Come join us TOMORROW at the Beach Party at Reunion Beach!
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
KIDS!! Please let me know if you are ready to answer more catechism questions!! SUNDAY, MAY 6, is CATECHISM CLUB MEMBERS RECOGNITION DAY!! Awards will be given based in 15 learned question increments - 15, 30, 45, 60, 75.
Sunday School Teachers: your curriculum is in! You may come by the office to get it, or I will be happy to deliver it to you. Please let me know - sherlie@madisonheightschurch.com
Sunday School Teachers: your curriculum is in! You may come by the office to get it, or I will be happy to deliver it to you. Please let me know - sherlie@madisonheightschurch.com
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April/May Newsletter
KINGDOM KRIER
From the Children’s Ministry of Madison Heights Church April/May 2012
From the Children’s Ministry of Madison Heights Church April/May 2012
IT’S TIME!!
July 9-11 are the dates for our second annual Arts & Sports Camp! We will meet at St Joe again this year from 8:30-11:45 each morning. All children from rising 4K to rising 6th grade are invited to attend and encouraged to pre- register. You may register online - madisonheightschurch.com, go to Ministries,
and find the links under Kingdom Kids. Forms are also available at the church office and in the foyer each Sunday. Our ASC team has already begun planning to make this year even better than last! Some new things to look for:
•This year’s theme is Hall of Fame. Our focus text will be Hebrews 11-12:2.
•Brilla Soccer Ministries, a minor
league soccer franchise based in
Clinton, MS, will be our mission focus. Some of Brilla’s guys will join us as soccer coaches during the camp. You can visit their website at msbrillafc.org to learn more about them!
•This year’s ASC will include three blocks - that means every child will be able to choose three different activities to experience each day, instead of only two.
•All activities have been evaluated and “tweaked” in needed areas to meet the needs of our kids.
•Our new youth pastor’s wife, Molly, will be leading our music. She’s already planning!
Please pray about how you will be involved in this community event. WE NEED
YOU! I ask that you prayerfully consider taking these three mornings off work to help share the love of Christ with our Covenant and neighborhood children. If you work in any capacity of Arts & Sports Camp, your child(ren) will be allowed to participate in Mini- Camp, for birth-3. Two and three year olds will be involved in Rally Time, games, crafts, music, and more. If you are not able to help with ASC, please remember us often in prayer.
Looking forward with great hope and anticipation to what the Lord has in store for us in July! Sherlie
Nursery News: Welcome Jabus Coetsee, Harper Martin, and Jacob Sullivan!!
Thank you to of all you who help make our nursery run smoothly! You are a blessing!!!
July 9-11 are the dates for our second annual Arts & Sports Camp! We will meet at St Joe again this year from 8:30-11:45 each morning. All children from rising 4K to rising 6th grade are invited to attend and encouraged to pre- register. You may register online - madisonheightschurch.com, go to Ministries,
and find the links under Kingdom Kids. Forms are also available at the church office and in the foyer each Sunday. Our ASC team has already begun planning to make this year even better than last! Some new things to look for:
•This year’s theme is Hall of Fame. Our focus text will be Hebrews 11-12:2.
•Brilla Soccer Ministries, a minor
league soccer franchise based in
Clinton, MS, will be our mission focus. Some of Brilla’s guys will join us as soccer coaches during the camp. You can visit their website at msbrillafc.org to learn more about them!
•This year’s ASC will include three blocks - that means every child will be able to choose three different activities to experience each day, instead of only two.
•All activities have been evaluated and “tweaked” in needed areas to meet the needs of our kids.
•Our new youth pastor’s wife, Molly, will be leading our music. She’s already planning!
Please pray about how you will be involved in this community event. WE NEED
YOU! I ask that you prayerfully consider taking these three mornings off work to help share the love of Christ with our Covenant and neighborhood children. If you work in any capacity of Arts & Sports Camp, your child(ren) will be allowed to participate in Mini- Camp, for birth-3. Two and three year olds will be involved in Rally Time, games, crafts, music, and more. If you are not able to help with ASC, please remember us often in prayer.
