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God Includes Everyone

Rahab's Faith

Day 90of 180
Week 18of 36
25Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand that God loves and welcomes everyone, not just Israelites

2

Learn how Rahab showed faith by helping God's people

3

Recognize that God values faith more than background

📖 Scripture Connection

Joshua 6:22-25

“Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, 'Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.'”

— Joshua 6:22-25 (WEB)

Shows God's mercy and inclusion of Rahab despite her past

📦 Materials Needed

  • Red yarn or cord
  • Window picture printout (from BibleMouse Printables Library)
  • World map
  • Coloring sheet of Jericho walls
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

In today's BibleMouse lesson, we'll learn how God welcomes everyone who believes in Him!

💭 Review Question: What special promise did the spies make to Rahab?
2Teaching (8 min)

Rahab wasn't an Israelite, but God saw her heart and saved her because of her faith.

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Rahab lived in Jericho, a city far from God's people
  • She believed God was powerful and true
  • God kept His promise to protect her family
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Why do you think God saved Rahab?
  • How can we show love to people who are different from us?
3Activity: Faith Family Tree (10 min)
discussion

Create a colorful family tree showing how God includes everyone

📝 Instructions:
  1. Draw a big tree on paper
  2. Color different 'people' representing various backgrounds
  3. Talk about how God loves all people
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Use stickers to add people to the tree

Challenge: Write names of people from different cultures

4Closing (3 min)

Review key lesson points about God's love

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did Rahab do that showed she trusted God?
  • Does God love only some people or ALL people?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear God, thank You for loving everyone. Help us love others like You do.

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn how God's people got ready to enter the Promised Land!

💎 Memory Verse

Joshua 24:15

“But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

— Joshua 24:15 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Red Rope Verse Hop - Create a 'red rope' path on the floor with yarn. Have child hop from word to word while reciting the verse

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Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Rahab was a Canaanite woman who risked everything to help God's people

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use simple language about faith and God's love
  • Emphasize God's acceptance, not Rahab's past
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might not understand complex ideas about faith and inclusion

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's ability to understand God loves everyone

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Color the Rahab and spies page from BibleMouse Printables Library
  • Sing 'God Loves the World' from BibleMouse Song Collection

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