The Family Table
Feeding the Faith of LEFC Families
TFT: Kids Detecting Truth
April 6, 2025
Dear LEFC Parents,
We have some exciting spring happenings to share with you! Check them out below!
Save the Date for Family Night
Our next family night will be June 6th. Save the date Keep an eye out for more details coming soon!
Family Bible Week : Magnified!
Is your family getting excited for Family Bible Week in just three months? This year’s theme is Magnified: Discovering the Bigness of God in the Smallest of Things. Check out the Lifeway playlist for the theme!
Join us for Mom’s Night Out!
On Friday May 16th, moms with children in the home are invited to the church for a Mom’s Night Out! Come at 6:00 to enjoy time out of the house in community with fellow moms. We’ll have fun with various activities, chatting, and plenty of snacks and desserts! Mark your calendars now to attend, and don’t forget to invite fellow mom friends to come with you. Dads, as part of your Mother’s Day gift to mom, consider offering to watch the kids so she can participate! We’re asking moms to register here so we can plan for food and activities. Nursing infants are welcome. We hope you’ll join us!
Volunteers Needed for the Easter Egg Hunt
Our egg hunt is fast approaching! We are gathering donations of individually wrapped candy to fill the eggs, as well as prizes for kids to win. We still have a need for several volunteers to help in various ways during the hunt. Find the event on Facebook and invite your friends to join us!
“The First Judges” 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 First Judges” (Volume 3: Unit 8: 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 fun curriculum to teach kids to investigate the truth of Christianity through the lens of becoming a detective!
J. Warner Wallace was a cold-case homicide detective who became a follower of Jesus at the age of thirty-five after investigating the claims of the New Testament gospels using his skill set as an investigator. Since then he’s become a leader in the realm of Christian apologetics (making a case for the truth of Jesus) and an author helping others to do it, too.
Including kids! Together with his wife Susie, Wallace has written 3 books aimed at young people:
– Cold-Case Christianity for Kids: Investigate Jesus with a Real Detective
– God’s Crime Scene for Kids: Investigate Creation with a Real Detective
– Forensic Faith for Kids: Learn to Share the Truth from a Real Detective
Each book is incredibly engaging with hand-drawn illustrations, call-out boxes with more information about being a detective, and lots of evidence for the claims of Christ. All 3 books are available in the LEFC Library for your family to check out.
To extend their value, the Wallaces have created an entire online curriculum to teach young people the content of each of the books called, “Case Maker’s Academy.” Through free videos on each chapter, downloadable activities, and fill-in sheets, students follow three young people, “Daniel, Hannah, and Jason” who enter cadet training with “Detective Jeffries.”
Thousands of kids have watched all of the videos and done all of the activities, earning their place among all of the “honor cadets.” The curriculum has won awards for being helpful, especially for homeschoolers.
As a young person with a great love for the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Encyclopedia Brown, I (Pastor Matt) would have read these books until they fell apart!
We hope your family eats it right up.
Jordyn Skacel, Director of Family Ministry
Matt Mitchell, Pastor
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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!