We are excited to announce that our boys club will soon be underway. Our planned start date is Wed, Nov 18th and it will occur most likely every other Wednesday nights at 6:30-8pm and run until April. We are working on the calendar!
If you’d like to sign up to be a boys club leader, email me. If your son is interested in joining. Download the registration form and drop it off this Sunday!
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We Don’t See The Big Picture
Following God’s lead takes great faith and complete surrender- sometimes He asks us to do the very thing we dislike or even hate- Jesus told the rich man to give away his wealth. God told Abraham to give Him Isaac – his only son. God told Jonah to share hope to his enemies in Ninevah. God told Hosea to forgive and love his unfaithful wife. But we only see the present and don’t understand the future like God does. We don’t see the big picture. We say we want world peace but are we willing to allow God’s peace to rule in our hearts?
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Halloween Outreach (Downloads)
“How To Impact Your
Neighbourhood
On October 31st“
Jesus called us to be salt and light.
What a better time to be this
than on a traditionally dark night?
We are called to be salt and light in a dark world. Why not share a bit of that when your neighbours come calling on your door on October 31st?
Here are some ideas on how to make an impact in your neighbourhood on this night. Here we share with you, ideas to do if you have kids and even if you don’t!
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” – Isaiah 40:8
“The chocolate bars are eaten and the suckers licked away but the sweetness of God’s timeless wisdom will last forever.” (Adaptation).
Get started by visiting the links below!
(Requires Adobe Reader which you can download for free.)
1.Halloween Outreach Flyer-Read this first!
2. Then choose one of the following to hand out to visitors to your door! (Please note: When you go to print out your Halloween Cards- make sure you choose 8.5×11 letter size on your print properties settings! After you open the file, go up to File/Print and then find ‘page scaling’ and ‘choose paper source by PDF page size’.)
Halloween Card-for kids to colour and hand out!
Halloween Card – already in full colour
Another great idea:
For Halloween, Don’t Just Give Them Candy…
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Shine Your Light On Halloween
“How To Impact Your Neighbourhood On October 31st.”
Jesus called us to be salt and light.
What a better time to be this than on a traditionally dark night?
When you stop and think about it, Halloween allows us to “do evangelism in reverse.” Those who need Jesus come to us and we have the freedom to put whatever spin we want on the whole Halloween thing. Here are some ideas on how to make an impact in your neighbourhood on this night.
Hand out Adventure in Odyssey CDs or homemade cards from your younger kids with the candy you give away. The cards can start off with “I made this card for you”. These cards are like glimpses of the Gospel. We are called to be salt and light in a dark world. Why not share a bit of that when your neighbours come calling on your door? In the card emphasize what light does to darkness using a scripture or two. Your purpose is to whet their appetite to learn more – not to hit them with the full Gospel. Allow this to prompt them to ask you questions in the future. Simply plant a seed.
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” – Isaiah 40:8
“The chocolate bars are eaten and the suckers licked away but the Scripture’s impression will last forever.” (My own interpretation).
1. If you walk around your street trick or treating with your kids, strike up a conversation with your neighbours as they walk with their kids. It’s an opportunity to let the love of Christ shine. Show them that you care about them and their kids.
2. As you walk around your street from door to door trick or treating say a prayer for each family in each home. Wow, how powerful this can be! Remember what Joshua did for seven days? (Joshua 6) In a way, you are bringing walls down as you walk through your neighbourhood asking for protection and inviting His love to enter in.
3. If you live in the country and don’t have trick or treaters, invite another family over who has children and have a kids’ dress up party. You can play some games and enjoy a few goodies together. Start the night off in prayer for your city asking God to protect everyone on the streets.
4. If you live in the city and know a family who lives in the country, invite them to join you in your family festivities if it includes trick or treating. Choose some of the ideas above to do together. It’s an opportunity to fellowship together and serve together showing love to their neighbourhood.
