Even though Jonathan was the “crown prince” and, as King Saul’s son, would normally be the next king of Israel, Jonathan knew that David would probably be the next king in his place. He still loved David, and showed his love by giving David princely gifts, by defending David to his father King Saul, who wanted to kill David, and doing everything he could to protect David from King Saul.

Your friends are really important to you, and you should do all you can to show your love for them in the right ways. The story of David and Jonathan will help us do this.

Since we’re learning about friends, this would be a Very Good Sunday to invite a friend to come with you! We’ll get in some archery practice as well. See you Sunday at 9:45.

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The shepherds were an important part of the story. Shepherds were looked down on by Jewish society, as dirty, untrustworthy, and unworthy. Yet God chose the shepherds of Bethlehem to be the first to hear the good news that their long-awaited Messiah had finally come. He’s here! Joy to the world.

We will celebrate our Christmas party this Sunday with games, skits, stories, and refreshments. You won’t want to miss it! And it’s a great time to bring a friend to join in the fun.

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We can always trust God to do what He says He will do. It may well take longer than we would like, but it WILL happen! The promise of the Savior is a very important promise, but there are many more promises in the Bible that God will also keep. We can always trust God!

Join us this Sunday as we take a closer look at the Christmas story. We’d love to wish you a “Merry Christmas” and share our room decorated with an M&M missions theme. Don’t forget to bring an offering for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for Foreign Missions, and also to bring a friend.

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Isaiah told us much about Jesus, including several names which gave real insight into what the Messiah would be like. All of these promises came true with Jesus was born.

The prophet Micah, though, was the one who told us that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. This promise, too, came true.

We will focus in on the real reason for Christmas. Try especially this year to remember Jesus, born as a baby in a manger, come to earth as God promised, to start a life which would change the world and can change us.

Join us Sunday and bring a friend!

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Near the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches about the need for a strong foundation for our lives (like building a house on the rock instead of the sand). Jesus is that foundation…He’s the only solid foundation. We have the best possible lives when we are following Jesus’ teachings.

Our classes have brought over 500 pounds of food for needy and hungry families this Thanksgiving! This Sunday is the last week to bring food, since our deacons will be sorting and delivering the food right before Thanksgiving.

Come Sunday and join us as we have fun and learn about the Bible! Don’t forget to invite a friend.

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This Sunday we will look at the prophet Jeremiah, whom God chose to warn the Jews about the punishment God was sending in the form of the Babylonian army. The Jews had worshiped other gods, particularly Ba’al, even though God had sent prophet after prophet to warn them of the consequences. Jeremiah’s message was to turn back to God, but no one listened to him.

In Sunday’s story, Jeremiah has the scribe Baruch write down God’s message to Judah. When it was read in the Temple, the Jewish leaders knew the King should hear it. The King didn’t listen, however. He took a penknife and cut up the scroll and burned it in the fire.

That didn’t stop God’s message, though. God told Jeremiah to write down the same words again, with an added section about the punishment which the King would suffer for his treatment of God’s Word.

Come and bring a friend as we learn more about the Bible.

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This Sunday we will begin a month-long look at the nature of the Bible. We will start with the Ten Commandments—God gave them as a special gift to His chosen people, Israel. The people of Israel promised to obey all that God commanded, but they didn’t do a very good job of it.

God is kind and merciful to all, but He only promises His special blessings on those who actually obey His commands. Obedience to God’s law is certainly best for us, as well as for the people around us.

You’ll want to be with us this Sunday as we learn about God’s Ten Commandments. Don’t forget to fill your Thanskgiving bag with food for our church-wide food drive! See you—and hopefully a friend—this week.

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This Sunday we will look at an event near the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, when he returned to His home town of Nazareth after a preaching tour throughout Galilee. He went to the Nazareth synagogue on the Sabbath, as He normally did. There he read a special section of the book of the prophet Isaiah, a Messianic prophecy, and explained to the people that the prophecy was fulfilled in their sight that very day.

