4th & 5th Grade Sunday School - October 27, 2013

Dear Kids Zone Families,

I hope all of you who were able to make it to the Harvest Festival had a wonderful time!  Thank you for aiding your children with memory verses and the home connection assignment.  Please let us know if they do the lessons or have them tell us so they can get more ice cream raffle tickets!

Oct 27th, 2013  Home Connection

Dear Parents,

This morning we will be looking at two different miracles that had two completely different results.  In the first miracle, a man begged Jesus to heal his son.  Jesus healed him and this lead to their entire household believing in Jesus.  In the second miracle, Jesus healed a man who had been lame for 38 years.  However, Jesus had done this on the Sabbath day of rest and so he was persecuted by the religious leaders of the time.  While both miracles resulted in a healing, they also resulted in either belief or unbelief.

In our key verse for today, Jesus reveals that it isn't a miracle that will give eternal life.  Believing in God is what leads to truly eternal life.

This week would you read the following part of the memory verse with your children.

John 5:24  "...whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life..."

See if your children understand the quotation.  Ask them whose word is being talk about and who sent him.

Thank you for partnering with us in ministering to your children,

Nancy and Severn

4th & 5th Grade Sunday School - October 20, 2013

Dear Kids Zone families,
   We had a great lesson this morning and missed and prayed for those that were absent. Thank you for helping your children memorize their Bible verses and 10 to 15 minute Home Connection assignments.  We check those on Sunday morning and the kids can put their names in for a drawing for a $5 ice-cream certificate in November.




                                                                                                                         October 20, 2013           
                                                                                                                          Home Connection

Dear Parents,

Who or what is influencing your child's thinking? Is it you, their friends, their teachers, the computer or TV? This is a serious question in the age of information or misinformation we live in.

In our lesson today, we acted out two interviews. First we looked at Nicodemus, an important religious leader who knew God was with Jesus, because of the miracles Jesus had preformed and found out that no one can “know” God in a personal away apart from belief in His Son and experiencing a “new birth” through the Holy Spirit. Next we reenacted the conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well. This exchange revealed Jesus’ knowledge of the woman’s life and his compassion for her. In both situations the people has some light, some belief, and were given more.

Jesus influenced Nicodemus and the Woman at the well with truth and light. The question we each must answer is -- what are we doing with the truth and light that we are given?
This week would you read with your children John 3:17-21, and discuss it? An would you pray for Severn and me as we seek to guide your children in truth and light.

Thank you,
Nancy and Severn

4th & 5th Grade Sunday School - October 5, 2013

October 5, 2013

Dear Parents,

In Kids Zone, we are digging deep into Chapter One of John's Gospel. Our objectives have been to:
1. Verbalize the purpose of John's Gospel (John 20:31)
2. Identify The Word as Jesus (John 1:1)
3. Explain how The Word provides light for our direction

This week we are looking at Matthew 2:1-12 and Jesus' birth. We will look at the responses of three groups of people that knew about His coming -- the Magi, King Herod and the Chief Priests and Scribes.

As the stores are already preparing for Christmas, we too can prepare our hearts for the celebrations of Jesus becoming flesh. How will you prepare? Will you be like the Magi who took time to come and bring gifts to the Christ Child, or like Herod who wanted to get rid of this rival to his position, or like the Chief Priests and Scribes, who knew the prophecies, but couldn't care less?

Will you talk with your child this week about the day that they were born and became apart of your family. Talk about who came to see and welcome them. What gifts did they receive, etc.
Thanks for letting us partner with you in your child's Christian education.

Kids Zone Teachers,
Nancy and Severn

2's & 3's October Sunday School Lessons

This is the 2's & 3's Sunday School lessons for October. We continue with the lessons about Samuel and obeying God.  Then it's about David helping his family

and how God cares for us.

 

Thank you,

Cindy Bare

2's & 3's Teacher

 

 

Unit 2:  I Can Know God Loves Me      Bible Verse:  I Love the Lord.  Psalm 116:1

 

October 6  Lesson 6   Helping at the Tabernacle        1 Samuel 1:28; 2:11, 18-21, 26

 

Samuel obeyed God by learning to be a helper at the Tabernacle.   We can be helpers, too.  We can be helpers to show how much we love the Lord. 

The Bible says, "I love the Lord."

 

Bible verse:  I Love the Lord.  Psalm 116:1

 

October 13   Lesson 7  Samuel Listens and Obeys    1 Samuel 3

           

The Bible says, "I love the Lord."  Samuel showed His love for the Lord by listening and obeying.  We can show that we love the Lord, too.  We can listen

to our moms and dads and teachers.  We can obey them, too.

 

Bible verse:  I Love the Lord.  Psalm 116:1

 

October 20  Lesson 8  Samuel Obeys God       1 Samuel 16:1-13

 

Samuel loved God.  Because he loved God, he obeyed Him and did what was right.  We can show our love for God by obeying, too.

The Bible says "I love the Lord."

 

Bible verse:  I Love the Lord.  Psalm 116:1

 

Unit 3:  I Can Show God's Love   Bible Verse:  With love, help each other.  Galatians 5:13

 

October 27   Lesson 9  David Helps His Family   1 Samuel 16:11-12, 18; 17:34-35

God took care of His people by giving them food and water in the desert.  God loves and cares for us, too, by giving us the

food and water we need.  God is so good!

 

Bible verse:  With love, help each other.  Galatians 5:13