Next Gen Blog 
In Preschool on Sunday, we finished up our series on the topic of "God made me." We focused on the fact that God made us to tell others about Him, teaching from Matthew 28:16-20 and Mark 16:14-18.
Check out the Small Talk (Skipping, Building, and Connecting Stones) or Big Talk (Leaping, Jumping, Corner, Living, and Mile Stones) cards for our memory verse and an activity to do with your children.
For Grade School, we extended our series on patience for one more week so that we could finish the story of the exodus. We showed the children that God was faithful to bring the Israelites into the promised land, and extended that to the present day. We talked about God's promises to us and that for all those who have faith in God, God will be faithful to save them. The bottom line was that God has a plan to rescue those who believe in Him.
Check out the God Time cards for some daily devotionals that your children can do by themselves, or together with you.
This month, in grade school, we are studying about cooperation. We are defining cooperation as working together to do more than you can do alone. Look at the scriptures, it is clear over and over again that it is not good for man to be alone (Genesis 2:18). We are called to live in community. But I think as we all know, living in community is hard, especially for our kids. But what a great opportunity to teach about the gospel. The gospel frees us to love in community. The more we undertand about the gospel, the more we are free to share, to help, to give, to serve, to not be jealous, to forgive, etc. When your children have trouble cooperating with others, it is a great opportunity to talk about the gospel. Also, cooperation is important because when the body is working together, it functions much better and we see God advance his kingdom. So here is what we will be studying this month.
Virtue: Cooperation - working together to do more than you can do alone.
Memory Verse:“Two KEEP READING
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Guest post by Kimberly Stewart.
On May 4th, there was a fire in our neighborhood and it was b/c of that fire that we met Alessia and her two daughters, Adreanna and Angelina. They came in our home that night and lived with us for a week and a half as they got things back in order....or should i say, God provided things in order above and beyond any of our expectations.
There are many details, but what happened in short is that God had been pursuing Alessia since she was born in Germany 23 years ago. As she shared her life with us, i noticed this. As we shared our life with her, God began to fit the pieces together for all of us. Alessia believed their was a God...but had no idea about the good news the Bible spoke of. We and many others shared this good news with her and on Mother's day, May 10th, God called her to Himself and she was saved b/c of the great work of Jesus! a Glorious day for so many of us...and the next Tuesday we baptized her in our yard! see post below. Alessia KEEP READING