The people of Nazareth thought they knew all about Jesus, the local boy, son of Mary and Joseph, a carpenter. They did not believe that He could be the Messiah, even though they had been looking and waiting for God’s promised Messiah for hundreds of years. Instead, they tried to kill Him. The people of Nazareth were not able to find the blessings that come from obeying God’s Word and believing in His Son.

This Sunday we will begin our Thanksgiving Food Drive as we decorate our grocery bags to help remind us to bring in canned goods and staples. You will want to be there, and to bring a friend along. See you Sunday!

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It was after King Cyrus of Persia allowed the Jews to return to Israel after their captivity in Babylon. The temple had been burned to the ground, and the city of Jerusalem was in ruins. But many of the Jewish people were willing to return to the land God had given them and rebuild.

The first thing they built was the altar for burnt offering, starting the morning and evening sacrifices each day. Two years later, everything was ready to begin building the actual temple. As soon as the foundation was laid and the building could begin, a special worship service was held for all the people.

The Jewish song book is the book of Psalms in the Bible. Very likely Psalm 111 and Psalm 138 were sung in the worship service. The people sang, played musical instruments, and worshiped God.

We will look at music in worship and we will do some singing of our own this week. We will have a great time! Come and bring a friend.

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Our story this week is about the blind man whom Jesus healed, by putting mud on his eyes and telling him to go wash in the Pool of Siloam. The man had been blind from birth…which means he was not able to study the scriptures, not able to get around well enough to follow Jesus and hear Him teach, and not able even to see Jesus. But he could and did tell about what Jesus had done for Him! When the Jewish officials kept asking him how he could see, even after he told them what Jesus had done, he finally burst out “This one thing I know: I once was blind, but now I see!” He didn’t have all the answers, but he was eager to tell what he knew about Jesus.

We can tell others about Jesus in many different ways, from wearing a Christian T-shirt to writing notes and letters. One of the best ways for boys and girls to tell others about Jesus is simply to invite them to come to Sunday School with you! There they can learn about Jesus and meet others who know Him.

Remember, we can’t make anyone else love Jesus. But we can introduce them to Him and let them come to love Him for themselves! That would be the very best thing we could do for a friend.

Join us Sunday and bring a friend who needt to know about Jesus.

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Jesus taught that when we served other people, even in simple ways like giving them food when they’re hungry, water when they’re thirsty, clothes when they’re needy, or helping widows, orphans, or prisoners, we are really serving Jesus Himself. Jesus did these things when He was here on earth, and we are created to do them as well.

Our story this Sunday is about Miriam, the sister of Moses. Miriam helped her parents hide Moses from Pharoah’s edict to kill all newborn Hebrew boys, and watched over him as his basket floated in the Nile. She approached Pharoah’s daughter and offered to find a nurse for the baby. She was also especially helpful to Moses years later as he led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, across the Red Sea, and to Mount Sinai, where they received the ten commandments.

Miriam led a life of service as a helper to her brother, who was called by God to a special purpose. But that role as helper was God’s calling to Miriam, and it was just as important in God’s eyes as Moses’ role as leader. It doesn’t matter if the job is big or small—we just need to be available and willing to do our part.

The featured “bug” for this Sunday is the ant. You’ll want to see the video about how ants serve one another, each doing their part. It’s a great day to bring a friend.

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This is something that God does, but we can choose to cooperate and help out the process. We can pray, read the Bible, worship and serve with other Christians through the church. As we learn more about Jesus’ teachings, we can choose to follow them more closely. Just as with our friends, we become more like Jesus as we spend more time with Him.

Our Bible story Sunday is about the disciples Jesus chose to be with Him and learn from Him. Although we can’t walk the hills of Galilee and listen to Jesus as He teaches today, we can be disciples too as we learn about the things Jesus did and taught through the Bible. The disciples became even more like Jesus when the Holy Spirit came to live in them at Pentecost. That same Spirit lives in us today and enables us to be like Jesus.

