Everything Kidz Rock!

Happy New Year to everyone!  We are glad to be back after some time off.  God is really directing us to be more effective in our ministry with your kids and I hope that you join us in this journey.

N’ Control

As a part of our Journey through John, we are still on our experience of knowing more about who God is.  We are at a point in our study in this book that this group of attributes point us to how we are to trust God with our lives knowing and believing that he is “in control” of everything.  We are using the theme of Football as we are going to use different aspects of a coach(God) and the  control he has over his team and how the players (people) are to submit and trust the calls and decisions the coach makes according to his “game plan” (the bible) because He is “N control!”   Feel free to change up whatever you like to fit your ministry, even change up the theme, but most important have fun with it.  Are you ready for some football?

Episode 1:  Authority

There are really different ways you can spin this. Jesus has been given all authority in heaven and here on here on earth.  He has authority and power over all things and this was given by God (Matthew 28:18).  Because Jesus has been given this authority all are to respect and honor him.  We are to trust the calls he makes in our lives and know that we too with his spirit have this authority.  Just like Jesus honored and obeyed the authority of God, his Father, he also honored the authority of the government while he was here.  To follow Jesus’ example of what it means to respect authority, we have also been given others over us how have authority to lead us and help us grow as kids to adulthood and even further.  To be like Christ we are to honor or respect these authority figures as they have been appointed by God.

Bright Idea:   Jesus is the one how has the power to control all things

Memory Verse:  And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Matthew 28:18

Attribute:  Authority-having the power to make decisions and push someone to obey

Jesus had done 2 great miracles or lets say displays of his power and authority.  Can you imagine seeing a huge storm a storm that is so bad that you think you are going t0 die and there is no hope?  Jesus, your friend is sleeping during this time. What?  The boat is rocking, the waves are hitting the boat, the wind is blowing and everyone on the boat is screaming in fear! Jesus is…SLEEPING!

The storms that happen in our lives…storms can mean a tough time for us, you know like things going on at school, with friends or even bad things happening to you at home.  But you this time may scare us and we may be asking for help and but we don’t see Jesus doing anything.  It may seem like he is sleeping and he doesn’t care about us.  But you now that really isn’t true.  It’s just that, nothing is too big to scare our God or even have him worried. Jesus just wants us to trust him.  We’ve learned and seen him do awesome things so lets just trust him.  Put your faith in him and he will take care of the rest.

After he calmed the storm and set the men free from their torment with the demons inside, the whole crowd of people were amazed and shocked at what he did.  Let’s always point others to Jesus.  When he does something awesome in our lives we don’t need to take any credit, we just need to point people to the God who has everything under control because he has the authority over everything.

Hats Episode 5-9

Due to our hectic holiday season we have not put our the past weeks of lessons.  Here is what we have been talking about over those weeks.  If you would like to review with your kids what they have learned feel free to use the lessons below and the links to the weekly handouts.           Hats episodes 5-9

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Bibles, Bibles, Bibles

If you missed the last message about your kids and bible please check out the 10-9-11 blog about why we want your kids to have a

bible and some help in picking the right one.

Break Time!

We will taking a break for the winter holidays as we will be having Family worship services for December 24 and January 1. Funday Sunday will be on January 8 and we will be back to our normal services but better than ever on January 15.  Happy holidays everyone.

A Letter From Us…

Have your kids join our team…All 4th and 5th graders

In Matthew 28:19, Jesus gives us the mission to “make disciples”.  At Gateway Fellowship, as well as in KidzRock kids ministry, we believe that our greatest discipleship opportunity is our children. If we are to mentor our children and have them develop a life-long desire to serve Christ and others, we need to start now! We are inviting you to consider having your child join our KidzRock Krew. The KidzRock leadership team will guide and challenge Krew members as they dig deeper into God’s Word and into a personal relationship with their Creator.  We will also offer training in the different areas of ministry that interest your child- including praying with peers, performing sketches, and operating media equipment. Attached is more information about this new team. Please discuss the details with your KidzRock children. We are so excited to see their passion for the Lord and will be happy to have them join our team!

Hats:  Episode 4

Savior!

This week we discovered the greatness of our God.  We discovered that Jesus is our savior.   We hear this constantly but what does this really mean?  How can we really grab a hold of this truth.  We paralleled Jesus being our savior to a firefighter.  These brave men and women go into a place that most people wouldn’t and their purpose is to go in and save what or who they can.  They put their lives on the line knowing that if they can save one person, it is worth it.  Firefighter saves lives.

