JANUARY 2025
RESILIENCE: GETTING BACK UP WHEN SOMETHING GETS YOU DOWN
With every season comes new and different challenges but also the chance to experience incredible joy. Through sunshine or rain, storms, and blue skies, seasons and weather are important to growth, but not just for flowers and trees. How we respond to each season of life helps us grow in maturity and can spur us to a deeper faith in God. This is especially true when it comes to our emotions.
Just as seasons come and go, so do our emotions. And how we choose to handle those emotions can shape us and teach us a lot about how God cares for us. No matter what emotion we may be feeling or what we may face, because of Jesus, we can learn to trust that God knows how we feel. Jesus showed us how to face life with resilience, and because of it, we can trust God no matter what.
THIS MONTH
RESILIENCE - Getting back up when something gets you down.
Memory Verse - “Be strong, all you who put your hope in the Lord. Never give up.” Psalm 31:24, NIrV
1/5 - When you’re sad, remember you’re not alone. (Jesus Wept - John 11:1-45)
1/12 - When you’re worried, trust God. (Do Not Worry - Matthew 6:25-34)
1/19 - When you’re angry, talk to God. (Slow to Anger - James 1:19)
1/26 - God can help you choose joy. (Paul and Silas - Acts 16:16-40)
SUNDAY NIGHTS
Our goal is for every elementary-aged kid to be a part of a 2:52 Group and connected to an adult small group leader that is helping them discover who God is and understand how His virtues apply to their life. During the school year on Sunday evenings from 6-7pm for all elementary, it's a great and fun time for kids to connect and build relationships with each other, focus on memorizing scripture, pray together, and take the Bible lesson they learned in the morning to a deeper level.
GOD TIMES
These are excellent resources to help your children have some time with God each week and begin forming the habit of regular Bible study. There are four different devotions on each GodTime sheet. Each devotion is designed to be done on a different day. At 2:52 Groups on Sunday nights, we do the first God Time with your child, leaving them just 3 more to do during the week.
Each day’s devotion includes:
1. a verse(s) to read
2. a devotion paragraph that teaches something about God and an explanation of today’s verse(s)
3. an activity that makes real-life application of the day’s devotion
4. a suggested prayer.
K-3rd GRADERS
Even though kids in early elementary (Kindergarten through 3rd grade) are beginning to read things on their own, most are not mature enough to have a God time by themselves. We encourage you to do this with your children.
4th-5th GRADERS
Encourage kids to choose four different days during the week to do these devotions. Most 4th and 5th graders are capable of having a “quiet time” on their own, once they’ve been taught how to do it, but they still need an adult to prompt them and/or follow up on it.
GOD TIMES for each week can be picked up in the KidsWorld hallway.