Next Sunday is the last Sunday of 2006, and we will complete the Christmas lessons by learning about the Magi, or “Wise Men,” who came to worship the child born King of the Jews—Jesus! We will take a look (and sniff!) of the gifts they brought to Jesus, and discuss what the gold, frankincense, and myrrh really meant.

We will be using one of my favorite interactive computer games, Star Seekers, to follow the adventures of three kids who are children of the Magi. It’s an imaginary story, but it contains the real story of how the Magi found and worshiped the baby Jesus. We need your help to “drive” the computer!

We hope you can join us Sunday—but even if you can’t, we wish you a very joyous new year of 2007!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Next Sunday we’ll be viewing one of my favorite videos, The Story of Christmas from the Visual Bible for Kids series. We will also be learning about Simeon and Anna, who were among the very first people to know that Jesus was the Savior God had promised…when Jesus was just 40 days old!

Even if you’re not able to be with us on Christmas Eve Sunday, we hope that you will have a terrific Christmas celebration with your family and that you will help them all to remember God’s Greatest Gift, Jesus. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son…”

Tom and Sydney Cook
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This coming Sunday we will celebrate Jesus’ birth with our Christmas party (don’t forget to invite a friend!) and by learning about Jesus’ actual birth, 2007 years ago, in Bethlehem…just as the prophets had promised.

We’ll have a quiz (don’t worry…it will be fun!) to see how much you really know about the Christmas story. Of course, for our party, we’ll have games, refreshments, and fun, too. Have you ever played “Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree”?

Please remember to bring your offering for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. This is a special time of year to pray for our missionaries around the world and to give to help them have the things they need to tell people about Jesus.

See you Sunday!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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This Sunday we’ll move forward to just a few months before Jesus was born. We read about angels from time to time in the rest of the Bible, but there are never so many angels as around the time of Jesus’ birth! An angel is a very special creation of God, and serves as a messenger of God.

We’ll talk about angels Sunday, and especially about the angels who told Mary and Joseph about the birth of Jesus. The next week we’ll learn about the most angels ever found in one place at the same time…all with the same message about Jesus’ birth!

Don’t forget your Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, to help our 5000 missionaries around the world in their task of telling all the peoples of the world about Jesus.

See you next week!

Mr and Mrs Cook
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For December we begin to get ready for Christmas, when we celebrate Jesus’ birthday. Next Sunday we’ll start at the beginning of the story, more than seven hundred years before Jesus was born. God made a promise that He kept at Christmas. You won’t want to miss a single Sunday this month, as we learn about the Greatest Gift!

Don’t forget our missions emphasis, as we pray especially for our missionaries who are telling people about Jesus in West Africa. We need to pray, and we also need to give. Our giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering will go directly to help our missionaries all around the world, and provide the things they need to do the best job of telling about Jesus.

See you Sunday—and bring a friend!

Mr. and Mrs. Cook
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It’s great to know, love, and serve a God who has all power and who loves us, is kind and merciful to us, and wants to save us from our sins.

Don’t forget to bring food (canned goods, staples, etc.) for the needy families our church will be helping this Thanksgiving! You don’t need the special bags we made, or any bags at all (although it would make the cans easier to carry). We’ll weigh it in Sunday and see which team collects the most weight of food.

Tom and Sydney Cook
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First, it’s “time change Sunday” — you get an extra hour of sleep because Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 AM Sunday and we set our clocks back.

Second, it’s the last Sunday of our great unit on “Living Like Jesus,” and we’ll sum up everything we’ve been learning this month about how Jesus helps us to have the best possible lives, lives that are pleasing to God.

Third, it’s our Fall Party Sunday, where we’ll have special games and refreshments to celebrate the terrific kids in our class and give you a good excuse to invite your friends to attend. You should receive a special invitation in the mail, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Next Sunday we’ll learn about serving others, by studying how Jesus served His disciples in a special way.

See you then! And bring a friend.

Tom and Sydney Cook

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Doctors tell us that, many times, sickness may come from “holding a grudge,” which means not forgiving other people and wanting to get even with them. We can always choose to forgive others; if we don’t, we can’t have good relationships with God or with other people. We will probably go around with a grumpy attitude which will drive people away, and perhaps have trouble sleeping. And it may cause us to get sick in several different ways.

So forgiving others is really important! God will forgive us of all the sins we have done against Him, and we need to choose to forgive others in the same way.

James and his friend Rebecca will be telling our story this Sunday, about four friends who took their friend to see Jesus — and tore up a roof to do it! This would be a great Sunday for you to bring a friend with you, too. We’ll be hearing some more of the Sunday School Charlie story, too—Charlie will need to learn how to forgive as well.

See you Sunday!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Don’t forget that next Sunday Miss Julie will bring her “goodie box” around to share with you if you can tell her some of the things we have been studying so far this year. You can tell her about learning how Jesus loved others from the story of the woman a the well, and about how Jesus wants us to care for others like the Good Samaritan did. One good thing to share would be the Golden Rule…”treat others as you want them to treat you.”

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Next Sunday we’ll be learning about the parable of the Good Samaritan…another person from Samaria, but this time the hero of a story told by Jesus to teach us more about how to take care of the people around us who need our help.

We’ll be using one of my favorite CD games on the computer Sunday—“Good Sam, the Samaritan,” which is a game format that I think you’ll like.

See you Sunday (and don’t forget to bring a friend!).

Tom and Sydney Cook
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We will be studying this Sunday about LOVE—no, not the ooey-gooey kind of love that you might see on TV or videos, but the extra-special God-style love, called “agape” in the Bible…the kind of love that John 3:16 talks about when it says “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son.”

