The Family Table

Feeding the Faith of LEFC Families

TFT: Where Is Wisdom?

August 3, 2025

Dear LEFC Families,As we near the start of the school year, it’s a great time to start thinking about what new habits, rhythms, or routines might work well for your family in this new season. We encourage you to consider how you can prioritize your and your kids’ spiritual growth this upcoming year. What might you need to say “yes” or “no” to in order to put Christ first in your home? We’re here to help resource and equip you to make wise decisions for your family.

Discipling Kids in Light of Competing Priorities and Busy Schedules

Need help thinking through how you might balance family time, sports practices, music lessons, friends, homework, and spiritual growth in your home? Check out this helpful article for insight, wisdom, and an honest discussion about competing priorities and our schedules. Deana Menikoff talks about the desire of every parent for their kids to be well, rounded, successful, and have an abundance of opportunities while navigating the battle for their souls. Take a few minutes to give it a read.

LEFC Fall Retreat

Our Fall Retreat is coming up in just two months! Join us at Seven Mountains Scout Camp for the weekend of September 19th-21st. Last year, parents and families enjoyed quality time together in a beautiful wooded setting at the lodge. We’ll have faith-building teaching, delicious food, lots of fun and fellowship with games, puzzles, activities, and rich conversation, a campfire, and more! Your whole family is invited to attend, as there will be activities and breakouts for everyone. Housing is family-friendly for your convenience. The cost to attend is $50 for couples and families and $25 for an individual. Check out the video of last year’s retreat, and put it on your calendar! For a limited time, you’ll receive an early bird discount of $5 off if you register on or before August 24th! Register here to bring your family for a great weekend!

Youth Group Kickoff

Youth Group will kick-off for the school year on August 17th, Back to School Sunday. Make sure your 7th-12th graders put it in their busy schedules to attend, and of course, tell them to invite their friends! We look forward to another great year of studying God’s word together!

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. Bring your kids out to enjoy the fun! If you’d like to bring a vehicle for kids to check out, or could arrange for one, please see Jordyn Skacel.

“Solomon Became 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 “Solomon Became King” (Volume 4: Unit 12: 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 picture book that leads children on a treasure hunt for true wisdom.

In Where Is Wisdom?, author Scott James and illustrator Hein Zaayman take children on a visual tour of the poetry of Job 28. Every turn of the page reveals a new creative illustration of the beauty of God’s world and the wisdom of God’s Word.

Scott James explains why he wrote it:

“One Sunday a few years back, our pastor preached through Job 28, and it set my imagination ablaze! My mind was filled with scenes of ingenuity and endeavor, people searching high and low throughout the wonders of God’s creation, thinking the treasures themselves would bring satisfaction.

But Job points out that we were made for so much more, that there’s a greater treasure to be found in God and the wisdom he provides. That seemed so relatable to me, and such a helpful way to show kids the beauty of God’s plan for our lives. After talking through it with my kids during family worship, I wrote this story for them in the hopes that it would point them to the one in whom true wisdom is found.

Where Is Wisdom? is based on Job chapter 28, where a wonderful surprise lives. There’s a beautiful poem in the middle of Job! The heading in my Bible calls it ‘A Hymn to Wisdom.’

After all these heavy conversations with his friends about the nature of God and man and sin, Job breaks into these verses full of colorful imagery—all of a sudden we’re digging with miners, cultivating food from the earth, prowling with lions and calling down into the deep. He’s not dodging the conversation, he’s helping his friends see that God is at the heart of everything, and that our role is not to figure everything out on our own but to trust in him and obey his word.

What I love about Job 28 is that it so clearly contrasts man’s pursuit of what we think we need versus God’s gift of what we truly need. We can hunt for treasure all throughout the wonders of God’s creation, but in the end the one thing we need is a right relationship with him. That’s what true wisdom brings—a heart-felt desire to trust and obey our Lord. Or, as the book describes it, ‘to want nothing more than to love and live for Him.'”

In the back of the book, there are suggestions for how parents can use it during family worship including discussion questions. Highly recommended to be read to small children or for young readers to pick up for themselves.

More:

Check it out: Where Is Wisdom? is available in the LEFC library.
Watch: Trailer for Where Is Wisdom?
Look: Inside Where Is Wisdom?
Color: Where Is Wisdom? coloring page.

We hope our families eat it right up!

Jordyn Skacel, Director of Family Ministry
Matt Mitchell, Pastor