Good Monday morning! I finally I am feeling like my old self again. After mom passed it has been so hard to get back in the swing of things at home & at church, but I am finally feeling like I am not just going thru the motions. I am looking forward to fall and all that it holds. Move up day is this Sunday & that is exciting. I get a few new kids in my Sunday school class & some move on to youth. This will also be Mrs. Leslie's last Sunday to teach. She is going to enjoy some Bible time with ladies her own age. After years of being dedicated to teaching children about Jesus, Leslie deserves to immerse herself with ladies who love The Lord and get to learn and grow with them. Please lift her up in your prayers because I know she will miss teaching. Our new programs came in last week for Sundays children church and for Wednesday nights. I am excited and pleased with both of them and look forward to rolling them out the first week of September. Ashley has found us a Christmas musical and more info will be coming on that soon.  I had said that I wanted to split Sundays CC up some so it isn't all ages together every Sunday and Vicky Redden has came forward and she will be teaching Bible songs to the 4 & 5 years old starting Sept 7. I am not for sure how many Sundays this will be for but she wants to teach them music and then they can perform those songs for the church. I think
This is great because our little ones love to sing and dance where as the older ones usually do not. I look forward to hearing the Bible song... Music that will stay with them for their life! Teresa Coley & Paula Hopper will be doing Bible drills with the 4th & 5th graders on Wednesday nights towards the end of class. This will begin September 10. The younger kids will work on just getting more familiar with their Bibles. Bible drills are new for us so I am excited about that and that we have ladies who see the need for Bible drills and are willing to serve and meet a need! I also wanted to remind y'all that we are still collecting food for the RMS food mission project. Just drop your items off anytime in the red bucket. This is a continuous mission project for us. Thank you to all who brought school supplies. There is so many kids who do without & we need to keep serving them when we can. Thank you for how you serve!

I have to tell you about yesterday's Children's church lesson and I am going to try an attach the link where you can try it at home. I drew 2 stick men on the board. One man was Humble  Dude & the other was named Proud Dude. As I added each feature, the eyes, the mouth, the ears, the hands and the feet. I was able to point out how each feature could be use to show a prideful attitude or a humble attitude. Let me use the mouth for example. Proud Dude speaks words that hurts others. Humble Dude uses words that encourages others. Proud Dude likes to stomp his feet when things don't go his way. Humble Dude doesn't because he puts others needs before his own. Proud Dude uses his eyes to look for others weaknesses and then calls them out. Humble Dude uses his eyes to find the positive in others and points that out.  The children saw at they end that we do not want to be Proud Dude. We discussed the verses Philippians 2:3-5 which says, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus." So I challenged them to think about it. Are they Proud Dude or Humble Dude? Which one are you? Is your attitude like that of Jesus Christ? Do others come first or are you an all me, me, me type
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Pray for our church, Joey as he leads, pray for our new programs and new people coming into serve with the children. I hope you have a great week and I hope to see you Wednesday night . The website for the full lesson on pride & humility is www.ministry-to-children.com, then search for Pride vs. Humility: A Bible lesson for children