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February 2016, Week 2
Small Group, K-1
The Biggest Losers
Bible Story: The Biggest Losers (People help Moses) • Exodus 17:8-13
Bottom Line: We can work together to help someone else succeed.
Memory Verse: “Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they
do.” Ecclesiastes 4:9, NIrV
Life App: Cooperation—working together to do more than you can do alone.
Basic Truth: I should treat others the way I want to be treated.
Social: Providing Time for Fun Interaction (Small Groups, 15 minutes)
Welcome kids and spend time engaging in conversation and catching up. Get ready to experience
today’s story.
Before kids arrive, pray for each regular attendee by name. Pray for those who might visit your group
for the first time. Kids are often competing with each other, so today’s Bottom Line might be a bit
counterintuitive for some. Pray that God would break through these barriers and soften kids’ hearts to
see that He wants us to cooperate with our peers to contribute to the success of someone else.
1. Early Arriver Idea
What You Need: An offering container
What You Do:
 Collect kids’ offerings as they arrive.
 Talk about what the word “succeed” means. To succeed means to do what you were trying to
do.
 Ask kids about a time when they helped someone else succeed—when they helped someone
do what they were trying to do.
 Start by giving the kids a personal example or telling them a famous story to help them
understand what it means to succeed.
2. Easier with a Friend
What You Need: Stopwatch or timer
What You Do:
 Time kids to see how long they can hold their arms straight out to the side without dropping their
arms. Then time them again with their arms straight out in front while holding hands with a
friend.
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What You Say:
“You guys could hold your arms up for a much longer time when a friend helped you! [Transition]
Today in Large Group, we are going to hear about some friends who helped each other do this
same thing—with pretty crazy results!”
Lead your group to the Large Group area.
Groups: Creating a Safe Place to Connect (Small Groups, 25 minutes)
Create a safe place to connect and learn how the Bible story applies to real life experiences, through
interactive activities and discussion questions.
1. Pullback Attack (application activity / review the Bible story)
What You Need: Pullback cars; 1 for each kid, painter’s tape
What You Do:
 Choose one kid to be Moses and two others to be Aaron and Hur. The other kids will be the
Amalekites.
 Ask Moses to stand in the center of your space. Aaron and Hur should stand next to him.
 Use the tape to make a circle around these three, leaving an extra three feet or so of space
around them inside the circle.
 Tell the Amalekites they must stay outside the circle, and give each of them a pullback car.
 Explain that the Amalekites will use the pullback cars to attack Moses, who will not be able to
defend himself. Instead, Aaron and Hur must defend him from the cars.
 During the attack, the Amalekites must not step inside the circle, but they can reach in and grab
any cars that might not have reached Moses and that Aaron and Hur have not confiscated.
 Once all cars have been collected by Aaron and Hur, allow kids to switch roles and play again.
 Ask kids to tell you how this activity was like or unlike what happened in the Bible story. Here
are some ideas:
o Just like in the Bible story, Aaron and Hur worked together to help Moses.
o Just like in the Bible story, Moses wasn’t physically involved in the fight.
o Unlike the Bible story, the Amalekites weren’t attacking Moses himself, they were
attacking the Israelites as a whole.
o Unlike the Bible story, there were real weapons involved, not pullback cars.
What You Say:
“This was a silly way to re-enact the Bible story, but I bet you’ll remember it! But what I want you to
remember more than the car attack is that Aaron and Hur worked together to help their friend Moses—
and Joshua and the rest of the Israelites—succeed. They saw a need, and they helped fill it. That’s
what we’re focusing on this week—seeing someone’s need and working together with someone else to
help that person succeed. [Make It Personal] (Tell kids about a time when you and a few others
worked together to help someone else succeed.) [Bottom Line] We can work together to help
someone else succeed.”
* 2. How Will You Help? (application activity)
What You Need: Pullback cars; 1 for each kid, “A,” “B,” and “C” papers
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What You Do:
 Spread the “A,” “B,” and “C” papers around your space on the floor and hand out the pullback
cars.
 Read a scenario (see below) and the three options.
 Tell kids to decide which option they would prefer to do, and then send their pullback car to the
corresponding letter.
 Repeat with the second scenario.
 Scenarios:
o Scenario 1: A kid in your class broke his arm yesterday, and it’s the arm he writes with.
Uh-oh! He needs some help in order to succeed at school. How will you and your friends
help him?
A) Make a plan with some of your friends in your class to help him write for the
next few weeks. Maybe you help during math, another friend helps during history,
and another friend helps during science.
B) Offer to carry his book bag, lunch bag, and other items to and from lunch,
special classes, and to the pick-up line after school.
C) Gather some friends to play games with him during recess that won’t require
him using his arms.
o Scenario 2: Your mom just had a baby, and you have two other siblings. She doesn’t
have enough time to get everything done right now, and she’s exhausted. How will you
and your siblings help your mom succeed?
A) Be on dinner duty every night. Set the table, clear the table, do the dishes,
and even fix the food if your mom will let you!
B) Tag team with your older brother to help out with the little ones not just when
your mom asks, but a few more hours each day.
C) Talk to your dad about how you and your siblings can do something super
special for your mom, like buying her a gift, watching the baby for an hour (if you
have older siblings) while she and your dad go out to dinner, or just being quiet
and giving her a silent house for an hour!
What You Say:
“There are LOTS of ways [Bottom Line] we can work together to help someone else succeed.
We’re often told to look out for ourselves first and make sure we succeed, but it’s kind of unusual to
work together to help someone else succeed. But that’s what the Bible teaches us to do! It’s what
Aaron and Hur did, and it’s one way we can change the world around us. Think about how many people
were affected because Aaron and Hur helped Moses succeed—the entire nation of Israel, which was
millions of people! Wow! We might not affect the lives of millions of people, but we can help others
succeed right here in our own community and maybe touch the lives of 1, 3, 10, or 50 people. I’d say
that would be a success!”
3. In Motion (memory verse activity)
What You Need: Bibles
What You Do:
 Look up the verse as a group and say it together.
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Work together to come up with motions for the verse. Kids are free to think of motions on their
own, with your help. But here are a few to help get started:
o “Two are”: hold up two fingers
o “Better than”: give thumbs up
o “One”: hold up 1 finger
o “They can help each other”: put your arm around someone else’s shoulder
o “In everything they do”: move hands (palms up) in circle motion from center of body to
outside of body
Say the verse again with the motions.
Guide the kids to say it faster and faster while doing the motions. See how fast they can go!
What You Say:
“Whew! Those were some fast motions! This is an important verse because it reminds us that we need
each other, even when we think we can do everything ourselves. No matter what, we need to work with
others because [Bottom Line] we can work together to help someone else succeed.”
Pray and Dismiss
What You Need: No supplies needed
What You Do:
 Have kids sit in a circle.
 Pray, thanking God for all the people in our lives who work together to help us and take care of
us.
 Instruct kids to think of one person in their lives who helps them, such as a teacher, parent,
coach, etc.
 Ask one kid to stand up and name someone who helps him. Ask that kid to then reach out his
hand and help up the person next to him in the circle, who will then stand up and say his
person, and so on.
What You Say:
“Dear God, thank You for giving us people in our lives to help us. Thank You that we don’t have to do
everything by ourselves and thank You that we can help each other. We pray that You will show us how
to help one another every day. Amen.”
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