Looking ahead…Mark your calendars!
 
October 31:      Family Fun Fest, 6-8pm
November 20:  Thanksgiving Meal and Service, 6pm
November 23:   No Kids’ Choir
December 11:   Kids’ Choir Christmas program during morning service
December 18:   Oak Crest Kids’ Christmas Party
 
TeamKID, Sundays @ 6pm
Bible Story: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well
Memory verse: Acts 4:12 (ESV)
Application: Jesus knows everything about us.
 
Kids' Choir, Wednesdays @ 7pm
 (Note that our Christmas performance will be December 11th during the a.m. service
 Hymn of the month: 
Count Your Blessings
Songs of focus:
Victory Chant
Days of Elijah
Exploring Christmas music
 
THE GOSPEL PROJECT FOR KIDS, Sundays @ 9:30am
 
Unit Description: Israel and Judah, governed predominantly by evil kings, continued to disobey God. God sent prophets like Elijah and Isaiah to reveal His power, love, and faithfulness to His people. God reminded them of His plan to send a Rescuer, Jesus, to take away their sin.
Key Passage: Hebrews 1:1-2
Big Picture Question: How many gods are there? There is one true God who alone deserves worship.
Bible Story: God Called Isaiah
Bible Passage: Isaiah 6
Main Point: Isaiah saw the holy God in His glory.
  
King Uzziah’s death marked the end of an era. His reign had been long and prosperous. Uzziah became king when he was 16, and he reigned over Judah for 52 years. Uzziah had listened to the prophet Zechariah; he feared God, and God made him prosper. But Uzziah’s pride got the best of him. (See 2 Chron. 26:16.) God struck Uzziah with leprosy. Then Uzziah died. Under Uzziah’s leadership, God’s people had turned away from the promises of God and trusted in the promises of the world around them. God had promised to bless the entire world through Abraham’s family, but God’s people were rebellious. Instead of blessing, they set themselves up to receive God’s judgment.

But God’s plans and promises were not thwarted. God sent the prophet Isaiah to preach a message of hope. Even though God was going to correct His people through judgment, His purpose was one of grace through which God would receive glory. God planned to send a Messiah who would bring salvation to the world. Isaiah 6 opens with Isaiah worshiping in the temple. Then God gave Isaiah a vision. Isaiah saw God sitting on a throne. Yes, in the year that King Uzziah died, God was sitting on the throne. God was reigning over the universe. The magnitude of God’s holiness made Isaiah realize the magnitude of his own sin. His response? “Woe is me!” God extended His grace to Isaiah. He took away Isaiah’s guilt. God passed over Isaiah’s sins because He was going to send Jesus to pay for them. Isaiah had a vision of God’s glory and realized his own sin.

God forgave Isaiah’s sin. Like Isaiah, when we see how holy God is, we see how sinful we are. God sent His Son, Jesus, to pay for our sin. We can find salvation only in Him. Help your kids understand that God is perfectly holy—He is pure and without sin and He is unique from anything and everyone else. God is also loving and full of mercy and grace. God sent Jesus to die on the cross to pay for the sins—past, present, and future—of those who would trust in Him. When we trust in Jesus, God says to us the words Isaiah heard: “Your guilt is taken away. Your sin is atoned for.”
 Check this session’s Activity Page and Big Picture Card as well as the Gospel Project for Kids Family App for ways to interact with the Bible content this week.
 
 FAMILY STARTING POINTS
● Babies and Toddlers ○ There is one true God. ○ Isaiah saw God the King on His throne. ○ God called Isaiah to be a prophet. ○ Jesus showed people God’s glory.
● Preschool ○ How many gods are there? There is one true God. ○ Isaiah saw the holy God.
● Kids ○ How many gods are there? There is one true God who alone deserves worship. ○ Isaiah saw the holy God in His glory.
 
