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)
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