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Kids Singing on Stage (March 7th)

02.15.10

We are excited to tell you about an incredible opportunity coming up for your child! On Sunday, March 7th, K-5th graders will have an opportunity to lead worship on stage during the adult service your family attends! They will be singing “Take it All” (Hillsong) and “Rise and Sing” (Steve Fee). Both songs are available for download on iTunes if you would like to purchase them for your child to practice.

In order to make this Sunday worship experience a big success, we need your help with the following:

Please talk with your child prior to this date to determine if he or she wishes to participate. (Any children who do not wish to participate will remain in their environments for normal Sunday programming.)

Arrive to the service you normally attend at least 20 minutes prior to service start. This will ensure that your child can participate.

Before checking your child into KidSpring, please make sure that your child goes to the bathroom.

Check your child in as usual at one of our START stations.

Following the performance, we will take the children to their normal classrooms where they will remain until you pick them up as usual at the end of service.

Don’t forget to invite your family and friends!

Start Small

02.15.10

Be My Witnesses

02.14.10

Sunday at KidSpring… (February 14, 2010)

02.14.10

Today was the fifth week of The Great Sky Bridge Showdown where preschoolers are pretending to be a part of a construction crew building a great bridge that connects two tall buildings, and elementary schoolers are learning how to become wise builders who follow Jesus’ blueprints for their lives! SpringTown & Treehouse (Preschool)

Need to Know: God Gives Me Rules to Follow

Today we put our construction crew rule-following skills to the test as we learned about the time God gave Moses & his people the Ten Commandments in Exodus 19:1 - 20:17 and 34:32. We should follow these same rules just as Moses and the Israelites did. Today we focused on these seven commandments:

Worship only God.
Worship God and rest on the Sabbath.
Love and obey your parents.
Do not hurt other people.
Do not steal.
Tell the truth.
Be happy with what you have.

We should always follow the rules God gives us in the Bible. When we follow God’s rules, things will be better for us and for everybody else!

This week, bake cookies with your child using a recipe or instructions. As you are enjoying your finished cookies, discuss all the ingredients and steps you had to follow to make your yummy creations. Talk about what would have happened if you had left out an ingredient or skipped a step in the instructions. Discuss how God gives us rules to follow just like you had to follow the recipe and instructions for baking your cookies. Pray with your child each morning, asking God to help you both follow His rules.

Don’t forget to practice our Remember Verse. Here is the verse and the motions we do along with it:

“This is why we work hard (pretend to hammer). We trust (cover eyes with both hands) in God, (point up) who loves (cross arms over chest) all people (arms open wide) - 1 Timothy (hold up one finger) 4:10 (hold up 4 fingers)

ImagiNation, Jump Street & Shockwave (Elementary School)

Need to Know: Keep God Your Priority

Many things are important to us, but today we talked about how God should be the most important thing in our life—our priority. In the Bible story of the Rich Man (Luke12:13-31) we saw how our things can become more important to us than God. If our things are most important, God cannot be most important. In this story Jesus also tells us why we should not worry about having more and more things. Just like the birds do not have to store up food and the flowers do not have to fuss with their appearance, we do not have to worry about what we do not have because we are more important to God than birds and flowers. He will take care of us and do His best for us! These stories Jesus told in Luke remind us to Keep God Your Priority!

Here are some ways we said we can all keep God our priority by having a “God First” attitude:

Praying for ourselves and for others every day when we wake up.

Reading the Bible every day before we do other things.

Coming to church each week, even if it means skipping something else.

Try to implement these things into you and your child’s everyday routine. Thinking about God is not something we should only do at church. One day our toys and clothes will get old, our friends might move away and we may decide to play a different sport. God is the only thing that will last forever, so He should be our priority, the thing we think about and care about most.

Another way you can keep God your priority is by memorizing His word. Practice memorizing our Memory Verse for this series!

“Anyone who hears and obeys these teachings of mine is like a wise person who built a house on solid rock. Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and winds beat against that house. But it did not fall, because it was built on solid rock” - Matthew 7:24-25

Motions for younger elementary kids: “Anyone who hears (cup hand around ear) and obeys (swing arms in marching motion) these teachings of mine, (hold Bible) is like a wise person (point to head) who built a house (hammer) on solid rock (pound fists on top of each other). Rain poured down, (wiggle fingers from up high to down low) rivers flooded, (palms up; lift hands from down low) and winds beat against that house. (sway side to side) But it did not fall, (stand/sit up straight and firm) because it was built on solid rock (pound fists on top of each other).” - Matthew 7:24-25 (hold up seven fingers)

Permanent Scars

02.13.10

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