The Family Table

Dear LEFC Parents,

Here’s what you need to know:

Last Class for Youth

Tonight is the last class for this season of worldview training for our youth. Send (or bring) your teen for one last game, lesson, and hang-out time with Keith Hurley, his team, and some other teens at 7:00. Be praying for Keith and other leaders as they dream up further discipleship ministry opportunities for students in the future.

Snack and Yack – CONTINUES!

Good news: Snack and Yack will continue on into the future! Pastor Matt and the other Elders will keep inviting the upper-elementary and middle-school kids to discuss the sermon each week in Pastor Matt’s office after worship. We’re really glad that this has was a popular weekly event this month with the kids in that age bracket (approximately grades 3-7), and we’re looking forward to all the great conversations while munching on tasty snacks in the days to come. Remind your kids to grab a handout for them to fill out during the message each Sunday. Parents are always welcome to join in, too.

The Gospel Project at Home

Today’s Bible Study is “David Sinned and Was Forgiven” (Volume 3, Unit 11, Session 4). Ask your kids what they learned in children’s church this morning and/or do the family devotional you can find at this link.

And for Dessert…

Our family discipleship resource of the week is a book about shielding our homes and equipping our kids with safety skills.

Pastor Matt has been reading Safeguards by Julie Lowe of CCEF and finding it very insightful.

In an early chapter, the author says, “Worry and denial are not safety skills.”

She writes, “Young people are growing up in an increasing godless world, while also in deep need for wisdom and discernment to navigate it. More than ever, they need to know how to traverse the dangers around them.

We should not be afraid to talk with confidence and with hope to our children about such things. To take seriously the need to equip our kids to live in this world and not be of it, we must talk about the hard things. They must know we have something helpful to say, and we must instill in them the resources to do so. If we teach them well, doing so will not raise fearful kids, but competent kids.”

Check on a sample of Safeguards, including the full table of contents at WTSBooks or watch the introductory video. The chapters are short, readable, and full of confident and realistic wisdom. You are welcome to borrow Pastor Matt’s copy.

We hope your family eats it up.

Matt Mitchell, Pastor
Holly Crumrine, 2023 Family Ministries Coordinator