5. Make up a big sign on your door sharing a scripture verse. Everyone can’t help but read it and you’ve just shared with them the timeless wisdom of God! You don’t even have to put the reference, which may only confuse them. I wonder what kind of questions you would prompt if you had on your door… “For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Luke 11:10)
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How do you plan to celebrate Christmas this year?
Soon it will be time to celebrate Christmas – the season of our Saviour’s birth. It’s coming fast. If this brings panic and frustration rather than hope and celebration, perhaps it’s become a season of rush, entertainment and high spending debt for you like so many. If so, than we’ve lost the point. God sent His Son, after all, by way of a humble barn.
This year, it is my prayer that we as families may be able to seek to keep the main point of Christmas for our children. If actions speak louder than words, what do we teach them about Christmas in our actions? Is it a season of hope and celebration or anxiety, despair and overspending on ourselves?
With the economic changes, some families have even chosen to not buy gifts for each other at all – but instead have chosen as a family to do something as an act of service together – serve at a soup kitchen, or make an affordable donation to the local food bank instead of gifts to each other.
Take time to pray as a family asking God to lead you – as to how you as a family can reflect and celebrate on the meaning of Christmas this year. Perhaps our traditions aren’t quite what God is calling us to do. Perhaps this year, the way we celebrate Christmas needs to start at the heart of the main message of why God sent us His Son?
How will you choose to celebrate Christmas this year?
Here is a powerful idea of what would happen if we all chose to celebrate Christmas like this… http://adventconspiracy.org/
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Camp By Memory
Kids can go to summer camp for free in 2010!! Join the Camp By Memory Program! Kids in Grade 3-5 and 6-12 can memorize extra scripture to earn their way to camp! Contact Pastor Merri Ellen or Pastor Craig for more info!! Register before October!
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Disruptive Child Behavior.
Every time children misbehave, it’s an opportunity to help them grow…Here’s how.
Adapted by an article written by Ken McDuff- a children’s pastor in Bakersfield, California.
You may have them… kids who disrupt you with their antics. The kids who challenge your authority and try your patience. The kids who ignore the rules without fear of consequences. Admit it: Even “good” kids can get on your nerves from time to time when their behavior is — well, childish.
Today’s child can be a handful, and parents are left scrambling for new ideas. Too often, discipline is reduced to a stern face and a set of ineffective rules and escalating consequences- only for your child to misbehave again.
While there’s no secret formula guaranteed to calm kid-chaos, approaching discipline from a different perspective can help. Don’t think of discipline as punishment for unwanted behavior. Think of it as a disciple-making strategy. Turn those trying moments into teachable moments. To do that, we must first understand the truth about children’s hearts.
Fruit Of The Heart
“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit”(Luke 6:43). Jesus wasn’t talking about trees when he said that; he was talking about people. He was telling us that misbehavior reveals a heart that’s bad — “desperately wicked,” says Jeremiah. And kids aren’t exempt! Proverbs 22:15 reveals that, in their natural state, children are driven by a heart of foolishness — ready to yield to their selfish cravings without thought of the certain effects.
We can attempt to control the behavior of children with bribery, contracts, threats of punishment, time-outs, and the like, but the heart remains unchanged. If we’re to make disciples rather than to simply diffuse classroom tensions and distractions, we must seek to discover the heart issue that each misbehavior reveals.
Sailing illustrates this truth well. I’ve been sailing once. Until then, it made no sense to me. The wind blows one way, so I figured that’s the direction the boat would go. “How does it get back?” I wondered. “Wait for the wind to change direction,” I guessed. Here’s what I learned: Your destination is determined by the trim of the sail, not the direction of the breeze.
That’s how it works with kids, too. The “wind” of your discipline (does that term accurately describe your huffing and puffing?) may not take children in the direction you intend. It’s the trim of their “sails” — inclined toward God or toward self — that’ll ultimately determine their direction.
Discipline, commonly understood, molds behavior. Discipline that disciples molds the heart. If you recognize this, you’ll focus on revealing to children the nature of sin and instilling in them the character of God. To do this, we must tackle the task of teaching our children a principle about the choices they make.