UNIT KEY PASSAGE ● Hebrews 1:1­2
 
NEXT WEEK ● “Isaiah Preached About the Messiah” (​Isaiah 53)
  
In Christ,
Stephenie

​Hello parents! 
Don't forget that we will be having TeamKID on Sunday evenings at 6 PM for ages 3 years through 5th grade in the fellowship hall. Kids choir is on Wednesday nights at 7 PM for 1st grade through 5th grade. Three years through Kinder have their music class in the children's wing at 7 PM on Wednesdays. As always, nursery is provided for children 2 and under on both Sunday and Wednesday evenings.

This week in TeamKID:
Bible Story: Pharaoh’s daughter rescued Moses from the NIle
Memory verse: Exodus (20:12)
Application: God expects us to be respectful to our parents.
This week in Kids' Choir:
 (Note that our Christmas performance will be December 11th during the a.m. service
 
Hymn of the month: 
Count Your Blessings
Songs of focus:
Victory Chant
Days of Elijah
Exploring Christmas music

This week in The Gospel Project:
Unit Description:
Israel and Judah, governed predominantly by evil kings, continued to disobey God. God sent prophets like Elijah and Isaiah to reveal His power, love, and faithfulness to His people. God reminded them of His plan to send a Rescuer, Jesus, to take away their sin.
Key Passage: Hebrews 1:1-2
Big Picture Question:
How many gods are there? There is one true God who alone deserves worship. 
Bible Story: Elisha and Naaman 
Bible Passage: 2 Kings 5 
Main Point: God healed Naaman’s skin disease.
Everyone gets sick at some point in his or her lifetime … often many times! Illness is probably no stranger to your kids. In today’s Bible story, Naaman—a commander for the Syrian army—was really sick. He had leprosy, a skin disease that was likely disfiguring and isolating. Without a cure, Naaman would face great suffering. But help came from an unlikely source: a young slave girl. The people of Israel and Syria were often at odds with one another. The Syrians sometimes attacked the cities in Israel and plundered them. They took what they wanted, including people to work as slaves. The young slave girl who served Naaman’s wife had been taken from her home in Israel. As an Israelite, the girl knew about the one true God. She was familiar with God’s prophets, including Elisha, who had performed miracles to help and heal people. The girl told her mistress that Elisha the prophet could heal Naaman. So the king of Syria sent a letter to the king of Israel, asking him to cure Naaman of his leprosy. But the king of Israel had no power to heal Naaman. The power to heal comes only from God. Elisha called for Naaman. But what happened next was not at all what Naaman expected. Naaman expected Elisha to call upon the name of God, wave his hand over Naaman, and miraculously heal him. Instead, Elisha instructed Naaman to go wash in the river. Naaman was upset! He could have washed in a river back home! But Naaman’s servants urged him to wash. He did, and God healed him. Naaman was sick with a skin problem. His disease went away when he trusted God’s instruction from Elisha and washed in the river. All people have a sin problem that leads to death. We all need a Healer. When we trust Jesus as Lord and Savior, God forgives our sin and heals us. Help your kids understand that not all sick people will be healed on this side of heaven, but our physical maladies are symptoms of an even greater illness—sin. Jesus’ death and resurrection provided healing—forgiveness and eternal life—for those who trust in Him. Check this session’s Activity Page and Big Picture Card as well as the Gospel Project for Kids Family App for ways to interact with the Bible content this week.
 
FAMILY STARTING POINTS
 ● Babies and Toddlers 
○ There is one true God. 
○ Naaman obeyed God. 
○ There is no one like God. 
○ Jesus heals people who are sick. 
● Preschool 
○ How many gods are there? There is one true God. 
○ God healed Naaman. 
● Kids 
○ How many gods are there? There is one true God who alone deserves worship. 
○ God healed Naaman’s skin disease. 
UNIT KEY PASSAGE 
● Hebrews 1:1¬2 
NEXT WEEK 
● “God Called Isaiah” (Isaiah 6)

