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**********************Children’s Ministry Meeting, January 29th @ 7 pm******************
Parents and Volunteers! You are invited and encouraged to attend what I hope will become an annual children's ministry planning meeting, January 29th @ 7pm. We will discuss goals and plans for big ticket items such as VBS, Church Camp, Fall Family Fun Fest, and Children in Action/Mission Friends AND smaller activities like movie nights, camp outs, and swim parties. We will review the different curriculum we use in each area of children's ministry and if there is a need for any changes. Also on the agenda will be a brief discussion of nursery policies and procedures. So, if you are a nursery parent, please come join us as well. This will be first on the agenda, so that you may feel free to stay or leave once the topic has been discussed. I will have our remaining Oak Crest Kids t-shirts available for purchase that evening as well! Please make plans to attend! We'll be in the fellowship hall :) If you are a volunteer in Sunday School, Mission Friends, CiA, or Kid's Choir...please let me know if you are unable to attend. Your feedback is essential, and I'd like to talk to you before the meeting. KID’S CHOIR, Wednesdays @ 7pm This week we will be singing hymns and praise and worship songs. CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS, Sunday’s @ 6 pm January’s missionaries are SERVING IN ATLANTA! January’s bible story can be found in Mark 12:41-44. We are learning about The Dye Family, church planting missionaries, and the North Family who work with a ministry call Communicycle. This week, we will learn that showing responsibility involves patience and building relationships. SUNDAY SCHOOL For 2/1/15 Over the next five weeks, kids will be learning five parables that Jesus taught about God’s kingdom. The religious leaders who listened to and watched Jesus had some problems with the things He said and did. He taught about a righteousness that comes by faith rather than works, and He was friends with tax collectors and sinners. So Jesus told a parable to make clear that entering God’s kingdom was not a matter of merit but of grace. The parable of the vineyard workers is about a landowner who hired workers to work in his vineyard. The first group agreed to work for a denarius, a fair wage for a day’s work. Throughout the day, the landowner hired more groups of workers. At the end of the day, the landowner paid every worker one denarius. The workers who had put in 12 hours did not think it was fair that those who worked just 1 hour were paid the same. In Jesus’ parable, the second, third, fourth, and fifth groups of workers represent people who are not a part of the nation of Israel. The Israelites had been following God for generations. They faced trials, paralleling the men who worked through the heat of the day. God promised blessings to Abraham’s family, Israel. (See Gen. 12:2-3.) God kept His promise, yet He also poured out blessings on tax collectors, sinners, Gentiles. Like the landowner and his wealth, God is free to share His grace as He desires. Jesus gave salvation to the criminal who was crucified next to Him and to Saul, who persecuted believers. Does God act fairly in saving people who have not followed Him their entire lives? The reward—eternal life—is God’s grace to those who believe, whether they believe at the first or at the last. God does not owe us anything, yet He pours out blessings on us. He makes salvation possible for us, regardless of our abilities or efforts. The last will be first, and the first last. Jesus’ parable teaches about God’s grace. God is generous, and He loves us. We deserve to die for our sins, but God gives us what we don’t deserve—salvation through His Son, Jesus. Session Title: The Parable of the Vineyard Bible Passage: Matthew 20:1-16 Big Picture Question: What does God give us? Big Picture Answer: God gives good gifts. Key Passage/Memory Verse: Matthew 13:11 (ESV) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus taught in parables so His followers would understand how to live in anticipation of His second coming. In Christ, Stephenie
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**********************Children’s Ministry Meeting, January 29th @ 7 pm******************
Parents and Volunteers! You are invited and encouraged to attend what I hope will become an annual children's ministry planning meeting, January 29th @ 7pm. We will discuss goals and plans for big ticket items such as VBS, Church Camp, Fall Family Fun Fest, and Children in Action/Mission Friends AND smaller activities like movie nights, camp outs, and swim parties. We will review the different curriculum we use in each area of children's ministry and if there is a need for any changes. Also on the agenda will be a brief discussion of nursery policies and procedures. So, if you are a nursery parent, please come join us as well. This will be first on the agenda, so that you may feel free to stay or leave once the topic has been discussed. I will have our remaining Oak Crest Kids t-shirts available for purchase that evening as well! Please make plans to attend! We'll be in the fellowship hall :) If you are a volunteer in Sunday School, Mission Friends, CIA, or Kid's Choir...please let me know if you are unable to attend. Your feedback is essential, and I'd like to talk to you before the meeting. KID’S CHOIR, Wednesdays @ 7pm This week we will be singing hymns and praise and worship songs. CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS, Sunday’s @ 6 pm January’s missionaries are SERVING IN ATLANTA! January’s bible story can be found in Mark 12:41-44. We are learning about The Dye Family, church planting missionaries, and the North Family who work with a ministry call Communicycle. This week, we will learn that showing responsibility involves patience and building relationships. SUNDAY SCHOOL For 2/1/15 Over the next five weeks, kids will be learning five parables that Jesus taught about