Sowing And Reaping
My wife and I have a small, raised bed garden. Usually we purchase those little six-packs of sprouted produce, but sometimes we get adventurous and plant seeds. We work the soil, we water, we weed — and we wait. It sometimes seems that the seeds will never sprout, but eventually a shoot emerges and a full-grown plant slowly develops.
Children have a hard time believing that the seeds of their misbehavior will ever sprout. They must learn the principle of sowing and reaping — their choices made today affect their harvest tomorrow. “Do not be deceived,” Paul warns. “God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life” (Galatians 6:7-8).
We must teach our children that their choices bring results, good or bad, sooner or later. But how can we do that?
Use a variety of strategies. Discipline should not be a knee-jerk reaction to misbehavior; it involves an ongoing process of training and nurture. It includes instruction, warning, praise, and encouragement for good behaviors and attitudes. Don’t simply reprimand your students. Engage them.
Discipline that disciples, says Tedd Tripp in Shepherding a Child’s Heart, involves “helping children understand themselves, God’s world, the ways of God, how sin works in the human heart, and how the gospel comes to them at the most profound levels of human need.”
Teach children to recognize the consequences of sin. The sowing/reaping principle underscores the natural consequences of sin, but how do children understand this when consequences don’t materialize immediately?
“Kids learn to respect the reality of long-term, natural consequences,” says Daniel Hahn in Teaching Your Kids the Truth About Consequences, “when [teachers] use short-run, logical consequences as a routine part of shaping behavior.”
Teach kids to recognize the natural long-term consequences of their actions. At the same time, use immediate consequences to demonstrate the logic of their course of action. Also, keep consequences reasonable and as closely associated with the behavior as possible. For example, if the child’s misbehavior involves property damage, require the child to replace or repair the property. With a relational offense, help the child understand the other person’s perspective and the need for reconciliation.
Explain the “why” of behavior as well as the “what.” Ask the child if they know why it is wrong to do what they did. If they don’t, gently explain it to them. Behind the choices a child makes is a set of values, hopes, and dreams. Do these values reflect the attitudes and qualities exemplified in Christ? Or do they reflect a heart of selfishness? The “why” of behavior penetrates the heart, sometimes revealing values and attitudes contrary to God’s nature.
We “tend to see…behavior in very naive terms,” says Tedd Tripp. “We see the fight over a toy as simply a fight over a toy, when actually it’s a failure to prefer others.” When we help children recognize the motives of their hearts, we help them better understand themselves and their actions. Recognition of sinful motives is the foundation for heart change.
The Bible provides an abundance of wisdom and instruction to help you handle relational tension. You can aid your children in learning how to confront another child when they’ve been wronged (in accordance with Matthew 18), seeking your intervention only as a second step. Role play several possible scenarios with your children. Follow God’s principles of discipline to teach your children what it means to be part of the body of Christ.
“I’m continually running into people who are forcing, bribing, tricking, pleading, kicking, and screaming — trying to get their kids to ‘be good,’ ” says Daniel Hahn. Does that sound like your discipline strategy? Then perhaps it’s time to reexamine your methods and redirect your goal toward discipling rather than simply controlling your children.
Adapted by an article written by Ken McDuff- a children’s pastor in Bakersfield, California.
http://childrensministry.com/article.asp?ID=2088
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Kids Zone Calendar 09-10
Parents: Here is our kids zone calendar 09-10 for our Sunday morning kids church times. Dates and times are subject to change. Please make sure you are on our email list to always be in the loop. Contact us today with your info. We’re excited about another year partnering with you in building faith into your kids!
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What is your goal in raising your children? Is it for them to be successful? What is required of us as parents? Secular researchers discovered that the greatest thing parents can do for their children to grow up and become well adjust adults is model a relationship with God. (And this wasn’t done by religious researchers!) Interesting, that this is exactly what Deut 6:5-7 always taught for thousands of years.
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Junior Kids (Gr 1-5) starting in September will start off sitting alongside you parents in the main service for the first 15 minutes. Much like a Celebration Sunday already does.
Why the change?