Jesus came to save lives, he was perfect he did nothing wrong and he loved us so much that he wants us to live with him and God the Father forever in heaven so what does he do?  He gives his life and he died for our sins.  Jesus died for not just one person, he died for all of us.  He wants all of us to meet him, know him and believe in him and what he’s done for us.  Jesus is truly the savior of the world, He doesn’t want anyone to be separated from Him or any to suffer.  Jesus didn’t run he obeyed because this needed to be done.  Jesus came to give us the gift of Salvation.

But this is not enough.  Not only are we to accept this gift from the Savior, but we are to point others to the Savior.  We are not able to save people from their sin, we are not able to move their hearts to repentance but we point them to the cross, we point them to the savior, whose power is able to save, heal, cleanse…Jesus is able to rescue them.  Lets accept this gift from the Savior and point others to him too.

hats episode 4 handouts kinder-1st    hats episode 4 handouts 2nd-5th

A Letter From Us…

Have your kids join our team…All 4th and 5th graders

In Matthew 28:19, Jesus gives us the mission to “make disciples”.  At Gateway Fellowship, as well as in KidzRock kids ministry, we believe that our greatest discipleship opportunity is our children. If we are to mentor our children and have them develop a life-long desire to serve Christ and others, we need to start now! We are inviting you to consider having your child join our KidzRock Krew. The KidzRock leadership team will guide and challenge Krew members as they dig deeper into God’s Word and into a personal relationship with their Creator.  We will also offer training in the different areas of ministry that interest your child- including praying with peers, performing sketches, and operating media equipment. Attached is more information about this new team. Please discuss the details with your Kidz Rock children. We are so excited to see their passion for the Lord and will be happy to have them join our team!

Bibles, Bibles, Bibles

Bibles are an important part of our services and a child’s life especially when it comes to our daily devotions.  If you missed the last message about your kids and bible please check out the 10-9-11 blog about why we want your kids to have a bible and some help in picking the right one.

Hats Episode 4

Just following Orders:  A lesson on Obedience

Obedience is something that is difficult for all of us to do.  Obeying our parents, authority, older siblings,  and even God.  The truth is when God tells us to do something, we need to OBEY and do it.  Our example was Jonah who was told to deliver a message but decided to do the opposite.  Sometimes God tells us things through the bible and through our times talking to Him that we may not agree with or think is kind of strange, but we need to still obey.  God always knows what He’s doing and he wants whats best for us and for others.  God is with us everywhere we go and when we obey his word we stay in the umbrella of protection, we stay in the Hiding place.  Just like he did with Jonah, God chases after us.   Instead of avoiding God, we need to turn to him in our hearts and minds as we go about our day, asking him what He would have us be and do.  When we obey what God says:

1. we show our love for God
2. we discover the true joy of living for God
3. we enjoy better fellowship with our Father.

When we stop running and disobeying his word, suddenly we wonder  why we ever wasted so much time not doing what God wanted and we realize that we were trying to avoid what is really our life’s biggest blessing. Jesus showed us what it means to obey, we can do it by following what His word has to say!

Hats Episode 4 handout kinder -1st grade     Hats Episode 4 handout 2nd -5th grade

A Letter From Us…

Have your kids join our team…All 4th and 5th graders

In Matthew 28:19, Jesus gives us the mission to “make disciples”.  At Gateway Fellowship, as well as in KidzRock kids ministry, we believe that our greatest discipleship opportunity is our children. If we are to mentor our children and have them develop a life-long desire to serve Christ and others, we need to start now! We are inviting you to consider having your child join our KidzRock Krew. The KidzRock leadership team will guide and challenge Krew members as they dig deeper into God’s Word and into a personal relationship with their Creator.  We will also offer training in the different areas of ministry that interest your child- including praying with peers, performing sketches, and operating media equipment. Attached is more information about this new team. Please discuss the details with your Kidz Rock children. We are so excited to see their passion for the Lord and will be happy to have them join our team!

Bibles, Bibles, Bibles

If you missed the last message about your kids and bible please check out the 10-9-11 blog about why we want your kids to have a bible and some help in picking the right one.

This passed week was a Sunday Funday.  It is a time when we can just take a break from  our current series and have fun.  This coming Sunday we will be getting back with our Hats series.    We want to encourage you to have your child take their silliest hat this coming Sunday as we continue to learn more about Jesus and how awesome he is.

