Grade 1 - Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States

Sunday School Curriculum Grade 1
Week 3 - Water from the Rock
Objective:
God gives us our food, drink, cloth and everything we have and need.
Memory Verse:
“You shall strike the rock and water will come out of it” (Exodus 17:6)
References:
Exodus 17:1-7
Introduction:
Review the previous lesson and verse
Use the same rock made of brown paper for the tomb from previous lesson about the
resurrection as a visual aid for this lesson. Hide a container of water inside the rock and get a
rod similar to the one Moses used.
Ask the children who gives us food to eat and drink to drink?
Who provides us with everything we have?
Lesson Outlines:
Once upon a time the people of God were traveling in the desert. Their Leader was Moses.
Who was their leader?…They got to a place where there was very little water for all of them. They
started to thirst and were very unhappy. There was not enough water for their children or animals
too. So, they started to be angry with Moses because he brought them to a place where there is no
water and because they were all very very thirsty. They asked him to give them water. But Moses
did not know from where he can get water in this desert. So, Moses prayed and cried out to the
Lord and asked Him what should I do Lord? God told Moses take your rod and some of the elders
of the people and go to the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock with the rod and water will
come out of it. This water is sweet and all the people may drink from it.
Moses did exactly as God told him…What did God tell Moses to do?
When Moses hit the rock with his rod immediately water came out of it (the servant can act this
part with the visual aid) and every body drank and was not thirsty anymore.
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