1. We have been pondering and praying over this for sometime as a kids committee on how our children miss out on the larger part of the body- aside from once a month Celebration Sundays. This will give your children an opportunity to be a part of things on a regular basis such as communion, baptism, offering, etc. (I discovered that this concern goes back over a decade since moving from the Sunday School to Kids Church model).
Preschoolers will still continue to start in their classes from the start of the services except for Celebration Sundays (typically the last Sunday of the month).
2. We find a great need to build our volunteers into a team committed to caring and praying for each other on a weekly basis. Junior volunteers, during this 15-20 minutes of time, will be meeting together for prayer, discipleship and training before they teach the children. (Preschool teachers will continue to meet before the service on a casual basis).
Interestingly, I’ve discovered other churches in Abbotsford have moved towards this and report an increase in discipleship amongst both the volunteers and the kids (as the kids watch and learn alongside their parents in the main service).
*We will be experimenting with this set-up until the end of December. During this time, feel free to let me know what you think of how it’s going.
Pick up and Drop Off of Juniors:
The Junior teachers (and myself) will then meet your Gr 1-5 children in the foyer upon their dismissal from the main service. When the service is done, we encourage you to pick up your children from their classrooms unless you have decided that they are old enough to meet you in the Common Grounds. We encourage you as parents to make a connection with your child’s teacher at some point on the Sunday morning. 
For All Families:
We have been praying for you and your family this summer and pray that as you head into Fall, you will be modeling to your children- a desire to dig deep into your relationship with Christ through the Word, through prayer and how you spend your resources and time. You are the most influential teacher to your children and so we partner with you and pray for you regularly. If you ever have any prayer requests, feel free to ask us to join with you in prayer. Our role as a church is to support you in your calling as parents (Deut 6:5-7).
If you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to share them with me.
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We DO have the Music CDs and Music Action DVDs here at our office! If you pre-ordered these, you can come by our office during the week M-F 8-4 to pick them up!!
We’re still enjoying the memories of hanging out with your kids playing Soccer, singing the crazy songs and learning about how we are UNDEFEATED!!
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Preschoolers on Sept 6th
***Preschool on Sept 6th will be available in the 9am service only. Volunteers are set to teach in both services on Sept 13th for Kick Off Sunday at 9am and 10:45am. Sorry for any confusion. Sunday, Aug 30th is our last Sunday of the 10am service.
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Guest post by Glynnis Whitwer
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”
Hebrews 10:24 (NIV)
Devotion:
I threw up my hands in despair, and sighed with a dramatic and disgusted exhale of breath. At that moment, all five of my children were the focus of my frustration. I was tired of correcting the same behaviors, the same tones of voices, and the same irresponsibility from the same children. It had not been a good day, and I told them so –individually and collectively — in not-so-nice terms.
The lecture ended and they all went their own way, as upset and annoyed as me. Instead of changing their behaviors and attitudes, the negativity went underground. We were like a simmering pot, ready to blow its lid. My angry response only exacerbated the problem, not helped it. What I wanted was for them to get along, speak kindly to each other and do their chores respectfully. What I got was more of the same.
As I returned to my own chores, I realized how ineffective my tirade had been in achieving my true goals. While I got them to stop bickering momentarily, I hadn’t really made an impact on their hearts. In fact, I’d done more harm than good by not modeling gentle and respectful words. The rest of the day confirmed the truth: I’d not brought out the best in my children. I just stamped down the bad for a while.
My children are not so different from me. I know how I feel when someone speaks in an angry tone to me. It certainly doesn’t spur me on to show kindness to them. In fact, I tend to take my frustration out on someone else. That’s just what happened in my family that day. We had a domino effect of irritation.
In Hebrews 10, verse 24, the Bible encourages us to “spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” In my experience personally and with my children, showing love and good deeds spurs others on to show more love and good deeds. The Bible also tells us that we reap in greater measure than what we sow (Hosea 8:7). Which means love multiplies more love, and kindness multiplies more kindness.
