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Exodus 14 NIrV 2

Memory Verse 3

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Family devotional 4 First Kids This week’s focus: Crossing the - Exodus 14

For the Parents There are some ways that we need your 3. Hand out preordered lunches after help! Please take a look at the list below and service on Saturday, February 2. Fundraiser: Superbowl Subs see how you might assist with this fundraiser. We need your help! 1. Volunteers are needed Sunday morning If you can help with any of these items, to make sandwiches beginning at 9:00 am. please contact Pastor Erika at the church office I’m sure as 12th man flags are raised all Bring your kids along and they can help! or [email protected]. over the northwest and everyone is donning 2. We are asking for a few donations to their favorite, lucky Seahawks jerseys, you are aware that the Superbowl takes place Sunday, help keep costs down. Are you able to add one or two of these items to your grocery February 2nd. shopping list? 30 tomatoes, 20 onions, 5 Beginning this week, we are gathering orders for hoagie-size sub sandwich lunches large bags of shredded lettuce, 1 large jar of dill pickle chips, 2 bottles of mustard, 4 which will include a bag of chips and cookies for squeezable bottles of mayonnaise. $8. Proceeds will go toward helping fund upcoming children’s ministry outreach.

The Clubhouse Wire is a ministry of First Kids, and is designed to update families on what January 18 content students are learning in Clubhouse and Clubhouse Connect. Inside this tool, parents will find a thought from the children’s pastor, key learning points to review throughout the week, a calendar of upcoming events and First Kids needs, the week’s memory verse, a family devotional, and a fun family activity or adventure to explore together. For more information, please contact Pastor Erika Montgomery at: 2013 First Assembly of God Walla Walla - 509.525.2743 or [email protected] Exodus 14 of Egypt? 12 Didn’t we say to you in went through the sea on dry Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the ground, with a wall of water on their 14 Then the Lord said to , 2 “Tell Egyptians’? It would have been better right and on their left. the Israelites to turn back and encamp for us to serve the Egyptians than to die near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and in the desert!” 23 The Egyptians pursued them, and all the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, Pharaoh’s horses and and directly opposite Baal Zephon.3 Pharaoh 13 Moses answered the people, “Do not horsemen followed them into the sea. will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering be afraid. Stand firm and you will see 24 During the last watch of the night the around the land in confusion, hemmed the deliverance theLord will bring you Lord looked down from the pillar of fire in by the desert.’ 4 And I will harden today. The Egyptians you see today you and cloud at the Egyptian army and Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue will never see again. 14 The Lord will threw it into confusion. 25 He them. But I will gain glory for myself fight for you; you need only to be still.” jammed[b] the wheels of their chariots through Pharaoh and all his army, and so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians will know that I am the 15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from Lord.” So the Israelites did this. are you crying out to me? Tell the the Israelites! The Lord is fighting for Israelites to move on.16 Raise your staff them against Egypt.” 5 When the king of Egypt was told that and stretch out your hand over the sea the people had fled, Pharaoh and his to divide the water so that the Israelites 26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch officials changed their minds about them can go through the sea on dry ground. out your hand over the sea so that the and said, “What have we done? We have 17 I will harden the hearts of the waters may flow back over the Egyptians let the Israelites go and have lost their Egyptians so that they will go in after and their chariots and horsemen.” services!” 6 So he had his made them. And I will gain glory through 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the ready and took his army with him. 7 He Pharaoh and all his army, through his sea, and at daybreak the sea went back took six hundred of the best chariots, chariots and his horsemen. 18 The to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing along with all the other chariots of Egyptians will know that I am the Lord toward it, and the Lord swept them into Egypt, with officers over all of them. when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his the sea. 28 The water flowed back and 8 The Lord hardened the heart of chariots and his horsemen.” covered the chariots and horsemen—the Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he entire army of Pharaoh that had pursued the Israelites, who were 19 Then the angel of God, who had been followed the Israelites into the sea. Not marching out boldly. 9 The Egyptians— traveling in front of Israel’s army, one of them survived. all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, withdrew and went behind them. The horsemen[a]and troops—pursued the pillar of cloud also moved from in front 29 But the Israelites went through the Israelites and overtook them as they and stood behind them, 20 coming sea on dry ground, with a wall of water camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, between the armies of Egypt and Israel. on their right and on their left. 30 That opposite Baal Zephon. Throughout the night the cloud brought day the Lord saved Israel from the darkness to the one side and light to the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw 10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites other side; so neither went near the the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. looked up, and there were the other all night long. 31 And when the Israelites saw the Egyptians, marching after them. They mighty hand of theLord displayed were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand against the Egyptians, the people feared 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because over the sea, and all that night the Lord the Lord and put their trust in him and there were no graves in Egypt that you drove the sea back with a strong east in Moses his servant. brought us to the desert to die? What wind and turned it into dry land. The have you done to us by bringing us out waters were divided, 22 and the Source: New International Reader’s Version Events January February March Watch for upcoming events Sunday mornings: Sunday mornings: Sunday mornings: here each week! 10:30 - 12:00 10:30 - 12:00 10:30 - 12:00 Clubhouse (age 3 - 5th grade) Clubhouse (age 3 - 5th grade) Clubhouse (age 3 - 5th grade)

