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DISCOVERY TEENS BIBLE CLASS

Junior and senior Bible classes (Discovery Teens) meet in the Youth Room at 10.30 a.m. on the first, second and fourth Sunday morning of each month.  Both classes have been using Scripture Union material which presents the Bible in a way which is relevant and challenging to the teenagers.  This year we have explored topics such as “God’s power in action”, “God’s saving grace”, “God’s message to his people”, “Prayer” and “God’s call and promise”.  Lessons are always based around scripture passages and everyone is encouraged to participate in the activities and discussions.

The Discovery Teens leaders would like to thank parents for encouraging the young people to attend Bible class so regularly during these important and formative years of their lives.

DISCOVERY KIDZ SUNDAY SCHOOL

Both the leaders and children are enjoying our second session as Discovery Kidz. We have around 45 children on our roll this year and our average attendance each week is around 33 children. We started our new session as we did last year trying to emphasis to the children how important they are to God’s plan and work, as well as part of the family of Strean. We did this with the help of our special guests (the puppets) who told us the story of David and Goliath.

Our project for the session is very close to all our hearts as we decided to support the children of Mozambique. We have already sent out a box full of toys and enough money for one large bag of clothes and two containers of food to be distributed among the children. We have been amazed at just how much we have raised already this year, and we feel the children have really taken the children of Mozambique into their hearts. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to our figure so far. We would really love to be able to send enough for another bag of clothes and three containers of food, so we would encourage you to continue saving those 20ps.

Before Christmas we learnt about creation and how perfect things were before sin entered men’s hearts, but how even before this, God already had a plan to allow man to come back to him, and that plan was seen when Jesus came to die, and bridge the gap between us and God. We have also enjoyed some great lessons on prayer, looking at how we should pray, why we should pray and when we should pray. At present we are concentrating on some of Jesus’ miracles and what they can teach us.

We enjoyed leading the family service at Christmas and sharing with you the lessons we had been looking at over the Christmas period, and are looking forward to having our Children's Day at our family service in May. BUT before that we have a busy April coming up. On the 6th of April, Discovery Kidz hope to run the Saturday coffee morning at which we hope the children can come and enjoy some face painting, tattoos (don't worry not permanent ones), nail art and possibly some Xbox games. We would encourage you to support this, as all proceeds will go to buying MP3 players for Mozambique as well as the children of Mozambique.

We also hope to take the children to the Big Fun Day again this year as those who went last year really enjoyed the day. This will be held on the 27th April in Ballymena Presbyterian, and we hope enough children will be able to go to fill the coach.

One difficulty this year has been the shortage of a teacher and as a number of teachers plan to retire at the end of this session it is an ongoing concern for September. We would appreciate your prayers in regards to this that God will lay it on the heart of someone to feel this is an area of God’s work they are meant to help in.

We would also ask you for your continued prayer for the children's growth in their faith and relationship with God and for the teachers in their preparations each week.

 

Proverbs 22v6 - Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it. 

 

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Prayer Requests

 

Relationship – For healthy loving relationships amongst the children & young people. Bonds between teachers and those in our care. Opportunities to connect with wider community and continuing links with mission. A desire in us all to move closer to Jesus.

 

Learning – That all will hear His word. For appetites to understand, along with the time, skills and patience to explain.

 

Disciplines – To development the habits of attending church and Sunday School, of prayer, and bible study.

 

Worship – For diverse worship, always focusing on God.

 

Faith – That young lives will be changed. Reliance on and trust in the Holy Spirit to work in His time.

 

Mission Involvement

We believe that it is important not only to teach about the importance of caring for those beyond our community but to give Sunday School the chance to take part in mission and see Christian love in action.

Over the past 13 years our collection on the first of every month has gone to support Gabriella from Ecuador through a Tearfund www.tearfund.org programme. In late August we received letters from Gabriella and Tearfund advising us that as Gabriella is now 19 she will be leaving the programme. Gabriella was extremely thankful for the support she received and we where informed that she became a Christian while in the programme. Please pray for Gabriella.

We hope to continue a mission focus supporting a school in Kenya through a local charity Asterias. www.asterias.org  

The junior Sunday School were the first to participate in this project when they made Christmas cards to send to the children in Kenya.

 

Sunday School has enjoyed preparing shoeboxes filled with gifts to send to eastern Europe as part of Blythswood Care’s  Shoebox Appeal. www.shoeboxappeal.org/page.cfm?id=40 This year parents joined in the fun and 81 shoeboxes where delivered to Blythswood Care. Thank you to all who took part and please remember to pray for those who will received shoeboxes.

 

                                         

 

 

  

      

                    

 

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