God’s kingdom. The religious leaders who listened to and watched Jesus had some problems with the things He said and did. He taught about a righteousness that comes by faith rather than works, and He was friends with tax collectors and sinners. So Jesus told a parable to make clear that entering God’s kingdom was not a matter of merit but of grace. The parable of the vineyard workers is about a landowner who hired workers to work in his vineyard. The first group agreed to work for a denarius, a fair wage for a day’s work. Throughout the day, the landowner hired more groups of workers. At the end of the day, the landowner paid every worker one denarius. The workers who had put in 12 hours did not think it was fair that those who worked just 1 hour were paid the same. In Jesus’ parable, the second, third, fourth, and fifth groups of workers represent people who are not a part of the nation of Israel. The Israelites had been following God for generations. They faced trials, paralleling the men who worked through the heat of the day. God promised blessings to Abraham’s family, Israel. (See Gen. 12:2-3.) God kept His promise, yet He also poured out blessings on tax collectors, sinners, Gentiles. Like the landowner and his wealth, God is free to share His grace as He desires. Jesus gave salvation to the criminal who was crucified next to Him and to Saul, who persecuted believers. Does God act fairly in saving people who have not followed Him their entire lives? The reward—eternal life—is God’s grace to those who believe, whether they believe at the first or at the last. God does not owe us anything, yet He pours out blessings on us. He makes salvation possible for us, regardless of our abilities or efforts. The last will be first, and the first last. Jesus’ parable teaches about God’s grace. God is generous, and He loves us. We deserve to die for our sins, but God gives us what we don’t deserve—salvation through His Son, Jesus. Session Title: The Parable of the Vineyard Bible Passage: Matthew 20:1-16 Big Picture Question: What does God give us? Big Picture Answer: God gives good gifts. Key Passage/Memory Verse: Matthew 13:11 (ESV) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus taught in parables so His followers would understand how to live in anticipation of His second coming. In Christ, Stephenie **********************Children’s Ministry Meeting, January 29th @ 7 pm******************
KID’S CHOIR, Wednesdays @ 7pm This week we will be singing hymns and praise and worship songs. Next week, we will begin looking at our Easter music! CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS, Sunday’s @ 6 pm January’s missionaries are SERVING IN ATLANTA! January’s bible story can be found in Mark 12:41-44. We are learning about The Dye Family, church planting missionaries, and the North Family who work with a ministry call Communicycle. This week, we will learn that showing responsibility involves patience and building relationships. SUNDAY SCHOOL For 1/18/14 Jesus Has Power Over Evil Jesus displayed His power over evil. In the midst of His public ministry, the Jewish religious leaders began plotting to kill Jesus. (See Mark 3:6.) So one day, Jesus went to a land on the east side of the Sea of Galilee, where Gentiles lived. In that land was a man who needed help. (Note: The Gospel of Matthew describes two men.) An evil spirit was inside the man, and he suffered greatly. The people had tried to control the man by tying him up with chains, but the man broke free. So he lived alone in the tombs, crying out day and night. When Jesus stepped ashore, the man ran to Him and kneeled down. Jesus commanded the evil spirit to come out of the man, and the evil spirit spoke: “What do You have to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God, don’t torment me!” (Mark 5:7). Many evil spirits were in the man, and Jesus gave the evil spirits permission to go into a herd of pigs. They did, and the man was healed. The healed man wanted to follow Jesus, but Jesus told the man to go home to his own people and tell what the Lord had done for him. The man obeyed Jesus. He testified to the cities in that area about the Lord’s mercy, and the Gentile people were amazed. In His teaching, Jesus said, “If I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you” (Matt. 12:28). Jesus—as well as the Bible—is clear that Satan exists, and he and the demons work against God and His purposes. Jesus has power over evil. Only Jesus had the strength to control the man with the evil spirits. Jesus used His power to free the man. He has power over everything. Jesus came to earth to destroy the Devil by dying on the cross. One day, Jesus will end evil forever. Bible Passage: Matthew 8:28-34, Mark 5:1-20, Luke 8:26-39 Big Picture Question: Who is most powerful? Big Picture Answer: Jesus is more powerful than everyone. Key Passage/Memory Verse: John 11:25 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus demonstrated His power over the brokenness of the world caused by the fall. In Christ, Stephenie Hello Oak Crest!
I want to share something exciting with you! This past Sunday, we had 16 kids in Mission Friends and Children in Action! SIXTEEN!!! And that didn’t even include many of our regular attendees! We had 6 visitors! Each one of those kids went home thinking about ways to give an offering to God, both monetarily and in other ways! We studied in Mark about the widow who gave two coins, and how she gave more than all of the wealthy people who gave much but out of their surplus. God is moving and working and doing GREAT BIG THINGS with our children’s ministry! Woohoo! We are back to our regular schedule this week! It’s a great time to get involved if your kiddos have not previously attended! CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS, Sundays @ 6:00 KID’S CHOIR, Wednesdays @ 7 (We will be singing hymns and praise and worship songs…in the next few weeks, we will begin working on music for Easter.) In Christ, Stephenie |
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