baby boy safe.
Bible Lesson: God Protects Moses (Exodus 2:1–10)

Preparation
• Over the next four lessons, we will make a twelve-picture timeline of Moses’ life, with each Bible story introducing three
pictures. Designate an area to display the timeline.
» This lesson’s pictures will need to be posted at a height for students to interact with them.
• Cut out the Baby Moses pieces from the Series 1 Story pieces (RK) (DR) and add double-sided tape to the backs. Students will add
these pieces to the Baby Moses story pictures (RK) (DR) as directed within the Bible story.

Instruction
• Show your Bible and sing “The B-I-B-L-E.”
• Open your Bible to Exodus 2.
» Say: The Bible is God’s storybook. Our story comes from the Bible.

Post picture #1. Point out the people as you talk. There once was a mommy and daddy and sister who were so happy because God was
going to give them a new baby boy. The baby’s name was Moses.

• Have a student place the baby cutout on the picture.

One day Moses’ mom and dad heard that the mean old Pharaoh was sending his soldiers to take away all the babies. Moses’ family
was scared for baby Moses.

They prayed to God and asked Him to help them. “Please help our baby,” Moses’ mom prayed. “Save him from this mean old
Pharaoh.” God heard their prayers and gave Moses’ mom an idea to keep her baby safe.

Post picture #2. Moses’ mom took Moses and put him in a small basket. Then she took the basket down to the river. She placed the
basket in the river and trusted God to keep her baby safe.

• Have a student place the basket cutout on the picture.

God answered the mother’s prayer and kept baby Moses safe. Moses’ big sister was named Miriam. She followed her baby brother as
he floated down the river. She never took her eyes off of him.

Post picture #3. God guided the little basket down the river to an area where some ladies were washing in the water. Miriam watched
as one of the ladies opened the basket and picked up baby Moses. Miriam gasped! This was no ordinary woman. She was Pharaoh’s
daughter. She was a princess.

• Have a student place the headdress cutout on the picture.

The princess saw that the baby was all alone. She decided to take care of him.

Then the princess saw Miriam watching. “Come here, little girl,” the princess said. “Do you know someone who can help me take care
of this baby?”

Miriam said, “I do. I will go get someone right away.”

Miriam went home, got her mother, and took her to go talk to the princess. While Moses was kept safe by living with the princess, his
mommy was still able to take care of her baby. She said, “Thank You, God, for answering my prayer. I trusted You and You kept my
baby safe.”
Review the story with simple questions:
• What was the baby’s name? Moses
• Who was coming to take away the babies? Pharaoh’s soldiers
• Where did Moses’ mother put him to keep him safe? In a basket in the river
• Who found baby Moses? Pharaoh’s daughter, a princess

CONNECT TO THE HEART

Truth for My Life
I will trust God.

Instruction
• As you distribute activity pages, have students recite the Truth for My Life: “I will trust God.”
• Instruct students to draw a line from baby Moses to Pharoah’s daughter.
• Then let students color the river blue.
» Ask students to tell what is happening in each picture and how God kept baby Moses safe.

Toddlers (Ages 2–3)

Preparation
• For each group, gather a shoebox and a baby doll that will fit inside the box.

Instruction
• Form groups. Give each group a shoebox with a baby doll inside.
• Groups line up on one side of the room.
» The first player in each group places the box on the ground and crawls while pushing the box to the other side of the room
and then back again.
» During that time, other students should be jumping up and down, shouting, “I will trust God.”
• The game is complete when everyone has had a turn pushing the baby across the room and back.

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Preschoolers (Ages 3–4)

Instruction
• Put up a partition between you and students.
• Behind the partition, place the baby doll in one of two shoeboxes.
• Remove the partition and let students guess which box the baby is in.
» Select a student to lay a hand on one of the boxes and say, “I will trust God.” Then remove the lid.
» If the baby is inside, the student joins you behind the partition to hide the baby for the next round.
Prayer and Response
Instruction
• Have students make praying hands and repeat the echo prayer.

Thank You, Jesus . . . for keeping me safe.

Help me learn . . . that I can trust You.
In Jesus’ name, . . . amen.

Home Connection
• Send students home with the Series 1 Little Learners Home Connection (AP) (DR). Show parents the God’s Word for Families,
Volume 2 devotional, if they have not already.
• In the God’s Word for Families, Volume 2 devotional, encourage families to do week 1.
• Use My Growth Toolkit or the Child Information form (DR) to collect or update student information.
• Set up and establish your methods (social media, text messages, emails) of connecting with parents throughout the quarter.
• Send families the MP3 (DR) and lyrics (DR) for the series 1 song, “Who My Victory Is” (QL) by Angie Pearson.

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ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

WORSHIP
Supplies: Quick Links document (DR)
Instruction
• Use any available opportunity to encourage exuberant and heartfelt worship.
» Series song: “Who My Victory Is” by Angie Pearson (QL)
» “Where Is Baby Moses?” by Andi Joseph (QL)
» “Big Plans” by PPH Kids Music (QL)
» “Peace like a River” by Listener Kids (QL)

MEMORY WORK
Series 1 Memory Verse
“I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say” (Exodus 4:12).

Series 1 Memory Words

God is with me and teaches me.

Instruction
• On the Series 1 MW poster (RK) (DR), point at and read each word as students echo you.
• Divide the memory verse or memory words into two phrases.
» Say the first phrase while squatting low to the ground.
» Then jump up with arms raised and say the second phrase.
• Repeat many times.
• Let students add a sticker to their memory charts (AP).

GAME OPTION
Safe and Hidden
Instruction
• Show a baby doll in a basket to represent baby Moses.
• While students close their eyes, hide the basket.
• When a student finds baby Moses, the student shouts, “God keeps us safe.”
• Continue as time and interest allow. Consider letting students help hide Moses.

SNACK OPTION
Baby in a Blankie
Instruction
• Serve a special snack of kolaches (or similar food item with a weenie baked in bread).
• Provide small cups of milk or water.
• Lead students in prayer, and then eat snack.

CRAFT OPTION
Moses in a Basket
Preparation
 • For each student:
» Copy and cut out a Baby Moses cutout (RK) (DR).
» Cut a toilet paper tube in half lengthwise.
» Prepare two-inch squares of blue tissue paper.
Instruction
• Let each student color a Baby Moses cutout (RK) (DR) and glue it in a “basket” (half a toilet paper tube).
• On sheets of white construction paper, help students glue a “river” of blue tissue paper.
• Next to the river, ask students to draw Moses’ mommy.
• Then let students glue their basket on the river.
• Along the bottom, write: GOD KEEPS US SAFE.

VIDEO REVIEW
Show the VeggieTales video “Baby Moses | A Lesson in Loving Your Family” (QL).