What’s coming up? Mark your calendars!

October 4: Visit to the Midlothian Nursing Home, 5 pm

October 24: Oak Crest Kids to Mainstay Farm

October 31: Family Fun Fest, 6-8pm

MAINSTAY FARM
Mark your calendars! We’ll be going to Mainstay Farm on October 24th…time TBD.  Children 8 and up may attend without a parent.  Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.  

FAMILY FUN FEST
Make plans NOW to bring your family to our Oak Crest Family Fun Fest on October 31, from 6-8 pm!  We will have the same fun activities as last year, including 2 inflatable bounce houses, Creepy Critters petting zoo, hay rides, yummy food and many different games!

CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS
We are so excited about the great turnout we had for our first night of Mission Friends and Children in Action!  A big thank you to Tonja Adams, Paul Cheek, Courtney Steele and Connie Bowers for all of their help each Sunday evening!  Come join us Sundays @ 6pm! Children in Action is for children in 1st-5th grade.  Mission Friends is for children 3 years through Kindergarten. Childcare will be provided for children 2 and under.

This month in CiA/MF…

Serving in: San Diego

Missionary Family: The Aylett’s

Biblical Focus: Faith

Memory Verse: “ Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. “ Hebrews 11:1
 
Don’t forget: Movie for a Good Cause, 9/26 @ 7pm
Bring a friend and non-perishable food items!
 
KIDS’ CHOIR
 WOOHOO!  Kid’s choir will be each Wednesday night during the 7pm service. We will be focusing on the “Hymn of the Month” and Christmas music.  This year, we will not be doing a Children’s Christmas Cantata, but we will be learning three different Christmas songs.  One will be performed with the Adult Choir during the adult Christmas cantatas (evenings of December 12th and 13th),  and the other 2 will be performed during the morning service on December 13th.

MAINSTAY FARM
Mark your calendar! We’ll be going to Mainstay Farm on October 24th…time TBD.  Children 8 and up may attend without a parent.  Children under 8, must be accompanied by an adult.  Children’s ministry will purchase each member child’s ticket, 3 yrs-5th grade.

Please reserve your child’s ticket by October 14th.

What’s coming up? Mark your calendars!

September 16: Kids’ Choir Kickoff (Wednesdays @ 7pm)

September 26: Movie for a Good Cause @ 7pm

October 4: Visit to the Midlothian Nursing Home

October 24: Oak Crest Kids to Mainstay Farm

October 31: Family Fun Fest, 6-8pm

MAINSTAY FARM
Mark your calendars! We’ll be going to Mainstay Farm on October 24th…time TBD.  Children 8 and up may attend without a parent.  Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. 

FAMILY FUN FEST
Make plans NOW to bring your family to our Oak Crest Family Fun Fest on October 31, from 6-8 pm!  We will have the same fun activities as last year, including 2 inflatable bounce houses, Creepy Critters petting zoo, hay rides, yummy food and many different games!

CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS
We are so excited about the great turnout we had for our first night of Mission Friends and Children in Action!  A big thank you to Tonja Adams, Paul Cheek, Courtney Steele and Connie Bowers for all of their help each Sunday evening!  Come join us Sundays @ 6pm! Children in Action is for children in 1st-5th grade.  Mission Friends is for children 3 years through Kindergarten.  Childcare will be provided for children 2 and under.

This month in CiA/MF…

Serving in: San Diego

Missionary Family: The Aylett’s

Biblical Focus: Faith

Memory Verse: “ Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. “ Hebrews 11:1
 
Don’t forget: Movie for a Good Cause, 9/26 @ 7pm
Bring a friend and non-perishable food items!
 
KIDS’ CHOIR
 WOOHOO!  Kid’s choir will be each Wednesday night during the 7pm service. We will be focusing on the “Hymn of the Month” and Christmas music.  This year, we will not be doing a Children’s Christmas Cantata, but we will be learning three different Christmas songs.  One will be performed with the Adult Choir during the adult Christmas cantatas (evenings of December 12th and 13th),  and the other 2 will be performed during the morning service on December 13th.

MAINSTAY FARM
Mark your calendar! We’ll be going to Mainstay Farm on October 24th…time TBD.  Children 8 and up may attend without a parent.  Children under 8, must be accompanied by an adult.  Children’s ministry will purchase each member child’s ticket, 3 yrs-5th grade.

Please reserve your child’s ticket by October 14th.
 
SUNDAY SCHOOL

Unit Title: God the Creator

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 8:6

Session Title: Cain and Abel

Main Point: God punished Cain for his sin.

