Object: Card stock printed with Judges 6:15 on one side and Judges 6:16a on the other

Have you ever heard the story of Gideon? We find it in the book of Judges, in the Old Testament. At that time in history, the people of Israel were being attacked by the people of Midian. The Midianites would come in and kill the Israelites’ animals, steal their food, and burn their crops.

One day a man named Gideon was threshing his wheat. In Bible times, a farmer would toss the wheat plants in the air, letting the wind blow away the parts that couldn’t be eaten and letting the edible parts fall to the ground. The problem is that the Midianites would attack anyone they saw threshing wheat, so Gideon came up with a plan. He hid in a wine press, which was a deep hole in the ground used for pressing the j…