The Family Table
Feeding the Faith of LEFC Families
TFT: Sing to the Lord!
March 16, 2025
Dear LEFC Parents,
We are excited to share with you some upcoming Family Ministries happenings here at LEFC. Stay on the lookout for new activities and resources we’re drumming up soon! Here is some current news, along with this week’s highlighted resource for dessert.
No Youth Group Tonight
There will be NO youth group tonight. It will resume next week.
Nursery Update Meeting
On April 6th, during the church family meal and before the meeting, moms of nursery-aged children and those who are expecting are invited to meet in the MOPS room across from the fellowship hall to discuss updates to the nursery. We will share ideas and gather input about how to serve families well. Moms can go through the line first and share lunch together while we chat.
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! Keep an eye out for more details coming soon, and be sure to write it on your calendar now!
Easter Egg Hunt 2025
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 will also soon have a sign-up for volunteers to help in various ways during the hunt. Find the event on Facebook and invite your friends to join us!
“Achan’s Sin and the Defeat of Ai” 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 “Achan’s Sin and the Defeat of Ai” (Volume 3: Unit 7: Session 3), 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 new resource we created aimed at helping families worship in singing in their homes.
One of the elements we encourage families to include in their family worship and devotion time is singing. Young kids often especially enjoy singing and dancing along to music, as we see every year at Family Bible Week! Singing together can be a helpful tool in helping them learn to worship Jesus.
To help equip our families to do this, we have created a Spotify
playlist of the songs we sing in church, entitled “LEFC Family Worship.” On the playlist you will find nearly four hours of music! For some songs, multiple versions are even included, so you’re sure to find some gems that your family especially loves! This is also a great way to get more familiar with new songs we sing so you can more easily sing along on Sunday mornings.
I (Jordyn) encourage you to save the playlist to your library, or save your favorite songs from it to a personal playlist. I can envision families using this in the car, dancing along to it in the kitchen, putting on a song to sing during a bedtime devotional time, or putting it on in the background while the kids are playing. You can even share it with friends who are considering visiting LEFC to give them a taste of the songs they might hear.
You can find the playlist on Spotify, and you don’t need a premium subscription to save it! You can also find it on YouTube.
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!