NPM BLOG is here to share announcements, share what our little ones are learning, and share the Gospel each week. We get to connect with our NPM Team, NPM Families, and our little ones through our NPM Facebook Group & our NPM Instagram (new this 2023 - 2024 year!) Join us - Connect with us! COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER 2023 Our GHC Nursery & Preschool Ministry will be starting a NEW Curriculum on Sundays - Starting on September 3, 2023! Hyfi engages little ones with a fun high-energy experience created just for them! Trustworthy Bible teaching is wrapped in fun monthly themes. We know that fun and games always serve a deeper purpose—to connect our little ones to Jesus. When little ones learn to cheer for a team, work together playing a game, or learn alongside their friends, they begin to experience a sense of belonging, which opens their ears and hearts to listen to spiritual truths. Dear families,
Imagine this for a moment: It’s late Saturday night, and you’ve been out of the house all day. You’ve gone from place to place with more to do than seemed possible when you looked at all of it on the calendar. You’ve just returned home and sat down for dinner. Suddenly you remember that tomorrow is Sunday. You quickly recall that you are scheduled to serve with preschoolers tomorrow morning, your small group is having lunch together after church, and you are yet to plan out this upcoming week—which is just as packed as your weekend has been. The thought crosses your mind, What if I just sat this one out tomorrow? Does this scenario hit close to home? In Ezra 3, as the work had begun to rebuild the temple, there was an eager desire among God’s people, leading them to anticipate what that place would afford them upon its completion. As the people worked and waited, even in the midst of their exhaustion, they made time to worship. Read Ezra 3:6. Not only was the temple incomplete, but the first stage of the build was not yet done. Still, the laborers did not forget or fail to keep the purpose in front. The goal was not the temple; it was the Lord. We often find ourselves in scenarios like the one above, ready to make excuses to not do the things that matter most because we’ve misplaced our priorities—or at least lost sight of them in the whirlwind of life. Our decisions reflect what has the seat of greatest importance in our lives. Hebrews 10:24-25 says, “And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.” Understanding Christ to be our greatest purpose and prize ought to direct our paths toward prioritizing our lives around Christ and His church. Not only will this be good for us, but it will be good for the rest of God’s children as well. When we are eager to be with the Lord and His people, not only will we be productive, but we will be truly satisfied. Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: God Can Always Be Trusted (Jeremiah 31)
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Sunday, August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. Celebrating with our GHC Family! This Sunday, August 13th Our NPM Team will be meeting for it's 1st Training Day of 2023-2024! Praying for a time to grow as a team, to prepare and plan for the new school year, and to PRAY for our NPM little ones, families, team, and ministry! CLICK HERE and See our 2023 -2024 NPM TEAM Training on our NPM Facebook Dear families,
Peace and security are words often heard in the whirlwind of our news cycles. They are used as ideas or desires that require work to achieve. They are used in the negative sense of not being a current reality. They are used as the aim, answer, or solution to the world’s problems. Though the idea of peace and security are not foreign to our vernacular, they are most certainly foreign to much of our world’s reality. It is hard to find a pocket of the earth that might be described with these terms. Rather, what is most found is chaos and fear. When we understand the true impact of sin on the world, this comes as no surprise. It’s not shocking to see the news of war and violence. It does not bring amazement to hear of murder and strife. There is no astonishment at the experience of disappointment or pain. Because we know that we live in a world riddled with sin and its implications. Read the words of Zechariah 14:11. What comes to mind? “People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.” Are you struck by the thought of such a place that could be described as secure? Are you left longing for that to be your reality? Are you doubtful that this could ever be a reality? Ultimately, this is a promise that is sure to happen. This promise is reiterated in Deuteronomy 7:7-9: “The LORD had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors, he brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commands.” This promise was for God’s people then, and it is for all who follow Jesus today as well. This peace and security is ours in Christ. As sure as Christ has come, lived, died, and risen, so can we find rest that this promise is true and this day will come. Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: The People Rebuilt the Temple (Ezra 2–6) Excited to see everyone for PROMOTION SUNDAY! NPM Team is ready! Classrooms are ready! Our little ones are registered and ready! Can't wait to see you all this Sunday, August 6th! August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. Next Sunday, we get to celebrate and come along beside our parents and little ones. We get to conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. Looking forward to this special milestone event. Dear families,