Join us this Sunday as we learn about being Jesus’ disciples…and bring a friend!

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We will learn this Sunday about Aquila and Priscilla, a Jewish couple who came to believe in Jesus. They were tentmakers, and they became great friends with Paul, also a tentmaker by trade. Paul lived with them in Corinth for three years while he continued to preach and teach about Jesus, and then they traveled together to Ephesus, where Aquila and Priscilla remained while Paul went on to Jerusalem.

Besides their friendship with Paul, they were friends to others as well. They helped a new Christian named Apollos to better understand the teachings of Jesus, and they welcomed fellow believers into their home by hosting a house church. They were great models of fellowship.

We will talk about how important friends are in our lives this Sunday, and look at some of the ways we can be good friends to others. This would be a very good day to bring one of your friends to join us!

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We will view a video this Sunday which uses an acrostic to help us understand that we worship because God is:

There are lots of ways to worship God. We quickly think of prayer, music, and preaching, but other ways of showing our respect, love, and awe of God include serving Him in ministry, obeying His commands, and telling others about Him. Just thinking about God is a great way to worship Him.

Featured insect: The praying mantis, which reminds us of worship because of the position it holds its front legs.

Come this week and bring a friend! We’d love to have you join us.

Tom and Sydney Cook

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Next Sunday we will be studying God’s Creation. Everything that God created had a purpose; there were no accidents. To help us learn about God’s purpose, we will be looking at insects…a different insect each week. The way God looks after these small creatures will help us understand how God looks after us.

God created even the insects for a purpose. You are much more important to God than the insects, because you were created in the image of God and capable of relating to God. God created you for a purpose, and He has a plan for your life.

Come join us this Sunday as we look at God’s creation, take a closer look at some of His insects, and focus in on how each one of us can find God’s purpose for our lives. This would be a great week to bring a friend!

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The first Sunday will be a short unit on the names of God. We will look at Moses’ experience on Mount Sinai with the burning bush, were God told him the personal name of God, “Yahweh” in Hebrew. It means “I am who I am,” and refers to God as eternal—no beginning, no end, not constrained by time. We’ll take a quick look, too, at some of the other names God is known by in the Bible.

We’re looking forward to meeting you! Please try to be with us Sunday…and bring a friend along!

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Paul took every chance he could get to tell others about what God had done for him, and how God had used him to tell others about Jesus. Most of us don’t have as powerful a story about meeting Jesus as Paul did, but each of us has our own story—important because it’s unique and special to us. Your story may help someone else come to know Jesus, or to know Him better.

This is the last Sunday of our Sunday School year, so we’ll have our graduation ceremony to thank our pupils for being with us this year and to send them off to their new Fifth Grade adventure!

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Paul had been warned about what would happen in Jerusalem, and tried his best to act as the Jews wanted him to. But, even as he was praying in the temple, some of his Jewish enemies from Asia saw him and raised an uproar, yelling about how Paul broke the Jewish laws until people from all over the city ran and a rioting mob was formed. They dragged Paul out of the temple, closed the doors, and were trying their best to kill Paul. The Roman soldiers rescued Paul, but the people still were trying to kill him. Paul asked the soldiers if he could speak to the crowd, and was given permission.

Paul did what he always did—told about Jesus. The people listened until he mentioned preaching to the Gentiles, when they started up again their shouts of “Such a man does not deserve to live!” Paul was taken into custody by the Romans, and even there he continued to tell everyone he could about Jesus.

Jesus told about God’s kingdom when it was hard—even to the point of giving His life on the cross. Paul told about Jesus when it was hard—again, even to the point of death. Many others in New Testament days faced death, but still told about Jesus—people like Stephen, John, and Peter. Today many Christians around the world face real danger when they meet together to worship God and to tell others about Jesus. In many countries, it is illegal to even possess a Bible. But their love for Jesus and their gratitude for what He has done for them keep them faithful to share what Jesus has done with people around them who do not know about Him.

