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To understand today’s story, it is important to know that Abram, a descendant of Noah’s son Shem (Gen. 11:10-26), came from a family who were pagans. Unlike Noah, they worshiped other gods. (See Josh. 24:2.) God communicated with Abram, who became the next person to take a very prominent role in God’s plan of human redemption.

In Genesis 12, God spoke to Abram, calling him to leave behind his family and his lands to go to a place God would show him. God promised to make Abram into a great nation and to make his name great. By faith, Abram obeyed.

Genesis 15 starts with God’s promising a great reward to Abram. Notice Abram’s response: “What can You give me, since I am childless?” That’s when God made a great promise to Abram: Your offspring will be as numerous as the stars.

God also promised to give Abram land, and God gave specific instructions to Abram for confirming the covenant. In Abram’s time, when a covenant was made between two people, the animals would be split and both parties would walk through them as if to say, “If I do not hold up my end of the covenant, may I be like these dead animals.” What is different about this covenant? Only the smoking fire pot and flaming torch passed through, symbolizing that God alone would be responsible for upholding the covenant.

Years passed and Abram still had no children. God was serious about the covenant. In fact, He changed Abram’s name, which means “The Father Is Exalted,” to Abraham, which means “Father of a Multitude.”

Show kids how Jesus fulfilled God’s promise to Abraham. Jesus would bless all people by causing them to turn away from their sins. (See Acts 3:25-26.)

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Preschool Bible Study Leader GuideUnit 2 • Session 1

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God’s Covenant with People

Session Title: God’s Covenant with AbrahamBible Passage: Genesis 12:2-3; 15:1-21; 17:1-9Big Picture Question: Why did God choose Abraham? God chose

Abraham to be part of His plan.Key Passage: Genesis 17:7Unit Christ Connection: Jesus is the true Son of promise whom God

provided as the ultimate sacrifice for sin.

Small Group Opening (15–20 minutes)

Large Group Bible Study (10–15 minutes)

Small Group Activities (20–25 minutes)

Snack and Transition(20 minutes)

Preschool BIBLE STUDY OVERVIEW


God’s Covenant with AbrahamGenesis 12:2-3; 15:1-21; 17:1-9

Abram and his wife Sarai lived very long ago. They were rich. They lived near their relatives and friends. One day, something very unusual happened to Abram. God spoke to him! God chose Abram out of all the people in the world and made a covenant—very special promises—with him. We can read them in the Bible.

God told Abram to move to a place he had never been. There, Abram would have many descendants. That meant Abram would have many children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He would have so many descendants that they would become a whole nation of people. They would have land to live on, and everyone would know who Abram was.

Abram obeyed God. He did what God told him to do, but he did not have any children.

Another time, God spoke to Abram. God promised Abram a great reward. Abram said to God, “Whom will I give that reward to when I die? I have no children. Whatever I have will belong to one of my servants.”

God took Abram outside and showed him the sky. “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you can. That is how many descendants you will have someday.” Abram was getting to be an old man, but Abram believed it would happen because God said it would.

God also said, “I will give you this land, too.” “How will I know that I will have this land?” asked Abram.So God made a special ceremony. He told Abram to bring a 3-year-old

cow, female goat, and ram, and also a turtledove and a young pigeon. Abram arranged them as God told him to. Then Abram went to sleep, and God spoke to him as he was sleeping. God told Abram things that would happen to his descendants for many years in the future.

God said to Abram, “Your descendants will live in a land that does not belong to them; they will be slaves for 400 years. But I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will leave that land with many possessions. After that, they will come back to this land.”

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When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the animals Abram had brought. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram. God said, “I give this land to your descendants.”

When Abram was 99 years old, God came and talked with him again. God said, “I am changing your name to Abraham. You will be the father of many children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. They will become many nations. Some of them will be kings. I will give them the land where you are living, and I will be their God. My promises will last forever.”

Christ Connection: God chose Abraham to be the father of the nation in which Jesus would be born. In this way, Abraham would bless all nations, as God had promised. God also saw Abraham’s faith in God’s promises and counted it as righteousness. It is our faith in Jesus’ perfect righteousness that brings salvation to God’s people.


Small Group OPENING

Welcome and Session Starter (15–20 minutes) Welcome parents and preschoolers; follow your church’s security procedures for signing in preschoolers. Offer the preschooler one or both activities to set the stage for today’s lesson.

Activity Sheet: Find the Big DipperFollow the dots to make the Big Dipper, beginning with the farthest left dot. Arrows should help. Challenge the boys and girls to add as many stars (dots) in the sky as they can count. Say • You may be able to see this constellation in the sky

at night. Sailors used it to know where they were and which direction to sail.

