Baby Dedication Celebration
Mother’s Day, May 8th at HarrahChurch.
There will be a class before this celebration that will guide you in this significant journey to teach your children what it means to love God with all their hearts.
Stay tuned, more information to come about this celebration…..
RSVP danelle@harrahchurch.org
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5 Reasons why we Think Orange at Harrah Church – Taken from the Reggie Joiner at the Orange One Day in Dallas
- STRATEGY | It gets our leaders aligned and on the same page.
- MESSAGE | It brings a clear path and map for unforgettable environments for our kids to encounter core spiritual truths in a life-transforming way as they grow up in Harrah Church. Presentation, not just information leads to transformation.
- COMMUNITY | Small groups the greatest gift that we can give to our kids and parents. One of the greatest things we can give our families is another leader in the life of your children who speak life-changing truth in the lives of our children. We stive to put consistent leaders in their life so that they can connect in a deep and meaningful way.
- INFLUENCE | We believe that students have a responsibility to change the world around them. Our students need to understand how TO BE the church. We want to give them something significant to do. At Harrah Church service has a greater role in discipleship.
- FAMILY | The family has 3,000 hours a year in the life of a student, but the church only has 40 hours. Both the church and the family have responsibilities to teach children about God.
We think that our potential to influence the family is linked to what we think about the family. We know that the family and church working together has a greater potential to change our children than if we were working alone. Some people are influenced by the church but everyone is influenced by family. Somewhere along the way everyone developed a picture of what you think family should look like. According the the last US Census taken – 23.5% of families have parents who live with their biological children. If you hold to tightly to an idea picture you set yourself up to become disillusioned. We realize that all kinds of families attend Harrah Church and live in our community and we want to help all families live in the love of the Father above. None of our stories are the same, but God can use all of our families to change our world. There is no perfect picture of families in the Bible. God doesn’t use perfect pictures, He uses broken people.
We desire to help broken people and families tell a story of restoration. God desires to work through every family to demonstrate his story of redemption and restoration.
How are you connecting with our Orange Vision for the church and family? Are you asking your kids what they are learning in church? Are you asking the KidMin and StuMin leaders for resources to reinforce our lessons in the home? Have you looked into the CueBOX? Are you regularly volunteering? Have you sought out a person to be a consistent voice in their life of your student?
Resources:
- Think Orange by Reggie Joiner
- Parenting Beyond Your Capacity
- Shift: What it Takes to Reach Families Today
- The Slow Fade: Why You Matter in the Story of Twentysomethings
Respect
This month our children’s programs are focusing on the virtue of respect. Respect is showing others they are important by what you say and do. The memory verse comes from 1 Peter 2:17, “Show proper respect to everyone.” Ask your kids some questions about respect this month.
- Can you name 3 respectful actions?
- Can you name 3 disrespectful actions?
- Why do you think God cares whether we show others respect?
Ask your students each Sunday afternoon where their Fridge Card and God Time Card is and use them to reinforce the lesson at home.
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This month we have teaching our kids the virtue of Peace. I know that by the end of the summer and in all of this heat that tempers have probably starting flaring up for the kids and parents. (Insert an amen here) Now that the kids are going back to school and will begin interacting with other kids and face all kinds of trials it is important for them to know how to keep the peace with their friends, their family, and with their enemies. I would love to hear stories about how your students are using this month’s virtue and Bible stories and applying them to the situations that they are encountering at church.
Peace is proving that you care more about others than winning an argument.
“Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.” Romans 14:19 NIV
Who’s the most peaceful person you know?
Do you know anyone good at living in peace with others?
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