For the 9:45 Fourth Grade Sunday School Class of Jersey Baptist Church
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Mon, 20 Aug 2007
Aug 20, 2007, 13:50
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Sunday, August 28 will be our fourth annual Jersey Family Reunion, so there will be no Sunday School that day. We will all meet across the road at the pond for a joint worship service beginning at 9:45 a.m., baptisms in the pond, and a picnic lunch with hamburgers, hot dogs, and lots of goodies. Check out the details on the Jersey Baptist Church Reunion page.
Hope to see you there!
Our new class will begin on Sunday, September 2. We’re looking forward to meeting our brand new fourth graders!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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Jersey Famly Reunion
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Mon, 13 Aug 2007
Aug 13, 2007, 21:28
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Next Sunday will be the last time our class meets before promotion on September 2, when our fourth graders will move into their new fifth grade class. [There will be no class meeting on August 26 due to the all-church picnic.]
We’re glad you have been with us this past year, and want to celebrate our great time together with a graduation party. You will receive a personalized diploma (to the music “Pomp and Circumstance,” of course) and a CD memento with pictures and videos of our class this past year, plus lots of the games and activities that we have used in class.
We will have refreshments and goodies as well.
Of course, we will be studying the Bible for our last sesson on telling people about Jesus. This Sunday’s theme will be telling the truth…it’s always the right thing to do, and it’s always pleasing to God. We’ll learn about Paul’s arrest in Jerusalem and how he shared all about the time he met Jesus on the road to Damasas…a story Paul loved to tell over and over.
Please come and share this special time of celebration with us. We very much appreciate your being with us in Fourth Grade Sunday School, and wish you the very best as you begin Fifth Grade. Come back and see us now and then!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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Graduation Party
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Wed, 08 Aug 2007
Aug 08, 2007, 16:29
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Did you know people were watching your actions? What you do—the things you say, the way you treat others, your attitudes and even your smile—make a difference in how other people, adults and children, think about you.
Today’s study, about Paul and Silas in Philippi, is about how our actions can help tell others about Jesus. There is someone around you for whom you are the best Christian they know. Jesus said that, if our lives and actions show His kind of love and joy, others will be attracted to us and want the same kind of abundant life that He came to give everyone.
The way we can help others know Jesus by our actions is really to stay very close to Jesus. We must spend time with Him by reading the Bible, by praying, by learning and worshiping with other Christians. That’s the way you can have the best life yourself, and it will attract others to want to know more about Jesus as well.
Sunday, August 19, will be our graduation party, with diplomas, gifts, and refreshments. This is mainly for our class, but you can still bring a friend.
Sunday, August 26, is the church Family Reunion, and our Sunday School class will not be meeting. Check out the church web site for details at the Jersey Family Reunion page.
Sunday, September 2, is Promotion Sunday, and all our pupils who have completed Fourth Grade will go to the Fifth Grade class (right next door).
See you Sunday!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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Tell with Your Actions
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Tue, 31 Jul 2007
Jul 31, 2007, 15:58
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The Bible is the record of God’s revealing Himself to people, beginning in the Garden of Eden, through Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the prophets, and reaching its highest point in the life of Jesus. It records how God worked in history, in the lives of men and women, boys (like Samuel when he was very young) and girls (like Miriam, Moses’ sister) to make sure people could know His message.
God wants to use us, today, to tell others about Him and His story in history. The month of August will find us studying events from the life of Paul, who spend his life traveling around the world telling people about Jesus. This Sunday we’ll be looking at Paul’s first missionary journey, which finds Paul and his friend Barnabas preaching in what was then called Asia (today we know the area as “Turkey” ).
You’ll want to join us as we learn about the dangers that Paul and Barnabas faced, and how they kept on telling people about Jesus.
Don’t forget to bring a friend!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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Tell What God Has Done
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Thu, 05 Jul 2007
Jul 05, 2007, 11:30
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Has anyone ever done anything to you and then apologized—asked you to forgive them? Sometimes it’s hard to do, but it’s always best to choose to forgive. The story we study this week is one of Jesus’ most famous parables, or stories—the Prodigal Son. Join us as we learn from the example of the Father in the story how we can choose to forgive others, no matter what they have done to us.
Don’t forget to sign up for Vacation Bible School—it starts on Monday, July 16. We’re planning a great week as we celebrate Game Day Central—Where Heroes Are Made!
See you Sunday! It would be a great day to bring a friend.
Tom and Sydney Cook
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Choose to Forgive
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Wed, 27 Jun 2007
Jun 27, 2007, 14:57
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We all make lots of choices every day. Some of them are easy, like what clothes to wear or what to have for breakfast. But some of them can be much harder and very important, like whether I should do what my friends ask me to do, or whether I should obey my parents.