Looking forward with great hope and anticipation to what the Lord has in store for us in July! Sherlie
Nursery News: Welcome Jabus Coetsee, Harper Martin, and Jacob Sullivan!!
Thank you to of all you who help make our nursery run smoothly! You are a blessing!!!
Catechism Club
Sunday, May 6
Awards Day!!
During the morning service of May 6, the children who are in the Catechism Club will be recognized and given awards for their hard work. Awards will be given by categories to those who have recited 1-15, 16-30, 31-45, and 46-60. Below are the members of the Catechism Club:
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15: Avery Brewer, Ella Kilman, Sara Beth Day,
Mahlon Day, Joseph Cullum, Mary Clair Henderson, Jack Poole Jude Tingle, Isaac Tingle, Ford Stewart, James Sones, Kate Elfert
30: Millie Moses, Porter Harrell, Lilly Shorter, Aaron Lindsey
45: Audrey Funkhouser, Will Shorter 60: Bo Henderson
If your child should be on this list and you do not see his/her, or I have listed him/her incorrectly, please let me know.
Thanks! sherlie@madisonheightschurch.com
.
15: Avery Brewer, Ella Kilman, Sara Beth Day,
Mahlon Day, Joseph Cullum, Mary Clair Henderson, Jack Poole Jude Tingle, Isaac Tingle, Ford Stewart, James Sones, Kate Elfert
30: Millie Moses, Porter Harrell, Lilly Shorter, Aaron Lindsey
45: Audrey Funkhouser, Will Shorter 60: Bo Henderson
If your child should be on this list and you do not see his/her, or I have listed him/her incorrectly, please let me know.
Thanks! sherlie@madisonheightschurch.com
Kids Khoir!
The 3, 4, and 5 year olds will be singing
Sunday morning, May 20.
They have been practicing songs from Steve Green’s Hide ‘Em In Your Heart CD Vol 1
in Children’s Church and Sunday School. I have a few CDs available or you may order them from christianbook.com.
They will sing:
Let the Little Children Come to Me
The 3, 4, and 5 year olds will be singing
Sunday morning, May 20.
They have been practicing songs from Steve Green’s Hide ‘Em In Your Heart CD Vol 1
in Children’s Church and Sunday School. I have a few CDs available or you may order them from christianbook.com.
They will sing:
Let the Little Children Come to Me
Fill up those Churchy Banks!!
Bring them to the
worship service
on May 20
Hope to see you Sunday!
worship service
on May 20
Hope to see you Sunday!
Monday, April 2, 2012
Happy Holy Week
Last night a song, that I first heard in my teenage years, began playing over and over in my head: Idol With A Golden Head performed originally in 1957 by the Coasters, who took it to the top 100s chart. (In case you're wondering, I was NOT a teenager in 1957; I wasn't even thought of by my parents yet!) The words to the song begin with
Got myself an idol with a golden head
Put it on a shelf right above my bed;
Got down on my knees and I began to pray...
after each line, the background singers sing
Great big idol with the golden head...
Even as a young, confused teenager, I was uncomfortable with the words. Seemed very bold and blasphemous. Who had golden idols, anyway? And who in the world would be stupid enough to pray to one? How dumb.
Yet in the last few years, I've become more and more aware of the idols we have. Of the idols I have. They are definitely dumb. Joy destroyers. Relaxation killers. Serving idols is so hard. A very demanding, time consuming, demeaning business. Lately, particularly yesterday, I have become much more aware that I still bow down to them. Not as often, maybe not as low. But still bowing. Bowing to my approval-seeking idol, my self-serving idol, my children-pleasing idol, my guilt-carrying idol, my staying-busy idol. All of these idols turn my face away from my Father. Each one keeps my focus off of what Christ did on the cross. What He FINISHED on the cross.
