Thursday, December 9, 2010
Christmas at the Taylors
Thanks to the Taylors for opening up your lovely house for our Christmas party. Thanks to all who brought the yummy food. The fellowship was sweet and the games fun! (Sorry--so many of my pictures were just too blurry to post.)
Monday, November 8, 2010
Boxes of Fun
The girls met on Saturday to wrap and stuff shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. Katie provided the home, lots of yummy snacks, wrapping paper, shoe boxes, goodies for the boxes, and rolls of tape! Suzi and Anna provided fantastic wrapping skills. Thanks to the former as well as Rachel, Alia, and Kim for providing goodies to give to the children. (and thanks to Sean, who took the great pictures!)
Monday, October 4, 2010
A Successful (and fun) Saturday
We had a class garage sale/family day last Saturday. Many of us were bleary eyed while setting up in the dark at 6:30 am, but it paid off when we made over $300 as a class! We enjoyed a yummy lunch and had lots of playtime and socializing. Thanks to all who helped out either bringing food, setting up, hauling away, etc... Here are a few pictures:
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Bible Study
The girls in class are excited to start another bible study, but aren't sure which study to pursue... If you have a great study that taught you a lot and that you would like to share with us, please leave a comment below so that we can check it out!
Girl's Day Out
Yesterday, some of the girls from class were able to get together to visit and decorate cupcakes. It was a lot of fun to be together to do something creative, as well as eat the results afterward (and throughout!). Although it was a bit tough to come up with what to make at times, there were some really great results!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Feed the Need to Grow Together
Here are some questions from the Life Group lesson on August 22, 2010. These can be found, along with a more in depth description, on the CFBC website.
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:22-2:3
Purpose: To understand two important things about spiritual growth: 1) personal transformation takes place best within a genuine community of believers; and 2) we grow together when we make the choice to respond to God's Word and embrace personal change.
How could surrounding yourself with believers who desire to grow spiritually help you grow? What is the value of striving to build community with believers?
How would you describe what happens when we respond to the truth from God's Word?
What can be challenging about responding to the truth from God's Word and incorporating it into life?
In essence, it can be summed up in that when we truly respond to the truth of God's Word as a norm, this act of one-day-at-a-time obedience changes everything about us over time. Who we are becoming changes along with a greater capacity to love one another. We will become more like Christ and thus love more like Christ when we not only learn and understand the truth from God's Word, but adjust our lives to the truth in some form.
What sort of environment in a community of believers would discourage destructive traits from the beginning?
Destructive traits stem from the inside out. They usually begin with an attitude that we either refuse to acknowledge and confront or we choose to feed it and it grows into something worse and more harmful to our relationships. Sometimes the hardest part of allowing God to change our character is being honest with ourselves. But, if we will make the choice to give Christ access to all the hidden places of our inward lives He will over time transform our character.
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We are better together than we are apart as believers. Peter describes spiritual growth at its best in the context of believers forming genuine community. This is why small groups are stressed in church as being extremely important. There ar two basic things required to grow: 1) spiritual growth requires responding to God's Word (1:22-25); 2) spiritual growth requires embracing personal change (2:1-3).
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:22-2:3
Purpose: To understand two important things about spiritual growth: 1) personal transformation takes place best within a genuine community of believers; and 2) we grow together when we make the choice to respond to God's Word and embrace personal change.
How could surrounding yourself with believers who desire to grow spiritually help you grow? What is the value of striving to build community with believers?
How would you describe what happens when we respond to the truth from God's Word?
What can be challenging about responding to the truth from God's Word and incorporating it into life?
In essence, it can be summed up in that when we truly respond to the truth of God's Word as a norm, this act of one-day-at-a-time obedience changes everything about us over time. Who we are becoming changes along with a greater capacity to love one another. We will become more like Christ and thus love more like Christ when we not only learn and understand the truth from God's Word, but adjust our lives to the truth in some form.
What sort of environment in a community of believers would discourage destructive traits from the beginning?
Destructive traits stem from the inside out. They usually begin with an attitude that we either refuse to acknowledge and confront or we choose to feed it and it grows into something worse and more harmful to our relationships. Sometimes the hardest part of allowing God to change our character is being honest with ourselves. But, if we will make the choice to give Christ access to all the hidden places of our inward lives He will over time transform our character.
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We are better together than we are apart as believers. Peter describes spiritual growth at its best in the context of believers forming genuine community. This is why small groups are stressed in church as being extremely important. There ar two basic things required to grow: 1) spiritual growth requires responding to God's Word (1:22-25); 2) spiritual growth requires embracing personal change (2:1-3).