The constellation has different names because people see different pictures when they look at it. To some, it looks like a dipper with a long handle—people could dip water out of a barrel and drink it. People in the Bible thought the Big Dipper looked like a mama bear with three cubs. (See Job 38:32.)

• Prepare: Play “Promises” in the background.

• Set an offering basket near the door.

• Post the allergy alert for the snack ingredients.

• Set out a few favorite toys such as puzzles and blocks.

PREPLOW

• “Find the Big Dipper” , 1 per kid

• crayons







• What were some reasons God made the stars? (to provide light, to show seasons, to show years) Listen today for something else God said about stars.

Look at constellations Before the session, cover the light of the flashlight with foil and tape it to the barrel of the flashlight. Punch some tiny holes in the foil. Make two or three of these. Tape black paper on the underside of a table top. Place the flashlights under the table and invite preschoolers to take turns lying under the table and shining the light up at the “black sky.” Can they see and count stars? Read Genesis 15:5; ask whether anyone has an idea about what that means.Say • Who can count the stars? God can!

Transition to Bible study Ring the bell, show the countdown video, or clap a pattern to get everyone’s attention. Tell how you want to move to the large-group area. You might want to sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” as you go.

• lightweight flashlights

• heavyweight aluminum foil

• masking tape• black paper• hole punch

• bell or countdown video (optional)


Large Group Bible Study Time (10–15 minutes)

Introduce the Bible storyCall each child’s name to stick two or three stars on a dark sheet of paper (night sky).Say • I chose you to come stick stars on this paper. Our

Bible story today is about someone whom God chose out of all the people in the world for His plan.

Think back to the story of Adam and Eve. Do you remember what sin is? Yes! Sin is breaking God’s law. And what happens when people sin? Sin separates people from God and each other.

God loves us, and He had a plan so to make us not be separated from Him any more. He would send His Son, Jesus, to earth. But Jesus would need a family on earth. Listen to hear whose family God chose and what that family had to do with stars.

• dark sheet of construction paper

• shiny star stickers




Large Group BIBLE STUDY




Watch or tell the Bible storyTell the Bible story with your Bible open to Genesis 15, or show the Bible story video “God’s Covenant with Abraham.”

Talk about the Bible storyTalk about the word covenant in the title of today’s session. A covenant is an important agreement or promise; sometimes it is written down so everyone can remember it. Tell the boys and girls to listen for what God promised Abraham in a covenant as you read the key passage and sing “I Will Keep.”

Ask the big picture question and look at the timeline. Point to the beginning of Unit 2: “God’s Covenant with People.” Say • Most Bible stories from now on will be about people

in Abraham’s family and how they blessed the whole world, just as God promised Abraham.

Why did God choose Abraham? God chose Abraham to be part of His plan.

Transition to small groupsDescribe the activities and how you want to manage them, such as the limit of how many kids can work on the same activity at the same time. Sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” again as you return to small group activities.

• Bible• “God’s Covenant with Abraham” video

• Big Picture Question Poster

• Key Passage Poster • Use the timeline from the Timeline Map or Small Group Visual Pack.

• “I Will Keep”

Tip: Do activities one of these ways:

• at the same time as a group

• in small groups that rotate through each activity

• set up as centers, allowing preschoolers to browse and choose


Small Group Activities Time (20–25 minutes)During each activity, ask the big picture question; train the boys and girls to respond together with the answer.

Choose and leadSay • God chose Abraham to be part of His plan. I will

choose a leader to lead an exercise like patting your head, touching your toes, or hopping in place.

Play music while the group follows the leader in doing the movement. After a short while, stop the music and tell the leader to choose someone else who has not had a turn to lead. That person will lead in a movement while the music plays. Continue until everyone has had a turn.

Learn 3-syllable wordsTape each word to a different colored sheet of paper and place them on the floor. Talk about each word and its picture. Each child takes a turn throwing the beanbag on a word. Everyone can help recall the word. This is not a contest. For young preschoolers, choose only Abraham, covenant, Genesis. The remaining words are grandchildren and descendant.

Tip: Select activities you can staff and which interest your class.

• Limit the number who can work an activity if necessary.

PREPLOW

• song downloads or favorite worship songs on CD

• music player

• “Learn 3-Syllable Words”

• beanbag• 6 sheets of construction paper, each a different color

• tape




Small Group ACTIVITIES




When you talk about the words, make comments such as the following.

• Abraham’s name begins with an “A” sound (like the name of the big “A” at the beginning of “Abraham”). • God made a covenant with Abraham. A covenant is a promise people make to each other or a promise that a person and God make. • You can read the story of Abraham in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. • If we say “Abraham’s grandchildren,” we mean the children of Abraham’s children. Abraham had many great-grandchildren and many, many great-great-grandchildren. • Great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents have descendants. You are a descendant of your grandparents and parents. Jesus is a descendant of Abraham and Sarah.