It’s a kind of love that we can show to others only because God helps us to do that. In fact, our memory verse is “We love because He first loved us.”

We will learn the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman whom He met at a well. No one else in her town loved her, or even liked her…but Jesus did. He took time to speak to her, listen to her, and told her that He could give her “Living Water.” Come join us Sunday to hear the rest of the story…and bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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We have learned that we should Respect the Bible, Read the Bible, Know the Bible, and Obey the Bible. Our memory verses from Psalms 119 have helped us understand how important hiding God’s word in our hearts really is.

We have made a display of different kinds, versions, and editions of the Bible. We saw examples of how the Jewish people even today reverence God’s word and remind themselves to think about it as they sit at home, as they walk in the street, as they lie down, and as they rise up. We even learned some Hebrew words — the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-5), Mezuzah, and Tefilin.

Remember, the Bible is the book God wrote…and He wrote it for us, so that we could know the very best way to live, to live our lives as God wants us to live, and to get the very most out of our lives.

Remember, we’re praying for each of you. May God bless you richly, and may each of you remember to read His word each day.

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Be sure to join us as we study how we should obey God’s Word, and the special verses that Jesus said were the most important commandment in the Bible. It’s called the “Shema” (Hebrew for “hear” ) because that’s the first word in the verse…both in English and in Hebrew!

If you want to read ahead, check it out in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 6, verses 4-5.

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Our memory verses all help us remember that we can respect, read, know, and obey God’s Word, the Bible. Here they are in a helpful summary:

“Lord, Your word is forever.” — Psalm 119:89

“I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.” — Psalm 119:16

“I have treasured Your word in my heart so that I may not sin against You.” — Psalm 119:11

“Help me understand Your instruction, and I will obey it.” — Psalm 119:34

(These are all from the Holman Christian Standard Bible.)

This would be a good message to print out and use to memorize these verses. That would be a great start to Knowing more of God’s word!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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We have talked about how we can Respect the Word and Read the Word. Next Sunday we’ll be talking about how to Know the Word. Our story will be about Jesus, right at the beginning of His ministry, when He was tempted by the devil. We’ll learn about what temptation is, and how each of us faces it today. But the good news is that we can resist the devil and temptation just like Jesus did, by learning God’s Word and knowing the right thing to do.

This Sunday you’ll meet our Computer Teacher, James. I think you’ll like the way he teaches our Bible story, complete with pictures.

See you Sunday! Why not bring a friend with you?

Tom and Sydney Cook

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Although the people were sad at first, because they had not been keeping God’s Word, Nehemiah and Ezra told them that this was a time for celebration, because now they knew God’s Word!

If you want a head start, you can check out the story in the book of Nehemiah, chapter 8.

You might want to practice our memory verse as well. It’s again from the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119, verse 16: “I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.”

See you tommorrow!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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We hope you had fun with our “treasure hunt” and as we learned about how the Bible is a “treasure,” the “Word of God,” and will last “forever.” We heard how King Josiah respected the Bible and promised to follow God’s rules, just as we can today.

We expect more kids will be there next week, now that Labor Day is over. Our subject will be “Read the Bible,” and we will learn how the Priest Ezra did just that—and how the people responded. We will put on a drama to help us learn what happened…I just hope you don’t get too dizzy!

Hope to see you there Sunday—and please remember to bring your Bibles (almost everyone brought their own Bible last week—you did a great job!).

Tom and Sydney Cook
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We’re going to start out, right on time at 9:45, with our Power Up! activity—a Treasure Hunt! You’ll want to be on hand to share in the treasure we discover.

Our Bible story will be about King Josiah and the Lost Book. We’ll learn about how King Josiah thought the Bible was a special treasure, and how the people of Israel promised to keep God’s laws and claim His promises.

We’ll be making a special display showing the wonderful ways that the Bible has come down to us through the ages (some 4000 years!). God wrote a book, and He has protected it year after year so that we can read it today.

Don’t forget to bring your own Bible (although we’ll have one you can borrow if needed). Our memory verse will be from the longest chapter in the whole Bible (don’t worry—you don’t have to memorize the whole chapter). And we’ll try to take pictures of everyone so we can use them in weeks to come on our class computer.

We’re looking forward to meeting all our new Fourth Graders! See you there!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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If you want to get ready for Sunday, you can read the story of King Josiah in 2 Kings 22-23:3. Watch for the names of some special people in this story—we’ll learn more about them Sunday:

• King Josiah
• Shaphan
• Hilkiah
• Huldah

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We will be studying all about the Bible itself in the month of September…how to respect it, read it, learn it, and obey it. After all, the Bible is the Word of God…His special letter to us telling us that He loves us, wants the best for us, and telling us how to live to get the best out of our lives. When we read, learn, and obey the Bible, we will have the best lives possible. I like to think of it as an “instruction manual” for living.

See you Sunday at 9:45!

Tom Cook
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We will also send a letter to your parents letting them know how they can help you to get the most out of our class.

Hope to see you at 9:45 on Sunday, September 3, in room 401!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Each pupil will recieve a personalized diploma (presented with a handshake to the music “Pomp and Circumstance,” of course!) and a CD with the pictures, videos, games, and stories we have taken this year. Hopefully it will help you recall happy memories of Fourth Grade Sunday School.

Starting in September, our Fourth Graders will officially become Fifth Graders and move to Fifth Grade Sunday School. It’s in the room right next door, so you can still come by and say “Hi” once in a while (and maybe even give us a hug).

This year’s class is a great group, and we look forward to seeing how God will use the terrific gifts and talents He has given to each of you in the years ahead.

Tom and Sydney Cook
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