Our Bible story this week is about the spies entering the land of Canaan.  Only two of them brought 
back a favorable report.  The children will learn that it is possible to have courage even in difficult
circumstances when we have faith that God will be with us and that He will  help us.
  
 

 * God told Moses to send men to spy out the land of Canaan.  He told him to send a man from
    each tribe.  Twelve men were sent.  They were to find out about the land and the people in the
    land.  Moses said to find out if the people were strong or weak.  Did they live in cities or in camps?
    He wanted to know what the fruit of the land was like, and if they had forests or not.  He asked
    them to bring back some of the fruit that was ripe.

 * The men went into the land and found that it really was a good land.  The grapes were so big
    that it took two men to carry a cluster of them on a pole between them.  But the people there
    were very big and tall, and the spies were afraid of them.  They were gone for 40 days.

 * When they returned to their own camp, they showed Moses the good fruit they had found
    in the land.  Ten of the men began to tell about the giants and how fearful they were of them.
    They told of large cities with high walls around them.  "We cannot go into this land," they said.
    "We were just like grasshoppers in our own sight, and also in the sight of the people there."

 * Two men; Caleb and Joshua said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are
    able to overcome it."

 * The Israelites didn't want to go and take Canaan as God had wanted.  God punished them
    by making them wander in the desert for 40 years.  They had to wander around one year
    for every day the spies had been gone.

 * Of the twelve men, only Joshua and Caleb got to go into Canaan.

   This story of the Twelve Spies can be found in the Bible in the book of
    Numbers, chapters 13 and 14.
 

Recite  the Ten Commandments .