What is Pure White?

The kids started with bean bag hot potato to review of our verse.  Psalm 139:14 " I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well."    

Carrie asked "What is Pure White?"  Purity was our Godly Characteristic that we focused on today.

This week in Good News Club we focused on the story of Adam and Eve from Genesis 2-3:24.  Carrie taught the kids a song about the beginning of heaven and earth.  Then, God created the Garden of Eden and Eve to be the companion for Adam.  Sadly, next we see the serpent tempt Eve and introduce sin into the world.  What had been been pure and lovely in the garden is now destroyed by sin.  

Sin is anything we say, do, or think that does not please God.  First we had pure white, then darkness was added by sin in our hearts.  But, the Good News is Jesus died on the cross to be our blood covering for our sin.  When we believe that He was the Son of God and ask for forgiveness of our sins, He will cleanse us and make us pure white.  

This lesson was continued with our small group time when the kids had to pick the color swatch of pure white. (We had various shades of white, but only one matched the pure white color paint swatch.)  The pure white reflected absence of blemish, defect, or sin.

Just like in the story, we are like Adam & Eve because we have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.  Rom 3:23

 

God gave up His only Son to make YOU AND ME pure. 

“For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.”2 Corintians 5:21

Because..."For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

He loves you THAT MUCH! He gave up His son FOR YOU!

What do we have to do to be pure and live forever with Him? Believe that Jesus Christ came to die and take the punishment for your sins. 

This is our sole desire for each of the children in Good News Club to believe and grew in His grace!

Happy New Year! - 2010

Glad to see all of your kids at Good News Club yesterday! We had a great turn out, in fact, we are at our cap enrollment.

The kids began club with our Jesus chant/hug song. This works on our counting, coordination, cooperation with others, praising God, and singing all rolled up into one song. Fun to watch too with our 3rd grade girls helping with the motions. David & Lynn led us in worship and our new song this semester will be the "Happy Day Song".- "It's happy day that Jesus washed my sins away and we'll never be the same!"  See the Lyrics below.

"I am...Somebody!" Steve Faris impressed upon the kids that we are purposely created in God's image and we are a wonderfully made by him. We are not somebody because of how fast we are on the soccer or football field, how good looking we are, how smart we are, how many friends we have. God made us and designed us just the way He wanted in order to know Him and worship Him. He is the creator. We reviewed Genesis 1:1-2:4, the story of the creation of the world. Steve emphasized the Godly characteristic of purposeful.










Our memory verse is Psalm 139:14 " I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Please work on this with your kids as our goal is for them to memorize it. We will do this verse one more week. Thanks to Kathryn Keaton leading us and her student helpers- Kaitlyn, Luke, Ella, and Webster.

In small groups, we talked about how God created the earth out of nothing. “Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.” Genesis 2:7 He was very purposeful in all of His creation. The kids were given Wiki sticks and they created something out of nothing. Ask them what they made. As they worked, their leaders talked about how God made man to love and worship Him. It is the most important difference between man and all other creatures. We are chosen and loved by God.

Help your kids focus this week on the character of God. What does it mean that,"We are God’s workmanship, created in Chirist Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."? Ephesians 2:10 “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

Thanks, Good News Club Team!

HAPPY DAY

VERSE 1

The greatest day in history                       

Death is beaten, You have rescued me

Sing it out Jesus is alive           

The empty cross the empty grave                       

Life Eternal, You have won the day

Shout it out Jesus is alive, HE’S ALIVE

CHORUS

Oh happy day, happy day                       

You washed my sin away

Oh happy day, happy day                       

I'll never be the same

Forever I am changed

VERSE 2

When I stand in that place                       

Free at last meeting face to face

I am Yours Jesus You are mine

Endless joy perfect peace                                   

Earthly pain finally will cease

Celebrate Jesus is alive,  HE'S ALIVE

CHORUS