God floods the earth (10.04) helps, Memory verse connections and a Tim Hawkins video!

LESSON HELPS:
Noah's story is not about a cool boat.
It is about God's judgment and God's mercy.

God's shows grace to those who repent.  Therefore we should turn from sin and follow Him

MEMORY VERSES:
James 1:19 - 20
Know this, my beloved brothers; let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger
for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God

Lesson connection:  Sin is a HUGE problem.

Psalm 77:14b
You have made know your might among the peoples.

Lesson connection:  God wants us to worship and obey Him and when we don't there are consequences.

VIDEOS:
Resource video



2014-07-27 CM Preview from Faith Church on Vimeo.



Here is Tim Hawkins sharing his thoughts on Noah's ark.
While he is a hilarious comedian, this 1:16 clip captures a serious problem many people have when looking at stories like Genesis 6 and 7.




TEACHER RESOURCE PAGE

You can find the parent take home page at ekidzministry.com

Again in the Beginning! Find out more.

Again in the Beginning

Tomorrow we begin another time through the Bible with the Generations of Grace curriculum.

Tomorrow, at 9:15 in the children's chapel, Pastor Dave will be there to review some of the the new features and resources of the curriculum. 

Along with some other resources for teachers to use in their classes.

The info about this meeting was in the church email this week.  This is another reminder.  

Some of the information from this meeting will be posted later this week on this blog.  

We are using the same curriculum (generationsofgrace.com) but they have added some additional resources to their curriculum.

Thanks for your service!!

UPDATE INFO about Generations of Grace: Our curriculum

In a couple of days the following post will be put on the ekidzministry page.

I wanted you to get the information first.

If you have any questions please let me know.  

Thanks!! 

The Children's Bible curriculum we are using 

at Emmanuel Baptist Church is called

Generations of Grace

There are several reasons this curriculum was chosen

Biblically Driven

God-centered
Christ exalting 

Family focused/Unified 

You can read more about what each of these mean at

http://generationsofgrace.squarespace.com/description/

After using the curriculum for 3 years 

we have come to realize there are some weaknesses.

difficulty of some crafts

lack of full color resources

difficult material for some of the age groups

how to teach the same lesson at 9:00 and 10:30

The revised edition coming this summer will include the following

pictures of completed crafts

sets of full color illustrations

new activities, games and illustration ideas

two age appropriate teaching outlines

You can more about the curriculum at

http://generationsofgrace.squarespace.com/faqs/#

One of the new parts of the curriculum I am especially excited about 

is the Family Devotional 

The Family Devotional provides five daily devotionals that correspond with each lesson in the teacher book. 

It was created to make children’s ministry what children’s ministry should be—

a way to equip and encourage parents to fulfill their duty to train up their children in the Lord. 

Each daily devotional indicates the portion of the passage to be read, provides concise insights into the passage, 

and suggests questions and discussion ideas, some simple for young children and 

others requiring a lot of thought for older children and adults. 

It also includes pictures illustrating the lesson.