Serving

For the next 4 weeks, we will be using the life of Jesus to teach your kids about service.  Here is the definition we have for what service means:

This posture of the heart asks the question, "What needs to be done?" It allows the Holy Spirit to cultivate a sensitivity to others and focuses on a cause bigger than one individual life. It helps fulfill the mandate that as Christ followers we are to view our lives as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1-2) that we generously give away!

In this very first week we will all (even the adults) will be talking about Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus in John 3. In this account truth needed to be told. The truth is: Jesus came to save people, not to punish them. Through his death and resurrection, people would have new life; and only through God's Spirit can people truly become born again children of God. Through the rest of the chapter, Jesus asserts that being "born again" through baptism and into a new life is what is required to receive eternal life, not just believing in him.

But if we continue, we can see that following Jesus is not simply about just believing in him (even the demons do that). He wants our whole live; he wants all of who we are. That is the pure essence of why we serve others, to give Jesus all that we have.

I am looking forward to the next 4 weeks in KidQuest and FirstLook but the best thing of all about teaching your kids about service is a project we hope will engage your whole family and help you begin asking the question, "What needs to be done?"

From May 8-15 we would love for you to participate in what we are calling Families SERVE Experience. We are going to provide you with materials that will help guide your family into a week long serving experience.  You will have times for family devotion and discussion and times to get out of your house and do a act of service in your neighborhood or community.  Then on Sunday May 15, we will come together for our Family Effects service at 5:00 pm and share a meal together, have a time of family worship and share what God did through us in the past week!  This is going to be a great experience and we don't want your family to miss out! The Families SERVE Experience packets will be available starting April 24.