Here's what your child will be learning about in kidSPACE this month!
Preschool:
November continues October's theme of "David's Story." David's story is a part of God's Big Story, and we are a part of it too.
This month's David stories teach preschoolers that, "God gives me good friends." The first two weeks of the month, children will learn of David and Jonathan's amazing friendship. Then, they will learn that David was such a good friend to Jonathan that he sought out Jonathan's remaining family and cared for Mephibosheth. During these first three weeks, preschoolers will talk about what it means to be a friend, how to help and serve those around them. Finally, preschoolers will celebrate God and His friendship in the last week of the month. They will dance and sing and praise their heavenly Father. Be prepared for lots of noise and crazy preschool fun on this day.
Verse: “Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do.” Ecclesiastes 4:9, NIrV
This month's David stories teach preschoolers that, "God gives me good friends." The first two weeks of the month, children will learn of David and Jonathan's amazing friendship. Then, they will learn that David was such a good friend to Jonathan that he sought out Jonathan's remaining family and cared for Mephibosheth. During these first three weeks, preschoolers will talk about what it means to be a friend, how to help and serve those around them. Finally, preschoolers will celebrate God and His friendship in the last week of the month. They will dance and sing and praise their heavenly Father. Be prepared for lots of noise and crazy preschool fun on this day.
Verse: “Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do.” Ecclesiastes 4:9, NIrV
Elementary:
God can do ANYTHING. There is literally nothing God can’t do. He knows everything and He sees everything and He is powerful enough to make anything happen.
Even though God is completely self-sufficient, He doesn’t work alone. From the very beginning, God looked for a way to work with the people He had created to accomplish His plan. God worked with Noah to build the ark that saved both people and animals. God worked with Moses to bring the Israelites out of slavery. And when Jesus stepped onto this planet, He worked with His friends and disciples to share the message of God’s love with the world.
Just like God doesn’t work alone, God doesn’t want for us to work alone. God wants for us to work with others. Because COOPERATION is working together to do more than you can do alone. God wants us to seek help from others, and be ready to offer help to others. When we don’t cooperate with others, we will always be limited in what we can accomplish.
But we aren’t made to only work with other people. We are also made to cooperate with God. And it’s when we learn how to work with God and others that, in His strength, we can do incredible things.
This month, let’s think about how:
(1) God is omnipotent. He can do anything.
(2) God still chooses to work through us, and use us according to His purposes. He chooses to cooperate with us—even through He doesn’t need to.
(3) If we cooperate with God, and if we cooperate with others as God has designed us to do, we will see His power at work in our lives to do more than we could ever imagine.
Verse: “Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do.” Ecclesiastes 4:9, NIrV
