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Save the Date! CCC will host our first ever Spring Jamboree on April 28th. This event will be held in the beautiful Paynes Prairie State Park. This is a church-wide event, all are welcome.
More information to come in the next few weeks. If you are interested in checking out the facilities, hiking trails, overnight camping, the observatory or other attractions please check out the State Park website here
http://www.floridastateparks.org/paynesprairie/
More info to come!
Your March Parent Cue can be found at the link above.
Last month your Toddlers and Preschoolers focused on loving God with ALL their hearts! They learned that was the first and greatest commandment that Jesus gave us in Matthew 22. This month our focus is on the second greatest commandment, Love One Another.
Our monthly memory verse comes from John 15:12 Love each other as I have love you.
Jesus loves us and everyone! This month we will see examples of how Jesus loved all people, not matter who they were He reached out to them and showed them love and compassion.
**a note about the monthly memory verse. Please know that each months memory verse is designed for children 18 months through 5 years. If your child needs more of a challenge please feel free to teach them it in full.
John 15:12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
The above link should take you to the Monthly Parent Cue. This is a review of each weekly lesson, ideas for ways to help the truths of the stories stick.
If you have any problems with this link please leave a comment so I can continue to make this available to parents! Enjoy our month of Love! We will be doing a lot of fun activities this month to help our toddlers and preschoolers grasp such a huge concept.
Since September we have been making available, in the Toddler and Preschool rooms, a parent “Cue”. This is a little handout that we have made available so you can take home the materials that will be taught in your child’s class room each week. We have started doing this because we want you, as the parent, to be the first teacher in your child’s spiritual education. I will continue to make a few of the paper versions available for you, if you are a paper sort of person. But I will also be writing a post here each month for you so you can sit with you young children and talk with them about the Biblical truths they will be learning each week.
This month’s theme is Jesus Can Do Anything!
This month’s memory verse is: “With God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
Can you tell the stories this month will focus on the amazing miracles Jesus did during his ministry here on earth? They will, not only are we learning that Jesus can do anything because he is God, but its because of God’s power in him that all things are possible for Jesus. Our curriculum uses a lot of interaction with the story so that it comes to life in the imagination of a 2, 3, 4 and 5 year old. This month we want your children to know that Jesus did some amazing things to point people to God. Not only that, but as Jesus was traveling around healing the sick, walking on water, and feeding huge crowds he was sharing the Good News. The Good News that God cares about us so much he sent Jesus to heal us from our brokenness, our sin. There is healing and we can be fixed through Jesus and be with God forever.
Our first story this week comes from Luke 5:1-11. I love this story because even though Simon Peter and his friends had been fishing all night and were ready to quit, when Jesus asked them to cast out their nets once again Peter replies, “we’ve worked hard all night long and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” Peter obeys the words of Jesus, because he is Jesus, for no other reason but because he is Jesus. Peter didn’t know he would pull in the biggest catch of his life by obeying, the reward was huge! Not only did Peter catch fish, but at the end of this story Peter and his friends left their boat and nets to follow Jesus not only physically, but with their hearts too.
On January 15th the story will come from Mark 6:30-44, where Jesus feeds a huge hungry crowd with one boy’s lunch. We will learn that Nothing is too hard for Jesus!
January 22nd we will learn about Jesus doing even the impossible, walking on water in Mark 6:30-44
And finally on January 29th we will see that Jesus has power over everything, even a storm. That story comes from Matthew 8:23-27
Please take time each week to read these stories with your children from the bible, ask them what they think the story is about. Children have big ideas, read together and discover how wonderful Jesus is and what he did for us.
Well it’s just about a week away, our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services. We wanted you to be completely informed as to what is going on for each of these services so you can prepare and plan with your children and visiting family.
Christmas Eve:
There will be two services planned on Christmas Eve, this is Saturday the 24th of December . The first service is our Family-Child-Friendly service. This means that there is no child care available for this service. Families will have the opportunity to sit together during this service. The nursery will be open for parents who need to step out with a restless child, and available to nursing mothers. The speakers will be on in the nursery so that anyone in that room will be able to continue listening to the service.
This service is at 6:30pm, HOWEVER, caroling and hot chocolate starts at 6:15pm on the patio. This will be an enjoyable time for us a a church family and our visitors.
*If the weather is chilly please dress your children appropriately.
The second service that evening is at 8:00pm, and like the first service at 7:45pm there will be carols and hot chocolate on the patio. This service will be one hour long, and include communion. No child care is available for this service either. The nursery will be open for parents who need to step out with a restless child and nursing mothers. Also there will be “worship-help” canvas bags at the Information table for children who come to this service to pick up before the service and return after. ***This service will be a communion service.
**Both services will have a candle light portion
Christmas Day:
On Christmas morning we are gathering to celebrate the birth of our Savior! We will have a celebration service 10:00-10:30am followed by a celebration refreshment time. There will be no child care available for this service. Also a portion of this service will be reserved for giving. We are collecting wrapped and unwrapped, new and gently used books for children and teens of all ages. These books will go to the Shands Children’s Hospital. (If you wrap your book please label it with the age range of the book, thank you)
**If you have any questions about any of these services please feel free to contact Holli Best at: hollibest@gmail.com. Or call the office at 379-4949.