As a mom, I have an opportunity to bring out the best in my children. But it consistently means I have to bring out the best in me. I can’t model impatient behavior and expect my kids to learn patience. I can’t model a self-focused lifestyle and expect my kids to learn how to serve others. Nor can I model an ultra-busy schedule and expect my kids to find time for God in theirs. Spurring my children on to greater love and good deeds means they need to learn it by watching and listening to me.
Dear Lord, thank You for calling me to be the mother of my children. I confess that at times I fall far short of where I want to be in this area of my life. I know I can’t do this high calling of motherhood without Your Spirit within me. Help me to submit my selfish will to Your perfect way. Thank You for loving me and seeing my potential to grow and change. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Related Resources:
Visit Glynnis’s blog
She’s Gonna Blow! Real Help For Dealing With Mom Anger by Julie Ann Barnhill
The Bathtub is Overflowing but I Feel Drained by Lysa TerKeurst
Application Steps:
Identify one area of your personality that hinders you from spurring others on to love and/or good deeds. Commit to submitting that area of your life to God for the next seven days.
Reflections:
Think about how someone has spurred you on to love in greater measure. How did they do that?
What are some ways your family can do “good deeds” for those around you? Make a list together and commit to doing one or two a month.
Power Verses:
Romans 12:10, “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” (TNIV)
Galatians 6:8, “The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” (NIV)
© 2009 by Glynnis Whitwer. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission
Proverbs 31 Ministries
616-G Matthews-Mint Hill Road
Matthews, NC 28105
www.proverbs31.org
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Abbotsford Girls Club
Come join us for our Grade 1-5 Girls Club (Girls’ Night Out) in Abbotsford starting September and going to April! Every Wednesday night, your daughter will meet new friends, enjoy singing crazy wacky songs, fun character building lessons, playing fun and crazy games, and tons of theme parties thrown in – like our pajama night or wacky hair nights!!
What’s the cost? It’s only $35 for the entire year!
When? Wednesday nights 6:30-8pm (Register after September 9th- first come, first serve!)
Where? Ross Road Community Church, 3160 Ross Road, Abbotsford, BC
How to Sign Up? Simply Phone or Email Merri Ellen at 604-856-2024 or merriellen (AT) rossroadcc.ca
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I read this today and was greatly encouraged and loved it!
Gal 5:13-15It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
16-18My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?
19-21It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom.
22-23But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
23-24Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.
25-26Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.
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Freedom is found in Christ!
Source: Biblegateway.com, The Message
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Creative Thinking For Kids
Creative thinking for kids is an overlooked priority in today’s educational system. Today’s kids learn differently than just a short ten years ago. When the iPhone came out, I soon saw videos on YouTube of toddlers using the iPhone device with no trouble at all. Our children today are very capable of using computers seemingly much faster than adults. Children are hands-on while many of our older adults have been trained to learn in a step by step, manual, and classroom approach. One would say technology has also become much more easier to use, but if you give a remote or a computer to your in-laws, you know that’s not always the case. (Mom: I love you!)
The older generation often learns at a different pace and in a different fashion than the younger. The younger generation is much more hands on and interactive and responds less to lecture. Instead, they learn by doing while the older generation often learns by someone teaching them.
But, Was The Classroom Approach Ever Really Effective?
The classroom learning approach is limited and only effective for a certain learning style. Think of the difference in the classroom approach of teaching a child about the flu compared to the child getting the flu – a much more hands on experience wouldn’t you say? Today’s generation prefers to “catch” learning or experiences it hands on while the generation of yesterday would read about the flu or hear a lecture on it. It’s the taught vs. caught approach. This creative thinking for kids is what makes knowledge stick.
In Ross Road Kids Zone for example, yes we do meet in classrooms but we don’t stick our kids in desks and simply use workbooks. There are songs, interactive stories, crafts and games. We find that using creative thinking for kids and involving kids in the story-telling allows them to better remember the story! My 6 year old can often tell me the stories he learned a few weeks and often months earlier in Kids Zone!
