January in FEC Kids

Prayer:

Please click HERE to see the FEC Kids January Prayer Guide

Please see Prayer — First Evangelical Church on our church web page to see more ways to be prayerfully involved at First Evan!

Community:

January is a time for new beginnings! “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation— the old has gone, the new has come!” 2 Cor 5:17. It is appropriate, then, that after years of working through the entire Bible and finishing in Revelation this past December, our children will be re-starting our cycle of scripture study in Genesis this semester!

FEC Kids’ January Events:

Sunday Mornings:

9:15-9:30- Elementary Kids Play Time, C-110/112

9:30-10:30- Sunday School, all ages, various classrooms

(See Discipleship section for lessons!)

During the Week:

Beginning the week of January 6th…

Tuesdays @ 9:30 am: Women’s Bible Study; Register for PreK Childcare

Wednesdays @ 5:00-6:00 pm: Dinner in the Fellowship Hall

Wednesdays @ 6:15-8:00 pm: Midweek Programming

Discipleship:

Our Sovereign and Good God Rules over Creation and has given us His Word, the Bible

January Key Passage:

O LORD, how manifold are your works! I wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures —Psalm 104:24

Big Picture Question:

Who is God? God is our Creator and King

Praising in Song:

All Creatures of Our God and King (written by William H Draper, based on a poem by St. Francis of Assisi, 1225)

Sunday School Lessons

(The Gospel Project):

Sunday, January 5: God Created the World (Genesis 1-2)

Sunday, January 12: Sin Entered the World (Genesis 2-3)

Sunday, January 19: The First Family (Genesis 4)

Sunday, January 26: The Great Flood (Genesis 6-9)

*Tuesday morning PreK Childcare will be a PreK Bible Study to reinforce their Sunday morning lesson, taught by Emilee Ferwerda.

Wednesday Midweek Lessons

(Awana, Agents of Grace) :

*Memory Verses TBD

Wednesday, January 8: The Bible is True & Useful

Wednesday, January 15: The Bible is The Standard

Wednesday, January 22: The Bible is Trustworthy

Wednesday, January 29: The Bible is Helpful to Correct

Encouragement:

“…Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing pslams and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” (Colossians 3:12-17)

How do we get dressed? The first step is to get the clothes out. Second step: put them on. I always think about my devotional life at the beginning of each new year— you may be the same. I am convicted this year more than ever of my desperate need for God’s Word and His Grace to clothe my sinful self; to get out the Word, and then put it on, an act that requires purpose, time, planning (not always what I am good at…)

But there is no hope of putting on a compassionate heart without first knowing God’s compassion, no kindness to give unless I receive it from him, no humility or meekness to relinquish my rights unless I follow His course, no bearing with unless I know I am borne, no forgivness for others unless I rest in His grace… and on it goes. One cannot give what one does not have; I have nothing without Jesus and thank goodness He loves me! It is my prayer that the word of Christ will indeed “dwell richly” in the members of our Church body this year and that we would be a people of ever-increasing love & gratitude, for though we are limited and may fall down sometimes when we are “getting dressed,” His love knows no end. “We are weak, but He is strong.”

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift” (2 Cor 9:15). Happy New Year, FEC Kids!