In Christ,

Stephenie

​Hello parents! 
Our first TeamKID and Kids' Choir meetings of the fall went great! I am so excited to see what God does in these kids this fall! Don't forget that we will be having TeamKID on Sunday evenings at 6 PM for ages 3 years through 5th grade in the fellowship hall. Kids choir is on Wednesday nights at 7 PM for 1st grade through 5th grade. Three years through Kinder have their music class in the children's wing at 7 PM on Wednesdays. As always, nursery is provided for children 2 and under on both Sunday and Wednesday evenings.
This week in TeamKID:
Bible Story: Jesus Chose his Apostles, Luke 5
Memory verse: Proverbs 22:1 (ESV)
Application: God expects us to make good choices in friends as well. 
This week in Kids' Choir:
 Hymn of the month: 
Count Your Blessings
Songs of focus:
Victory Chant
Days of Elijah
This week in The Gospel Project:


Unit Description:
Israel and Judah, governed predominantly by evil kings, continued to disobey God. God sent prophets like Elijah and Isaiah to reveal His power, love, and faithfulness to His people. God reminded them of His plan to send a Rescuer, Jesus, to take away their sin.
Key Passage:
Hebrews 1:1-2
Big Picture Question:
How many gods are there? There is one true God who alone deserves worship. 


Bible Story: 


Elijah Ran from Jezebel
Bible Passage:
1 Kings 19
Main Point:
God revealed Himself to Elijah in a whisper. 
The prophet Elijah had just witnessed God’s great display of power over the false god Baal. God had sent fire from heaven and then ended a long drought with a great rain. Elijah must have felt a sense of victory; the evil King Ahab could not deny the one true God. But trouble awaited Elijah in the form of Ahab’s wife, Jezebel.
When Jezebel heard what happened at Mount Carmel, she threatened to kill Elijah. Elijah ran away and hid in the wilderness. What a change Elijah experienced! He went from a man faithfully and confidently praying for God’s glory to be displayed at Mount Carmel to a man begging the Lord to take away his life. (See 1 Kings 19:4.)
God was merciful to Elijah. An angel of the Lord brought Elijah food and drink while he rested. Then Elijah traveled to Horeb for a personal encounter with God. Horeb—another name for Mount Sinai—was a familiar place in the history of Israel. It was the place where God gave the Ten Commandments to the Israelites and where Moses met with God.
After the events in 1 Kings 18, Elijah might have expected a grand display of God’s presence, but what he experienced was just the opposite. The Lord was not in the wind. The Lord was not in the earthquake. The Lord was not in the fire. God revealed Himself to Elijah in a voice, a soft whisper.
Elijah’s circumstances were difficult, but God didn’t leave him. God gave him Elisha, a friend and successor. God assured Elijah that he was not alone; there were 7,000 people in Israel who had not turned to worship Baal.
As a prophet of God, Elijah faced enemies who wanted to hurt him. Elijah’s life points forward to Jesus, the greatest Prophet, who was hated and killed for sharing and teaching God’s Word.
Help your kids understand that God’s prophets suffered, but their lives and messages pointed forward to the ultimate prophet, priest, and king—Jesus Christ—who suffered for the sins of the world. Jesus was hated and killed, but His death and resurrection brought victory for God’s people.
Check this session’s Activity Page and Big Picture Card as well as the Gospel Project for Kids Family App for ways to interact with the Bible content this week.
FAMILY STARTING POINTS

• ●  Babies and Toddlers
  
  • ○  There is one true God.
    
  • ○  God spoke to Elijah in a small whisper.
    
  • ○  Nothing can stop God’s plan.
    
  • ○  Jesus is with us when we are afraid.
    
• ●  Preschool
  
  • ○  How many gods are there? There is one true God.
    
  • ○  God encouraged Elijah.
    
• ●  Kids
  
  • ○  How many gods are there? There is one true God who alone deserves worship.
    
  • ○  God revealed Himself to Elijah in a whisper. UNIT KEY PASSAGE
    

● Hebrews 1:1­2
NEXT WEEK
● “Elisha and Naaman” ( 2 Kings 5) 
In Christ,
Stephenie