SpringTown & Treehouse (Preschool)

Need to Know: I Worship God When I Sing to Him! Bible Story:  Sing to God, Psalms 8:3, 23:1, 24:1, 68:32 Memory Verse: Jesus, let what I think, say and do show that I love you.—Adapted from Psalm 19:14 Motions:  Jesus, let what I think (point to head) say (point to mouth) and do (move arms in running motion) show that I love (cross arms over chest) you (point to God).

Review Singing is one way we can worship God! Remember, that when we worship, we show God that we love Him. Today we talked about all the times and places we can sing to God: at church & at home, in the car, while playing outside, with our friends and in bed. David told us in the Psalms we read that we should sing to God with all our heart. That means we should really mean what we say when we are singing. 

This week Sally Singer was super excited to be singing for some famous people coming to watch their show. Didi Drummer shared a show-stopping story with her about David, who loved to worship God by singing. David enjoyed singing & playing instruments, but his most favorite person to sing to was God. After hearing about who David loved singing to, Sally became excited to sing for God instead of all the important people coming to the show.

This Week At Home Download a playlist for your preschooler(s), and ROCK OUT to some cool worship tunes everywhere you go this week! Suggested resources: HERE and HERE.  Other great artists such as Yancy and Vineyard UK are available on iTunes

ImagiNation, Jump Street & Shockwave (Elementary School)

Need to Know:  I Worship God When I Sing to Him Bible Story:  Mary’s Song, Luke 1:26-55 (K-3 & 4th-5th Girls), Song of Moses, Exodus 14-15:21 (4th-5th Boys) Memory Verse: “Shout to the Lord with joy, everyone on earth! Worship the Lord with gladness.  Come to Him with songs of joy.” Psalm 100:1-2 (to be continued for 4th-5th graders)

Review Music is fun, and singing is another way we can worship God! This week we talked about all the different songs we like and if those songs honor God or not.  We learned that songs that do not worship God are not always bad, but that we have to be sure that we love singing to God more than we love singing about other things. When all we do is sing songs about other people and cool stuff we are worshiping those things rather than God. Since we found out last week that only God is worthy of our worship, then we should be singing to Him the most!

In Large Group, Kate, Nate’s sister and the fill-in bass player, wanted to get the audience to stop singing with the band. She wanted to take down the lyrics and only let the audience sing when they were asked. Nate helped Kate understand that the people were actually worshiping God by singing and that we should sing to worship God too. We also heard from Road Pastor Stephen about times in the Bible when people sang to God.

This Week At Home Download the latest iTunes playlist for elementary school-age kids developed just for you by KidSpring. ROCK OUT to some cool worship songs.

Be a rock star in your child’s life by setting a contagious example of worship. Worship is a lifestyle that shows God you love Him more than anything else. Reward and praise your child when he or she applies what they’ve learned. See you back on Center Stage next week!

Iggy takes Center Stage!

Center Stage Opener from Justin Beam on Vimeo.

This week we welcomed kids starting 5K into ImagiNation! Don’t forget that kids entering 6th grade will attend Fuse for the first time this Wednesday! ROCK ON!

Speaking of ROCK we started a new series this Sunday called Center Stage. Over the next eight weeks we will discover many of the ways the Bible tells us to WORSHIP! Worship is showing God that we love Him, and there are lots of ways we can do that.

SpringTown & Treehouse (Preschool)

Need to Know: I Worship God When I Am Thankful! Bible Story:  The Red Sea (Moses & Miriam’s Song), The Beginner’s Bible Memory Verse: Jesus, let what I think, say and do show that I love you.—Adapted from Psalm 19:14 Motions:  Jesus, let what I think (point to head) say (point to mouth) and do (move arms in running motion) show that I love (cross arms over chest) you (point to God).

Review Today we talked about all the things we can be thankful for: our house, friends, family, pets, toys and church. We also met Sally Singer and Didi Drummer, two kids with their own garage band. Sally is a great singer, but the only person she wanted to thank for her talent was herself! 

Didi told Sally a show-stopping story from God’s word about a girl named Miriam. Miriam was with the Israelties when they crossed the Red Sea. When they made it safely across, Miriam and the Israelites sang to God and told Him “Thank You” for all that He had done for them. Once Sally learned what today’s show was all about, I Worship God When I Am Thankful, she worshiped God by thanking Him for the beautiful voice He has given her, and for such a good friend like Didi.

This Week At Home Like Miriam, we sang a song about the things we are thankful for. Try singing this song with your child a few times this week about the things your family is thankful for: (to the tune of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”) “Today, I am thankful for, thankful for, thankful for, today I am thankful for, thankful for my __________.”

ImagiNation, Jump Street & Shockwave (Elementary School)

Need to Know:  Only God is Worthy of My Worship Bible Story:  The Rich Young Man (Mark10:17-27) Memory Verse: “Shout to the Lord with joy, everyone on earth!” Psalm 100:1 (to be continued)

Review This week we talked about all of the things we have that we love. We heard a story from the Bible about a rich young man who had a lot of nice stuff too.  Jesus instructed the man to give up his possessions so that he could follow Jesus, but the man went away sad because he refused - he loved his stuff more than he loved Jesus!

It’s okay to have things that we love because everything is a gift from God, but sometimes people, the things we have, or the things we love to do get in our way of following Jesus. When that happens we are worshiping someone or something more than God. We learned that only God is worthy of our worship because He loves us more than anyone or anything else—so much that He let His Son, Jesus, die to take the punishment for all the wrong things we do so that we can live in heaven with Him one day.

In Large Group, we met the Cloud 9 band and their Road Pastor, Stephen. The band’s lead singer, Nate invited his sister Kate to play bass guitar on the tour since their regular bass player was out.  Kate was thrilled about all the attention and fame and even tried to promote her own upcoming tour. But Kate quickly learned that the tour was NOT all about her.  Nate had to explain that God was the one worthy of their worship and that the show was about Him! In addition, the Road Pastor told us the story from Mark 10 about the rich young man. He helped us understand why it’s so important to put God first and not let anyone or anything become more important than Jesus! 

This Week At Home Over the next few weeks we’ll be learning lots of ways we can worship God, but a good place to start is to spend quiet alone time with God every day—reading the Bible & praying. The temptation is to let other things fill that time, like playing outside with friends, playing games, or going to the pool.  This week help your child find time in his or her daily routine to spend with God!

Be a rock star in your child’s life by setting a contagious example of worship. Worship is a lifestyle that shows God you love Him more than anything else. Reward and praise your children when they applie what they’ve learned. See you back at Center Stage next week!