Family
Connection
10.30.2014
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"Be
like the Son of Man (Jesus), He did not come to be served. Instead He came to serve others. He came to give His life as the price of
setting many people free."-Matthew 20:28 (NIrV)
I want
to say "thank you" to all of the kids and families who sent in
pictures of your serving together this month.
I hope this was fun for all of you, especially your kids as we have been
encouraging them to serve. As promised,
we have drawn two names from the children who submitted pictures and those
families will receive 2 family fun packs worth $100 each ($50 gift certificates
to Harkins and In N Out). The names we
picked were Brody Johnston and Murphy Robinson.
The Johnston and Robinson families will receive these family packs! Congratulations. Even though the contest is over, keep on
serving, it's what Jesus wants us to do.
Very
often, Chad will say that we are never more like Jesus than when we give and
when we serve. This is true in so many
ways. While I never want to guilt people
into serving, as a pastor it is important to me that I share the truth with
children and families. If we follow
Jesus, He is our example and we should do what He did. Jesus served.
He made it very clear that His followers should also serve others. When we serve others, we take our eyes off of
ourselves and look at them. When we look
at others, it can help us to see them the way God sees them, as individuals He
loves and wants to have a relationship with.
When we model serving to our children, we are actually helping them to
see Jesus and to grow closer to Him.
If you
already have a place here at the church where you serve, I want to thank you
and encourage you to keep going. If you
don’t currently serve somewhere at the church can I ask you why? I’m not being critical, I really want to
know. We want to provide easy
opportunities for people to serve in Children’s Ministry, but it is possible you
may not know this. You can help us
identify where we can improve by sharing why you don’t serve. Here’s something else you may not know,
serving in Children’s Ministry is a blast!
I’m not sure who has more fun each weekend, the kids or the volunteers. Feel free to contact me if you have any
questions.
This
week in Kids’ Zone, we are continuing our Follow Jesus to the EXTREME
series. This weekend we will start a new
virtue of Thankfulness-Showing God and others I appreciate what they do for
me. We will encourage kids to show their
thankfulness all month.
In our
Early Childhood ministry we will be looking at the basic truth of God made, all
month, and will looking at the theme of being thankful. This week we will be looking at Genesis
1:6-10 and how we can be thankful that God made the water. The verse for this month is “I will give
thanks to the Lord with my whole heart.”-Psalm 111.1 (ESV).
Thank
you for trusting us to help your children meet, know and follow Jesus.
Walking by your side,
Brett Humphrey-Pastor H
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Twitter - @BrettHumphrey11
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Email - bhumphrey@sunvalleycc.com
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