Rest. It’s a word that conjures up different thoughts in different people from different circumstances. For some, rest brings to mind a desire to momentarily break from the chaos of life to sleep, relax, and even recover. For others, rest is an unrealistic hope as they navigate a non-stop schedule of busyness. Yet for others, the word rest suggests an uneventful, quiet life of the mundane. Whether it’s a nap, a vacation, or boredom that comes to mind when you think of rest, it is likely a word that triggers some desire or response. And almost universally, the thought of rest is primarily physical. The Bible teaches that rhythms of rest are good and even necessary for us; however, the Bible’s primary teaching on rest refers to the spiritual. In Ezra 1, God’s remnant is instructed to recover from their exile with … work. This work would be costly, demanding, and long; but this work actually aimed to bring rest. How could this be so? Because their work was to build the place where they would encounter the living God, the One who gives true rest to the soul. In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take up my yoke and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Though God clearly teaches us the benefits of a rhythm of physical rest—Sabbath—He ultimately uses physical rest to teach us of our need for a greater spiritual rest—a rest for our soul, a rest that comes in understanding that we cannot save ourselves, but God has done everything necessary through Christ to save us. We are invited into this rest through the substitutionary atonement of Jesus. The people of God are instructed in Ezra 1 to begin the arduous work of building God’s dwelling place. But this work would ultimately lead to their place of rest—in God’s presence. We too may find ourselves physically exhausted from the demanding work of faithfully following the Lord in the context He has placed us. But take heart, there is rest for your soul in the presence of God and the person of Christ. Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: Zechariah Gave Hope (Zechariah 13–14) TOMORROW - Sunday, July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August Special Snacks - Veggie Straws, Water, and Italian Ice CHECK ALLERGIES NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. NEXT SUNDAY! August 6th
PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Also availabe on our church center app to register for the new school year 2023 - 2024. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entereing is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. VBS Missions Backpack Drive final week! ENDS JULY 30th! We are raising school supplies and backpacks in partnership with Stonebriar Church and Cornerstone Baptist Church to pass out school supplies at Cornerstone Baptist Church in August. So join us in our missions effort to shine Jesus' light by helping meet some of the needs of inner city children in the Dallas area. Items to bring:
July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Parent & Child Dedication FORM Dear families,
I’m sure you’ve been there: That moment of decision when you weigh the risk versus the reward or the cost versus the benefit to determine what you will do. These moments may come in regard to something simple like whether to eat one more helping of mashed potatoes, if it is worth it to take a detour to try and avoid traffic on your way to the grocery store, or if it is the right time to buy that new pair of shoes. We may also face moments of discernment on much more significant questions: Do you take the new job opportunity that would relocate you and your family? Should you laugh at a colleague’s derogatory joke? Should you obey God even if it is costly or uncommon among the culture? These major points of decision require a degree of confidence and conviction. The question is not if we have confidence or conviction, but what our confidence is in and where our conviction comes from. In Daniel 1, Daniel has a deep confidence in the Lord and a conviction derived from the same. Psalm 71:4-5 models the pattern that I imagine Daniel progressed through in determining what to do in this moment of decision: “Deliver me, my God, from the power of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and oppressive. For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.” The psalmist displays a deep confidence in the Lord to rescue and a deep conviction to remain hopeful and faithful. This confidence and conviction propel him toward a God-honoring response to his circumstances and direction in his decision making. May this be our mode of decision making as well in all things, where our confidence in the Lord propels us forward and our conviction from the Lord steers our direction for His glory and our joy Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: Daniel Served God (Daniel 5) TOMORROW - THIS SUNDAY - July 16th Our STELLAR VBS decorations will be coming down Get ready to throw away & pack away VBS 2023! We will have 2 shifts 11am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3pm. Please contact Ann Yang & let us know you are coming! [email protected] VBS Missions Backpack Drive continues! We are raising school supplies and backpacks in partnership with Stonebriar Church and Cornerstone Baptist Church to pass out school supplies at Cornerstone Baptist Church in August. During VBS children, youth, and adults helped bring in lots of school supplies. Thank you to all those who sent school school supplies. We will continue collecting supplies in the Education Lobby until the end of July. So join us in our missions effort to shine Jesus' light by helping meet some of the needs of inner city children in the Dallas area. Items to bring:
NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Our spaces are filling up! Thank you to those who have already registered their child/ren for the new school year 2023-2024! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entering is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY During 1st Service (9:30AM to 10:45AM) Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August Looking forward to an Awesome 2023 - 2024! August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Dear families,
