Check this out!  Have you ever wondered how we keep track of all our children in Journey land?  Well here it is, just an example of all the hard work and dedication our volunteer’s and staff give each Sunday morning to our precious little ones.

Journey Land/November

It’s hard to believe but November is just around the corner.  Only a few days away.  This coming week we will start our new series in Journey Land, Thanksgiving.

In big church adults will learn “how to wreck their marriages.”  Interesting right?  You won’t want to miss any of what’s going on at Truenorth church.  Bring a friend, bring your family….bring the kids. Doesn’t matter if your married or not, we all have relationships and this series will relate to all of us.

To follow is a break down of what our kids will learn this week in J-Land.  Have a great one….we look forward to loving on some kids this week.

November 1

give thanks to god

Overview

First 5 minutes: Free Play

Next 30 minutes: Small Group curriculum and Craft

Next 10 minutes: Snack, bathroom

Next 15 minutes: Clubhouse

Last 10 minutes: Wrap up, Prayer, Clean up.

Small Group Curriculum

When are times that we give thanks to God?  Pause for responses. We can thank God for our food, family and friends.  We can also thank Him for presents and blessings.  But the Bible tells us to “Give thanks no matter what happens. God wants you to thank him because you believe in Christ Jesus.”  It also says, “Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, because He is good. His faithful love continues forever.”  Isn’t it good to know that God loves us ALL the time, NO MATTER WHAT?  He even loves us when we do the wrong things.  He loves us just the same when we are good or bad or happy or sad, and He loves each of us just the same.  In fact, He loves us so much that He sent His son, Jesus, to die for each of us and take our punishment for the wrong things we do.  He did that because He wants us to live with Him in Heaven one day.  Isn’t that a great reason to give thanks to God?

The Bible tells us other reasons to thank God:

-         For strength:  “I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord. He has given me strength. I thank him that he considered me faithful. And I thank him for appointing me to serve him.” 1 Timothy 1:12

-         For food:  “Then Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks. He handed out the bread to those who were seated. He gave them as much as they wanted. And he did the same with the fish.”  John 6:11

-         For wisdom:  “God of my people, I thank and praise you.  You have given me wisdom and power.  You have made known to me what we asked you for.  You have shown us the king’s dream.”  Daniel 2:23

-        For all people:  “First, I want all of you to pray for everyone. Ask God to bless them. Give thanks for them.”  1 Timothy 2:1

-        For all things:  “Always give thanks to God the Father for everything. Give thanks to him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”  Ephesians 5:20

We’re going to make a craft now and write down things we can thank God for.  Assemble craft, found on craft table, and in each square have each kid write something they thank God for.

Wrap Up

This week, remember to thank God for things when they are good or bad, and when you are happy or sad.  Always remember that God made you, God loves you, and Jesus wants to be your friend forever…NO MATTER WHAT!

Prayer

Dear God,

I thank you for loving us, and for wanting what is best for us.  I pray that You would remind us to always give you thanks for everything.  We know it is not always easy when we are sad to thank You, so help us to learn that no matter what, You work all things to our good.  Thank You.

Amen

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What an awesome day in Journey Land.  We celebrated all that God has done during our “WE UNITE” series.  Our children have learned to “Lift Up, Love in and Live out.”

We love your kids, thank you for letting us share in your lives just a little bit.

The Hayes  Jteam came to Journey Land to bless our tear down crew.  They came in and took charge, tearing everything down and getting it on the truck.  Our regular crew didn’t know what to do with themselves.  It was wonderful to watch our crew receive this blessing, thank you Jteam…

I took advantage of this amazing blessing and invited our set up crew to come in and hang out with us.  We all gathered together in fellowship sharing pizza and drinks with each other.

I am so grateful for our wonderful servants of Jesus.  There is absolutely no way to express my gratitude to each of you.  You are a blessing to me and I thank you all for your amazing hearts.  Thank you!

Way to go JOURNEY LAND!

THE TOTAL COLLECTED – $85.75

Loose Change/How much is it?

loose change

How Much?

Loose Change

This week, October 18th will be spent teaching our kids how to “worship God together.” (Worship God with one another” Leviticus 23:3) We will teach all the ways to worship God, including tithing and offerings.  We are presenting a hands on event for your child to participate in worship this way.
On Sunday October 4 we presented “Loose Change” in the two-five year old classrooms.  We taught this concept and asked kids to bring any “loose change” they may have to offer to God for our newly acquired land!  Information was  sent home with your child on the 4th, and we will continue to collect “Loose Change” on October 18th and 25th, with a review of all forms of worship on the 18th.