A Letter From Us…

Have your kids join our team…All 4th and 5th graders

In Matthew 28:19, Jesus gives us the mission to “make disciples”.  At Gateway Fellowship, as well as in KidzRock kids ministry, we believe that our greatest discipleship opportunity is our children. If we are to mentor our children and have them develop a life-long desire to serve Christ and others, we need to start now! We are inviting you to consider having your child join our KidzRock Krew. The KidzRock leadership team will guide and challenge Krew members as they dig deeper into God’s Word and into a personal relationship with their Creator.  We will also offer training in the different areas of ministry that interest your child- including praying with peers, performing sketches, and operating media equipment. Attached is more information about this new team. Please discuss the details with your KidzRock children. We are so excited to see their passion for the Lord and will be happy to have them join our team!

Hats 

Episode 2:  He is so Worth It! 

Not just kids, but many of us in churches today, involve ourselves in something that may become routine for us and we never really know the why behind what we do.  That is worship.  You see, our God is so big, so awesome, and there are no words that we can use to show how great He is.   So when we have an opportunity every Sunday to show the God of the universe that we love him and are thankful.  But are we really do that.  As humans, we  tend to worship and give our attention to whatever we think is most important to us, what ever we think is worth it. There are lots of things in a child’s life as well in our own that can cause us to give our praise to objects, people, or just other stuff.  We see it all the time in sports, entertainment, and even in the church world, people getting excited and loosing control in how we react to these thing.

These earthly things are not worthy it, our God is so worth it.  We should give him our praise not just on a one day event but all the time.  Many of us don’t have this type of worship as a lifestyle but it should be.  The basic truth is this, when we discover how great and loving God is, when we begin to discover and know more about our God, there is nothing else to do than to praise him and show him how much we value him, how much he means to us.  Below are a few things that we talked about with our kids this past Sunday on discovering why our God is Worthy.  We hope you spend some time with your families this week and focus on how worthy our God is of our praise, time, love, and our lives.

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Find us on Facebook

We are going to be using Facebook for the Kidz Rock ministry.  We are not recommending that your kids have Facebook account be we are hoping that you are apart of our group and you “like” us.  We are using this as another way for us to keep connected with parents so you may know what is the latest in Kidz Rock Ministry.  We may even be using this to help you connect even better with your kids.  So please check us out and keep informed…we will be letting you know of any more news about how we are changing  to better serve you, your kids and ultimately God.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/204662619602394/

Bibles, Bibles, Bibles

If you missed the last message about your kids and bible please check out last week’s blog about why we want your kids to have a bible and some help in picking the right one.

Hats Episode 1

Jesus the Prophet

As we see throughout the bible there are many prophets that worked for God.  Moses, Deborah, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah,  and even John the Baptist were just some of the prophets that we know of that were God’s prophets.  These prophets were quite simply messengers of God.  But even Jesus was considered to be a prophet by the people he came to save.  His message was that God loved everyone and so did he. Jesus was speaking the Good news that if you would just believe in God and the one he sent, Jesus, then you would be forgiven of your sins and spend forever with him in heaven.

Now we, who are Christ’s followers,  have that same message that we are to tell the world.  What made a prophet, or God’s messengers, so awesome was that they were bold, or brave, in that they would share God’s message where ever He told them to or do whatever he asked because they knew he would be with them.  So as we deliver the message of the Good News we have no reason to be afraid to share it with the world.   The bible says that “I will not be ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus, because it is the power of God to those who believe in it.”  Romans 1:16  We have the good news that Jesus came to take away our sins but we have to believe in him.  When we believe in him we will one day live with him in heaven forever. Take this message to everyone, and you don’t need to be scared.  Stand up for what is right and speak what is true, because God’s great power is always in you.

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Please take Note!!!

We want your children to have one of the most enjoyable and educational times that they possibly can have in their time with us.  We want your kids to have their time with us to be the best 70 minutes of their week.  To do this we need them to carry their equipment with them as well.  We have discovered that lots of our kids don’t have one of the most important pieces of being a follower of Christ.  Some of our kids don’t bring a bible to our services and some have stated that they don’t  even own one. We would love our kids to develop their love not only for scripture that id digitally broadcasted but for his physically written word. We want to help your children know the bible by them knowing where the books of the bible are and even certain passages of scripture as we journey with your kids through their walk with Christ.   So please have your child bring a bible with them or if you can’t afford one  let us know and we will do what we can to help your child have their very own bible.  Below are some good translations and great bibles for kids of differing ages.