I’m sure you’ve been there: That moment of decision when you weigh the risk versus the reward or the cost versus the benefit to determine what you will do. These moments may come in regard to something simple like whether to eat one more helping of mashed potatoes, if it is worth it to take a detour to try and avoid traffic on your way to the grocery store, or if it is the right time to buy that new pair of shoes. We may also face moments of discernment on much more significant questions: Do you take the new job opportunity that would relocate you and your family? Should you laugh at a colleague’s derogatory joke? Should you obey God even if it is costly or uncommon among the culture? These major points of decision require a degree of confidence and conviction. The question is not if we have confidence or conviction, but what our confidence is in and where our conviction comes from. In Daniel 1, Daniel has a deep confidence in the Lord and a conviction derived from the same. Psalm 71:4-5 models the pattern that I imagine Daniel progressed through in determining what to do in this moment of decision: “Deliver me, my God, from the power of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and oppressive. For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.” The psalmist displays a deep confidence in the Lord to rescue and a deep conviction to remain hopeful and faithful. This confidence and conviction propel him toward a God-honoring response to his circumstances and direction in his decision making. May this be our mode of decision making as well in all things, where our confidence in the Lord propels us forward and our conviction from the Lord steers our direction for His glory and our joy Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: Daniel Served God (Daniel 5) NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Also availabe on our church center app to register for the new school year 2023 - 2024. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entereing is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. July 16th - Our STELLAR VBS decorations will be coming down Bring ladders and get ready to pack away VBS 2023! We will have 2 shifts 11am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3pm. July 23rd and July 30th - Decorating and Prepping NPM for Promotion Sunday & the new school year! Meet after 2nd Service - 1pm to 3pm each Sunday Please contact Ann Yang & let us know you are coming! [email protected] July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Parent & Child Dedication FORM Dear families,
God’s Word is living, active, sharp, powerful, and profitable. (Heb. 4:12; 2 Tim. 3:16-17) The Bible indicates that by the power of the Holy Spirit, God’s words teach, rebuke, correct, and train us so that we are fully put together for the work that God has created us for. The Bible is full of stories, illustrations, commands, warnings, and heart-provoking questions that provide for us everything we need. Yet, throughout our lives, we intentionally disregard God’s words for us. We are guilty of the same thing that Jeremiah 29:19 describes—not listening to God’s words. When we know God’s words and know that God’s words are good for us, why do we continuously neglect them? The answer is simple: we prefer our own way. Throughout the Bible, God warns us by direct command and historical example. We find explicit instructions to obey God’s words and explicit assurances of the pending consequences for refusing to obey His words. We find instances where God executes His justice on those unknowingly ignorant toward His instructions and those blatantly defiant toward Him. God takes His words seriously and expects that we do the same. What is your relationship to God’s words given to us in the Bible? Are you distant, aware, knowledgeable, or in awe? Are you dismissive, forgetful, interested, or obedient? God’s expectation is that we would hear and obey His words, that we would seek His truth and live His truth, and that we would know His instructions and heed them. The reality is that we all will fail to do this, but there is hope because of the One who has the title "The Word.” Jesus, the living Word of God, lived a perfect life in full obedience to God and His words, yet He died the death that we deserve so that in our failure, we might find hope. The answer to our struggle to listen and obey God’s words is not better listening, but a greater love of God, a greater hope in His Son, and a greater trust in His Spirit. His expectations are great, but His mercy is more. Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: Daniel Was Faithful (Daniel 1) NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Also availabe on our church center app to register for the new school year 2023 - 2024. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entereing is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. July 16th - Our STELLAR VBS decorations will be coming down Bring ladders and get ready to pack away VBS 2023! We will have 2 shifts 11am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3pm. July 23rd and July 30th - Decorating and Prepping NPM for Promotion Sunday & the new school year! Meet after 2nd Service - 1pm to 3pm each Sunday Please contact Ann Yang & let us know you are coming! [email protected] July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August! August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Parent & Child Dedication FORM Dear families,
From the garden of Eden to the great restoration of the last days, men and women have attempted to hide themselves from God, seeking safety and avoidance of the consequences of sin due to those who think, speak, and act contrary to God’s good design. We first find this in the garden following the initial sin of Adam and Eve. After seeking their own pleasure, satisfaction, and authority, they felt the onset of conviction over their sin. Their solution to this sense of wrongdoing was to hide from the One who made them, loved them, and had given them the instructions they rebelled against. No surprise to us, God knew where they were. He drew them out of their hiding and confronted them in their attempts to hide their sin. Even in the last days, this effort to hide from God won’t be successful. In Revelation 6 as the seals are being opened, verse 15 speaks of kings, nobles, generals, rich, powerful, slaves, and free people hiding in caves and among the