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Read this Bible story from Jeremiah 36 (NIrV) with your child from a children’s Bible like this one, and read it on your own here.

Here are some ways to talk about this Bible story with your child:

• Did Jeremiah tell people the king’s words or God’s words? (God’s words)
• Did the king like God’s words? (No) What did the king do with God’s words? (Threw them in the fire)
• Did the king stop God’s words? (No)
• God told people, like Jeremiah and Baruch, to write down his words. Then they took all of God’s words and put them into one big book that we call the Bible!
• The Bible is God’s Word!

This week in KidSpring, preschoolers learned that "The Bible Is The Very Best Book!" On their African safari, they ran across a hippopotamus and she told them the story of John the Baptist. 

Read this Bible story with your child from a children’s Bible like this one, and read it on your own here,

• Matthew 3:1-17 (NIrV)
• Luke 3:1-22 (NIrV)

In addition, here is the Bible story video that preschoolers saw on Sunday:

Here are some ways to talk about this Bible story with your child:

• Did John tell the people to KEEP doing what was wrong or STOP doing what was wrong? (Stop doing what was wrong)
• Did God open the skies and talk when Jesus was baptized? (Yes)
• Did you know that God talks to you and me? He does!
• The BIGGEST way God talks to us is when we read His words in the Bible! The Bible is fun to read and we can learn so many wonderful things from it. That makes it the very BEST book!

Meet our Safari friends, Up and Adam, and check out the video below to see the amazing Bible stories our elementary-age kids saw in large group this Sunday.  Take time this week to read or talk about these stories with your kids, and then discuss how these stories show us that the Bible is the most amazing book.

• The Burning Bush (Exodus 3)
• Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14)
• Coin In A Fish’s Mouth (Matthew 17:24-27)

Throughout our new series, Out in the Wild: African Safari, we are opening our eyes to the wonderful things in the Bible. We are learning about WHO God is and HOW He tells us to live. In Small Group, we shared our favorite stories from the most amazing book - the BIBLE! This week, ask your kids what their favorite Bible stories are, and share your favorite stories with them!

Each series, we practice memorizing a verse from the Bible that helps us remember what we are learning. The verse for this series is a prayer we can say each time we read the Bible. It is found in Psalm 119. Preschoolers are learning verse 18 while Elementary school kids are learning verses 17 and 18 from the Easy-to-Read Version (ERV). You can practice these verses with your kids throughout the week, and if they have them memorized by June 16 (the last week of the series), they will win a wild prize!

This week, we learned God Has A Plan For Me!  Sometimes, we can't see God's whole plan, but we can trust that God has a good plan for us.  To help us understand this, we played a fun game in small group!  The leader had a plan that they read to the kids.  Here's what they had to do:

1. Place the paper plate on top of your heads, with the top of it facing up.
2. Draw a line on the plate to be the floor.
3. Draw a Christmas tree.
4. Draw a star on top of your tree.
5. Draw a fireplace beside the tree.
6. Draw a stocking on the fireplace.
7. Draw a present below the tree.

After finishing the plan, the leader used a rubric to give appropriate points to the kids:

1. 2 points if the tree touches the floor.
2. 2 points if your stocking is touching the fireplace.
3. 1 point if your star touches your tree.
4. 1 point if your star is above your tree.
5. 1 point if your fireplace doesn’t touch the tree (it’s a fire hazard!).
6. 2 points if your present is under your tree.

Here are some examples from KidSpring on Sunday:

Join us for one of our Christmas services this weekend!  You can find service times at newspring.cc/fullyalive!