Sometimes it may seem difficult for us to tell others about Jesus, but that’s exactly what God wants us to do. He didn’t promised to make things easy, but to be with us when trouble happens and to help us know what to say and do. Jesus will give us the ability to tell others about Him, even when it’s hard.

Be with us this Sunday as we learn together—and bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Our memory verse says it all — “Even a young man is known by his actions.” Join us this Sunday to learn how our actions can influence others and let them know about our love for Jesus. Bring a friend!

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Last Sunday we learned about how the first Gentile (non-Jewish) people came to believe in Jesus, as Peter visited the Roman Centurion Cornelius and told him and his family and friends about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Although they were Gentiles, they believed Peter’s message, received the gift of the Holy Spirit, and were baptized as Chrisitans.

Next Sunday we will look at a part of the missionary journey of Paul, as he and Barnabas traveled through Asia Minor telling the Good News of Jesus. Even though some did not believe, and some were angry at Paul (to the point of stoning him), there were many who believed in Jesus. Paul and Barnabas left many believers in Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe who formed churches and followed Jesus together.

Please join us in Sunday School this Sunday as we learn about this important part of being a Christian! It would be a great day to bring a friend.

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You probably know the story of how the younger son asked his father to receive the money that would come to him from his father’s estate, then took it and left home to go to a far country. There he wasted the money and soon had nothing to live on. Abandoned by his “friends,” he took a job feeding pigs (a very bad job for a Jewish boy). Finally he decided to go back home and ask for a job as a servant in his father’s house.

The father was waiting with open arms to welcome him back home, not as a servant, but as a son. He lavishly forgave his son and had a big celebration to welcome him home.

God forgives each of us in much the same way. We don’t deserve a place in His kingdom, but he welcomes us as sons and daughters when we come to Him in repentance. The Bible says we are “joint heirs with Jesus,” being adopted into God’s family.

Just as God freely forgives us, Jesus teaches that we must also forgive others who wrong us. If we don’t forgive, we are not only disobeying God, but we may well suffer—spiritually, emotionally, and even physically. Bearing a grudge and wanting to get even will eat away at us, while forgiving freely will set us free.

Come join us Sunday as we learn about the choice of forgiveness. Bring along a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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This Sunday we will look at one of the times Jesus taught the people about God, as He taught us how we should choose to love others. We should love everyone. Not just those who love us and are kind to us…Jesus taught that we should even love our enemies and those who are unkind to us. Jesus said that anyone can love those who love them, but we are to be different…we are to be like God Himself, who loved each one of us even when we were sinners and enemies of God.

Part of Jesus’ teaching was the Golden Rule: Do to others as you would have them do to you. This is a better way to live than the silver rule: Do to others as they do to you. And much better than the iron rule: Do to others before they do to you. God’s way is the highest and best.

It is difficult to follow this command, because we are not used to doing it. Those around us often don’t follow God’s command, either. But, as followers of Jesus, we will want to follow His teachings and do our best (with His help) to love everyone.

Join us this Sunday as we learn how to put Jesus’ teaching into practice in our lives. One good way to be kind to others is to invite them to come with you to Sunday School!

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We can pray to God about anything. Even though God knows what we need, like our daily bread (food), He still wants us to pray to Him about our needs. Jesus taught us this in the Model Prayer. We can also pray to God about things we want. God has not promised to give us all the things we want, but He sometimes will give us “the desires of our heart.” But there are some things which we really shouldn’t pray for. The Bible talks about “asking amiss” for things which are really not good for us, or which God has commanded us to avoid. Selfish prayers are never a good idea.

We’ll look more at the kinds of things we should and should not pray for Sunday. You’ll want to be there, and you’ll want to bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook

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God does not always immediately answer all our prayers, and it’s really a good thing that He doesn’t — since sometimes we really don’t know what we’re asking. God can see what will happen in the future, and really does know what is best for us. And, too, sometimes we forget that a perfectly valid answer to some prayers is “no” or “wait.”

