BX Lesson 3 Broughton

Had a great time at Broughton doing lesson 3 of Bible Explorer.  The children were delighted to see me again and couldn't wait for me to get started.  After running through a few parts of the story from last week and talking about the number of books that we have covered so far we recapped the hand signs and started.  Today it was the story of Joshua and the fall of Jericho, then the dividing up of the land as the Israelites conquered it before settling in and going into their 12 tribes.  We moved into the period of the judges which lasted 400 years.  We don't tell the whole of the judges story as it would take too long so we focus on just three, Deborah, Gideon and Samson.  Our final story is that of Ruth which is one of my favourite books in the Bible as it can teach us so much about Christian love - even though it is in the Old Testament.  There was the usual awe as I ended as the children wanted more.  As I left the children started to work in their work books.