• Which images in the film made the most impression on you? Why?
  • How do you respond to the following images in the film:
  • The women's excitement at having a water pipe in their village?
  • The meeting of the Bank's Board of Directors?
  • The woman's explanation of the flower-picking trade?
• The Bible study for this week focuses on Exodus 1 and 2 – the birth of Moses into an exiled and oppressed people. Do other Bible passages come to your mind when you reflect on the situation of Dalit women?  Which ones?
  • Who are the outcast people in your local community?
  • What structures/ attitudes keep them oppressed?
  • Who is working in solidarity with them?
  • How are they working to liberate themselves?
  • What could you do to help?

Bible Study Discussion Questions

• Are there ways that we sacrifice the lives of others for the “gods” of our lives? 
  • The way Pharaoh was willing to throw the Hebrew babies into the river to pacify the River Goddess, Hapi.
  • What are these “gods” in our lives? 
• Are there places in our life where we didn’t see God’s plan and then God brought something miraculous out of something that seemed insignificant?
  • Are there places where we still don’t see God’s plan?
  • Where we are taking small steps of faith, with the expectation that God will use those steps?
• The Egyptians fear that they are being overrun by the Hebrews.  Are there parallels in our society?  Who are the people that we see as a threat to “our” way of life? 
  • Where do we see the Exodus story in our own lives?
  • What little ways are we acting to lessen oppression, either as oppressors or as those oppressed?
  • Are there ways that we can take a step of faith against oppression?  Knowing that God will go the rest of the way. 
• What does our imagination show is possible?