October 25th will be our celebration time.  We will gather together and celebrate what we have learned these past 40 days.  We will celebrate what God has given us!
We love your children, and it’s been so fun teaching them how to unite with God and one another!  It is such a blessing to help guide your children’s first footsteps on the journey to loving God!

Thank you,

Journey Land Team

Good Afternoon Truenorth-Journey Land….

What an amazing series we are involved in, “WE UNITE.”  Not sure about you but God has been rocking my world through this series.  I love the devotionals, the messages and the small group time we are all sharing.  God is AWESOME!

This past week the kids had so much fun in Journey Land.  I believe they are enjoying their devotionals as well as taking home their magnets to remember their bible verse for the week.   I was listening to our Kindergarteners say their verses and being encouraged to say all our weeks past.  They are little sponges…they are doing awesome!!!

This week we will focusing on the following…come join us and see what God can do in and through you.

October 11~ week 5

“Help one another” Galatians 6:2

Overview

First 10 minutes: Free Play, create a nametag for each child that comes in (see

craft table.)

Next 15 minutes: Small Group curriculum

Next 20 minutes: Clubhouse

Next 10 minutes: Snack, bathroom

Last 10 minutes: Hand out magnet, coloring book devotional, wrap up, prayer,

clean up.

Small Group Curriculum

FOCUS: Live Out

Review “LIFT UP, LOVE IN, LIVE OUT” with your kids.  Make sure any new kids have it down.

Last week we talked about LIFT UP and LOVE IN.  Today we’ll talk about LIVE OUT.  Remember that when we LIVE OUT we help others.  What are ways we can help other people?  Pause for responses. Those are great ways to help others!

God can use grown-ups, like our parents or teachers to help people, but he can use kids, too!  In our Bible story today, Jesus and little boy helped thousands of people!

Jesus was about to teach a large crowd of people…there were about 5,000 men and that doesn’t count women and children!  Jesus asked his friend Philip, “Where will we buy bread for these people to eat?”  Jesus was testing Philip because He knew what He was going to do.  Philip was doubtful.  He didn’t think there was any chance of feeding all of the people.  Another of Jesus’ friends, Andrew, saw a boy with five small loaves of bread and two fish.  He asked Jesus, “But how far will this go?”  Andrew was doubtful too.  Jesus then asked his disciples to have all the men sit on the grass.  The boy gave Jesus his food and Jesus blessed it (which means he prayed for it).  They gave thanks and passed the bread and fish to all the men in the crowd.  It fed EVERYONE!  After they were finished, the disciples gathered the leftovers.  Jesus said, “Don’t let anything be wasted.”  They filled twelve more baskets with what was left over.

The little boy had no idea what was about to happen.  Can you imagine having someone take your small lunch and trying to feed 5,000 hungry men?  With the faith of the boy and help of the disciples, Jesus performed a miracle and fed all the people!  The boy and the disciples served God by helping to feed the people.

Clubhouse

Songs:

-Wanna Be

-Lord’s Army

-I’m Gonna Walk

-Hands and Feet

Wrap Up

Serving God is a way of showing our obedience to Him.  He wants us to care and share with other people.  There are so many things we can do for others even though we are kids.  We need to find things that we are good at and use those things to serve God.  Let’s pray to God for His help

Dear God,

Help me to find things that I am good at and use those things to help others.  Show me ways I can help people and share your love.  Help me to obey you in all I do.  Amen

Don’t forget to hand out coloring devotionals, magnets, and see who knows their memory verse from this week!

September 27 ~ Week 3

“DEPEND ON ONE ANOTHER.” ROMANS 12:5

Overview

First 5 minutes: Free play, hand out nametags, make new ones where needed.

Next 15 minutes: Small group curriculum

Next 30 minutes: Large group production, Clubhouse

Next 10 minutes: Snacks and bathroom

Last 10 minutes: Distribute coloring devotionals, wrap up and prayer, memory

verses, clean up.

Small Group Curriculum

Take a few minutes to review the motions for “LIFT UP, LOVE IN, LIVE OUT”.

Does anyone remember our memory verse from last week?  Pause for responses. It was “Be wise with one another.” Colossians 4:5.  This week our memory verse is “Depend on one another.”  Romans 12:5.  Let’s say that together and see if we can memorize it! “Depend on one another.” Romans 12:5. Repeat as necessary.

We have already learned about loving one another.  We can get to know one another by spending more time with each, and we should be nice to everyone.  But God make us to want more than that.  He wants us to develop lasting friendships.  It’s important to trust our friends, and for our friends to trust us.  The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 4:

Two people are better than one.  They can help each other in everything they do.
Suppose someone falls down.  Then his friend can help him up.
But suppose the man who falls down doesn’t have anyone to help him up.  Then feel sorry for him!
One person could be overpowered.  But two people can defend themselves.
And a rope made out of three cords isn’t easily broken.