"And you, who were dead in your trespasses and uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross." Colossians 2:13-14
I find it odd that in 1957, the "good Christian" years in America, Idol With A Golden Head was on the 100 Chart. We never stopped loving the golden calf. Our idols are in place, because we do not think what Jesus did was enough. We think we need to have one more thing... or more. "If only... then I would be happy." That's an idol. I'm going out on a limb and state: anything that causes undue stress or anxiety is idol-serving. Look deeply enough and you'll find it. It's there. Underneath the facade of our self-righteousness.
Jesus paid it all. Did it all. Canceled the debt. The eternal debt that not one hair of my head is good enough to pay. When I am facing the cross and following Christ, I can't bow to any idols. In fact, they disappear. And the joy returns. The deep sigh of rest is heard. Peace takes over. And I fall more deeply in love with my God.
As you look towards Easter this week, dwell on what Christ really did on that cross so long ago. And rejoice.
Yet in the last few years, I've become more and more aware of the idols we have. Of the idols I have. They are definitely dumb. Joy destroyers. Relaxation killers. Serving idols is so hard. A very demanding, time consuming, demeaning business. Lately, particularly yesterday, I have become much more aware that I still bow down to them. Not as often, maybe not as low. But still bowing. Bowing to my approval-seeking idol, my self-serving idol, my children-pleasing idol, my guilt-carrying idol, my staying-busy idol. All of these idols turn my face away from my Father. Each one keeps my focus off of what Christ did on the cross. What He FINISHED on the cross.
"And you, who were dead in your trespasses and uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross." Colossians 2:13-14
I find it odd that in 1957, the "good Christian" years in America, Idol With A Golden Head was on the 100 Chart. We never stopped loving the golden calf. Our idols are in place, because we do not think what Jesus did was enough. We think we need to have one more thing... or more. "If only... then I would be happy." That's an idol. I'm going out on a limb and state: anything that causes undue stress or anxiety is idol-serving. Look deeply enough and you'll find it. It's there. Underneath the facade of our self-righteousness.
Jesus paid it all. Did it all. Canceled the debt. The eternal debt that not one hair of my head is good enough to pay. When I am facing the cross and following Christ, I can't bow to any idols. In fact, they disappear. And the joy returns. The deep sigh of rest is heard. Peace takes over. And I fall more deeply in love with my God.
As you look towards Easter this week, dwell on what Christ really did on that cross so long ago. And rejoice.
Monday, March 12, 2012
How to Rear a Delinquent
I was cleaning out some cabinets and ran across this. Mother had typed it and stuck it in a book (which dates it to the late fifties/early sixties). Interesting and applicable, although there is much we can add. Life was much simpler then!
How to Rear a Delinquent
1. Begin with infancy to give the chid everything he wants. In this way he will grow up believing the world owes him a living.
2. When he picks up "bad" words or "dirty" words, laugh at him. That will make him think he is cute. He will run off and pick up some other words that will blow the top off your head.
3. Never give him any spiritual training until he is 21, and then let him decide for himself. By the same logic, never teach him the English language. Maybe when he is old enough he may want to speak Bantu.
4. Praise him in his presence to all the neighbors; show how much smarter he is then the neighbors children.
5. Avoid the use of the word "wrong". It may develop in the child a guilt complex. This will prepare him to believe that when he is punished later on for stealing cars or assaulting women, society is against him and that he is being persecuted.
6. Pick up everything after him: his shoes, his books, his clothes. Do everything for him, so that he will be experienced in throwing burdens on others.
7. Let him read [modern day: watch] anything he wants. Have no concern whatever for what goes into his mind. Provide him with lily cups for his lips, but let his brain drink of any dirty container for words and ideas.
