BEST Messy Game Night EVER - Wed, Oct 27th!

5th & 6th Graders - get ready for the BEST Messy Game Night Ever! Invite your friends for this crazy, fun event! You'll spend the whole evening playing gooey, sticky, slimy games! It's going to be a blast!

Pumpkin Party - Wed, Oct 27!!

Taking Initiative

We’re going to show INITIATIVE this month by seeing needs in our community and doing something about them!
There are people in Washington and the surrounding towns that don’t have the resources to eat or to provide food for their children. We're going to work with HACAP this month to provide food boxes to families. Each box will feed a family of four for three days. Your children will receive a list at Sunday School and at KidStuf of food items they can bring . We’re encouraging kids to bring one or more of these food items each Sunday morning and Wednesday evening this month. That’s INITIATIVE!!

INITIATIVE - New Virtue for October

All through October at Sunday School and KidStuf we’ll be talking about INITIATIVE. Initiative is the ability to act on your own. The enterprising spirit needed to take that first step. The ingenuity to imagine how to solve a problem. SEEING what needs to be done and DOING it.

We’ll be memorizing Philippians 2:4 - Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. What a great reminder for all of us! We’ll spend the whole month taking a look at Nehemiah – an incredible Bible character who showed great initiative.

Here are some things we think kids need to understand and start putting into practice when it comes to initiative, and each one of these is modeled in Nehemiah's life:

When there's a job to be done, first you have to see it. Nehemiah recognized there was a problem in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 1).

When there's a job to be done, don't wait for someone else to do it. Nehemiah stepped up to the plate, even though it wasn't his "job" (Nehemiah 2).

When there are people in need, don't wait for someone else to help them. Nehemiah did something about other people's problems (Nehemiah 5).

When you've done what YOU can do, trust God to do what He can do. Nehemiah consistently did everything he knew to do and relied on God to do the rest (Nehemiah 6; 8).

Click Here for a video about the importance of INITIATIVE. It's going to be an INCREDIBLE month!

We'll be taking INITIATIVE by seeing some needs in our community and meeting them. Check my next post for details.