rocks as the wrath of God for sin becomes more and more imminent. In an effort to hide from the God, they run for cover hoping they can escape the looming punishment. In the subsequent chapters of this apocalyptic letter, that coming wrath is revealed against the ungodly and their hiding proves to be to no avail. Reading these accounts of people seeking to hide from God brings to light at least two very important truths. First, we cannot hide from God. There is nowhere we can go in His creation that He will not be aware of. Second, God knows not just where we are, but every other detail of who we are as well. In light of this, Psalm 139 provides the most freeing of assurances to our failed attempts to hide, giving the reader a beautiful understanding of the sovereignty of God and the value of every human life. Not only is there no where we can go to hide from God, but every other detail of our lives is known to Him, and even determined and directed by Him. The next time you are tempted to hide from God because of sin, guilt, or shame, remember these central truths. There is nowhere you can go to flee from God. He knows you better than you know yourself. And He wants you to accept that, willingly confess your sin to Him, and trust that He is gracious and merciful to forgive His children because of His Son, Jesus. Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
** Next week: Jeremiah Encouraged God’s People (Jeremiah 29–30) HAPPY FATHER'S DAY - See our GHC NPM Facebook Group to see our little ones celebrating Father's Day! 2023 GHC VBS PREK
See our GHC VBS PREK WEEK on our GHC NPM Facebook Group to see our little ones having a STELLAR TIME SHINING JESUS' LIGHT! NEXT GEN 2023 - 2024 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! New Registration for each child must be completed each new school year. Registration for Nursery/Preschool, Kids and Youth is needed to continue to be included in all Next Gen communication, events and to participate in Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School for 2023-2024. The Waiver is required for each child. Also availabe on our church center app to register for the new school year 2023 - 2024. Please update all contact information. For Grade completed is the current grade they are in before being promoted in August. For Grade entereing is the grade the child will be going into when promoted in August. July 16th - Our STELLAR VBS decorations will be coming down Bring ladders and get ready to pack away VBS 2023! We will have 2 shifts 11am to 12:30pm and 1pm to 3pm. July 23rd and July 30th - Decorating and Prepping NPM for Promotion Sunday & the new school year! Meet after 2nd Service - 1pm to 3pm each Sunday Please contact Ann Yang & let us know you are coming! [email protected] July 30th - Our NPM END OF THE YEAR PARTY Celebrating all God has done in 2022-2023 and Blessing our PreK Blue Class as they step up to Kindergarten in August! August 6th - PROMOTION SUNDAY! ALL of our little ones will be moving up to their new classes for 2023-2024! Oh how they have grown! Love getting to continue to see how God grows our little ones and draws them to Him! August 13th – PARENT & CHILD DEDICATION SUNDAY This is a special celebration for parents to gather with family, friends, and church family, making a commitment to raise their child in a Christ-centered home. God has given you a precious gift! To celebrate and come along beside you, we conduct two Parent& Child Dedications each year. If you wish to participate in a Parent & Child Dedication, one is coming up on Sunday, August 13, 2023! We ask that you all preregister online. Parent & Child Dedication FORM Dear families,
Throughout 2 Chronicles 36, it is easy to see that God is the one who raises up and removes kings and rulers and all who are in authority. But this reality can sometimes shake us in profound ways. It may cause us to ask why. This question is fair considering that we often see rulers who don’t love God making decisions that display their lack of belief in God, and it is hard to imagine that God is the One who placed them in leadership. Why would God allow bad leaders to be in charge? This is a tough question, but Scripture speaks to it in several ways. For one, Romans 13:1-2 remind us to submit to those in authority since they are instituted by God himself. Therefore, to resist authority is to oppose the commands of God, so long as the authority doesn’t demand disobedience to God. Another place we see this principle play out in Scripture is with Daniel. We find Daniel rebelling against the king’s demand to worship something other than God. But we also find Daniel willfully subjecting himself to the king’s leadership in other circumstances that do not demand his disobedience. Further, we find Daniel actually praying to God and confessing that He is the One who changes brings about the rise and fall of leaders. Daniel 2:21 says, “He changes the times and seasons; he removes kings and establishes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.” The Bible teaches us that God stands sovereign over all things, even the rise and fall of leaders. That includes the most godly of leaders and even those that are most opposed to the things of God. The Lord, in His good purposes may be seeking to wake us up, bring consequence, or refine His people, but His purposes are always good. God is always working in all times and seasons. And though we may wonder about His purposes in certain circumstances, we can trust that they are always ultimately for His glory and our good, even when that is hard to understand or believe. Check out The Gospel Project At Home for resources designed to help you lead a family worship experience as well as suggestions for morning and evening prayer times and family activities. FAMILY TALKING POINTS CHRIST CONNECTION This is the big idea of how this week’s Bible story points to Jesus.
BIG PICTURE QUESTION & ANSWER This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
KEY PASSAGE This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
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