8. Quarrel frequently in the presence of your child. In this way he will be prepared for a broken home later on.
9. Give him all the spending money he wants. Never let him earn his own.
10. Satisfy every craving of the child for food, drinks, and everything that has to do with the sense of taste and touch, gratifying every sensual desire.
11. Take his part against policemen, teachers, and neighbors. They are all prejudiced against your child.
12. When he gets into real trouble, always defend yourself and say, "I need could not do anything with him."
How to Rear a Delinquent
1. Begin with infancy to give the chid everything he wants. In this way he will grow up believing the world owes him a living.
2. When he picks up "bad" words or "dirty" words, laugh at him. That will make him think he is cute. He will run off and pick up some other words that will blow the top off your head.
3. Never give him any spiritual training until he is 21, and then let him decide for himself. By the same logic, never teach him the English language. Maybe when he is old enough he may want to speak Bantu.
4. Praise him in his presence to all the neighbors; show how much smarter he is then the neighbors children.
5. Avoid the use of the word "wrong". It may develop in the child a guilt complex. This will prepare him to believe that when he is punished later on for stealing cars or assaulting women, society is against him and that he is being persecuted.
6. Pick up everything after him: his shoes, his books, his clothes. Do everything for him, so that he will be experienced in throwing burdens on others.
7. Let him read [modern day: watch] anything he wants. Have no concern whatever for what goes into his mind. Provide him with lily cups for his lips, but let his brain drink of any dirty container for words and ideas.
8. Quarrel frequently in the presence of your child. In this way he will be prepared for a broken home later on.
9. Give him all the spending money he wants. Never let him earn his own.
10. Satisfy every craving of the child for food, drinks, and everything that has to do with the sense of taste and touch, gratifying every sensual desire.
11. Take his part against policemen, teachers, and neighbors. They are all prejudiced against your child.
12. When he gets into real trouble, always defend yourself and say, "I need could not do anything with him."
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Winter Beach Party
Winter Beach Party
tomorrow, Feb 10
5:30-8:30
for grades 1- 6.
It's gonna be really fun!!!
games, prizes, make-your-own-pizza, popcorn, movie = GREAT FUN!
Friends always welcome!!
email me if you're coming:
sherlie@madisonheightschurch.com
tomorrow, Feb 10
5:30-8:30
for grades 1- 6.
It's gonna be really fun!!!
games, prizes, make-your-own-pizza, popcorn, movie = GREAT FUN!
Friends always welcome!!
email me if you're coming:
sherlie@madisonheightschurch.com
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The Love of the Lord
I love Charles H. Spurgeon. He often encourages me from writings of his devotional book Morning and Evening. If you can get past the "thee's", "thous", and other formal language, I think this will encourage you, too!
February 04
Morning
"The love of the Lord."
Hosea 3:1Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how he hath fed and clothed thee every day--how he hath borne with thine ill manners--how he hath put up with all thy murmurings, and all thy longings after the flesh-pots of Egypt--how he has opened the rock to supply thee, and fed thee with manna that came down from heaven. Think of how his grace has been sufficient for thee in all thy troubles--how his blood has been a pardon to thee in all thy sins--how his rod and his staff have comforted thee. When thou hast thus looked back upon the love of the Lord, then let faith survey his love in the future, for remember that Christ's covenant and blood have something more in them than the past. He who has loved thee and pardoned thee, shall never cease to love and pardon. He is Alpha, and he shall be Omega also: he is first, and he shall be last. Therefore, bethink thee, when thou shalt pass through the valley of the shadow of death, thou needest fear no evil, for he is with thee. When thou shalt stand in the cold floods of Jordan, thou needest not fear, for death cannot separate thee from his love; and when thou shalt come into the mysteries of eternity thou needest not tremble, "For I am persuaded, that neither death; nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Now, soul, is not thy love refreshed? Does not this make thee love Jesus? Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God? Surely as we meditate on "the love of the Lord," our hearts burn within us, and we long to love him more.
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