The Family Table
Feeding the Faith of LEFC Families
TFT: Shy Child
June 1, 2025
Dear LEFC Families,
It’s been a full Spring of ministry here at LEFC, and we’re just getting ramped up for a fun-filled summer! When planning your summer fun, be sure to include our LEFC fellowship opportunities on your calendar!
Join us for Family Night this Friday!
Family Night will be this Friday, June 6th. Bring the whole family out to LEFC from 6-8 for a free dinner, fun, and fellowship connecting with old friends and getting to know new ones!
Family Bible Week Registration
This year, we plan to launch Family Bible Week registration in advance to help teachers better prepare for their classes. We hope to have registration open this upcoming week. Check out our Facebook page or next week’s TFT email to register your child(ren)!
Touch a Truck at the Good News Cruise
The Good News Cruise will be held on August 16th, and we’ll once again be incorporating Touch a Truck for the kids. Mark your calendars to join us for a fun-filled day!
Family Bible Week Volunteers
Family Bible Week is fast approaching! This year’s FBW will be July 7-13. We will soon have a volunteer sheet in the foyer to sign up to help in various ways. If you’re thinking about helping out directly with the kids and don’t yet have your clearances and paperwork submitted to become a Family Ministries volunteer, see Jenni or Jordyn to get those started now!
“The Israelites Wanted a King” 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 Israelites Wanted a King” (Volume 4: Unit 10: 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…
Our recommendation for family discipleship this week is a short video for parents about helping a child who seems bashful and intimidated in groups.
Aaron Sironi, a counselor and teacher at CCEF, answers the question, “How do I encourage and help my child who is shy and anxious in social settings?”
Sironi offers helpful counsel that gives hope. He suggests reasons why our children may act shy, strategies for preparing them for difficult interactions, encouragement to have meaningful conversations about their feelings, a focus on our children’s hearts, and a simple (but not simplistic) reminder that God is with them.
Sironi has also written a children’s book about shyness featuring a bashful bunny, Sadie Finds Her Voice which younger families may find helpful.
More:
– Watch the full video (only 8 minutes).
– Read the transcript.
– More resources from Aaron Sironi
– More “Ask the Counselor” parenting videos from CCEF
We hope our families eat 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!