We still worship Jesus today. There are lots of ways we can do this, and we will talk about some of them this Sunday. See how many ways to worship Jesus you can think of before Sunday.

This is also the last day to fill our class coin jar for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Let’s do our part to reach our church’s goal of $100,000. Remember, all the money goes directly to the mission field, to support our missionaries as they tell people around the world the Good News about Jesus!

See you Sunday—

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Please join us as we have a real celebration of Jesus’ birthday. This is a great time of year to ask a friend to come with you to Sunday School, too!

And don’t forget our opportunity to help our missionaries telling people the good news about Jesus all around the world, as we bring money for our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering jar. Remember, every penny of this offering goes directly to international missions.

See you Sunday—and Merry Christmas!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Next Sunday we’ll turn to the Angels whom God sent to let Mary and Joseph know that the Great Promise was starting to be fulfilled. The Christmas story is just full of angels…more than any other time in Biblical history. The angels were doing their job of getting people ready for Jesus’ promised birth.

Don’t forget to bring coins to fill our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering jar to support our international missionaries. This is a special time of year for our missionaries, too, as they thank us for our financial support throughout the year. Help us fill our jar as our church seeks to meet its goal of $100,000 for missions.

Join us Sunday—and bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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How did God take care of Jonah?

How did God take care of the sailors?

How did God take care of the people of Nineveh?

We’ll have fun with the story of Jonah this Sunday…a great time to invite a friend.

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Daniel was put in the den of hungry lions, for the crime of praying to God (as he had always done three times a day). Because he had been faithful to God, God was faithful to him and sent an angel to close the mouths of the lions. God knows what we need (better than we ourselves know), and He is able to take care of our needs, no matter what. We can fully rely on God’s care for us.

You’re doing a great job bringing in Thanksgiving food bags to share with needy families. So far we have collected over 300 pounds of food. This Sunday is the last time to bring in your decorated bags filled with food to share with others in our area. Last year our church delivered food to 35 families—several who had no other food in the house when our deacons arrived. Thank you for sharing what God has given you, and helping as He cares for others through your generosity.

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Two men in the Bible stand out when we think of wisdom. Solomon, the third king of Israel, was especially known for his wisdom, which he had asked God to give him. Daniel, advisor to at least four different kings during the captivity of Israel, was always very ready to explain that all of his wisdom, from interpreting dreams to reading mysterious writing, came from God.

This Sunday we’ll look at an example of Daniel’s great wisdom. Belteshazzar, king of Babylon, gave a great feast and brought out the golden cups which his ancestor Nebuchadnezzar had looted from the temple of God in Jerusalem. Bad choice! A hand appeared during the feast and wrote mysterious words on the wall, which no one was able to read. No one but Daniel, that is…with God’s help.

We will learn what the words meant and how they came true that very night, as God judged the actions of Belteshazzar.

This would be a great day to invite a friend to Sunday School. Don’t forget your Thanksgiving bags filled with food for needy families!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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The story is about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, three Jewish captives in Babylon who lived a little more than 400 years before Jesus was born, who refused to obey King Nebuchadnezzar’s law that all must worship his 90-foot golden statue. They knew that the right thing to do was to continue to worship the One True God, as they had always done. Even when threatened with death in a fiery furnace, they trusted that their God could save them if He chose. They knew that whatever God did would be for the best.

God did in fact choose to save the Jewish men, and did it so miraculously that the King and his court were amazed when the three men not only survived the furnace, but with no scorching of their clothes and even no smell of smoke on them. Only the ropes which bound them had burned off.

Join us this Sunday as we take a look at some of the things that kids your age might fear, and how we can trust God to help us face our fear with courage.

This would be a great day to bring a friend…and also to continue to bring in food for needy families at Thanksgiving.

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Your answer is probably “from the Bible,” and that is true. But much of what we learn about God from the Bible comes from the stories about what God has done…how He deals with people through His acts in history, in stories about nations and about individuals.

During the month of November we will be learning about God’s power through the stories of how He dealt with Old Testament heroes…who were really just ordinary people who chose to believe and follow God. They loved God and tried, with His help, to follow His ways.

This Sunday we will study one of the best-known stories in the Old Testament—the story of David and Goliath. When David later became king of Israel, he was known as a “man after God’s own heart.” When he faced Goliath, he was still really just a boy—most likely a teenager.

Everyone likes this story because Goliath, the bragging bully of a Philistine soldier, was beaten by a younger and smaller David. But the real meat of the story is why David was willing to fight Goliath when none of the other Israelite soldiers, including King Saul, would take on Goliath’s challenge. David knew that Goliath was insulting not just the Israelite army, but the very God of the Israelites. He knew that God would not stand for this, and would help David as he stood up to Goliath in God’s name. He didn’t just believe that God would help him—he knew that God would give him the victory.

We’ll have fun remembering the story together, measuring out Goliath’s height (nine feet nine inches), and dramatizing the story. You’ll want to join us this Sunday, and also to bring a friend!

Don’t forget our Thanksgiving food drive…bring in your decorated bags filled with staple food to help needy families at Thanksgiving.

Tom and Sydney Cook
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Do you remember our acrostic receipe for JOY?

• J - Jesus First
• O - Others Second
• Y - Yourself Last

The story this week is about a time when Jesus showed His disciples the way to be greatest in His kingdom…by serving others. Jesus Himself washed the feet of each of His disiples—a dirty job that usually the least of the servants would be given. Not only was Jesus doing a service that needed to be done, showing care for His disciples, but He was setting them an example of how they should serve one another.

We will put our study into practice as we start this Sunday our month-long collection of food for needy families at Thanksgiving. Our entire church will be collecting food, but our class will make a contest out of it as we prepare festive Thanksgiving bags to remind us to bring in food and to remind the families who receive it what Thanksgiving is all about. We will have fun each week weighing in our bags and see which team can bring in the most pounds of food. Our deacons will distribute our food with all the rest that is brought, and then will report back on how we have helped needy families have a thankful holiday.

This would really be a great week to bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook

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But it is important for us to forgive others, too. Jesus talked much about forgiving others. When Peter asked Him how many times he should forgive someone, Jesus’ answer was seventy times seven…or, in other words, “who’s counting?” Jesus taught that if we had something against another person, we could not really worship God until we had forgiven that person. He forgave Peter for denying Him. He even asked God to forgive the people who were crucifying Him.

If we have an unforgiving spirit (like wanting to get even, to make the other person suffer), there are two big problems. One is that the unforgiveness gets in the way of our relationship with that person, and we avoid them or are mean to them. The other is that the unforgiveness “eats away” at us as we think about getting even, resulting in all kinds of spiritual, emotional, and even physcial problems.

So Jesus teaches us to forgive others—even if they don’t ask to be forgiven. The story this Sunday is about the man whose friends let him down through the roof of Peter’s house in Capernaum, where Jesus was teaching. They weren’t able to get in through the door for all the people, so they ripped a hole in the thatched roof and lowered their friend, who was unable to walk. Jesus took care of the most important thing first—He forgave the crippled man’s sin. Then, to prove to the scribes and Pharisees that He really was able to forgive sins, He also healed the man’s paralysis and told him to take up his mat and walk.

Jesus will forgive us, but He reminds us that in the same way we need to forgive those who need our forgiveness.

This would be a great Sunday to bring a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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