The Holy Spirit, Our GPS! Doctrines #7&8: Baptism in the Holy Spirit and the Initial Physical Evidence of Speaking in Tongues!

This Sunday!

As Pentecostals, we believe the Pentecostal experience is available to all believers.  However, if children have no scriptural basis for this belief, they may be hesitant or defensive when confronted with questions or ridicule from non-Pentecostals.  Instead of being able to explain the reasons why they believe as they do, kids with only a vague knowledge of the term Pentecostal may be confused and silent about this experience.  This Sunday we are going to help them to understand that the Holy Spirit is given to us as a Companion to give us help and strength for witnessing.

This week as we look at Doctrines #7 & 8 we will help our kids develop a biblical perspective of the Pentecostal experience.  This lesson can, not only prepare your children to answer questions about the baptism in the Holy Spirit but, lay a foundation that will help them as they desire and receive this glorious experience for themselves.

And then to wrap everything up, they can go straight from getting saved and filled into the adult service for water baptisms!  We have a couple of our kids following Christ in obedience through water baptism.  It’s going to be an awesome Sunday!

CANS FOR CHRIST!

Time to turn those collected cans in for $$

You can either collect them, crush them and take them into the recycle place yourself and then turn in the money, or bring in your bags of cans by NEXT WEDNESDAY AT

 and PK will make a huge delivery to the place and collect the money for missions ON THURSDAY! 

Congrats to the Clubbers of the Month!

Some Kids Drain Energy Out of Family Life

Some children have the ability to suck the energy right out of family life. These children are demanding of your time, need a lot of correction, and seem to be magnets for conflict. They are often emotionally explosive but almost always drain the energy out of parents and other family members. Unfortunately then, these children develop a negative view of themselves based on the high amount of negative feedback they receive.

One solution is to teach them to add energy back into family life. We use the term "honor" to describe the process of thinking of others above yourself. If Jack seems to get people riled up each afternoon before dinner, set an appointment with him at 4:00 pm for several days in a row and ask him to look for three things he can do to add to family life. He may decorate the dinner table, encourage his brother, or prepare something nice for Dad's arrival home.

If Jack continually antagonizes his sister, tell him that he needs to think of three nice things to do for her before he can go on with family life. Don’t tell him exactly what he needs to do. If you decide what Jack needs to do and tell him to do it, that's obedience. When Jack chooses, that's honor. Honor treats people as special and does more than what's expected. Jack needs to learn how to add energy to family life instead of taking it away. Challenging children in this way helps them to think differently.

Teens need to learn honor because it will make them more effective in life. Hidden within honor are the secret ingredients that make people more successful in relationships. Teaching honor is worth the work, because honor changes people.

This idea comes from the 13-week children's program called, The Kids Honor Club, by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller. It contains Bible stories, activities, crafts, and games to raise the awareness level of honor in your family. Just watch what happens to your kids as they learn to develop honor in their lives in fun ways. This material is great for a church children's program or even for an individual family.

THIS SUNDAY!!

Jesus instituted the ordinance of communion as an act of remembrance.  When we take communion, we are to look back to what Jesus had done for us by His death on the cross.  But communion is also a time of looking forward as we anticipate His return.  “For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” 1 Corinthians 11:26 (This week’s memory verse.)

In this week’s lesson we will be teaching the connection between the first Passover and our Communion celebration – that Jesus is our Passover Lamb.  We will help your children realize that before taking communion, we must first examine our lives, acknowledge and repent of any sins, and ask God’s forgiveness.  Only then do we eat the bread and drink the juice in remembrance and in honor of the great sacrifice Jesus made in dying for us.  We will start the process (that we hope you will continue to discuss with your kids) and encourage them not to take Communion lightly but to partake by first seeking forgiveness and then remembering how much Jesus suffered to provide our freedom from sin.