Noah's Ark Bible Lesson

Eljoh Hartzer, MTh
3 days ago
3 min read

Noah's Ark is not a Bible lesson about God's wrath, man's clever ability, or the Great Flood. This Noah's Ark Bible Lesson teaches kids the value of living close to God - that makes it practical and applicable to their daily lives as disciples of Jesus. The program elements include a name game, memory verse, song, lesson, Q&A, and prayer.

May you find space here to pause, reflect, and abide.

Icebreaker

All the kids find a friend to do a 3-legged race with. If you have something, 🧣tie their legs together- otherwise they can just hook in their arms and move together. The idea is that they are like the animals going to the Ark, 2-by-2.

Song

Listen & Dance: God Loves Me - Orange Kids Music 🔗

Bible-memory-verse

John 3:16

(Make with hands: J 3 1 6)

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

(Make with hands: 👆♥️🫵🎁🙏🙈🌱)

Every Bible-memory-verse has emojis indicating which moves to make with your hands to perform the verse and memorise it. Example: Point up to show “For this is how God”. Make a heart with your hands to show “loved”. Point to a friend to show “the world”. Pretend to hold a gift in your hands to show “He gave his one and only Son”. Fold your hands in prayer to show “so that everyone who believes in him”. Cover your face with your hands to show “will not perish”. Clap hands like a fountain or plant that sprouts up to show “but have eternal life”.

Noah's Ark Bible lesson

After the Creator made everything, the people, who used to be His friends, turned against Him. Adam & Eve ate of the forbidden fruit and chose against God’s will. Then there were 10 generations, like your great-grandfather… For all those many years people were still far from God.☹️

show a physical Bible - Genesis tells us that God looked at the people who turned against Him. They were very evil and did all kinds of wrong things.

Except for 1 person. Enoch - Can you say that? “E-noch”. We read in the Bible that Enoch lived close to God and then things started to change! If you live close to God, there will be big changes in your life as well.

THEN in Genesis 6 verse 9, we read about Enoch’s great-grandchild:

“Noah was a righteous man, 🧑‍💼 the only blameless (good 👍) person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship🫂 with God☝️.”

God sent a Big Flood to wipe out all the ugly things people were doing and to start over. But He saved Noah. God taught Noah how to build a giant boat⛴️ - the Ark. All the animals came to the Ark 2-by-2. 🦒🦒 And then the big rain came!

Because Noah lived close to God, God saved him and his family. After the flood, God made a promise. He hung His rainbow in the sky 🌈 and promised that there will never be a flood like that, ever again.

Questions & Answers

Q: Why did God save Noah and his family? A: Noah lived close to God and did God’s will.

Q: What was Noah’s great-grandfather’s name who lived near God?A: Enoch.

Q: What does the rainbow mean?A: It is God’s promise (Genesis 9:8-17).

📖 You can read today's story at home in...The Bible book with the name Genesis, from chapter 6 onwards.

Prayer

Thank You Creator-God

For showing mercy to those who love You,

like Enoch and Noah.

Help us to also stay close to You.

It is Your heart’s desire to be near to us

that is also why You sent Jesus here.

Thank You for Your love.

Amen.

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