Crossing the Red Sea

 Hi everyone and welcome back to Christchurch Kids. We are continuing our adventures with Moses today and we have the most dramatic part of the story to look at.  We saw a little part of it at the end of last week's video but it was so amazing we're going to look at it again.

Last week, we saw how the 10 plagues that God sent finally made Pharaoh agree to let the Israelites leave Egypt. They left the country and made their way into the desert.

Pharaoh looked around and realised that all his slaves were gone and he became angry. He decided that he was going to go and get the Israelites back.

God had appeared to the Israelites as a pillar of cloud in the day and a pillar of fire at night to lead them through the desert and they were now camped by the Red Sea when they saw the Egyptians approaching.

We've got a clip from the amazing film "The Prince of Egypt" to show us what happened next...

Can you imagine how the Israelites felt when they saw the Egyptians approaching? Just when they thought they were free, the Egyptian army was chasing them and the only place ahead of them was the sea.

God had an amazing plan for his people. They prayed for help and God helped them in the most incredible way. The Israelites could be brave because God was with them. Nobody could have imagined how God was going to solve this situation as it looked impossible.

But, as Jesus said...

“For men this is impossible. But for God all things are possible."

Matthew 19 : 26

 

The Bible tells us that God is always with us too. He promises to be with us forever because he loves us so much. If we listen to God and follow his ways, He will always help us. 

Our Activity Book

If you are new to the Christchurch Kids blog and would like an activity book, please email Emy at childrenandfamilies@christchurch-clevedon.org.uk

We can have a look in our activity books now and find the pages about crossing the Red Sea. 

Prayer

When the Israelites reached the shore after crossing the sea and saw that the Egyptian army had been washed away, they prayed and danced and sang. They praised God because he is AMAZING!

We have a prayer of praise today and it's a prayer we can make with our whole body. 

You can stand up tall and tell God how amazing he is using these words and actions...

(3 deep breaths)

God, you are above (reach toward the sky), 

below (touch your toes), 

inside (hands to heart) 

and all around (big arm circles).

I worship you (reach toward the sky), 

and give my life to you (touch your toes).

And I love you (hands to heart) 

with all that I am (big arm circles).

(3 deep breaths)

We can continue our praising with one of our favourite songs to dance to. God is amazing and we want to follow Him and make Him part of our every day lives. 

We hope you have fun dancing along with this one as we sing to God together.

Thanks for joining us today to find out more about the amazing adventures of Moses. 

Next week we have F@CT online and we have lots of fun planned with Lego, games, stories, prayers, songs and a familiar face or two popping in to say hello. 

Christchurch Kids -  we need you!

At Christchurch, we would love your help this week as we are going to be sending out parcels to residents of our local care homes for Valentines Day. In a time when visits are very restricted, we want to send out messages of God's love to those residents and staff. We are sending out chocolate hearts and we would also love to send out 130 Valentines cards! This is where we need your help.

Please could you make some Valentines cards and drop them round to Emy's house (email childrenandfamilies@christchurch-clevedon.org.uk for the address) by next Sunday (7th February).

They could have hearts on the front, with the message "With Love". You could use paper folded in half if you don't have card. You don't need to write anything inside the cards as we will add a message from Christchurch.

We hope you have fun making the cards, but maybe not this much fun!...