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