Week 921 · about 45 minutes
Amos 8
Amos 8 · Memory verse Amos 8:1
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Amos 8), the matching word search and answer key (Amos 8 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a wooden spoon
Hold a wooden spoon. Read Amos 8 in about four minutes, stopping at Amos 8:1: “Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Amos 8?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Amos 8 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.” 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, “Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.” Amos 8 opens with these words: “Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.” The line to keep is Amos 8:1: “Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.” Carry the word “thus” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Amos 8:1: “Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Amos 8? Then try this: Read “Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.” 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 Amos 8. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Amos 8:1. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Amos 8 and write Amos 8:1 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Amos 8:1
“Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Amos 8. Help us remember Amos 8:1 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.