Sunday, June 15th

Teaching Staff:

Preschool: 9:30 Karen Hoffman 11:15 Tomra Bazer

Lower Elementary: 9:30 Pam Myers 11:15 Nicole HUmphrey

Upper Elementary: 11:15 Chad Humphrey

Monthly Worship Song: Sing Sing Sing!

This week In Preschool & Lower Elementary...

CNX Kids learned: ” The Bible is better than gold!”

On Sunday, we kicked off a new unit in CNX Kids!! We are so excited about these next two months where we are going to learn that the Bible is better than gold.

This week, preschoolers and lower elementary students discovered this amazing treasure—God’s “teachings are worth more to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver,” Psalm 119:72, NCV. As they continue to hunt for Bible treasures, they will learn that they were wonderfully made, that God loves them all the time, and that they are part of God’s family.

To remember their lesson, preschoolers and lower elementary students dressed up as pirates and made treasure chests filled with the greatest treasure in the entire world—the Bible!!

This week in upper elementary…

CNX Kids learned: God wants us to look UP and spend time with Him.

Today in CNX Kids we discussed that to be like our hero Jesus, we have to do the things Jesus did. That’s called being a disciple or a follower of Jesus. Through their Bible story, Mark 1:35, kids learned that no matter how busy Jesus was, He always made time to spend with God because nothing was more important to Him than hanging out with His heavenly Father. That’s what made Jesus so strong, smart and unstoppable – spending time with God. If we’re going to be like our hero Jesus, we need to learn to do the same thing.

Hey Parents,

Want to explore this week’s lesson with your child at home?

Here’s how!!

Preschool + Lower Elementary:

Review the weekly Bible story by reading it together

The Bible is better than gold. • Psalm 119:72

Help your children live out this week’s Bible verse by finding examples of it in their own lives and yours.

“Your teachings are worth more to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.” Psalm 119:72, NCV

Try out the following activity:

Pick a few of your child’s favorite books, grab a Bible, and cuddle up on the couch with your child. Read the books together. Talk about why your child loves these books so much. (Favorite characters, pictures, parts of stories, etc.) Pull out the Bible and talk about how it is the most valuable book in the whole wide world because it has God’s words in it.

Set aside time throughout the week to pray together:

“Dear God, thank You for giving us Your words in the Bible. Help us to see that the Bible is better than gold! That’s amazing! Teach us to love the Bible and do what it says. You are so good, God, and we love You very much. In Jesus’ name, amen.”

Upper Elementary School:

Encourage your child to explain to you how they have learned ways that: God wants us to look UP and spend time with Him.

Review the weekly Bible story by reading it together:

Jesus spent time with God (Mark 1:35)

Help your children live out this week’s Bible verse by finding examples of it in their own lives and yours.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? — Psalm 42:2

Try out the following activity:

Help your kids begin the habit of spending time with God by establishing some “Hero Hangout Time” this week. Set aside 15 minutes each day for you and your child to spend time hanging out with God individually.

In this week’s huddle time your child drew a Hero Worship comic book
to guide this UP time. Kids drew five pictures to represent the following things: praising a characteristic of God, thanking God, confessing sin to God, talking to God about worries or fears, and asking God for something. The panels also contain a Bible verse to read each day. Encourage kids to take one panel a day, talk to God about it, and read the Bible verse.

Have a Dinnertime Discussion!

At dinner time this week, ask these questions to get your family talking.

• What’s the most fun thing you’ve done with a friend this week?
•  What’s been most fun thing you’ve done with God this week?
•  What’s it been like to have hangout time with God? Has it been fun or hard or both?
•  Has anything from your Hero Hangout Time come up in other places like at school or with your friends? What was it?

Use these questions to help kids discover that God wants to be their friend and spend time with them. Look for ways God is speaking to them in their Hero Hangout Time and try to connect it to their everyday lives. Help them discover what God is saying and what He wants them to do about it.

Set aside time throughout the week to pray together:

God, thank You that You want to be our friend. Thank You that even though You’re running the universe, You’re never too busy to spend time with Your kids. Please help us not to miss out and to plan some special time with You each day this week.

Amen