We will make a special treat for our fathers in class for Father’s Day, and we will put on a skit with a western theme to help tell the story of Elijah and the “Showdown on Mount Carmel.” This would be a great day to join us and bring a friend!

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Peter was in a bad situation. King Herod had already killed the Apostle James, and Peter was next. He was in prison, shackled between two Roman soldiers, and Herod planned to kill him the next day.

But the church in Jerusalem had other ideas! They gathered together in Mark’s mother’s house and prayed for Peter. God heard their prayer and sent an angel to release Peter from prison, right past the soldiers that Herod had set to guard him. Peter wasn’t sure what was happening at the time, but quickly realized that God had miraculously delivered him from prison and from death.

If the church hadn’t prayed, would Peter have been killed? We don’t really know, but I believe their prayers had a big part in Peter’s release.

In much the same way, we can (and should) pray for other people who need God’s help, whether we do it alone or with other Christians. We shouldn’t wait for bad situations like Peter was in, but do as Paul did when he told the Christians in Rome “how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers.”

We will learn more about Peter’s escape from prison this Sunday in some fun ways. You will want to be there—and bring a friend with you!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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This Sunday we will begin by looking at the Model Prayer that Jesus taught His disciples when they asked Him how to pray. It has several important parts that help us know how best to communicate with God. But, remember, ANY prayer directed to God from our heart is a good prayer. One of the shortest prayers is “Help!” It’s just that there are so many important things to pray about that it helps to have a model to follow to remember all of them.

We will work on memorizing the Model Prayer (also called the Lord’s Prayer) during the month of June. Come join us—and bring a friend!

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This Sunday’s story is about Moses’ older sister, Miriam. She helped Moses in lots of ways when he was older and led the Hebrew children out of Egypt, but at this time Moses was a baby and Miriam was just a child. Because the Pharoah of Egypt had ordered all male Hebrew children to be killed, Miriam helped her mother by watching over baby Moses after they had put him in a basket floating in the Nile. Miriam’s quick thinking when Moses was found by the Pharoah’s daughter made a big difference in the way Moses would grow up, since his own mother was hired as his nurse, and she and Miriam could teach him about his Hebrew background.

Come Sunday to talk about ways you can help your family when help is needed…and bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Joseph took care of his family very well. He arranged for them to move to some of the best grazing land in Egypt, the land of Goshen, where they could herd their sheep, goats, and cattle. He told his brothers that God had taken the evil they had done to him and brought good out of it. He followed his father Jacob’s request to bury him back in the land God had promised them, in the same cave where his grandfather Abraham and father Isaac had been buried.

The story of Joseph teaches us many things, but one important lesson is how we should treat family members. Kindness, care, and respect to others in our family will help make our family life, and our own lives, happy and peaceful. It’s best for everyone when parents, brothers, and sisters get along…and we can choose to do our part to make that happen.

See you Sunday—and bring a friend along!]

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Families are important! Remember to do your part to make your family a happy and supportive place to live. Your attitudes and actions can make all the difference. Remember, too, to pray for your family members each day.

Come join us Sunday—and bring a friend!

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Last week we talked about getting along with other family members, even when it might be hard to do. This week we will look closer at the same family, Abram and Sarai, and see how God worked in their lives to begin a very special family — a very large family, counting all the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and so on. God promised Abram that his descendants would number more than the stars in the sky. That’s a lot!

Only one problem…Abram and Sarai were about 100 years old and didn’t even have one child! God kept His promise, though, and this Sunday we’ll take a look at how He did it.

Please join us for this special Mother’s Day session…and we’ll be working on a surprise for your mothers as well.

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It was later the same day that two disciples were walking home from Jerusalem to Emmaeus. They knew that Jesus had been crucified, and they had heard that the tomb was empty and that some had said they had seen Him, but they were still confused. They talked as they walked about all that had happened the past few days.

