Helping people in trouble

WEEK: 9

Topic: Helping people in trouble

Objectives: At the end of this lesson, pupils should be able to

1 narrate the story of the widow of Zarephath.

2 identify reasons for helping people who are in trouble.

3 list the expected rewards for helping people who are in trouble.

4 identify moral lessons in helping others.

Guide to Bible passage (1Kings 17: 7-24)

CONTENT

The widow of Zarephath

Elijah was a prophet in Tishbe of Gilead. He was sent by God to a widow in Zarephath because there was a famine in the land of Israel. Elijah obeyed God, went to Zarephath, and met the widow gathering firewood. He asked her to give him water. As the woman was…