Last week I encouraged you to check out the Sunday School Online Resources at rio.davidccook.com/rio/family.aspx.
This week I'm going to link you to the featured blog post on that website.
Click here to read about one mom's new family tradition - keeping a prayer journal together. This might be a good way for your family to do devotions or bedtime prayers together. Its always neat to be able to look back (days or weeks or years later) and see how God answers our prayers (often in surprising ways!)
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Outreach Opportunities your family can participate in! Read Friday's weekly email to learn about 2 family-friendly service projects coming in October.
9/27/11
9/20/11
Online Family Resources
Did you know our Sunday School curriculum has easy-to-access online resources for your family?
Click here to get there!
(The web address is rio.davidccook.com/rio/family.aspx anytime you need to get to it.)
Highlighted This Month:
Click here to get there!
(The web address is rio.davidccook.com/rio/family.aspx anytime you need to get to it.)
Highlighted This Month:
- click on "Newsletters" in the left-hand column, then "September" just to the right. Here's what you'll find:
- guidance on worshiping and praying together as a family, and discussing tough topics like "why do bad things happen" and forgiveness
- recipes, craft/organization ideas
- this month's Sunday School memory verses, lesson themes, and conversation prompts!
9/14/11
Choir Begins!
You've been waiting for it, and now its here! NPC choirs for grades K-5 begin this Sunday, September 18. Here's all you need to know:
K & 1
2nd - 5th
Questions? Comment. I'll do my best to answer.
Choir flyers will be available on Sunday and your child's choir leader will contact you with all relevant info once you've signed up.
K & 1
- TIME: 10:25-10:55
- LOCATION: school gym
- GETTING THERE: Let us know to take your child from Sun. School to choir, by checking that box when you sign in at chapel
- PICKING UP: Pick your child up from choir in the gym at 10:55
- SIGN UP: There's a choir sign up sheet. Add your name to it as you sign in at chapel, or pick up from choir
2nd - 5th
- TIME: 10:25-10:55
- LOCATION: school music room
- GETTING THERE: Let us know to take your child from Sun. School to choir, by checking that box when you sign in at chapel (2nd Grade), or telling your child/his teacher (3rd-5th)
- PICKING UP: Pick your child up from choir in the gym at 10:55 (unless 3rd-5th parents indicated on their enrollment form that your child can leave on his own)
- SIGNING UP: There's a choir sign up sheet. Add your name to it as you drop off for chapel, or pick up from choir
Questions? Comment. I'll do my best to answer.
Choir flyers will be available on Sunday and your child's choir leader will contact you with all relevant info once you've signed up.
9/6/11
renewing the covenant
I'm big on new beginnings. I love the idea of starting fresh. A clean sheet of paper makes me happy; so much potential, no mistakes... yet. New beginnings are only new for so long, and no matter how sincere we are in our commitments we know we aren't perfect and mistakes are inevitable.
Thank goodness that God's mercy is new every morning! In fact, His mercy and forgivness is never-ending and doesn't only come at the start of a new season or new day, but whenever we need it. It actually preceeds us!
The start of a new day or season is a great time to renew vows and commitments we have made, but rest in the fact that it is God's faithfulness that counts. (He is the one who makes us faithful.)
Before the Israelites renewed their covenant to God in Joshua 24 (a covenant they did not keep) they recounted the story of God's faithfulness to them. God had been with them all along, opening every door and illuminating every step, and He would continue that always.
Thank goodness that God's mercy is new every morning! In fact, His mercy and forgivness is never-ending and doesn't only come at the start of a new season or new day, but whenever we need it. It actually preceeds us!
The start of a new day or season is a great time to renew vows and commitments we have made, but rest in the fact that it is God's faithfulness that counts. (He is the one who makes us faithful.)
Before the Israelites renewed their covenant to God in Joshua 24 (a covenant they did not keep) they recounted the story of God's faithfulness to them. God had been with them all along, opening every door and illuminating every step, and He would continue that always.
Joshua 24:13-15
New International Version (NIV)
13 So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’
14 “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
14 “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
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