It was on this trip that Jesus joined them. They didn’t know who He was—certainly they didn’t expect to see Him on their way to Emmaeus. Jesus spoke to them about what the Scriptures taught about what had happened, but they didn’t recognize Him until they got to Emmaeus and invited Him to eat the evening meal with them. As soon as Jesus blessed and broke the bread, they knew Him and He was gone! They hurried back to Jerusalem to tell the disciples that truly, Jesus was alive!

We’ll fill in the rest of the story this Sunday, and have a fun play about the trip to Emmaeus. You’ll want to be there, and it would be a good Sunday to invite a friend. See you then!

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The fact of His resurrection is important because it was God’s “stamp of approval” on Jesus’ ministry and teachings. Paul wrote that, if Jesus had not been raised from the dead, Christians would be “most miserable,” since our faith would not be real. But there are many proofs that Jesus really was raised from the dead. That means, too, that His death on the cross, paying the penalty for our sins, was acceptable to God, and that we can live with Him forever.

This Sunday we will study the resurrection from the Gospel of Luke, and celebrate in many ways the wonderful fact that Jesus is alive! You won’t want to miss it—and don’t forget to invite a friend to celebrate with you.

Tom and Sydney Cook

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Our lesson will be about praising Jesus. We can do that today for the same reasons the crowd in Jerusalem praised Him…because Jesus is King, Lord, and Savior. He is awesome, and His love for us is just as awesome. We will look at the many ways to express our praise for Jesus. It’s a great way to begin the Easter season.

Jesus emphasized the importance of praise by saying that, if the people didn’t praise Him, the very rocks would cry out in praise. One day, the Bible tells us, every person will bow to Jesus. We can do it right now, telling Jesus how much we love Him and are thankful to Him for taking away our sin and allowing us to live forever with Him.

Join us this Sunday for a special session of praise! It would be a great day to bring a friend.

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God had created everything and said it was good — very good. But Adam and Eve had a choice…one tree in the whole garden which they were not to eat from. Would they obey God? For a while they did…but the devil, in the form of the serpent, got Eve to question what God had said, then to disoby His command and eat the forbidden fruit. Sin entered the world, and with it man became very, very aware of evil.

Before their sin, God’s creation had been perfect. No pain, no death, no storms, no fear, no mosquitos, and on an on. But once God’s command had been broken, everything changed. The Bible says all of creation is now waiting for God to put it all back together again, which will not happen until Jesus returns for the second time.

Adam and Eve knew they had sinned, and hid from God in the garden. Their choices had consequences; choices always have results. They were no longer permitted to live in the beautiful garden of Eden, but had to work harder, in a world that no longer was perfect.

But God still loved them. He made clothes for them to protect them, and immediately began His work to restore them to fellowship with Him. This work won’t be complete until Jesus paid the penalty for sin, for Adam and Eve and everyone else, on the cross. And it won’t fully restore the fallen creation until Jesus returns to reign as King

Please join us Sunday as we study this important event in history. And it’s a great Sunday to invite a friend!

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You are a very special creation, created in the image of God. Our Vacation Bible School this summer has a great song with the words:

I am who the great I AM says I am,
I am one of His greatest creations.
He says I am remarkably, wonderfully made,
And I am who He says I am.

You’ll want to be with us this Sunday—and remember, it’s F.R.O.G. (Fully Rely On God) Sunday. Practice your “ribbits” and wear green—and bring a friend.

Tom and Sydney Cook

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We will look at the seven days of creation and how God created all the different and wonderful things that we enjoy today. For instance, God didn’t have to create color! He could have made a black and white universe. But instead He gave us millions of colors to enjoy.

You’ll want to be there each Sunday as we learn about God’s Wonderful Creation. You can bring a friend, too!

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This Sunday we will look at just one of the healing miracles: the healing of the man born blind. Even the man’s neighbors had a hard time believing that he had been healed…they thought he must be someone else! The religious leaders certainly didn’t want to admit that Jesus could heal someone. But the man who had been healed kept telling people, “I was blind, but now I see!”