Feed the Need to Know God
Here are some important questions from Sunday School on August 15, 2010. Think about the questions and how they apply to your life and your need to know God.
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-12
Purpose: To understand two implications for life when we feed the need to know God - knowing God offers a living hope (vv.3-6) and knowing God develops a genuine faith (vv. 7-12).
What you feed in your life is what takes over as a driving value and priority. We are called to:
a. Feed the need to know God (1 Peter 1:3-12)
b. Feed the need to grow together (1 Peter 1:22-2:3)
c. Feed the need to go (& make a difference) (1 Peter 2:4-12).
What in life can wake us up to our need to know God on a personal, growing basis?
Like the seeds from an ancient Persian story, life at times feels as if it buries us. But in truth what feels like being buried or overwhelmed is an opportunity for a living hope (vv. 3-6) and a genuine faith (7-12) to take root and produce new life. This new life arises despite challenging circumstances when we feed the need to know God.
In what specific ways can genuine hope in Christ empower you to respond differently when circumstances become difficult?
Our hope in Christ will not only give us an eternal perspective on life, but it will give us super-natural protection in life.
Has there been a time in your life where you experienced God's protection? If so, how would you describe that experience?
God brings this "living hope" to life through trials we experience and through the efforts of other believers.
Imagine that you are going through a difficult circumstance that you did not invite into your life: What kind of perspective and attitudes would you need to have in order for God to bring good out of your trial?
God can develop a genuine faith not only through trials, but also through the efforts of other believers.
Are you feeding the need to know God?
a. through a persistent effort to understand His Word
b. through consistent prayer conversation with God
c. through community with other believers
d. through day-to-day faith responses in life
e. remember: What you feed in your life is what grows.
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-12
Purpose: To understand two implications for life when we feed the need to know God - knowing God offers a living hope (vv.3-6) and knowing God develops a genuine faith (vv. 7-12).
What you feed in your life is what takes over as a driving value and priority. We are called to:
a. Feed the need to know God (1 Peter 1:3-12)
b. Feed the need to grow together (1 Peter 1:22-2:3)
c. Feed the need to go (& make a difference) (1 Peter 2:4-12).
What in life can wake us up to our need to know God on a personal, growing basis?
Like the seeds from an ancient Persian story, life at times feels as if it buries us. But in truth what feels like being buried or overwhelmed is an opportunity for a living hope (vv. 3-6) and a genuine faith (7-12) to take root and produce new life. This new life arises despite challenging circumstances when we feed the need to know God.
In what specific ways can genuine hope in Christ empower you to respond differently when circumstances become difficult?
Our hope in Christ will not only give us an eternal perspective on life, but it will give us super-natural protection in life.
Has there been a time in your life where you experienced God's protection? If so, how would you describe that experience?
God brings this "living hope" to life through trials we experience and through the efforts of other believers.
Imagine that you are going through a difficult circumstance that you did not invite into your life: What kind of perspective and attitudes would you need to have in order for God to bring good out of your trial?
God can develop a genuine faith not only through trials, but also through the efforts of other believers.
Are you feeding the need to know God?
a. through a persistent effort to understand His Word
b. through consistent prayer conversation with God
c. through community with other believers
d. through day-to-day faith responses in life
e. remember: What you feed in your life is what grows.
Friday night Fun
We enjoyed our first game night as a new class last Friday night. Here are a few pictures to commemorate the event.
First, the girls played a British game "Yes and No" (in which you can respond to the questions with anything but "yes and no.") We discovered Rachel and Courtney's hidden talents!
Lots of good food in the meantime...
Next, we played another British game "Twaddle" (like the Dictionary game or Balderdash for those familiar with the American versions.) We ended on a tie.
The last round was the game (new to most of us) called Moods. It was fun to watch others read ridiculous statements trying to display whatever mood their die called for.
All in all, fun. Many more to be had in the future!
First, the girls played a British game "Yes and No" (in which you can respond to the questions with anything but "yes and no.") We discovered Rachel and Courtney's hidden talents!
Lots of good food in the meantime...
Next, we played another British game "Twaddle" (like the Dictionary game or Balderdash for those familiar with the American versions.) We ended on a tie.
The last round was the game (new to most of us) called Moods. It was fun to watch others read ridiculous statements trying to display whatever mood their die called for.
All in all, fun. Many more to be had in the future!
Second Sunday Lunch
Just one of many more to come.
This one was unique, however, in that we celebrated Chris' birthday too!
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