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“We need to keep our heart full of a sense of the love of God. This is the greatest perspective available to us against the power of temptation in the world…Fill your heart with a sense of the love of God in Christ, and apply the eternal design of grace and shed blood to yourselves. Accept all the privileges of adoption, justification, and acceptance with God. Fill your heart with thoughts of the beauty of holiness…then in the ordinary course of walking with God, you will experience great peace and security from temptation.”
–John Owen
All 4th and 5th graders are invited to join us for Club 45 this Sunday, November 20 at 3:45 pm. We will be meeting in the multi-purpose room at the church office complex.
Club 45: Exclusively for 4th and 5th graders, this group exists to show, express and teach the love of Christ to children and their families, regardless of their background in the church. Through monthly club meetings and other events, we will encourage your children to grow and mature in their faith by helping them have a great time with other children and with volunteers who have a heart for them. .
Remaining Club 45 Fall 2011 Dates:
November 20 December 11 – Christmas Party
“God confronts us with pain and suffering because He desires to reveal His goodness to us. But the goodness of God will not be validated by any attempt to prove it apart from faith. We experience His goodness only through the revelation of His glory. And the supreme picture of His glory can be seen only through the irony of the Cross. Through this irony, God compels us to look at Him with wide-eyed wonder.”
–Dan Allender
Mo Leverett will be playing tonight at The Bagel Bakery @ 7pm.
What I love about that video is that we hear from pastors that are there year-round in Sudan. They know these children and are working to bring them into a relationship with Jesus. And that is the next step that Samaritan’s Purse is taking in the areas in which the boxes are delivered. They have started a program called The Greatest Journey. This program is a 12 lesson discipleship courses designed for children around the world to know who Jesus is and how to follow Him. It is taught by trained, LOCAL teachers who are invested in the children in their area.
This next video shows children in Mexico go through The Greatest Journey course and graduate from it. This is an exciting extension of Operation Christmas Child because it means that local pastors and teachers are participating in actual discipleship of the children. The shoe box gift is just the beginning…the gospel message is moving forward and children are embracing it and following Jesus all over the world!