 Ages 6-10:  NIrV–examples…The NIrV Adventure Bible for Young Readers, The NIrV Kids Quest Study Bible NIrV Super Heroes Bible, NIrv Back pack Bibles (boys and girls), 

Ages 6-12:  International Children’s Bible–examples… Magnify Biblezines, ICB Small hands bible for Boys/Girls

Ages 10-12: NIV, ESV, NCV, CEV–examples…NIV Student Study Bible, NLT Hands on Bible, The NIV Faithgirlz! Bible,
NIV Teen Study Bible

Head Games

Episode 4: God is all I Need

There are lots of things that compete for our attention.  Video games, sports, friends, school, and even family and all of this can sometimes compete for our time.   We may think that have this and lots of it may make us happy but all it can do is fill a space for a time,  because the effect of being happy will wear off.  We try to fill our lives with the latest game, the newest electronic gadget, or even the coolest “hot” item. Only for it to be old a month down the road and something else is there that is even better.  When are we satisfied?  People without Jesus can never be truly happy because there is a space in their heart that nothing can fill and they will never find true happiness and they will never be satisfied.

Jesus said that he is “living water” and those who drink this water will never thirst again.  So what does this mean?  It simply means that knowing Jesus what really matters and nothing can satisfy heart’s desire than he can.  Everything in this world will fade away and be out done by the next popular thing.  But Jesus is eternal, that means he’s forever and he can satisfy our hearts and lives.  Let’s be passionate about knowing our Jesus, the more we know him the less we need anything else.

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New Series Coming Oct 9th

Coming Soon!!!!!

We are constantly looking to improve our connection with our parents and kids.  We want to reach our families both in our Fellowship and those outside.  We will be having more connection through the web, hard copy items, and email.  This is to provide you and your children with the best experience possible not only on Sundays but during the week was we join you in building a strong foundation in their life long journey as a follower of Jesus.  Have a blessed week!

We are Back!!

Hello everyone.  We apologize for any inconvenience that we may have caused over the past few weeks.  We have been renovating our ministry and on top of that we have been having some major events going over the past few months.  So without further ado…we will have all of our lesson overviews below from July 17th til now.  I hope you use these to spend time mentoring and sharing Gods word with your children.  Thanks to all of you who encouraged us to bring them back and we hope to utilize this blog more effectively and keep it current for all of you.  God bless you all.

July 19th–Keeping the Fire Burning

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July 26th–Are you a Wise-Guy

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 The Onion part 2 Episode 1:  The Free Spirit

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Episode 2: Our Famous God

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Episode 3:  God IS Love

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Episode 5:  The Only True God

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Episode 6:  The Chosen One

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Head Games Episode 1: Our God is A Generous God

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Episode 2:  God’s Holy Anger

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Episode 3: God’s Favorite Person

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We  hope you enjoy the review of the past few weeks. Take some time, read and study with your children.  Fill some time this week with your and show them how important it is to have God time.  Be on the look out for more new things coming your way from GFC’s Kidz Rock!

Around the Camp Fire

Episode 4–Jesus is Wholly Holy!

How many of you all have ever heard someone say, “Hey you are a Christian.  You are not supposed to act that way.”  I have heard that quite a bit, and I’m sure that you have too.  But sometimes it gets confusing because people say that we, “followers of Jesus,” are to act different from everyone else because we follow Jesus… but what really does that mean?   The bible says that God gave us an order.  He told us that since we are his people that we are to “Be holy for I, Your God is Holy!”  So I guess that is how we are to live our lives…holy…Holy, really”?   What does that mean anyway…what does holy mean?  Well I’m glad we’ve asked…To be clean and right in all we think, say, and do because we are separated for a special purpose.  But how can we do that?  We know that every one of us has done something wrong, we’ve messed up, the bible says that we all have sinned and no one is perfect except Jesus. So how can we even be able to hit this mark.    No one can possibly live a sinless life that’s impossible.  Only Jesus did.  His life was unbelievable and He is our model for how we live our life.  None of us can do it on our own or look at other people to show us how to live the right way…it’s Jesus who did no wrong and who was perfect.  To live a holy, pure and right life our eyes need to be on God’s son, Jesus.

Bright Idea:  My eyes on Jesus is where they’ll be, I am chosen for something special and to live holy

Focus Word:   Holy: being clean and right in thought, speech, and action… being dedicated to be used by God

The Connection Verse:  but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,  1 Peter 1:15

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Thanks 2 Everyone 4 your Support!!!!!

We would like to thank everyone who came out to support our kids in our efforts to raise funds for our Kids Ministry to go to camp.  We started off needing a good morning but all of you came through and we hit our goal in sales.  Thanks again in your support.

Camp Around the Corner

We have 2 weeks to go until we head out to camp.  We are excited to be going and we are anticipating a great, fun-filled, spiritually saturated weekend.  Beverly will be sending out some emails concerning extra things that your kids should take to camp.  So keep checking Facebook and your emails for the info.