During the month of July we will be getting help from the Bible about making choices. This Sunday (July 1) we will be learning the Golden Rule — where Jesus taught us to treat others as you want to be treated. We’ll look at the iron rule and the silver rule, too…rules that don’t please God but that many people follow.
We will be learning to make choices that please God, that result in the very best consequences, and that will bring us the happiest lives. The Bible is the secret to making the best choices!
You’ll want to be there Sunday…and bring a friend!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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Choices! Choices!
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Wed, 20 Jun 2007
Jun 20, 2007, 12:37
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This Sunday we will finish our lessons on prayer as we learn about Hannah, an Old Testament woman who really, really wanted a son. She was very sad because she had no children. While her husband Elkanah was kind to her, his other wife teased her and made her cry.
Hannah went to the tabernacle at Shiloh and prayed that God would give her a son. God answered her prayer, and He has promised to give us the things we need as well…and He has even promised to give us some of the things we want (but don’t necessarily need). The Bible speaks of God’s giving us “the desires of our heart,” mainly when we love God so much that what we desire is the same as what He desires for us (which, after all, is always what’s best for us).
Remember that we will be making gifts for our fathers this Sunday! We’re sorry that we could not be with you last Sunday—we missed you. But hopefully your fathers won’t mind waiting a little for the great gift you will give them.
Also, the treasure chest will be back for you on July 1 — so keep memorizing those verses!
See you Sunday—and bring a friend!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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God Will Provide for Our Needs
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Tue, 05 Jun 2007
Jun 05, 2007, 16:09
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It is really not surprising that, since God created everything, has all power and all knowledge, and can be everywhere at once, He is able to do anything He chooses. And everything He chooses to do is good, right, and just. It’s really great that, with all this power, God still loves us and wants us to spend time with Him in prayer and worship.
This Sunday we’ll be learning about how King Herod (the grandson of the one who tried to kill Jesus by killing all the babies in Bethlehem) decided to kill Simon Peter, and threw him into a Roman prison. Pretty scarey. But Peter must not have been scared, since he was sleeping so soundly that the angel that God sent to rescue him had to nudge him to wake him up. And the believers in Jerusalem were concerned, but they were praying for Peter’s release from Prison.
And God did it! Two soldiers sleeping next to Peter and chained to him weren’t able to stop him, nor were the other two soldiers outside the prison cell. Peter got up and walked out, with the gate opening by itself. Isn’t God awesome?
Please try to use your prayer journals…just make a note in them from time to time (actually every day is best) about things you would like to pray for. The main thing is to spend time with God, telling Him what’s on your mind, just like you would talk to a friend. The more each of us can do this, the more we will be able to live the way God wants us to live…pleasing to God and best for us, as well.
See you Sunday…and bring a friend!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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God Can Do Anything!
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Tue, 29 May 2007
May 29, 2007, 10:14
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During June we will be learning about prayer—talking to God! How great it is that God invites us to talk with Him through prayer. It’s a great honor and privilege to communicate directly with the Creator of the universe, and to know that He loves us and wants us to express praise and thanksgiving, bring our requests, and to pray for other people. It is important for us to pray…for prayer changes things!
This Sunday we’ll be learning about the Model Prayer (perhaps you know it as the Lord’s Prayer), which Jesus taught his disciples when they asked Him to teach them how to pray. It will help us, too, to know how to pray as Jesus wants us to.
We’ll be learning more from other Bible characters during the rest of the month. You’ll want to be there every Sunday…and bring a friend!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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Talking to God
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Mon, 21 May 2007
May 21, 2007, 13:33
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Everyone could use some help—especially the other people in our families! That’s one of the great things about families: they help one another, especially in times when someone has a big problem (like illness or making big decisions) but even with the little things (like scratching your back or putting on a bandage).
This Sunday’s story is about Miriam, the older sister of Moses, from the book of Exodus. Miriam was about your age when she helped her mother and baby brother with the scary task of watching over the baby in the basket, floating in the Nile River, to make sure nothing happened to him. Then she was brave enough to talk to the Egyptian Princess (Pharoah’s daughter) and arrange for their mother to take care of Moses for the first three months of his life.
Miriam had an important part in God’s plan to bring the captive Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
This week I want to read to you a book about Miriam. It is a picture book designed for somewhat younger children, but that means that we will have time to read the whole book and that you can sit back and relax as we learn the story of Miriam. I think it does a good job describing how Miriam helped her brother.
See you Sunday—and bring a friend!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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Help!
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