Alive-O 2 Term 3: Lesson 5 Summer Light

The Long Walk

God told Moses and Aaron in Egypt to get ready for the new year. Tell everyone to take a one year old lamb for each family. If the family is too small and unable to eat all the meat on one lamb, then they are to share with another family.

That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.

This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it quickly; it is the L ORD ’s Passover, our special family meal.

They had a long journey to travel to the Land that God had promised them. They called it the Promised Land.

When they got tired, Moses reminded them that God had promised to look after them and to show them the way to the Promised Land.

They walked for days and weeks, up hills and down. They travelled through the desert for many, many years.

Forty years later, they arrived at the Promised Land. It was beautiful. They had moved out of the desert into a beautiful green valley, with long grasses, trees, birds singing and a river running through it.

‘God is good,’ they said. We thank God for bringing us to the Promised Land.

Prayer Time-Day Two

Sign of the Cross We light a candle and we remember that God is always with us.

Teacher: we give thanks to God for all the good things of summer. All: (sing) Thank you, God, we love you.....

Teacher: For fun and play in the sunshine. All: (sing) Thank you, God, we love you.....

Teacher: For fresh summer fruits. All: (sing) Thank you, God, we love you.....

Teacher: For Ice-cream. All: (sing) Thank you, God, we love you.....

Teacher: For long cool drinks. All: (sing) Thank you, God, we love you.....

Teacher: Name something that you like about summer and which you would like to give God thanks for. All: (sing) Thank you, God, we love you.....

Sign of the Cross