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Ruth's Beautiful Promise

Ruth's Loyalty

Day 132of 180
Week 27of 36
25Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand Ruth's commitment to Naomi

2

Learn about loyalty and love for family

3

Recognize how God values faithfulness

📖 Scripture Connection

Ruth 1:16-17

“Ruth said, 'Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.'”

— Ruth 1:16-17 (WEB)

Demonstrates deep loyalty and commitment between family members

📦 Materials Needed

  • World English Bible
  • Paper hearts
  • Colored markers
  • BibleMouse Resource Guide
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Today's BibleMouse lesson is about a special promise between two people who loved each other very much!

💭 Review Question: What happened to Naomi's family in our last lesson?
2Teaching (8 min)

Ruth made an amazing promise to stay with Naomi even when things were very hard

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Ruth loved Naomi like family
  • She promised to take care of Naomi
  • Ruth chose to follow God
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What do you think it means to be loyal?
  • How can we show love to our family?
3Activity: Promise Heart Craft (10 min)
craft

Create a heart showing promises we can make to family

📝 Instructions:
  1. Draw a big heart on paper
  2. Write or draw promises inside the heart
  3. Share your heart with family
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps with writing

Challenge: Write full sentences about promises

4Closing (3 min)

Recap Ruth's special promise to Naomi

📝 Review Questions:
  • What promise did Ruth make?
  • Why was Ruth's promise special?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear God, help us be loyal and loving like Ruth

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about Ruth working in the fields

💎 Memory Verse

Ruth 1:16

“Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.”

— Ruth 1:16 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Heart Hop Memory Verse Game - Place paper hearts with words of the verse around the room and have child hop to each heart while saying the verse

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Ruth was a Moabite woman who chose to follow her mother-in-law Naomi after losing her husband

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use gentle voice when discussing difficult topics
  • Encourage child to share their own experiences of loyalty
🤔 Common Struggles:

Understanding complex family relationships

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's ability to empathize and understand commitment

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Act out the story using BibleMouse puppets
  • Create a family loyalty poster

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