It’s important to have a group of friends that care about us and are there for us to help us when we need them.  And we can help them, too!  Do you have friends at church or school who care about you no matter what?  Pause for responses.

It’s also important that we have friends who love God, too.  We can help each to learn more about Him, and we can do fun things for Him together.  Remember that on October 10, we have the chance to serve God with our friends by helping people in our community.

Clubhouse

Today a host will be in Clubhouse today acting out friendship scenarios with the kids.

Songs:

-Hands and Feet

-Lord’s Army

-Get Down

Wrap Up

Today we have been talking about making good friends, and being a good friend.  Let’s pray to God for His help:

Dear God,

Help me to find friends that I can trust and friends that will help me grow closer to you.  Help me to be a good friend to others and to build lasting friendships.  Amen.

How many of you have been coloring in your devotional book every day?  Here is this week’s devotional.  Don’t forget to talk about all that you are learning with your family!

See what kids can repeat the memory verse and add a bead to their nametag.

Parent’s, our children are doing the same devotional as you.  Please take time out each day so children can share with you the message for the day.  This is a great opportunity to get our children more interersted in God’s word.

The coloring devotionals are so cute.  The following will be what each child will learn this comming week in Journey Land.  We have so much planned, it’s going to be an amazing time.  You don’t want them to miss it.

September 20 ~ Week 2

“BE WISE WITH ONE ANOTHER” COLOSSIANS 4:5

Overview

First 5 minutes: Free play, hand out nametags, make new ones where needed.

Next 15 minutes: Small group curriculum

Next 15 minutes: Craft (EITHER hands OR feet)

Next 20 minutes: Large group production, Clubhouse

Next 10 minutes: Snacks and bathroom

Last 10 minutes: Distribute coloring devotionals, wrap up and prayer, memory verses, clean up.

Small Group Curriculum

FOCUS: LIVE OUT – God wants us to be kind together.

Take a few minutes to review motions of “LIFT UP, LOVE IN, LIVE OUT”

Last week we learned about “LOVE IN”…does anyone remember our Bible verse from last week?  Pause for responses. It was “Love one another” John 13:35, and today we’re going to talk about “LIVE OUT”.

Our Bible verse for today is “Be wise with one another” Colossians 4:5.  Let’s say that together several times…”Be wise with one another” Colossians 4:5.”  Keep repeating until all children in your class can say it.

A longer version of this verse says, “Act in a wise way toward people who don’t know Jesus.”  Did you know that there are some people who don’t go to church?  There are some people who don’t know that Jesus loves them or even that there is a God.  There are millions of people on the Earth, and so many of them are different from you and me.  We can tell people about the Bible, and about the things we learn here in Journey Land, but one of the most important things we can do to teach people about Jesus is to act the way He would.

Where can we learn about the way Jesus would act toward others?  Pause for responses. We can learn here at church, but we can also learn from the Bible.  Matthew 25 tells us a story about Jesus talking to people.  He says,

“I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me in.  I needed clothes, and you gave them to me. I was sick, and you took care of me. I was in prison, and you came to visit me.’

“Then the people who have done what is right will answer him. ‘Lord,’ they will ask, ‘when did we see you hungry and feed you? When did we see you thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you as a stranger and invite you in? When did we see you needing clothes and give them to you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘What I’m about to tell you is true. Anything you did for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’

This is how Jesus would love others, and how he wants us to love them, too.  In a few weeks, we are going to have a great chance to show this love to people in our community.  Here at TrueNorth Church, we like to LIVE OUT in North Augusta every 2^nd Saturday.  On October 10, we would love to see all of you and your family meet us to go help people in our community.  I will send something home with you today to look at with your family.  It will have all the information you need to know about 2^nd Saturday.

Craft

In today’s craft, kids will choose EITHER a hand poem OR a foot poem.  As they are coloring and putting them together, make sure to read the poem to them, and talk about how Jesus wants us to be His hands and feet to other people.

Today we are making either a hand or foot with a poem to remind us how to LIVE like Jesus.

Clubhouse

A host will be in Clubhouse today to talk about how we can be the hands and feet of Jesus to people we know.

Songs:

-Hands and Feet

-Lord’s Army

-Big House

-Wanna Be

Wrap Up

We have learned some really great things today!  Let’s pray and ask God to help us do the things He wants us to do.

Dear God,

I pray that You will help me reach out to friends and neighbors around me and help them get to know You better.  Help me to show others how much you really mean to me and invite them to come to church with me so they can learn about you too.  Amen

Don’t forget to over the new week’s coloring devotional with your kids, and take time before parents come to see if anyone remembers this week’s memory verse.  Give them a bead for their nametag if they can do it! (3’s-5’s only)