This week in Newspring’s Children’s Ministry (5-24 to 5-31-09)

Hello! Summer is here, school is almost out and Newspring is about to sell our property and start building a bigger and better facility! This is going to be a very challenging and exciting summer.

This past Sunday the Puddle Jumpers learned about Phillip and the Ethiopian (Acts 8:26-40). The things that stuck in my little girls mind was the ‘horses’, but I used that as a good stepping stone to review the story with her about how it’s important to be able to help people understand what the Bible says.  This story is also a good way to introduce the concept of Baptism to your preschooler.

In H20 Kids church we discussed the “Story Behind the Most Popular Verse in the Bible” which of course is the story of Nicodemus coming to Jesus at night.  Jesus explains to Nick what being ‘born again’ is.  In H20 we focused on the fact that it’s not physical but spiritual; you can’t see it but you can see the evidences of it (ie: wind). We also discussed the fact that it’s not enough to just beleive that Jesus did miracles and is truly from God, there has to be salvation (which was also explained again).

Below is a funny picture I used in my powepoint to illustrate the absurdity of Nicodemus’ question about the adult becoming a baby again!

–Jason McCoy