This is what kids will be learning about in kidSPACE during the month of July:
Preschool:
July is a continuation of the Creation theme that was started in June. God saw all that He had made and it was "good". Preschoolers will learn that God only makes good things, and that includes them too! What an important concept to grasp as they get older.
Verse: God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Genesis 1:31
Elementary:
Last month we focused on what it means to love and trust God with all our life, not only for the first time, but every day. This month, we want to take a look at something that will begin to happen in our lives as a result of our love and trust in God. When you love and trust God, you will love others.
This love isn’t a command. It’s a fact. It’s impossible to love and trust God, and not love the people whom God loves. 1 John 4:20 says this: “Anyone who says he loves God but in fact hates his brother or sister is a liar. He doesn’t love his brother or sister, whom he has seen. So he can’t love God, whom he has not seen.” (NIrV)
Throughout His ministry, Jesus taught His followers what it meant to love others. He taught how to love our neighbors, how to love our enemies, and how to love those who were overlooked and marginalized. He demonstrated the kind of love that He taught in the way that He lived. And He gave us the ultimate example of love when He died for us.
So, how do you follow Jesus’ example? How do you love a God you can’t see and touch? You love the ones HE loves. And when you love them, you will begin to understand God more, and you will learn to love and trust Him more as well.
Our monthly Memory Verse brings it even closer to home by encouraging us to “Love your neighbor as yourself,” Matthew 22:39, NIV.
When you put your trust in God, and you live your life in response to Him by loving Him and loving others, you will live a much better story. Your life will be EPIC because it’s going to be part of something bigger than just you!
By Cara Martens. ©2012 Orange. All rights reserved. www.WhatIsOrange.org * All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Preschool:
July is a continuation of the Creation theme that was started in June. God saw all that He had made and it was "good". Preschoolers will learn that God only makes good things, and that includes them too! What an important concept to grasp as they get older.
Verse: God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Genesis 1:31
Elementary:
Last month we focused on what it means to love and trust God with all our life, not only for the first time, but every day. This month, we want to take a look at something that will begin to happen in our lives as a result of our love and trust in God. When you love and trust God, you will love others.
This love isn’t a command. It’s a fact. It’s impossible to love and trust God, and not love the people whom God loves. 1 John 4:20 says this: “Anyone who says he loves God but in fact hates his brother or sister is a liar. He doesn’t love his brother or sister, whom he has seen. So he can’t love God, whom he has not seen.” (NIrV)
Throughout His ministry, Jesus taught His followers what it meant to love others. He taught how to love our neighbors, how to love our enemies, and how to love those who were overlooked and marginalized. He demonstrated the kind of love that He taught in the way that He lived. And He gave us the ultimate example of love when He died for us.
So, how do you follow Jesus’ example? How do you love a God you can’t see and touch? You love the ones HE loves. And when you love them, you will begin to understand God more, and you will learn to love and trust Him more as well.
Our monthly Memory Verse brings it even closer to home by encouraging us to “Love your neighbor as yourself,” Matthew 22:39, NIV.
When you put your trust in God, and you live your life in response to Him by loving Him and loving others, you will live a much better story. Your life will be EPIC because it’s going to be part of something bigger than just you!
By Cara Martens. ©2012 Orange. All rights reserved. www.WhatIsOrange.org * All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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