Bible Passage: Genesis 4:1-16,25-26

Big Picture Question: What is sin? Sin is breaking God’s law.

Christ Connection: God had promised that someone from Eve’s family would take away sin. Cain
was not that person. He was sinful like Adam and Eve. So people waited for God to keep His
promise. At just the right time, God would send His Son, Jesus, to rescue sinners.

This week’s Bible story shows how deeply sin infected Adam and Eve’s children. Imagine Adam and Eve’s joy as their family grew. With each birth, maybe Eve hoped that this son would be the one to end the curse of sin, to crush the head of the snake. (Gen. 3:15) But as her sons Cain and Abel grew up, she and Adam probably witnessed with grief how sin affects their own children. Cain was not the Promised One, and neither was Abel. Out of jealousy and anger, Cain killed Abel. God punished Cain by sending him away to wander the earth.

Some time later, Eve gave birth to another son. She named this baby Seth. Seth was not the Promised One either, but Jesus would come from Seth’s descendants. (See Luke 3:23-38.) Every baby was born a sinner—like his parents and like Adam and Eve. At just the right time, God would send His Son to be born to save sinners. (Heb. 11:13; Gal. 4:4) God always keeps His promises.

Family starting points

Preschool

●        Why did God create the world? God created the world for His glory.

●        What is sin? Sin is breaking God’s law.

●        God punished Cain for his sin.

Kids


●        Why did God create the world? God created the world and everything in it for His glory.

●        What is sin? Sin is breaking God’s law, and sin separates people from God.

●        Cain’s sin separated him from God and people.
 
Check out the Gospel Project for Kids Family App or the Big Picture Cards for Families for ways to interact with the Bible content each week.

 In Christ,

Stephenie

What’s coming up? Mark your calendars!

September 16: Kids’ Choir Kickoff (Wednesdays @ 7pm)

September 26: Movie for a Good Cause @ 7pm

October 4: Visit to the Midlothian Nursing Home

October 24: Oak Crest Kids to Mainstay Farm

October 31: Family Fun Fest, 6-8pm

 KIDS’ CHOIR STARTS TONIGHT, SEPTEMBER 16th!

MAINSTAY FARM
Mark your calendars! We’ll be going to Mainstay Farm on October 24th…time TBD.  Children 8 and up may attend without a parent.  Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. 
 
CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS
We are so excited about the great turnout we had for our first night of Mission Friends and Children in Action!  A big thank you to Tonja Adams, Paul Cheek, Courtney Steele and Connie Bowers for all of their help each Sunday evening!  Come join us Sundays @ 6pm! Children in Action is for children in 1st-5th grade.  Mission Friends is for children 3 years through Kindergarten.  Childcare will be provided for children 2 and under.

This month in CiA/MF…

Serving in: San Diego

Missionary Family: The Aylett’s

Biblical Focus: Faith

Memory Verse: “ Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. “ Hebrews 11:1

 Don’t forget: Movie for a Good Cause, 9/26 @ 7pm

Bring a friend and non-perishable food items!

KIDS’ CHOIR
Kid’s choir resumes TONIGHT!  WOOHOO!  Kid’s choir will be each Wednesday night during the 7pm service. We will be focusing on the “Hymn of the Month” and Christmas music.  This year, we will not be doing a Children’s Christmas Cantata, but we will be learning three different Christmas songs.  One will be performed with the Adult Choir during the adult Christmas cantatas (evenings of December 12th and 13th),  and the other 2 will be performed during the morning service on December 13th.

MAINSTAY FARM
Mark your calendar! We’ll be going to Mainstay Farm on October 24th…time TBD.  Children 8 and up may attend without a parent.  Children under 8, must be accompanied by an adult.  Children’s ministry will purchase each member child’s ticket, 3 yrs-5th grade.

SUNDAY SCHOOL
This week’s Bible story takes us back to the garden of Eden.  Before the fall, Adam and Eve enjoyed a loving, two-way relationship with God. The garden was a true paradise. God filled the garden with good gifts so that they might enjoy them and give thanks to God. The Lord gave them only one restriction: “You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” and the punishment was severe: “You will certainly die” (Gen. 2:17).
 
Adam and Eve believed the serpent’s lie, and they sinned. Because of their sin, God cast them out of the garden. Though they did not die right away, sin’s effect was immediate and thorough. Their lives and their children’s lives—and the lives of all of mankind—would be forever affected by their choice. As your kids become increasingly aware of the bad news—that we are all sinners from birth—rejoice with them over the good news: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15).

