Sunday, September 7th

Teaching Staff:

Preschool: 9:30 Karen Hoffman 11:15 Lauren Kirkman

Lower Elementary: 9:30 Mickey Schroder 11:15 Jen McKinnon

Upper Elementary: 11:15 Chad Humphrey

Monthly Worship Song: Kids Worship Sunday Prep: This is Amazing Grace, Sing, Sing, Sing, & Holy Is the Lord

This week In Preschool & Lower Elementary...

CNX Kids learned: ” God loves me.”

On Sunday, preschoolers and lower elementary students continued our series, On Your Mark…Get Set…Go!!

This week, our lesson was about the Parable of the Lost Sheep. The Bible teaches us that we are like sheep and sometimes stray away from God. That makes God very sad, but he never gives up on us. He keeps searching for us and calling to us. He wants to draw us back into his arms. He even sent Jesus, his Son, to save those who are lost.




This week in upper elementary…

CNX Kids learned: Jesus died so I could be a part of God’s kingdom

In Upper Elementary this week, kids continued to learn about our relationship with God and our responsibility to God. This week we looked at the story of Adam and Eve.  God made us in his image as his children, which formed that incredible relationship with him.  Upon the creation of man, He gave Adam and Eve an incredible responsibility to be rulers of his kingdom (the Garden).  As we all know, they became the first victims of sin, and thus not fulfilling that responsibility.  The kids learned of the temptation of Satan and the consequences of not listening to God.  But…all was not lost.  God then gave the ultimate gift, His Son, to accept the responsibility of sin.  As we continue each day, the responsibility to fight sin is still with us, but we now have the opportunity for the personal relationship with Jesus to help guide us.

Hey Parents,

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

Here’s how!!

Preschool & Lower elementary School:

Review the weekly Bible story by reading it together

Luke 15:3-7

God loves us and takes care of us, just like a shepherd looks after his sheep.

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

“Nothing can separate us from God’s love.” Romans 8:39, NIrV

Try out the following activity:

Bring some plastic shapes from a shape sorter and some small

plastic animals to bath time. Allow your child to play with them. When bath time is over, ask your child to separate the shapes from the animals. Place all of the shapes in one corner of the tub and the animals in another. Praise him for doing such a great job at separating and then tell him there’s one thing that can NEVER be separated. The Bible says that NOTHING can separate YOU from God’s love.

Set aside time throughout the week to pray together:

“Dear God, I like thinking about You being our shepherd and us being Your sheep. I think that’s cool! But I know you love us waaaaaayyy more than a shepherd loves his sheep—a lot more! I can tell by the way You take care of us. Today, we just want to say thank You. We love You, God! In Jesus’ name, amen.”

upper elementary School:

Encourage your child to explain to you how they have learned ways that: Jesus died so I could be a part of God’s kingdom.

Review the weekly Bible story by reading it together:

The Fall of Man (Genesis 3)

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

God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son. Anyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life. — John 3:16 (NIrV)

Try out the following activity:

This week your kids learned about how sin came into the world through Adam and Eve and how Jesus died to take away that sin and restore God’s Kingdom. Kids were challenged to think about what it means to begin a relationship with God.

Take some time this week to share your own faith story with your kids and consider where they are in their journey toward God. If they are already following Jesus, talk about how they are growing in their friendship with God. If they haven’t made that decision and need to learn more, encourage their curiosity and their questions and trust the Spirit to lead you in that process. If they are ready to make a decision to follow Jesus, celebrate with them and help them to take the next step.

Have a Dinnertime Discussion!

At dinnertime this week, ask one of these questions to get your family talking.

• What was the best part of your day? What was the worst?
• Imagine if your day had just been full of best parts with no bad parts. What would have been different?
• Think about when God first made the world and everything was perfect. What do you think that was like?
• What are some things that sin did to mess up God’s perfect world?
• What did Jesus do about it?

Use these questions to help kids think about how Jesus died to bring us back into a relationship with God and bring His kingdom to earth.

Set aside time throughout the week to pray together:

God, thanks that You want us to be a part of Your family and Your Kingdom. Thank you that your story didn’t end with Adam and Eve. Thanks for Jesus and for the gift of forgiveness in Him.

Amen