Week 69 · about 45 minutes
Genesis 18
Genesis 18 · Memory verse Genesis 18:3
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Genesis 18), the matching word search and answer key (Genesis 18 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a key
Hold a key. Read Genesis 18 in about four minutes, stopping at Genesis 18:3: “and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Genesis 18?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Genesis 18 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,” Genesis 18 opens with these words: “Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.” The line to keep is Genesis 18:3: “and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.” Carry the word “found” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Genesis 18:3: “and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Genesis 18? Then try this: Read “and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Genesis 18. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Genesis 18:3. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Genesis 18 and write Genesis 18:3 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Genesis 18:3
“and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Genesis 18. Help us remember Genesis 18:3 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.