Once you really meet Jesus, you will never be the same.

Join us this Sunday for some neat games and more about the miracles that Jesus did. We probably will meet in the classroom right next to our regular room, while we still are working on the water damage in our classroom. But we’ll have a great time anyhow. Bring a friend and join us!

Tom and Sydney Cook

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Jesus had compassion on the people and continued to teach them until late in the day. Then everyone realized that it was late, they were far from home (or anywhere they could get food), and they were hungry. The disciples told Jesus to send the people away, but Jesus knew that they needed food.

That’s when Andrew found the boy with a lunch of five loaves of bread and two fishes…not much to feed the crowd, which was at least 5000 men plus women and children. But, after Jesus had everyone sit down and had blessed the bread and fishes, the disciples had enough to pass out so that everyone had plenty to eat. They even filled up twelve baskets with left-overs!

Jesus was able to do this miracle because He is God. He did it because people had a need and He had compassion on them. It also helped them to believe that He really was the Messiah sent from God.

We will celebrate Valentine’s Day this Sunday with special refreshments. We will also have another play to dramatize the story. This would be a perfect day to come and bring a friend!

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This Sunday we’ll be looking at the night on the Sea of Galilee when Jesus came to His disciples walking on the water. They thought He was a ghost! When Peter realized that it was the Lord, he asked if he could walk on the water, too…and Jesus helped him to do it, until Peter stopped trusting Jesus and started worrying about the wind and waves and water. But Jesus still took care of Peter, and told the disciples that they shouldn’t be afraid.

You won’t want to miss this exciting story…and it’s a great week to invite a friend to come with you!

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Many of the believers left Jerusalem to seek safety in other places. As they went, they told others the good news about Jesus, and others came to believe in Jesus.

The place we will study about this Sunday is Antioch, to the north of Israel. At Antioch many who were Gentiles (not Jews) believed in Jesus. A church grew up there, and Barnabas was sent from Jerusalem to help the new believers. Barnabas went to find Saul of Tarsus, who came with him to help teach the new believers in Antioch.

It was here in Antioch that the believers were first called “Christians” — “Christ ones” — because they tried to live like Jesus.

We will learn this Sunday how the church in Antioch took up an offering for the believers in Jerusalem, who were experiencing a famine. You’ll want to join us (with a friend!) for this exciting story of the early church from the book of Acts.

Tom and Sydney Cook
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The apostles, the eleven men who had been with Jesus for the three years of His ministry, were needed by the church to pass along Jesus’ teachings. They knew that others could take care of the widows’ needs just as well. But it had to be the right kind of people who were entrusted with this important task.

We will learn this week about how seven men were chosen by the church, prayed for and blessed by the apostles, and charged with making sure all the members of the church were taken care of. We have men in our church who do a similar duty today, and we call them “deacons.”

But, really, everyone in the church needs to watch out for every other member. We are called to serve one another, just as Jesus showed us when He washed His disciple’s feet before the last supper. This week we will talk about what kids can do to take an active part in serving others in the church. It’s great to be a part of what God is doing among His people!

See you Sunday—and remember to invite a friend.

Tom and Sydney Cook
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One of my favorite things about the church is that God has put it together so that everyone has something to contribute, and everyone is needed to make the whole. Some teach, some preach, some sing, some pray, some clean, some help, and so on. We have greeters and ushers, custodians and secretaries, pastors and teachers, and all kinds of other jobs that need to be done. THe Bible says that God gives each church member gifts to use in His body, the church, and we all work together to help bring about His kingdom.

Our memory verse is also one of my favorites: “We are God’s fellow workers.” (1 Corinthians 3:9). God has chosen to give us a part in what He is doing in the world through His church, and as we work with other church members we are really also working with God Himself. It’s great to be a part of what God is doing!

Join us this Sunday as we celebrate the church, and also celebrate our great Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions collection with doughnuts and orange juice. The Children’s Division did a great job!

Of course, this would be a great week to bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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