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 July 18-24, 2010
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Trinity's Young Family Ministry: Our Young Families Ministry is designed to provide fellowship for the young families of Trinity so that they become closer in Christ. Different fellowship events are scheduled throughout the year and are advertised in our weekly newsletter. We also have a subscription to Heritage Builders, a monthly newsletter that ministers to young families building a foundation of faith. A link to Heritage Builders is provided below. Weekly Parenting TipCommandment Four A time of rest helps us to re-focus on God and brings purpose to all our weekly activity - to serve Him. You'll need a Bible, balloons, markers, one small stone per child, paper and pencils. Busy, busy, busy! This seems to be the modern-day mantra that exits the mouths of literally everyone in this day and age. Have each person create a list of responsibilities during a typical week. When these are complete, help place each responsibility in a larger category (school, social, church, family, chores, etc.). Help your children to see that God is really a big part of our day and should have a category of His own. When the categories are complete, give each person three or more balloons and have them do the following: (1) Prioritize their lists to see which category takes up most of their day or week. (2) Place a small stone in one of the balloons, blow it up, and mark on it the category they spend the most time on. (3) Blow up the rest of the balloons and label them according to the next few items on the priority list. (4) One at a time, have each person toss all their balloons in the air and try to keep them from touching the ground. Afterwards, ask: Was it easy to focus in on one balloon when you had to keep so many airborne? How did you have to deal with the top priority balloon (the one with the stone)? (I had to spend most of my time keeping it in the air; it kept falling faster than the others.) Now have everyone keep their "God" balloons in the air for two minutes. Then ask: How easy was it to keep one in the air and why? (It was easy since there was just one balloon.) By observing the Sabbath and "resting" from many busy things we do, we set ourselves apart and show God we choose to serve Him. Other people also see that God is a priority, that we value our church day, and want to keep it holy, as the Bible asks us to do. Read Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:8-11 and 31:12-17. Share that we are God's people and we are to do as God has done; He rested on the seventh day of Creation. Click here to download Heritage Builder's Monthly Bulletin Click here to download Heritage Builder's Monthly Newsletter
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