The Family Table

Dear LEFC Parents,

We hope you had a good Christmas and are preparing for a Christ-centered new year. Here are some nourishing items to set the table for disciple-making in your family this week.

Easter Egg Hunt 2025

Mark your calendars now for the LEFC Easter Egg Hunt on April 19th, the day before Easter. Be thinking about how you might want to volunteer to help out in various ways. We will also be looking for donations of candy and prizes when the time comes.

Family Discipleship Conference

Pathway Church writes, “Join us for our 3rd Annual Family Discipleship Conference sponsored by Geneva College. For this year’s event we’ve invited back Cornerstone Wellness, who joined us at our first ever conference! This will be a day full of practical learning, fellowship with other parents, and encouragement for you and your family as we seek to support one another in parenting and discipling our kids to know and love Jesus. The event will take place February 1st from 9am-1pm. The cost is $20/individual and $30/couple. Our youth ministry will be offering a one-day VBS childcare option as a fundraiser for their upcoming Summer Mission trips (requested donation is $10/kid, please pay in-person at registration on February 1. We will accept credit card, check or cash). Registration is now open at familyatpathway.com.”

We would love to see parents from LEFC attend this valuable event. Maybe join up with another family to carpool together, or make it a day out for mom and dad! More information can be found at the link above.

Save the Date for Family Bible Week!

Family Bible week will be held July 7-13, 2025! Save the date and plan to join us for a week of spiritual growth and fellowship. We are also in need of volunteers to join the FBW committee and lead in various areas, from teaching to crafts to decorating. We will soon be recruiting people, so consider whether you might be led to fill one of these needs. See Jordyn Skacel if you would like to volunteer!

“The Ten Commandments” Kids Bible Class Devotional

You have free access to a family devotional based on the curriculum our kids are studying each week in KBC! It’s called “The Gospel Project at Home.” Today’s Bible Study is “The Ten Commandments” (Volume 1: Unit 5: Session 1), and the devotional can be found at this link.

Visit the Family Ministries page on our website for information about how to access The Gospel Project at Home for the first time.

And for dessert…

This week’s recommendation for family discipleship is a book of prayer points for parents.

We all know that we need to pray for our children, and we often do. But we often pray for the same things in the same words. And that’s okay! But we can all use new ideas, drawn from Scripture to bring freshness and biblical priorities to our prayers for our children.

Melissa Kruger, vice president of discipleship programming at The Gospel Coalition, has compiled a handy set of 21 prayer prompts in 5 different key areas (making more than 100 actual suggestions!) in 5 Things to Pray for Your Kids.

These are excellent ideas of what to pray as we enter into 2025:

Praying that God will…
– Save my child
– Fill my child with Spiritual Fruit
– Watch over my child

Praying that My child will…
– Have confidence in Jesus
– Experience God’s greatness
– Delight in God’s word
– Live in harmony with others
– Be wise
– Prayerfully seek God
– Be content in all things
– Love others
– Stand firm

Praying that I will…
– Share the goodness of God
– Create a home of patience and kindness
– Trust the Lord with my child

Praying for my child when they are…
– Suffering from disappointment, loss, or hurt
– Making friends
– Experiencing change, uncertainty, or fear
– Lonely
– Making a difficult decision
– Grown up

– Borrow a copy of 5 Things to Pray for Your Kids from Pastor Matt’s library.
– Learn more at publisher’s website.
– Read the book’s intro by Melissa Kruger
– Access an interview with the author.
– Watch a video about book.

We hope your family eats it right up!

Jordyn Skacel, Director of Family Ministry
Matt Mitchell, Pastor

P.S. Astute readers of The Family Table will remember that we recommended Melissa Kruger’s newest book, Parenting with Hope, last Spring. Readers with superlative memories will remember that we recommended this same book in February 2023. I (Pastor Matt) didn’t remember until too late! It is still and doubly recommended for parents in 2025.