Family starting points

Preschool

Kids

●      Why did God create the world? God created the world for His glory.

●      What is sin? Sin is breaking God’s law.

●      Adam and Eve sinned.

●      Why did God create the world? God created the world and everything in it for His glory.

●      What is sin? Sin is breaking God’s law, and sin separates people from God.

●      Adam and Eve’s sin separated them from God.
 

Check out the Gospel Project for Kids Family App or the Big Picture Cards for Families for ways to interact with the Bible content each week.

In Christ,

Stephenie

What’s coming up? Mark your calendars!

September 13: Children in Action Kickoff (Sundays @ 6pm)

September 16: Kids’ Choir Kickoff (Wednesdays @ 7pm)

NO WEDNESDAY NIGHT CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES TONIGHT. KIDS’ CHOIR STARTS NEXT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH!

CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS
Woohoo!!! It’s finally time for CiA and MF to begin! We will be much more active this year…working on earning our badges and doing more outreach projects!  Come join us Sundays @ 6pm! Children in Action is for children in 1st-5th grade.  Mission Friends is for children 3 years through Kindergarten.  Childcare will be provided for children 2 and under.

See you on September 13th @ 6pm!

KIDS’ CHOIR
Kid’s choir will resume on September 16th!  Kid’s choir will be each Wednesday night during the 7pm service. We will be focusing on the “Hymn of the Month” and Christmas music.  This year, we will not be doing a Children’s Christmas Cantata, but we will be learning three different Christmas songs.  One will be performed with the Adult Choir during the adult Christmas cantatas (evenings of December 12th and 13th),  and the other 2 will be performed during the morning service on December 13th.


SUNDAY SCHOOL

Unit Title: God the Creator

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 8:6

Session Title: God Created the World

Main Point: God created everything.

Bible Passage: Genesis 1:1-25

Big Picture Question: Why did God create the world? God created the world for His glory.

Christ Connection: Jesus is Lord over everything. Everything was created by Him and for Him.

Jesus holds everything together. (Colossians 1:16-17)

This week began a three-year chronological study of Scripture. Every story in the Bible is a small piece of a much bigger story—God’s redemptive story. Sin would enter the world and affect everything, but God already had a plan to show His grace to people through His Son (2 Tim. 1:9). The Bible says that God began His plan to rescue people from sin before He even created the world! (Eph. 1:4-6)

In today’s Bible story, children learned that God created the world out of nothing. Every wonderful and beautiful thing God created, He spoke into existence. God created the world and everything in it for His glory. Jesus was present at creation, and all things were created through Him and for Him. (Col. 1:16-17)

Family starting points

Preschool

Kids

●        Why did God create the world? God created the world for His glory.

●        God created everything.

●        Why did God create the world? God created the world and everything in it for His glory.

●        God created everything for His glory.

Check out the Gospel Project for Kids Family App or the Big Picture Cards for Families for more ways to interact with the Bible content each week.

In Christ,

Stephenie

What’s coming up? Mark your calendars!

September 3: Children’s Team Meeting, 7pm

September 13: Children in Action Kickoff (Sundays @ 6pm)

September 16: Kids’ Choir Kickoff (Wednesdays @ 7pm)

NO WEDNESDAY NIGHT CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES TONIGHT OR NEXT WEDNESDAY, SEPT 9th.

ADOPT-A-GRANDPARENT

As summer comes to a close and some of our students have already gone back to school, over the next few weeks, I encourage all families to continue visiting their “adopted grandparents” on your own time, for at least 15 minutes a week.  Look for an e-mail surveying parents on how we want to continue serving at the nursing home during the school year.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27

CHILDREN IN ACTION/MISSION FRIENDS

Children in Action and Mission Friends will resume on September 13th!  We will return to our school year schedule, holding CiA and MF on Sunday evenings at 6pm.  Children in Action is for children in 1st-5th grade.  Mission Friends is for children 3 years through Kindergarten.  Childcare will be provided for children 2 and under.

KIDS’ CHOIR

Kid’s choir will resume on September 16th!  Kid’s choir will be each Wednesday night during the 7pm service. We will be focusing on the “Hymn of the Month” and Christmas music.  This year, we will not be doing a Children’s Christmas Cantata, but we will be learning three different Christmas songs.  One will be performed with the Adult Choir during the adult Christmas cantatas (evenings of December 12th and 13th),  and the other 2 will be performed during the morning service on December 13th.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Unit Title: God’s Plan for the Church Is Fulfilled

Key Passage: Revelation 22:12-13

 
In Christ,

Stephenie