Character Studies: Shiphrah, Puah, and Miriam

These women were….

Protectors
Brave
Rescuers
Defying authorities to protect others
Leaders
A prophet
Family of Moses
Not always right
Close to God

Scripture

Zoom Group Activity Ideas

Images: water and basket – pray over something that you care deeply about, but can give to God to trust Him to care for

Images: chains – label chain links with words of things that bind us in a fallen world; show that God can break all of these chains to give us freedom

Sharing: a favorite basket

Sharescreen: list different events that happened and move them to the correct person

Sharescreen: work as a group to fill in a crossword

Sharescreen: character study

More Reading:

Acts 7:20-22
Hebrews 11:1, 6, 23
Exodus 15
Ezekiel 36:26. “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.“

How were Moses’ parents able to hide him?

How did Moses’ mother’s actions blend faith and careful planning?

How did God bless her courageous faith?

Tell of a time when you careful planned but also trusted God with the outcome.

List ways God arranged for Moses’ safety and adoption by Pharoah’s daughter

What advantages have you experienced because of the family or families in which God placed you as a child? How will you thank God for these things/

How do the circumstances of Moses’ birth and childhood encourage you to trust God?

(from BSF Exodus)