Our Educational System Is Stuck And Needs Repair
The trouble is our current educational system is years behind where our children are already living. We continue to teach our children using a critical thinking system once developed and once effective for the Industrial Revolution. But, today our educational system is already ages behind in preparing our children for the future. Today’s world thrives outside the box and therefore today’s education needs to value and encourage innovation, intuition and creative thinking for kids. Kids need to be involved in the learning process!
Today you’ll also find the younger generation consulting for the older on new technology. (For example, my kids zone intern who is ten years younger than me, was the one who gave me a lesson on using Facebook, the social media website.)
Authors Marcus and Monday of “New World Kids: The Parents’ Guide to Creative Thinking” take parents through a discovery of how nurturing creativity in their children can be a real source of fun. “It can enlarge your child’s idea of what success looks like.” The authors wrote this book after “35 years of applied research into the nature of creativity, media, individuality and cognition”. They designed the book to be full of ideas, plans, tools and support. The authors see each person unique and equipped to contribute to the larger family of mankind by each one “sharing unique and powerful resources”. The book provides parents with numerous ideas to use to encourage creative thinking in their kids.
New World Kids covers topics such as:
“ The Sensory Alphabet: Nine essential elements for creative literacy
“ How to mentor children through the creative process
“ How to raise innovative kids for the 21st century
“ How to help kids find their creativity, passion at an early age
“ How to design your home as a space for ideas
“ Incorporating media and play into the learning process
Perhaps their next book would be on how to apply creative learning to an older generation- much like teaching an old dog new tricks or your in-laws how to use an MP3 player. I should really like to get my hands on a book like that! 
About The Authors:
The Authors Marcus and Monday were co-founders of the Learning About Learning Educational Foundation, a Texas-based institution that conducted applied research in creativity, individuality, media and play. Together, they translated the foundation’s research into more easily accessible formats by designing programs, materials and exhibitions for teachers, parents, children and museums. Visit www.NewWorldKids.com for more information on implementing creative thinking for kids.
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Yes, we have fun in Kids Zone and we have some great leaders that I get to serve with…
Pictured: Merri Ellen Giesbrecht, Rhonda Janzen, Karissa Longpre, Nadege Reimer, Cindy Sue Peters, Laurie Reed
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Raising Super Kids
Here’s what I’m learning about raising super kids…Your children also have a tremendous need to communicate with you. I am finding that the one factor more important than any other is the amount of one-on-one time that the parents spend with the children. When parents don’t spend a lot of time with their children individually, they send a message to their children that they are not very valuable or important. Children then react by experiencing feelings of inferiority, lowered self esteem, and negative self-images, and this is expressed in poor grades and behavioral problems. But when parents take the time to sit down with their children and ask questions and listen to what is going on in their minds, the children tend to feel a deep sense of value and importance that is manifested in self-confidence, happiness, and good relationships with others. This seems to be one of the keys in raising super kids. Funny how that’s exactly what Deut 6 talks about! As you do life, talk with your kids… (about God’s promises for us).
So, after reading that I get excited at the opportunity to have one-on-one time instead of saving special conversations or fun when we’re all together. So far, I’ve enjoyed some of the conversations I’ve had such as when everyone else was still sleeping and my son and I were having breakfast together. That was a great time!!
So, enjoy your one on one time! Share some stories below…
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As we plan for the Fall Ross Road Kids Zone, here are a few things to put on your calendar…
August 23rd is Kids Zone Registration for all newly attending kids Age 2 to Grade 5 plus kids once in the nursery who have now turned 2 years of age for the 2 year old class (Register in Common Grounds or simply contact us via email with your child’s name, address, parent’s names and birthdate).
Kids Zone Leaders Orientation Dates:
August 23rd at 6:30pm in Fireside Room (New Leaders)
August 30th at 6:30pm in Fireside Room (All Leaders- new, returning, small and large group)
Sept 13th is Kick Off Sunday when we kick off Kids Zone again plus the Ross Road BBQ after church at Ross Elementary School complete with kids activities, games, dunk tank, bounce house and great food!
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