Weekly Update

3 Reasons They Keep Coming

3 Reasons They Keep Coming

I met with the elders last week to discuss the 10:10 Children ministry. They asked why I thought the older teenage boys keep coming back each week.
The best way to find out why someone does something is to ask them.  So I did. This is what they said.

It’s Fun.
You Get More Attention in a Small Group
You [...]

Love That Surpasses Knowledge

Love That Surpasses Knowledge

Ephesians 3:19 tells us that the love of Christ surpasses knowledge.
I have spent a lot of years trying to learn about the love of Christ. Trying to know more and understand it. Is it really possible to know something that surpasses knowledge?
One Thing I know!
Love is the reason Christ gave His life for us.

Unconditional love [...]

Pizza - Fun - Football

Pizza – Fun – Football

I told some of the older boys in my class that we were having a football party at our house with lots of pizza and food. One boy asked “How much pizza will there be.” I said there would be all you can eat.
His response: “All right, I’m coming.”  You will notice in the video [...]

Ballet and Cotton Bolls

Ballet and Cotton Bolls

To the Ballet
Sunday morning I asked my class of 8 junior high girls if they had plans Saturday night.  I told them I wanted to take them out to eat and to a christian ballet company’s performance.  I didn’t imagine they’d had much experience with anything like that and was afraid their response would be similar to [...]

Drive-by Shootings, Children and Christmas Gifts

Drive-by Shootings, Children and Christmas Gifts

One week before we delivered gifts to the children at this apartment, there was a drive-by shooting.
Real Guns, Real Shots and Real Children
You have probably heard of “drive-by-shootings”, but do you know someone who has been shot at? I have stood in front of this apartment door many times and visited with the family and children who live there. A week [...]

Gift Giving Christmas 2009

Gift Giving Christmas 2009

Many Gifts to Deliver

Many Gifts to Deliver

Be Thankful

Be Thankful

We dropped off about 25 children that had come to church with us on Sunday. I was leaving the Apartments and a man waved me down. He approached the car and asked if I could give him a ride to the store so he could buy some food.
Sure, I thought, and who’s going to pay [...]

Christmas Party Video

Christmas Party Video

Colorful Christmas Breakfast

Colorful Christmas Breakfast

On Sunday we brought about 25 children to church from the apartments. During Children’s Church we used 5 colors to teach the children about Jesus. We had green plates, golden eggs, black forks and chocolate chips, red strawberries and white whipping cream.

 
Black – Sin

Seperation from God
Death

Red – Blood of Jesus

Jesus died for us
Jesus paid the [...]