We had a great summer in the CBC Student & Children's Ministry and we are excited about the fall. So far we are off to a great start on our Wednesday Night Missions Bible Study and our Sunday Night Student Worship. Praise God for the growth we have seen over the past several months. God is doing some great things with relationships in our ministry.
The past two weeks we have been in a Sunday School study entitled "Loving Muslims". It has been a great couple weeks of learning how to love people who are not like ourselves. The love of God is so much bigger than loving people in our little group of friends, it is bigger than loving people who are different than us, it's even bigger than love people who hate us. The love of God encompasses all people in every situation... and Christ commands this type of love from us. The discussion has been wonderful as I have seen students work these ideas out and hopefully we will see some real change in the way we all love people.
This week we will be back in our Orange curriculum and will begin a series called "Reflection". The first week we are going to set up the series by talking about the masks that we all wear. Most of us know we can’t be perfect at everything, but we do have certain areas where we want to appear like we are. We want to be desirable and valued. We want to feel we are worth something. But in order to get those things, we feel the need to cover up who we really are. This week we will encourage your child to begin to allow others to see him or her for who they really are. We want your child to be free from hiding behind masks.
To help prepare your child for SS, find a way to work this question into conversation this week(maybe in a car ride or during commercials): What are some masks you hide behind? Why do you hide?
It may be out of left field. It may not be the way you've ever thought. Consider it.
Jordan
“He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.” Proverbs 14:26b
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