Play with geometric shapesCut the following geometric shapes from different colors of construction paper: pentagons to use as bases for stars, and triangles with one side the same length as the sides of the pentagons (5 triangles for each pentagon; see patterns of geometric shapes). After children make stars, they can create their own patterns with the shapes.Say • Make stars with the geometric shapes. God told

Abraham to count the stars in the sky if he could. Abraham would have that many descendants.

• construction paper• child-size scissors• “Geometric Shapes”


Follow directions and moveTape a masking tape path to the floor for toy cars to follow. Set up a few blocks as obstacles in the road. Tell the preschoolers that they are moving to a new place and that they must follow the planned route. When they arrive at the destination you set, let the boys and girls make new plans and routes. You might want to play music softly in the background as they move.Say • God told Abraham to move to a new land. God made

promises to Abraham. Abraham did what God told him to do. • Why did God choose Abraham? God chose Abraham to be part of His plan.

Stamp “descendants”Put two or three colors of tempera paint on plates, each color on a different plate. Put a couple of “people” cookie cutters in each paint color. Stamp two people at the top of the page to represent Abraham and Sarah. Stamp other people all over the page to represent their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on. Use painting smocks and help the preschoolers clean their hands before removing the smocks. Say • God promised Abraham would have many, many

descendants. One of the great-great-great-great grandchildren of Abraham was Jesus!

• masking tape• toy cars• blocks• music such as “I Will Keep” or “Promises”

• plastic, people-shaped cookie or play dough cutters

• shallow pans or paper plates

• tempera paint• painting smocks• paper• washable markers• wet wipes or wet paper towel




Snack Time and Transition (20 minutes)Say • In just a minute, it will be time for the snack. When

you hear the signal, put your supplies away. Then, we will go to the bathroom and wash hands before the snack. [If you do not have facilities to wash hands, use hand sanitizer.]

Choose helpers with clean hands to help set the table. Distribute cups of water and napkins. Place four pretzel sticks and three mini-marshmallows on each napkin.Say • Pretend the marshmallows are stars. Connect the

stars with pretzel sticks to make constellations like the one on your activity page. Before you eat your constellation, let’s thank God for the snack.

Pray briefly or ask a volunteer to pray. Do not insist that a child pray aloud.

TransitionWhen a child finishes his snack, tell him to throw away his trash and select a book or puzzle to look at, draw on his journal page something he thought about during the Bible story, color the Bible story picture, or work quietly at something else he chooses.

Welcome parents or the second session teachers.

• bell or countdown video (optional)

• paper cups and napkins

• hand sanitizer (optional)

• pretzel sticks• mini-marshmallows• allergy alert

• crayons• journal page • Bible story coloring page


God’s Covenant with PeopleKey Passage: Genesis 17:7

Session 1: God’s Covenant with Abraham Genesis 12:2-3; 15:1-21; 17:1-9

Session 2: The Sons of Abraham Genesis 16:1-16; 17:15-22; 21:1-7

Session 3: God Tested Abraham Genesis 22:1-19

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Why did God choose Abraham?

God chose Abraham to be part of His plan.

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I will keep My covenant between Me

and you, . . . to be your God.

Genesis 17:7

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Key PassagePOSTER HCSB God’s Covenant with PeopleUNIT 2 • Key Passage Poster (HCSB)


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And I will establish my covenant between

me and thee, . . . to be a God unto

thee.Genesis 17:7

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Key PassagePOSTER KJV God’s Covenant with People

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Instructions: Tape each word to a different colored sheet of paper and lay them on

the fl oor. Talk about what each word is and what it means. Point out how the picture

relates to the word. Each child takes a turn throwing the beanbag on a word and trying to

remember what it is. This is not a contest. Everyone can help recall the word. For young

preschoolers, choose only three or four words, including covenant, Genesis, Abraham.

Learn 3-Syllable Words

G e n e s i s

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Note: God made a covenant with Abraham. A covenant is a promise people make to each other, or a promise that a person and God make.

Note: The story of Abraham is found in Genesis, the fi rst book of the Bible.

Note: Today’s story is about Abraham. His name begins with a big “A” which sounds like the beginning of “Abraham.”

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Note: If we say “Abraham’s grandchildren,” we mean the children of Abraham’s children. Abraham had many great-grandchildren and many, many great-great-grandchildren.

Note: Descendants trace back through parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on. Jesus is a descendant of Abraham and Sarah.

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Instructions: Print this poster, or laminate it and reuse it throughout the quarter. Use a dry erase marker to fi ll in the necessary information when bringing food,

animals, things to smell, or nature items that might cause allergic reactions. Display the poster where parents can see it when they arrive with their children.

Today your child will be tasting/touching/sniffi ng

Please notify a teacher if your child should notparticipate in this activity.

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