The Family Table
Feeding the Faith of LEFC Families
The Family Table – Resources for Feeding the Faith of LEFC Families
October 30, 2022
Dear LEFC Parents,
Welcome to “The Family Table”!
This email newsletter is the newest initiative of Family Ministries at Lanse Free Church. For the next three months, we’re going to experiment with sending it out every Sunday at noon. Our goal is to provide you with super-helpful resources for making disciples for Jesus of the children and youth in your home. We’re trying to set the table for great discussions with your kids about what it means to follow King Jesus every day. I hope your family eats it up!
NEW: THE GOSPEL PROJECT AT HOME
For the last several years, our Children’s Church ministry has utilized The Gospel Project as our Bible study curriculum. The Gospel Project is really excellent–it takes our Little Learners and Bible Explorers chronologically through the whole Bible over the course of three years while always focusing on Jesus as the center of the big story.
To reinforce what your kids are learning each week in Children’s Church, you can now access The Gospel Project At Home online. Each week in this email, there will be a link to follow to get this free resource which includes:
2. Scripture to read and discuss with a recap video of the Bible Story (Preschool and/or Elementary).
3. Scripture memory verses and a song to sing together.
4. Prayer prompts and family activities that correspond to the lesson.
Please consider setting aside at least 10-15 minutes once a week for a family devotional time using this resource as a guide.
This might be especially helpful if for some reason your child has to miss a week of Children’s Church. You can show them the Bible story video to keep them up to speed on what the other children are learning.
[**Note: The first time you access the link, you will need to register a free account with Lifeway’s Ministry Grid. This will also provide you ongoing access through the “training” tab to many other discipleship resources including the Gospel Project at Home for previous weeks. Many hours of excellent things to absorb for free!]
THIS WEEK’S LESSON
Today, our Children’s Church began a new Bible study in The Gospel Project with Volume 3, Unit 7, Session 1 – “God Encouraged Joshua.”
Follow this link to find resources for a family devotional time based on this lesson: https://ministrygrid.lifeway.
If your student was in Little Learners or Bible Explorers this morning, they received a coloring page and take-home sheet that corresponds to this lesson. You have also been given a full-color Big Picture Card that you can use to reinforce the lesson with your child, as well. We are hoping this will help keep all of our LEFC kids “on the same page,” and feed their faith in Jesus.
WORLDVIEW TRAINING FOR YOUTH
“Ideas Have Consequences.” Keith Hurley and his team are continuing to offer a worldview training class for youth (grades 7-12) in the upstairs Youth Room every other Sunday evening at 7:00pm. The next class will be November 6th.
HARVEST PARTY FOR LEFC FAMILIES
Thank you for bringing your family out to the Harvest Party on Wednesday night. I was very encouraged that so many of our younger families were able to get together to have fun and enjoy Christian fellowship on a crisp autumn night.
Special thanks to Fisch Farms for providing hayrides and to members of the Family Discipleship Vision Team for planning and leading the event!
When special events like this pop up in the future, we will share about them in The Family Table email. If you have ideas for this ministry, please let us know.
AND FOR DESSERT…
I’m hoping to recommend a top-quality resource for family discipleship each Sunday, and this week it’s a podcast.
I regularly listen to “The Family Discipleship” podcast from Training the Church, and I recommend you do, too. The podcast hosts say that FDP features “imperfect parents having conversations about the critically important and mostly ordinary work of leading at home.” Their recent episode interviewing Rebecca McLaughlin about sexuality, science, and suffering was especially good. Highly recommended.
I hope your family gathers around a table today to give thanks to God for His many blessings and to encourage each other to follow the Lord Jesus Christ into the week ahead.
In His Grip,
Pastor Matt
P.S. The Family Table is not just for parents but also for grandparents, guardians, care-givers, and other adults who want to make disciples of the next generation. Feel free to pass this on to them or encourage them to sign up to receive it, too. And thank you, Holly Crumrine, for designing our logo!
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EXPLAINER: THE GOSPEL PROJECT AT HOME
For the last several years, our Children’s Church ministry has utilized The Gospel Project as our Bible study curriculum. The Gospel Project is really excellent–it takes our Little Learners and Bible Explorers chronologically through the whole Bible over the course of three years while always focusing on Jesus as the center of the big story. If your student was in Little Learners or Bible Explorers this morning, they received a coloring page and take-home sheet that corresponds to this lesson. You have also been given a full-color Big Picture Card that you can use to reinforce the lesson with your child, as well.
To reinforce what your kids are learning each week in Children’s Church, you can now access The Gospel Project At Home online. Each week in this email, there will be a link to follow to get this free resource which includes:
1. A guide to using the Gospel Project at Home.
2. Scripture to read and discuss with a recap video of the Bible Story (Preschool and/or Elementary).
3. Scripture memory verses and a song to sing together.
4. Prayer prompts and family activities that correspond to the lesson.
Please consider setting aside at least 10-15 minutes once a week for a family devotional time using this resource as a guide. We are hoping The Gospel Project At Home will help keep all of our LEFC kids “on the same page,” and feed their faith in Jesus.
This might be especially helpful if for some reason your child has to miss a week of Children’s Church. You can show them the Bible story video to keep them up to speed on what the other children are learning.
**Note: The first time you access the link, you will need to register a free account with Lifeway’s Ministry Grid. This will also provide you ongoing access through the “training” tab to many other discipleship resources including the Gospel Project at Home for previous weeks. Many hours of excellent things to absorb for free!