1 2 1 Happy New Year! Super Bowl Sub Fundraiser Pinewood Derby 10 am No Wednesday Night groups 12 pm with snack shack fundraiser

8 26 Pinewood Derby prep begins Preregistration for Pinewood 7 pm (after lesson) Derby at 7 pm SCHOLARSHIPS available!

this week’s memory verse: Our family prayer requests:

You are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory.

Psalm 32:7 Our family praise reports: Part the Waters

Make the Red Sea in a baggie!

You will need a Ziploc baggie, hair gel, and blue food coloring.

Fill one quarter to half of the baggie with hair gel. Put the blue food coloring in the baggie, and then use clear packing tape to double seal the top of the baggie. Mix the hair gel and the food coloring together.

For the family... take care of the Israelites as they journeyed through the Then, help your child retell desert. What he found in his study were a few of these What an incredible group of God did in Egypt to the story of God parting the figures based on the number of people mentioned in make the Pharaoh release the Israelites! Just as we saw Red Sea by parting the goo Exodus 12:37-38, and that unless God was a earlier, Pharaoh was really good at not keeping his word. working God, they never would have made it out of the in the baggie. When he saw that they had lost all their workers when the desert! Israelites were freed, he decided they needed to follow and trap them again! He and his army chased after the You can even use a sharpie Israelites in their best chariots and the Israelites became Moses and the people were in the desert, but what was he to write “God is ALL very afraid when they saw him coming. They were going to do with them? They had to be fed, and feeding 2 powerful” on the baggie. trapped up against the Red Sea! to 3 million people requires a lot of food. The people needed 2,000 tons -- four million pounds -- of food each day. To bring that much food each day, would require Something we will learn from the Israelites over the next three freight trains each a mile long! In the desert they few weeks is that they have trouble trusting God and needed firewood to cook and keep warm. Each day this remembering what He has done for them. They said, “Was would take 4,000 tons -- eight million pounds -- of wood it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought and a few more freight trains, each a mile long. Of us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by course, they needed water. If they only had enough to bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, drink and wash a few dishes, it would take 11 million ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have courtesy of watermark.org gallons each day, and a freight train with tank cars 1,800 been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the miles long, just to bring water! And then another thing: desert!” They had to get across the Red Sea in one night.If they went on a narrow path, double file, the line would be 800 Moses trusted God, though and reassured the Israelites, miles long and would require 35 days and nights to get “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the through. So, there had to be an opening in the Red Sea, 3 WE WANT YOU! deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians miles long so that they could walk 5,000 abreast to get you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight over in one night. Each time they camped at the end of Send your clean riddle or joke to for you; you need only to be still.” the day, they needed a campground two-thirds the size of Pastor Erika, and it might appear right the State of Rhode Island, about 750 square miles. here in an upcoming Clubhouse Wire! Then, God told Moses to raise his staff and stretch his hand Send jokes to: over the water and when Moses obeyed, God split the Red Remember that these are not facts from the Bible, but just [email protected] Sea and made the very muddy ground become dry so the an idea of how much would be necessary to take care of Israelites could walk to safety. When Pharaoh and his that many people and livestock each day. Pretty army entered the sea, God closed up the waters and the impressive how big our God is, huh? Parents! entire army was gone in an instant. The Israelites had “LIKE” our facebook page at been saved by their mighty God! Know that I love you and Jesus loves you! Have a great facebook.com/wwfirstkids for up to week! -Pastor Erika the minute information about what’s One man, a former Quartermaster General in the Army, happening in First Kids! wanted to understand just what would it would take to